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The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli
Category: Classics | Series: Capstone Classics
The Handbook for Leaders The Prince is often regarded as the first true leadership book. It shocked contemporary readers with its ruthless call for fearless and effective action. With simple prose and straightforward logic, Machiavelli's guide still has the power to surprise and inform anyone hoping to ...Show more
The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli
Category: Classics | Series: Collins Classics
HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. 'We have declared before that it is not only expedient but necessary for a prince to take care his foundations be good, otherwise his fabric will be sure to fail.' Considered one of the first works of modern philosophy, ...Show more
The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli
Category: Non-Fiction | Series: Oxford World's Classics
'A prince must not have any other object nor any other thought...but war, its institutions, and its discipline; because that is the only art befitting one who commands.' When Machiavelli's brief treatise on Renaissance statecraft and princely power was posthumously published in 1532, it generated a deba ...Show more
The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli
Category: Classics
Laid out in this book is the world's most famous master plan for seizing and holding power. Astonishing in its candor, The Prince even today remains a disturbingly realistic and prophetic work on what it takes to be a prince, a king or a president. When, in 1512, Machiavelli was removed from his post in ...Show more
The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli
Category: Non-Fiction
Niccolo Machiavelli's brutally uncompromising manual of statecraft, "The Prince" is translated and edited with an introduction by Tim Parks in "Penguin Classics". As a diplomat in turbulent fifteenth-century Florence, Niccolo Machiavelli knew how quickly political fortunes could rise and fall. "The Prin ...Show more
The Prince by Machiavelli Niccolo Coralie Bickford-Smith (ILT) Tim Parks (TRN)
Category: Non-Fiction | Series: Penguin Classics
A new series of beautiful hardcover nonfiction classics, with covers designed by Coralie Bickford-Smith World-changing ideas meet eye-catching design: the best titles of the extraordinarily successful Great Ideas series are now packaged in Coralie Bickford-Smith's distinctive, award-winning covers. Whet ...Show more
The Prince (Collins Classics) by Niccolo Machiavelli
Category: Classics | Series: Collins Classics
The Prince (Italian: Il Principe is a 16th-century political treatise by the Italian diplomat and political theorist Niccolo Machiavelli. From correspondence a version appears to have been distributed in 1513, using a Latin title, De Principatibus (Of Principalities). However, the printed version was no ...Show more
The Prince (Hero Classics) by Niccolo Machiavelli
Category: Classics | Series: Hero Classics Ser.
It is not titles that honour men, but men that honour titles. How can a prince rise to power? What must he do to remain in it? What is expected of a good ruler? Which is better-- to be feared or to be loved? Offering an explicit insight into the minds of a ruler, here is a practical handbook and a po ...Show more
The Prince (Leather Bound) by MACHIAVELLI, NICCOLO
Category: Non-Fiction | Series: Barnes & Noble Collectible Editions
"[I]t is safer to be feared than loved." These words embody the spirit of The Prince, Niccolò Machiavelli's classic work of political philosophy. Machiavelli's advice for how a ruler should acquire and ruthlessly exercise power over others continues to be relevant to contemporary readers more than five ...Show more
The Prince: Popular Penguins by Niccolo Machiavelli
Category: Non-Fiction | Series: Popular Penguins
As a diplomat in turbulent fifteenth-century Florence, Niccolò Machiavelli (1469-1527) knew how quickly political fortunes could rise and fall. The Princeis his controversial handbook about the dynamics of power, leadership and strategy. Machiavelli's shrewd argument that sometimes it is necessary to ab ...Show more
The Prince on the Art of Power by Niccolo Machiavelli
Category: Classics
Frequently misunderstood over the centuries as an unprincipled manual for manipulators and tyrants, careful reading of "The Prince" shows that it identifies freedom as an essential characteristic of a good society - Machiavelli sets out axioms for success and order amid the often violent political intri ...Show more