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As a diplomat in turbulent fifteenth-century Florence, Niccol Machiavelli (1469-1527) knew how quickly political fortunes could rise and fall. As a diplomat in turbulent fifteenth-century Florence, Niccol Machiavelli (1469-1527) knew...
The Portable Machiavelli
In the four and a half centuries since Machiavelli's death, no single and unanimously accepted interpretation of his ideas has succeeded in imposing itself upon the lively debate over the...
The Discourses
Penguin Classics relaunch Few figures in intellectual history have proved as notorious and ambiguous as Niccol Machiavelli. But while his treatise The Prince made his name synonymous with autocratic ruthlessness...
The Prince
Tim Parks's celebrated new translation of this classic text, now in paperback As a diplomat in turbulent fifteenth-century Florence, Niccol Machiavelli (1469-1527) knew how quickly political fortunes could rise and...
The Prince
Pocket Hardbacks - the new non-fiction series that combines the collectability of Clothbound Classics with the popular spirit of Great Ideas Niccol Machiavelli's The Prince is the Bible of realpolitik,...
Machiavelli
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Part of the acclaimed Eminent Lives series, Machiavelli is a superb portrait of the brilliant and revolutionary political philosopher--history's most famous theorist of "warfare, terror, murder, and bloodshed"--and the age...
The Prince
A refreshingly accessible new translation of this timely and dynamic classic work about the corrupting effects of power Machiavelli's highly influential treatise on political power 'It is far safer to...
Be Like the Fox: Machiavelli's Lifelong Quest for Freedom
An enjoyably revisionist biography and a warning from the past about our world today Niccol Machiavelli lived in a fiercely competitive world, one where brute wealth, brazen liars and ruthless...
The Throne
Machiavelli is famous the world over, but who was he before he penned The Prince? It's October 1502, and the powerful Cesare Borgia is preparing to invade the Florentine Republic....
The Portable Machiavelli
In the four and a half centuries since Machiavelli's death, no single and unanimously accepted interpretation of his ideas has succeeded in imposing itself upon the lively debate over the...
The English Face Of Machiavelli: A Changing Interpretation 1500-1700
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerIn the turbulent intellectual landscape of early modern England, few foreign thinkers provoked as much controversy, fear, and...
Machiavelli in Hell
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The Machiavelli Covenant
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The Ground is Burning
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The Machiavelli Covenant
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Machiavelli: A Man Misunderstood
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History's Greatest Philosophers: Classical Wisdom for Modern Times
What does it mean to be a philosopher? Being a deep thinker? Taking a stand against the norms of society? Being really good at winning an argument? The beauty of...
The Ambassadors: Thinking about Diplomacy from Machiavelli to Modern
History does not run in straight lines. Instead of inevitable progress, what we get is more often false starts, blind alleys, random events, good intentions that go wrong. Robert Cooper's...
Inventing the Renaissance: Myths of a Golden Age
The Renaissance is one of the most studied and celebrated eras of history. Spanning the end of the Middle Ages to the beginning of modernity, it has come to symbolise...
The Chinese Machiavelli: 3000 Years of Chinese Statecraft
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Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: chipped and worn with some damagePages: Good Markings: No markingsThis book explores 3000 years of Chinese political-military history, drawing parallels with Machiavelli's theories on power and...
The Politics
Twenty-three centuries after its compilation, 'The Politics' still has much to contribute to this central question of political science. Aristotle's thorough and carefully argued analysis is based on a study...
The Borgias
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William Macmahon Ball: The Public Life Of A Political Scientist
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Author: Ai KobayashiBinding: HardbackPublished: School of Historical Studies, The University of Melbourne, 2009Condition:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good conditionPages: Some moisture damageMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Biographical thesis....
Marx
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The Living Thoughts Of Mazzini
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The Master's Tools: How Finance Wrecked Democracy (And a Radical Plan
Why is democracy so broken and how might it be fixed? Most political commentators point to heads of state, such as the Presidency, and other formal institutions of the state....
The Ides of March
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Renaissance: Assassin's Creed Book 1
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Dictator: From the Sunday Times bestselling author
FROM THE NUMBER ONE BESTSELLING AUTHOR 'Confirms Harris's undisputed place as our leading master of both the historical and contemporary thriller' Daily Mail 'Climatic in every sense . . ....
Karl Marx
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Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: PoorJacket: No dust jacketPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Ex-library with usual markingsCondition remarks: Condition as shown in image; pages can have notes and/or underliningAt the crossroads of...
Marx Before Marxism
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Warriors, Rebels and Saints: The Art of Leadership from Machiavelli to
Across the world, and throughout time, there have been people who have risen to the challenge of leading others. Sometimes their power is undeserved, sometimes it's ill-used, but always their...
The Minister and the Massacres
The book titled The Minister and the Massacres by the author Nikolai Tolstoy. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.
Conclave
FROM THE NUMBER ONE BESTSELLING AUTHOR. NOW AN BAFTA AND OSCAR WINNING MOVIE. THE POWER OF GOD. THE AMBITION OF MEN. THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER NOW AN BAFTA AND OSCAR...
Churchill: An Unruly Life
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It was said by contemporaries that when Winston Churchill was born he was blessed with imagination, eloquence, industry and ability, but denied judgement and wisdom. For much of his long...
Warriors, Rebels and Saints: The Art of Leadership from Machiavelli to Malcolm X
Do leaders make history, or does history make leaders? What should we do when the wrong people are in power? And how can we harness the answers to find and...
The Spy and the Traitor: The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War
A thrilling Cold War story about a KGB double agent, by one of Britain's greatest historians On a warm July evening in 1985, a middle-aged man stood on the pavement...
Karl Marx: The Passionate Logician
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Agent Sonya: From the bestselling author of The Spy and The Traitor
The incredible story behind the greatest female spy in history from one of Britain's best historians, now in paperback Ursula Kuczynski Burton was a spymaster, saboteur, bomb-maker and secret agent....
The Selling Of The President
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A Local Habitation and a Name: Imagining Histories in the Italian
Focusing on major authors and problems from the Italian fourteenth and sixteenth centuries, from Petrarch and Boccaccio to Machiavelli, Ariosto and Tasso, A Local Habitation and a Name examines the...
The Lectures Of Professor T. G. Masaryk At The University Of Chicago: Summer 1902
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodIn the summer of 1902, Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk — philosopher, statesman, and future founding president of Czechoslovakia — delivered a remarkable series of lectures...