About this title: Inspired by Machiavelli's instructional book for young princes, this modern guide for business and everyday life tells how to gain, keep, and distribute power.
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Description: Good. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Binding: Trade Paperback
Publisher: Penguin USA, E Rutherford, New Jersey, U.S.A.
Date Published: 2000
ISBN-13:9780140280197ISBN:0140280197
Description: Good + Cover has bumping, marks, scratches, chipping, creases, small dent damage tear-Edgewear-Marks on edge-Bumped pgs-Few marks-Writing on FFEP. read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Penguin USA, E Rutherford, New Jersey, U.S.A.
Date Published: 2000
ISBN-13:9780140280197ISBN:0140280197
Description: Very Good. Moderate shelf wear to corners, creases on front cover, light edgewear, binding is loose, dampstains on bottom edge of book, sticker on back cover. read more
Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Penguin Putnam
Date Published: 1998
ISBN-13:9780140280197ISBN:0140280197
Description: New. No dust jacket as issued. Glued binding. 452 p. Audience: General/trade. The bestselling book for those who want POWER, watch POWER, or want to arm themselves against POWER. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Profile Books Ltd
Date Published: 2000-11-20
ISBN-13:9781861972781ISBN:1861972784
Description: Good. 2006 paperback no marks in good condition does look worn All of our products are cleaned with an disinfectant for your protection before shipping. read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Penguin Group USA
Date Published: 2000-09-01
ISBN-13:9780140280197ISBN:0140280197
Description: NEW. Softcover. From an inventory that is 100% brand-new, 100% direct from the publishers' distribution channel. We carry NO pre-owned, NO remaindered. We pack in CARDBOARD to ensure the pristine quality is maintained. (Bubble-wrap alone is NOT sufficient to protect from USPS equipment. ) Guaranteed brand-NEW, protected with CARDBOARD, your satisfaction is guaranteed. BKLUVID: 9780140280197. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Viking 1998
Date Published: 1998
ISBN-13:9780670661466ISBN:0670661465
Description: ISBN 0670661465. Hardback. Later Printing. Very Good condition book with minor bumps and rubs to cover corners, slight dustsoiling to bottom edge of book, in a Very Good condition dustjacket with minor rubs and creases around its edges. Tight, sound, unmarked copy. $24.95 original price is present and unclipped on front flap of dustjacket. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: PROFILE BOOKS LTD Country = UNITED KINGDOM
Date Published: 2000
ISBN-13:9781861972781ISBN:1861972784
Description: BRAND NEW PAPERBACK. 463 pages. (463 pages) drawn from 3, 000 years of the history of power, this guide helps readers achieve for themselves what queen elizabeth i, henry kissinger, louis xiv and machiavelli learnt the hard way. colour illustrations (Paperback) read more
Description: Very good. Very Good Hardback-Inside is clean & unmarked & in very good condition-Outside shows lite shelf/reading wear-Please see our feedback! read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Viking Adult
Date Published: 1998-09-01
ISBN-13:9780670881468ISBN:0670881465
Description: Like New. STATED FIRST EDITION, New hardcover with DJ, Text & pages are clean and unmarked, Dust jacket has very minimal shelfwear, Expedited shipping not available with this order. read more
"This is an interesting book at the convergence of history and strategy that needs a good editor to shorten it. Mr. Greene has assembled a massive compendium from a select range of sources. As such, he offers limited new insight.
I had several problems with the book:
1. I found that it had logical inconsistencies, particularly between various "laws," that would stifle efforts at applying the princples.
2. I disagreed ethically with recommendations in certain laws, since they recommend ways of gaining power that exploit others when other means exist to reach the same ends."
"This book was sent to me while I was living in California. While riding the subway there, I had read some pages over a woman's shoulder and was fascinated by it. I told my girlfriend all about it and she sent it. It has a lot of insightful examples and quotes from various periods of time and parts of the world. I do recommend this for learning about yourself and others, but do not recommend it if you are not a discerning reader. It's basically a book that teaches how to manipulate people. How to con them. There are principles here useful for persuasion, or for understanding the social realm, but others are malicious in nature."
We all tell lies and hide our true feelings, for complete free expression is a social impossibility. From an early age we learn to conceal our thoughts, telling the prickly and insecure what we know they want to hear, watching carefully lest we offend them. For most of us this is natural - there are ideas and values that most people accept, and it is pointless to argue. We believe what we want to, then, but on the outside we wear a mask.
There are people, however, who see such restraints as an intolerable infringement on their freedom, and who have a need to prove the superiority of their values and beliefs. In the end, though, their arguments convince only a few and offend a great deal more. The reason arguments do not work is that most people hold their ideas and values without thinking about them. There is a strong emotional content in their beliefs; They really do not want to have to rework their habits of thinking, and when you challenge them, whether directly through your arguments or indirectly through your behavior, they are hostile.
Wise and clever people learn early on that they can display conventional behavior and mouth conventional ideas without having to believe in them. The power these people gain from blending in is that of being left along to have the thoughts they want to have, and to express them to the people they want to express them to, without suffering isolation or ostracism. Once they have established themselves in a position of power, they can try to convince a wider circle of the corrections of their ideas - perhaps working indirectly, using Campanells' strategies of irony and insinuation."
"This book is basically a history text on power. While the negative criticisms are somwhat justified - yes it is a book telling you how to be deceitful and oppresive and destructive - I would say it is better to learn these lessons whether you plan on using them or not. If you plan on becoming powerful, this book sets the guidelines down perfectly. If you plan on being spiritual or ethical, then this book allows you to prepare yourself against those trying to decieve you.
I just read it for the history stories and that alone satisfied me"
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