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The 48 Laws of Power
List Price: $17.00 Our Price: $11.56
Paperback - 05 September, 2000
Penguin (Non-Classics)
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Author: Robert Greene
ISBN: 0140280197
Number of Media: 1
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| Paperback Description "Learning the game of power requires a certain way of looking at the world, a shifting of perspective," writes Robert Greene. Mastery of one's emotions and the arts of deception and indirection are, he goes on to assert, essential. The 48 laws outlined in this book "have a simple premise: certain actions always increase one's power ... while others decrease it and even ruin us." The laws cull their principles from many great schemers--and scheming instructors--throughout history, from Sun-Tzu to Talleyrand, from Casanova to con man Yellow Kid Weil. They are straightforward in their amoral simplicity: "Get others to do the work for you, but always take the credit," or "Discover each man's thumbscrew." Each chapter provides examples of the consequences of observance or transgression of the law, along with "keys to power," potential "reversals" (where the converse of the law might also be useful), and a single paragraph cleverly laid out to suggest an image (such as the aforementioned thumbscrew); the margins are filled with illustrative quotations. Practitioners of one-upmanship have been given a new, comprehensive training manual, as up-to-date as it is timeless. |
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Some like it, some don't, but it is an interesting book Tired of getting walked over by colleagues? 48 laws of power is not the type of book that you pick up and read cover to cover, but a resource that you can use from time to time. If office politics is getting you down, 48 laws of power is a great book to assist you in formulating strategies to be slightly more machiavellian. Just temper the advice when you put it into practice!
Interesting and Informative! I thought this book was both interesting and informative. Try it and judge for yourself.
This is not a book for the real world This tone of this book is self-congratulatory, the writing is dense, and the overall book seems to be written for those powerless people full of resentment who sit in corners and hatch useless plots and fantasies. As a student of political philosophy, I picked up this book because it was supposed to be a modern masterpiece of the 'realpolitik' school of thought. What I found was a book at turns blustering, snide, full of braggadocio, and generally atrocious and useless. The author baldy, and badly, rips off classical authors like Machiavelli and Hobbes. This would be fine if he were actually creating something of modern value and relevance. But he isnt. This is a manual for mental masturbation by all those disatissfied puppies who wish revenge upon others around them but can never enact a thing. Save your money, and your time, and educate your mind: buy a copy of Machiavelli's timeless classic 'The Prince' and read in less than a hundred pages of tight, terse, pointed, classically poetic prose what it takes this author several hundred pages to foul up and make disatrously obscure. |
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