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Book Synopsis Machiavelli in 90 Minutes by : Paul Strathern
Download or read book Machiavelli in 90 Minutes written by Paul Strathern and published by Philosophers in 90 Minutes Series. This book was released on 1998 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offers a brief profile of the Italian philosopher, discusses his works, and assesses the influence of his theories.
Book Synopsis Derrida in 90 Minutes by : Paul Strathern
Download or read book Derrida in 90 Minutes written by Paul Strathern and published by Ivan R. Dee. This book was released on 2000-11-10 with total page 97 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Each of these little books is witty and dramatic and creates a sense of time, place, and character....I cannot think of a better way to introduce oneself and one’s friends to Western civilization.”—Katherine A. Powers, Boston Globe. “Well-written, clear and informed, they have a breezy wit about them....I find them hard to stop reading.”—Richard Bernstein, New York Times. “Witty, illuminating, and blessedly concise.”—Jim Holt, Wall Street Journal. These brief and enlightening explorations of our greatest thinkers bring their ideas to life in entertaining and accessible fashion. Philosophical thought is deciphered and made comprehensive and interesting to almost everyone. Far from being a novelty, each book is a highly refined appraisal of the philosopher and his work, authoritative and clearly presented.
Book Synopsis Socrates in 90 Minutes by : Paul Strathern
Download or read book Socrates in 90 Minutes written by Paul Strathern and published by Ivan R. Dee. This book was released on 1997-04-01 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Each of these little books is witty and dramatic and creates a sense of time, place, and character....I cannot think of a better way to introduce oneself and one’s friends to Western civilization.”—Katherine A. Powers, Boston Globe. “Well-written, clear and informed, they have a breezy wit about them....I find them hard to stop reading.”—Richard Bernstein, New York Times. “Witty, illuminating, and blessedly concise.”—Jim Holt, Wall Street Journal. These brief and enlightening explorations of our greatest thinkers bring their ideas to life in entertaining and accessible fashion. Philosophical thought is deciphered and made comprehensive and interesting to almost everyone. Far from being a novelty, each book is a highly refined appraisal of the philosopher and his work, authoritative and clearly presented.
Book Synopsis Aristotle in 90 Minutes by : Paul Strathern
Download or read book Aristotle in 90 Minutes written by Paul Strathern and published by Ivan R. Dee. This book was released on 1996-09-01 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Each of these little books is witty and dramatic and creates a sense of time, place, and character....I cannot think of a better way to introduce oneself and one’s friends to Western civilization.”—Katherine A. Powers, Boston Globe. “Well-written, clear and informed, they have a breezy wit about them....I find them hard to stop reading.”—Richard Bernstein, New York Times. “Witty, illuminating, and blessedly concise.”—Jim Holt, Wall Street Journal. These brief and enlightening explorations of our greatest thinkers bring their ideas to life in entertaining and accessible fashion. Philosophical thought is deciphered and made comprehensive and interesting to almost everyone. Far from being a novelty, each book is a highly refined appraisal of the philosopher and his work, authoritative and clearly presented.
Book Synopsis The Artist, the Philosopher, and the Warrior by : Paul Strathern
Download or read book The Artist, the Philosopher, and the Warrior written by Paul Strathern and published by Bantam. This book was released on 2009-09-29 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Leonardo da Vinci, Niccolò Machiavelli, and Cesare Borgia—three iconic figures whose intersecting lives provide the basis for this astonishing work of narrative history. They could not have been more different, and they would meet only for a short time in 1502, but the events that transpired when they did would significantly alter each man’s perceptions—and the course of Western history. In 1502, Italy was riven by conflict, with the city of Florence as the ultimate prize. Machiavelli, the consummate political manipulator, attempted to placate the savage Borgia by volunteering Leonardo to be Borgia’s chief military engineer. That autumn, the three men embarked together on a brief, perilous, and fateful journey through the mountains, remote villages, and hill towns of the Italian Romagna—the details of which were revealed in Machiavelli’s frequent dispatches and Leonardo’s meticulous notebooks. Superbly written and thoroughly researched, The Artist, the Philosopher, and the Warrior is a work of narrative genius—whose subject is the nature of genius itself.
Book Synopsis Thoughts on Machiavelli by : Leo Strauss
Download or read book Thoughts on Machiavelli written by Leo Strauss and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2014-07-04 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The esteemed philosopher’s assessment of good, evil, and the value of Machiavelli. Leo Strauss argued that the most visible fact about Machiavelli’s doctrine is also the most useful one: Machiavelli seems to be a teacher of wickedness. Strauss sought to incorporate this idea in his interpretation without permitting it to overwhelm or exhaust his exegesis of The Prince and Discourses on the First Ten Books of Livy. “We are in sympathy,” he writes, “with the simple opinion about Machiavelli [namely, the wickedness of his teaching], not only because it is wholesome, but above all because a failure to take that opinion seriously prevents one from doing justice to what is truly admirable in Machiavelli: the intrepidity of his thought, the grandeur of his vision, and the graceful subtlety of his speech.” This critique of the founder of modern political philosophy by this prominent twentieth-century scholar is an essential text for students of both authors.
Book Synopsis After Many a Summer Dies the Swan by : Aldous Huxley
Download or read book After Many a Summer Dies the Swan written by Aldous Huxley and published by Ivan R. Dee. This book was released on 1993-01-01 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Hollywood millionaire with a terror of death, whose personal physician happens to be working on a theory of longevity-these are the elements of Aldous Huxley's caustic and entertaining satire on man's desire to live indefinitely. With his customary wit and intellectual sophistication, Huxley pursues his characters in their quest for the eternal, finishing on a note of horror. "This is Mr. Huxley's Hollywood novel, and you might expect it to be fantastic, extravagant, crazy and preposterous. It is all that, and heaven and hell too....It is the kind of novel that he is particularly the master of, where the most extraordinary and fortuitous events are followed by contemplative little essays on the meaning of life....The story is outrageously good."—New York Times. "A highly sensational plot that will keep astonishing you to practically the final sentence."—The New Yorker. "Mr. Huxley's elegant mockery, his cruel aptness of phrase, the revelations and the ingenious surprises he springs on the reader are those of a master craftsman; Mr. Huxley is at the top of his form." —London Times Literary Supplement.
Book Synopsis Machiavelli's Prince by : Erica Benner
Download or read book Machiavelli's Prince written by Erica Benner and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2013-11 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book gives a radical, new, chapter-by-chapter reading of Machiavelli's The Prince, arguing that it is an ironic masterpiece with a moral purpose. It outlines Machiavelli's most important ironic techniques: a normatively coded use of language.
Book Synopsis Machiavelli for Women by : Stacey Vanek Smith
Download or read book Machiavelli for Women written by Stacey Vanek Smith and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2022-04-19 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "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.
Download or read book Machiavelli written by Richard Vetere and published by Dramatic Publishing. This book was released on 2007 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Ape and Essence written by Aldous Huxley and published by Ivan R. Dee. This book was released on 1992-08-01 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Aldous Huxley's Brave New World first appeared in 1932, it presented in terms of purest fantasy a society bent on self-destruction. Few of its outraged critics anticipated the onset of another world war with its Holocaust and atomic ruin. In 1948, seeing that the probable shape of his anti-utopia had been altered inevitably by the facts of history, Huxley wrote Ape and Essence. In this savage novel, using the form of a film scenario, he transports us to the year 2108. The setting is Los Angeles where a "rediscovery expedition" from New Zealand is trying to make sense of what is left. From chief botanist Alfred Poole we learn, to our dismay, about the twenty-second-century way of life. "It was inevitable that Mr. Huxley should have written this book: one could almost have seen it since Hiroshima is the necessary sequel to Brave New World."—Alfred Kazin. "The book has a certain awesome impressiveness; its sheer intractable bitterness cannot but affect the reader."—Time.
Download or read book Machiavelli written by Patrick Boucheron and published by Pushkin Press. This book was released on 2020-09-03 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Wise, witty, razor-sharp" Stephen Greenblatt, author of The Swerve: How the Renaissance Began Interested in Machiavelli?That may be a bad sign. We always turn to Machiavelli at crisis points in history – he is the philosopher for dark times. But what do we really know about this man? Is there more to his work than that perennial term for political evil, Machiavellianism? In this concise, elegant book, Patrick Boucheron undoes many assumptions about this most complex of figures. By honing in on Machiavelli's role in the political life of his own time, Boucheron shows how his thought remains essential to understanding not only how authoritarianism works, but also how it can be fought.
Book Synopsis Machiavelli in America by : Thomas Block
Download or read book Machiavelli in America written by Thomas Block and published by Algora Publishing. This book was released on 2014-03-01 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Machiavelli advised us that people are so mean, small and selfish that they will only act under necessity, so the successful prince must force the population, through whatever means necessary, to follow his dictates. This book traces the influence of the Florentine thinker on American politics, from the Founders (c. 1770s) through today's rough-and-tumble political panorama. Machiavelli's ideas have been re-interpreted internationally as 'real-politik.' He proposed that the 'ends justify the means,' and that any manner of fraud, violence or corruption must be utilized in attaining and retaining power. He maintained that the most powerful form of fraud was the appearance of religiosity and said that the successful prince must hold no art higher than that of war. In this disturbing, erudite and highly readable book, America is shown to be a surprising example of Machiavellian politics, utilizing all of the post-modern methods of information distribution and "legal" fraud and corruption. Lee Atwater, Karl Rove, George W. Bush, the Supreme Court's 'Citizens United v. the Federal Election Commission' (2010) and the Super PACs it spawned, the massive amounts of money ("power's master key"), the intermingling of the language of religion and war, and the 90% negative advertising of the 2012 Presidential campaign (channeling Machiavelli's dictum that the adversary must be "assassinated," though in contemporary America by character assassination) and even Barack Obama's Machiavellian machinations are looked at in light of the Renaissance political philosopher's ideas. The last section of the book offers a response to this with a specific, implementable program that will begin to devolve the power of American democracy back to the people.
Book Synopsis Schopenhauer in 90 Minutes by : Paul Strathern
Download or read book Schopenhauer in 90 Minutes written by Paul Strathern and published by Philosophers in 90 Minutes Series. This book was released on 1999 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1906 Original Publisher: C. Scribner's Sons Subjects: Pioneers Hudson River (N.Y. and N.J.) Mohawk River (N.Y.) Susquehanna River Delaware River (N.Y.-Del. and N.J.) New York (State) Hudson River (N.Y. and N.J.) Mohawk River (N.Y.) Delaware River (N.Y.-Del. and N.J.) Pioneer New York (N.Y.) Nature / Rivers History / United States / State
Book Synopsis Ultimate Mind Control: by : Dr. Haha Lung
Download or read book Ultimate Mind Control: written by Dr. Haha Lung and published by Kensington Publishing Corp.. This book was released on 2011-03-01 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawn from sources deep in China and India, the long-lost secrets of mastering the mental arts of Ame-tsuchi-jitsu are now revealed by martial-arts master Dr. Haha Lung. Those with the courage to explore these forbidden techniques will be rewarded with the skills to master any foe or situation, from the conference room to the battlefield and beyond. Inside these explosive pages, you'll learn: • The 6 Steps to Power • Secrets of "Shadow Ki" Hypnosis • Kotodama: Spirit Words of Power • Junishi-do-jitsu: Ruling the 12 Rulers • Kuji-kiri: The 9 Doors of Power • Hannibal's 99 Truths • And much more,/UL> BE ADVISED: This is a very dangerous art. Ultimate Mind Control! is for academic study ONLY. Dr. Haha Lung is the author of more than a dozen books on martial arts, including Mind Penetration, Mind Fist, The Nine Halls of Death, Assassin!, Mind Manipulation, Knights of Darkness, Mind Control: The Ancient Art of Psychological Warfare, and with co-author Christopher B. Prowant, Mind Assassins, Ninja Shadowhand, and Mental Dominance.
Book Synopsis The Life and Times of Niccolò Machiavelli by : Pasquale Villari
Download or read book The Life and Times of Niccolò Machiavelli written by Pasquale Villari and published by . This book was released on 1892 with total page 632 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Prince written by Niccolò Machiavelli and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-08-29 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.