The very name, Napoleon Bonaparte, still enthralls. Ever since this towering and terrible genius conquered Europe, he has been endlessly debated, compared, and made an icon. In Napoleon, the great dictator's energy and acumen are matched by those of his biographer, Paul Johnson, whose histories have been lauded as "fresh, readable, provocative . . . wise" (Los Angeles Times). Here Johnson profiles "the grandest possible refutation of those who hold that events are governed by forces, classes, economics, and geography rather than the powerful wills of men and women." With masterly eloquence, Napoleon charts Bonaparte's career from the barren island of Corsica and his early training in Paris-he was a bold soldier with an uncanny gift for math, maps, and strategy-through high-profile victories in Italy, military dictatorship, and campaigns across Europe to his end on the forsaken isle of St. Helena. In Napoleon's insatiable hunger for power, Johnson sees a realist unfettered by patriotism or ideology, a brilliant opportunist and propagandist who fulfilled his ambition in the aftermath of the French Revolution. He interprets Napoleon's life in the trajectory of his times, revealing how his complex and violent legacy seeded totalitarian regimes in the twentieth century and sounds an alert to us in the twenty-first.

Napoleon (Lives Series)

Paul, Johnson

George Weidenfeld & Nicolson Ltd.

Good clean copy, DW has minor shelf wear, overall nice copy.

The Code of Love, a True Story

LINKLATER, Andro

Biographies & Memoirs

International intrigue, professional rivalry, the criminal underworld of nineteenth-century Moscow, and an irresistible femme fatale: if Erast Fandorin was hoping for a quiet homecoming, he is about to be disappointed. Erast Fandorin returns to Moscow after an absence of six years, only to find himself instantly embroiled in court politics and scandal. His old friend General Sobolev - the famous 'Russian Achilles' - has been found dead in a hotel room, and Fandorin suspects foul play. Using his now-famous powers of detection - powers that belie his twenty-six years - Fandorin embarks on an investigation, during which the political and the personal may become dangerously blurred. With the assistance of some formidable martial arts skills, acquired whilst Fandorin was in Japan, our eccentric and ingenious hero must endeavour to discover not so much whodunit, as why ...

Death of Achilles, The

Literature & Fiction

Akunin,Boris

Genre Fiction

Individually the three volumes of Chris Bonington’s autobiography are collector’s items. Here they are brought together in a value-for-money omnibus. I Chose to Climb, was published in 1966 and told of his initiation into mountaineering, from schoolboy beginnings, culminating in the British ascent of the North Face of the Eiger and his decision to turn professional. The Next Horizon picks up where that volume left off and relates his subsequent adventures as a mountaineer, photographer, journalist and expedition leader ending in the summer of 1972 with preparations for the autumn Everest expedition. In the event this expedition only just failed to put a British climber on top of the world’s highest mountain for the first time. The last volume The Everest Years chronicles his four expeditions to the world’s highest peak and Bonington’s obsession with this particular mountain. 
In all three books we learn about the charismatic generation of climbing personalities who were his friends, with whom he shared his triumphs and fights for survival on dangerous and sometimes tragic expeditions. We learn too of Chris Bonington’s development into the devoted family man and celebrity he is today.

Boundless Horizons

BONINGTON, Chris

Sports & Outdoors

One of the century's great innovators in British crime fiction offers "more humor with a twist of bitter lemon" (Library Journal) in a tale in which Scotland Yard Detective Dover is a victim of kidnappers, who demand not only a stout ransom, but the release of two prisoners--a multiple bigamist and a nymphomaniacal shoplifter.

Dover and the Claret Tappers

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

PORTER, Joyce

Mystery

Bog-trotter: An Autobiography with Lyrics

Previn, Dory

The Modern Social Conflict An Essay on the Politics of Liberty

Dahrendorf, Ralf

Leaders & Notable People

Exploring the Lusitania - Probing the Mysteries of the Sinking That Changed History

History

BALLARD, Robert D.

Europe

RIVER OUT OF EDEN

Science & Math

RICHARD DAWKINS

Evolution

Where's Elvis?: Documented Sightings Through the Ages

Arts & Photography

Klein, Dan

History & Criticism

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