Citizen Emperor: Napoleon in Power

7 best books like Citizen Emperor: Napoleon in Power (Philip G. Dwyer): In These Times: Living in Britain Through Napoleon's Wars, 1793–1815, Selected Essays, The First Bohemians: Life and Art in London's Golden Age, Toward the Light of Liberty: The Struggles for Freedom and Rights That Made the Modern Western World, Own the Day, Own Your Life: Optimised practices for waking, working, learning, eating, training, playing, sleeping and sex, How to Be a Stoic: Using Ancient Philosophy to Live a Modern Life, Black Mischief

In These Times: Living in Britain Through Napoleon's Wars, 1793–1815

Author	Jenny Uglow
ISBN	0374280908

A beautifully observed history of the British home front during the Napoleonic Wars by a celebrated historian

We know the thrilling, terrible stories of the battles of the Napoleonic Wars—but what of those left behind? The people on a Norfolk farm, in a Yorkshire mill, a Welsh iron foundry,...

Selected Essays

Author	T.S. Eliot
ISBN	0151803870

The man's critical faculties were machete sharp and scalpel precise. Every essay in here reads like the work of somebody with a desk full of papers who throws them all on the floor in one motion and starts from scratch. The craftsmanship and attack strategy is consistently illuminating. Reading his...

The First Bohemians: Life and Art in London's Golden Age

Author

Vic Gatrell

The colourful, salacious and sumptuously illustrated story of Covent Garden - the creative heart of Georgian London - from Wolfson Prize-winning author Vic Gatrell

SHORT-LISTED FOR THE HESSELL TILTMAN PRIZE 2014

In the teeming, disordered, and sexually charged square half-mile...

Toward the Light of Liberty: The Struggles for Freedom and Rights That Made the Modern Western World

Author	A.C. Grayling
ISBN	0802716369

The epic story of the interlocking struggles to achieve the individual rights and freedoms that characterize Western civilization, by one of the world's leading public intellectuals.

Perhaps the hallmark of western civilization over the past five hundred years, writes A. C. Grayling,...

Own the Day, Own Your Life: Optimised practices for waking, working, learning, eating, training, playing, sleeping and sex

Author

Aubrey Marcus

Revolutionise your life one day at a time with this empowering handbook designed for men and women which provides simple strategies for each element of your day. Aubrey Marcus, author of the book is CEO of Onnit, a human performance company that he has built into one of the fastest growing companies in...

How to Be a Stoic: Using Ancient Philosophy to Live a Modern Life

Author	Massimo Pigliucci
ISBN	0465097952

In the tradition of How to Live and How Proust Can Change Your Life, a philosopher asks how ancient Stoicism can help us flourish today

Whenever we worry about what to eat, how to love, or simply how to be happy, we are worrying about how to lead a good life. No goal is more elusive. In How to Be a Stoic,...

Black Mischief

Author	Evelyn Waugh
ISBN	0316917338

Black Mischief, " Waugh's third novel, helped to establish his reputation as a master satirist. Set on the fictional African island of Azania, the novel chronicles the efforts of Emperor Seth, assisted by the Englishman Basil Seal, to modernize his kingdom. Profound hilarity ensues from the issuance...