Author : Giovanni Botero
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2003-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0758101074
The Reason of State
Giovanni Botero
Cliffsnotes On Machiavelli S The Prince
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The Art of War
Niccolò Machiavelli
Author : Niccolò Machiavelli
Publisher : E-Kitap Projesi & Cheapest Books
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2023-12-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9786056849268
The Art of War by Niccolò Machiavelli Pdf
The Art of War (Dell'arte della guerra), is one of the lesser-read works of Florentine statesman and political philosopher Niccolò Machiavelli. The format of 'The Art of War' was in socratic dialogue. The purpose, declared by Fabrizio (Machiavelli's persona) at the outset, "To honor and reward virtù, not to have contempt for poverty, to esteem the modes and orders of military discipline, to constrain citizens to love one another, to live without factions, to esteem less the private than the public good." To these ends, Machiavelli notes in his preface, the military is like the roof of a palazzo protecting the contents. Written between 1519 and 1520 and published the following year, it was the only historical or political work printed during Machiavelli's lifetime, though he was appointed official historian of Florence in 1520 and entrusted with minor civil duties. Many, Lorenzo, have held and still hold the opinion, that there is nothing which has less in common with another, and that is so dissimilar, as civilian life is from the military. Whence it is often observed, if anyone designs to avail himself of an enlistment in the army, that he soon changes, not only his clothes, but also his customs, his habits, his voice, and in the presence of any civilian custom, he goes to pieces; for I do not believe that any man can dress in civilian clothes who wants to be quick and ready for any violence; nor can that man have civilian customs and habits, who judges those customs to be effeminate and those habits not conducive to his actions; nor does it seem right to him to maintain his ordinary appearance and voice who, with his beard and cursing, wants to make other men afraid: which makes such an opinion in these times to be very true. But if they should consider the ancient institutions, they would not find matter more united, more in conformity, and which, of necessity, should be like to each other as much as these (civilian and military); for in all the arts that are established in a society for the sake of the common good of men, all those institutions created to (make people) live in fear of the laws and of God would be in vain, if their defense had not been provided for and which, if well arranged, will maintain not only these, but also those that are not well established.
The Prince
Niccolò Machiavelli
Author : Niccolò Machiavelli
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2023-08-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783387010251
The Prince by Niccolò Machiavelli Pdf
Reproduction of the original. The publishing house Megali specialises in reproducing historical works in large print to make reading easier for people with impaired vision.
CliffsNotes on Machiavelli's The Prince
Stacy Magedanz
Author : Stacy Magedanz
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2011-05-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780544184183
CliffsNotes on Machiavelli's The Prince by Stacy Magedanz Pdf
The original CliffsNotes study guides offer expert commentary on major themes, plots, characters, literary devices, and historical background. The latest generation of titles in this series also feature glossaries and visual elements that complement the classic, familiar format. In CliffsNotes on The Prince, you explore the Italian Renaissance in Florence in the late 1400s and early 1500s, during which Machiavelli was a statesman who took a special interest in observing the distinct intelligence that made certain rulers successful. In a nutshell, The Prince is an analysis of how to acquire and maintain political power. It remains one of the definitive statements of power and control and is based on what Machiavelli saw, not what he felt or imagined. This study guide carefully walks you through The Prince by providing summaries and critical analyses of each chapter of the book. You'll also explore the life and background of the author. Other features that help you study include A list of people the book explores Glossaries in each chapter to define new terms Critical essays about topics like the vilification of Machiavelli and free will A review section that tests your knowledge A ResourceCenter with books, magazine articles, and websites for more study Classic literature or modern-day treasure—you'll understand it all with expert information and insight from CliffsNotes study guides.
Rules for Radicals
Saul Alinsky
Author : Saul Alinsky
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2010-06-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780307756893
Rules for Radicals by Saul Alinsky Pdf
“This country's leading hell-raiser" (The Nation) shares his impassioned counsel to young radicals on how to effect constructive social change and know “the difference between being a realistic radical and being a rhetorical one.” First published in 1971 and written in the midst of radical political developments whose direction Alinsky was one of the first to question, this volume exhibits his style at its best. Like Thomas Paine before him, Alinsky was able to combine, both in his person and his writing, the intensity of political engagement with an absolute insistence on rational political discourse and adherence to the American democratic tradition.
Discourses on Livy
Niccolò Machiavelli
Author : Niccolò Machiavelli
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 443 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2023-11-16
Category : History
ISBN : EAN:8596547668503
Discourses on Livy by Niccolò Machiavelli Pdf
Machiavelli saw history in general as a way to learn useful lessons from the past for the present, and also as a type of analysis which could be built upon, as long as each generation did not forget the works of the past. In "Discourses on Livy" Machiavelli discusses what can be learned from roman period and many other eras as well, including the politics of his lifetime. This is a work of political history and philosophy written in the early 16th. The title identifies the work's subject as the first ten books of Livy's Ab urbe condita, which relate the expansion of Rome through the end of the Third Samnite War in 293 BC. Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli (1469 – 1527) was an Italian diplomat, politician, historian, philosopher, humanist, and writer. He has often been called the father of modern political science. He was for many years a senior official in the Florentine Republic, with responsibilities in diplomatic and military affairs. He served as a secretary to the Second Chancery of the Republic of Florence from 1498 to 1512, when the Medici were out of power.He wrote his most well-known work The Prince in 1513, having been exiled from city affairs.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius
Niccolò Machiavelli
Author : Niccolò Machiavelli
Publisher : IndyPublish.com
Page : 522 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1883
Category : History
ISBN : HARVARD:32044025050071
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius by Niccolò Machiavelli Pdf
The Florentine Histories
Niccolò Machiavelli
Author : Niccolò Machiavelli
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1845
Category : Florence (History)
ISBN : HARVARD:HNL3X3
The Florentine Histories by Niccolò Machiavelli Pdf
CliffsNotes Machiavelli's The Prince
Stacy Magedanz
Author : Stacy Magedanz
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 97 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Political ethics
ISBN : OCLC:868938617
CliffsNotes Machiavelli's The Prince by Stacy Magedanz Pdf
A Man For All Seasons
Robert Bolt
Author : Robert Bolt
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2013-12-04
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781472536365
A Man For All Seasons by Robert Bolt Pdf
A Man for All Seasons dramatises the conflict between King Henry VIII and Sir Thomas More. It depicts the confrontation between church and state, theology and politics, absolute power and individual freedom. Throughout the play Sir Thomas More's eloquence and endurance, his purity, saintliness and tenacity in the face of ever-growing threats to his beliefs and family, earn him status as one of modern drama's greatest tragic heroes. The play was first staged in 1960 at the Globe Theatre in London and was voted New York's Best Foreign Play in 1962. In 1966 it was made into an Academy Award-winning film by Fred Zinneman starring Paul Scofield."A Man for All Seasons is a stark play, sparse in its narrative, sinewy in its writing, which confirms Mr Bolt as a genuine and solid playwright, a force in our awakening theatre." (Daily Mail)
The Power Paradox
Dacher Keltner
Author : Dacher Keltner
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2016-05-17
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780698195592
The Power Paradox by Dacher Keltner Pdf
A revolutionary and timely reconsideration of everything we know about power. Celebrated UC Berkeley psychologist Dr. Dacher Keltner argues that compassion and selflessness enable us to have the most influence over others and the result is power as a force for good in the world. Power is ubiquitous—but totally misunderstood. Turning conventional wisdom on its head, Dr. Dacher Keltner presents the very idea of power in a whole new light, demonstrating not just how it is a force for good in the world, but how—via compassion and selflessness—it is attainable for each and every one of us. It is taken for granted that power corrupts. This is reinforced culturally by everything from Machiavelli to contemporary politics. But how do we get power? And how does it change our behavior? So often, in spite of our best intentions, we lose our hard-won power. Enduring power comes from empathy and giving. Above all, power is given to us by other people. This is what we all too often forget, and it is the crux of the power paradox: by misunderstanding the behaviors that helped us to gain power in the first place we set ourselves up to fall from power. We abuse and lose our power, at work, in our family life, with our friends, because we've never understood it correctly—until now. Power isn't the capacity to act in cruel and uncaring ways; it is the ability to do good for others, expressed in daily life, and in and of itself a good thing. Dr. Keltner lays out exactly—in twenty original "Power Principles"—how to retain power; why power can be a demonstrably good thing; when we are likely to abuse power; and the terrible consequences of letting those around us languish in powerlessness.
Leviathan
Thomas Hobbes
Author : Thomas Hobbes
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2012-10-03
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780486122144
Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes Pdf
Written during a moment in English history when the political and social structures were in flux and open to interpretation, Leviathan played an essential role in the development of the modern world.
The Cultural Cold War
Frances Stonor Saunders
Author : Frances Stonor Saunders
Publisher : The New Press
Page : 458 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2013-11-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781595589422
The Cultural Cold War by Frances Stonor Saunders Pdf
During the Cold War, freedom of expression was vaunted as liberal democracy's most cherished possession—but such freedom was put in service of a hidden agenda. In The Cultural Cold War, Frances Stonor Saunders reveals the extraordinary efforts of a secret campaign in which some of the most vocal exponents of intellectual freedom in the West were working for or subsidized by the CIA—whether they knew it or not. Called "the most comprehensive account yet of the [CIA's] activities between 1947 and 1967" by the New York Times, the book presents shocking evidence of the CIA's undercover program of cultural interventions in Western Europe and at home, drawing together declassified documents and exclusive interviews to expose the CIA's astonishing campaign to deploy the likes of Hannah Arendt, Isaiah Berlin, Leonard Bernstein, Robert Lowell, George Orwell, and Jackson Pollock as weapons in the Cold War. Translated into ten languages, this classic work—now with a new preface by the author—is "a real contribution to popular understanding of the postwar period" (The Wall Street Journal), and its story of covert cultural efforts to win hearts and minds continues to be relevant today.
The Machiavellian's Guide to Womanizing
Nick Casanova
Author : Nick Casanova
Publisher : Booksales
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1999-04
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 0785810749
The Machiavellian's Guide to Womanizing by Nick Casanova Pdf
A hilarious, uninhibited look at various tactics men use to seduce women. Strategies include: 16 comments that show you're a sensitive guy, sneaking into her roommate's bedroom after your girlfriend has fallen asleep, posing as a foreigner and many more. Women will find their worst suspicions confirmed!
Machiavelli for Women
Stacey Vanek Smith
Author : Stacey Vanek Smith
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2022-04-19
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781982121761
Machiavelli for Women by Stacey Vanek Smith Pdf
"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 for fans of Feminist Fight Club, Lean In, and Nice Girls Don’t Get the Corner Office."--Simonandschuster.com viewed Sept. 21, 2022.