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2) Art of war
Author
Publisher
University of Chicago Press
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
"Niccolò Machiavelli's Art of War is one of the world's great classics of military and political theory."
"Machiavelli scholar Christopher Lynch offers a sensitive and entirely new translation of the Art of War, faithful to the original but rendered in modern, idiomatic English. Lynch's fluid translation helps readers appreciate anew Machiavelli's brilliant treatments of the relationships between war and politics, civilians and the military, and...
5) The prince
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Language
English
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Description
A new translation of the infamous classic, now in a striking deluxe edition. "The Prince" shocked 16th-century Europe with its advocacy of ruthless tactics for gaining absolute sovereignty, and it retains its power to alarm and to instruct.
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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Description
2022 BUSINESS/PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT AUDIE AWARD WINNER!
From the NPR host of The Indicator and correspondent for Planet Money comes an "accessible, funny, clear-eyed, and practical" (Sarah Knight, New York Times bestselling author) guide for how women can apply the principles of 16th-century philosopher Niccolò Machiavelli to their work lives and finally shatter the glass ceiling—perfect...
From the NPR host of The Indicator and correspondent for Planet Money comes an "accessible, funny, clear-eyed, and practical" (Sarah Knight, New York Times bestselling author) guide for how women can apply the principles of 16th-century philosopher Niccolò Machiavelli to their work lives and finally shatter the glass ceiling—perfect...
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Language
English
Description
Against a teeming canvas of Borgia politics, Niccolò Machiavelli and Leonardo da Vinci come together to unmask an enigmatic serial killer, as we learn the secret history behind one of the most controversial works in the western canon, The Prince... When Pope Alexander dispatches a Vatican courtesan, Damiata, to the remote fortress city of Imola to learn the truth behind the murder of Juan, his most beloved illegitimate son, she cannot fail, for the...
Author
Publisher
Grove Press
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Few books in the history of the world have had a stronger, more lasting, or more errant impact than Machiavelli's The Prince. Over the centuries, the ideal ruler as outlined by Machiavelli has been seen as a ruthless, immoral tyrant, but scholar and political philosopher Philip Bobbitt argues that this is a misunderstanding. He describes The Prince as one half of a masterpiece which, along with Machiavelli's often neglected Discourses, prophesied...
Author
Series
Very short introductions volume 31
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Explores Machiavelli's infamous theory of princely virtu, tracing its roots in the works of ancient historians and moralists. and considering its influence on contemporary politics. Includes an updated discussion of The Prince. Reveals the relationship between Machiavelli's active political career and his subsequent political works. Includes new material discussing Machiavelli's idea of a 'free state.' Part of the Very Short Introductions series...
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English
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A tall, yellow-haired young European traveller calling himself 'Mogor dell'Amore', the Mughal of Love, arrives at the court of the real Grand Mughal, the Emperor Akbar, with a tale to tell that begins to obsess the whole imperial capital. The stranger claims to be the child of a lost Mughal princess, the youngest sister of Akbar's grandfather Babar: Qara Koz, 'Lady Black Eyes', a great beauty believed to possess powers of enchantment and sorcery,...
Author
Publisher
Other Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"In a series of poignant vignettes, a preeminent historian makes a compelling case for Machiavelli as an unjustly maligned figure with valuable political insights that resonate as strongly today as they did in his time. Whenever a tempestuous period in history begins, Machiavelli is summoned, because he is known as one for philosophizing in dark times. In fact, since his death in 1527, we have never ceased to read him to pull ourselves out of torpors....
Author
Publisher
Debate
Pub. Date
©2017.
Language
Español
Description
"Hace mas de 500 anos, en unas circunstancias totalmente diferentes, Maquiavelo redacto El Príncipe para describir la conducta que debia tener la autoridad con el objeto de sujetar el poder firmemente. Este libro va dirigido a los presidentes y, muy especialmente, a quienes deben elegirlo. Esta concebido para una epoca, la nuestra, en la que prevalece la democracia liberal y la que convencer es mucho mas importante que vencer. El presidente tiene...
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
A new portrait that casts the queen as she saw herself: not as an exceptional woman, but as an exceptional ruler Queen Elizabeth I was all too happy to play on courtly conventions of gender when it suited her "weak and feeble woman's body" to do so for political gain. But in Elizabeth, historian Lisa Hilton offers ample evidence why those famous words should not be taken at face value. With new research out of France, Italy, Russia, and Turkey,...
Author
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Pub. Date
[2015?]
Language
English
Description
"Machiavellian"-used to describe the ruthless cunning of the power-obsessed and the pitiless-is never meant as a compliment. But the man whose name became shorthand for all that is ugly in politics was more engaging and nuanced than his reputation suggests. Christopher S. Celenza's Machiavelli: A Portrait removes the varnish of centuries to reveal not only the hardnosed political philosopher but the skilled diplomat, learned commentator on ancient...
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"Far from the ruthless Machiavellian henchman that people think he was, Machiavelli emerges here as a profound ethical thinker who fought to uphold high moral standards and restore the democratic freedoms of his beloved Florence. Shaking the dust from history, Benner ... interweaves Machiavelli's words with those of his friends and enemies, giving us a biography with all the energy of fiction"--Amazon.com.
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