Napoleon Xylophone is set to become a hero with a walking disability. When adventure comes knocking, Zam doesn't let his disability get in the way of fighting the changelings, wytes & gargoyles that come to life in the underworld beneath Newcastle. ...

Haythornthwaite brings his reputation as a leading Napoleonic historian to bear on the examination of all parts of the French army: the cavalry, infantry, artillery, Imperial Guard, staff & supporting services. Napoleon's innovations & tactics are described, from Austerlitz to Waterloo, demonstrating the reasons for his success & decline. ...

Napoleon's Polish Lancers of the Guard were unique in their appearance & in their loyalty. This book reveals their varied & colourful uniforms as well as their long & loyal service for the Bonaparte cause. It provides an insight into the fighting li ...

One of the most famous regiments of Napoleon's cavalry, the (Dutch) 2nd Light Horse Lancers of the Imperial Guard were known as the Red Lancers from their scarlet uniforms. This work looks at their organization, uniforms, weapons & tactics in detail. ...

Napoleon is the brilliant military strategist who also laid the administrative & judicial foundations for much of Western Europe. This title explores six areas that constitute the core of what made Napoleon a great leader: Audacity, Vision, Empathy, Strategy, Logistics, & Tactics ...

Details: Narcissus & Goldmund is the story of a passionate yet uneasy friendship between two men of opposite character.
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Wait now, light me up so we do this right, yes, hold me steady to the lamp, hold it, hold, good, a slow pull to start with, to draw the smoke low into the lungs, yes, oh my... Shuklaji Street, in Old Bombay. In Rashid's opium room the air is thick with voices & ghosts: Hindu, Muslim, Christian. A young woman holds a long-stemmed pipe over a flame, her hair falling across her eyes. Men sprawl & mutter in the gloom. Here, they say you introduce only your worst enemy to opium. There is an underworld whisper of a new terror: the Pathar Maar, the stone killer, whose victims are the nameless, invisible poor. In the broken city, there are too many to count. Stretching across three decades, with an interlude in Mao's China, it portrays a city in collision with itself. With a cast of pimps, pushers, poets, gangsters & eunuchs, it is a journey into a sprawling underworld written in electric & utterly original prose. ...

Lewis Mehl-Madrona's examination of the indigenous use of story as a healing modality points the way to a new model of medicine--a health care system that draws its effectiveness from listening to the healing wisdom of the past & also to the present-day voices of its patients. ...

Richard Newman provides a 25-page introduction to a revised autobiography of Henry Box Brown, a fugitive slave who in 1849 devised his own escape to freedom by shipping himself in a wooden crate from Virginia to an anti-slavery office in Philadelphia. ...

Join Alan Herd for an unforgettable trip along Britain's canals. Join master craftsman Alan Herd as he journeys around the canals & waterways of Britain in search of surviving examples of boat building craft & restores an old 70-foot working boat into a state-of-the-art floating holiday home. The series celebrates the enchanting industrial past of Britain's canals & also looks to the future as Alan fulfills a lifelong ambition by painstakingly converting an 80-year-old traditional working boat into a truly 21st century luxury vessel. Narrow Boat follows Alan through the transformation process & then on to the IWA National Boat Show in a bid to win first prize for his efforts. ...