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What a novel my life has been!" Bonaparte exclaimed in exile. "Napoleon's Rules: Life and Career Lessons from Bonaparte" is history that mines the conqueror's maxims to provide business, career, and life advice. His extraordinary success and failure provides fifteen comprehensively examined "rules" that readers can learn from. The book is deliberately concise, brisk, and provocative, drawing on the astonishing details of Bonaparte's career to ...

American adventurer Ethan Gage barely escaped with his life from murderous thieves, survived a nerve-racking sea voyage and the deadly Egyptian sands when attached to Napoleon's army, and solved a five-thousand-year-old riddle with the help of a mysterious medallion.But that was child's play . . .The year is 1799. As Bonaparte's army descends upon Israel, intent upon conquest, Ethan Gage finds himself embroiled in an ancient mystery in the Hol...

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Excerpt from Swine Breeding, Feeding and ManagementThus Part I deals with breeds and breeding, Part II with feeding, and Part III with the general care and management of swine.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the wor...

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Excerpt from Livestock on the FarmTim purpose of this volume is to give information to those who wish to improve their condition by means of livestock, to farmers generally, and especially to those interested in live stock farming and in breeding. It is intended also to serv< as a text-book in Animal Husbandry in agricultural schools, in high schools and in elementary courses in colleges of agriculture.About the PublisherForgotten Books publis...

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Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve ...

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Excerpt from Market Classes and Grades of SwineAnother difficulty that confronts one is the lack of uniformity in terms used in different market reports. Some of the terms thus used are not characteristic of what the names represent, and others are too broad in scope.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important histor...

Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve ...

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A thrilling new Ethan Gage mystery from New York Time bestselling author William Dietrich.

From a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, historian, and naturalist comes a thrilling novel of the clashing of civilizations, as Attila the Hun struggles to overthrow the Roman Empire.

Venice: Ethan Gage has escaped after surviving the naval battle of Trafalgar. His plan: to circumvent the French Empire and rescue his wife, Astiza, and son, Harry, from imprisonment by a ruthless mystic who seeks revenge for disfigurement, and an evil dwarf alchemist who experiments with the occult on Prague's Golden Lane.Using death as his ruse, Gage seeks an unlikely ally in Jewish Napoleonic soldier Gideon Mandel, who saves Ethan's life at...

A thrilling new Ethan Gage mystery from New York Time bestselling author William Dietrich.

The world changes for Ethan Gage—onetime assistant to the renowned Ben Franklin—on a night in postrevolutionary Paris when he wins a mysterious medallion in a card game. Framed soon after for the murder of a prostitute and facing the grim prospect of either prison or death, the young expatriate American barely escapes France with his life—choosing instead to accompany the new emperor, Napoleon Bonaparte, on his gamble to conquer Egypt. With Lo...

Ethan Gage wants to enjoy the fruits of victory after helping Napoleon win the Battle of Marengo, but an ill-advised tryst with Bonaparte's married sister has made that impossible. So now, with President Thomas Jefferson's blessings, Ethan and a mystic Norwegian, Magnus Bloodhammer, embark upon an expedition into America's western wilderness—dodging hostile Indians and a British seductress as they search for the mythical hammer of the Norse go...