Niccolo Machiavelli's Books
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The PrinceEnriched with detailed notes and commentary, Machiavelli’s masterwork on the nature of political power—and its acquisition and retainment.Read More
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Games Domain, November 6, 2009
...the game's storyline turned into a novel. That means you can expect cameos from Leonardo Da Vinci, Niccolo Machiavelli and others interesting from the same period. We suspect that historical accuracy and fascinating insight into the lives and minds of...
Business World, October 1, 2009
... ROME ? Nearly five centuries after Niccolo Machiavelli?s The Prince first shocked readers, author Tim Parks argues the Florentine diplomat?s chilling guide to holding power is just as relevant today as it was then. Author...
Queen's Journal, September 12, 2009
...Chris Tabor said. This means titles such as Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen and The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli, which students may use as textbooks, can be downloaded free of charge. ?Regrettably we don?t have a free version of every one of the...
Reuters India, September 9, 2009
...ROME (Reuters Life!) - Nearly five centuries after Niccolo Machiavelli's "The Prince" first shocked readers, author Tim Parks argues the Florentine diplomat's chilling guide to holding power is just as relevant today as it was then...
Delaware Online, August 27, 2009
...In book after book, family patriarch Joseph Patrick Kennedy Sr. comes off as equal parts Horatio Alger and Niccolo Machiavelli. The family's beginnings The son of a first-generation Irish Catholic saloonkeeper turned Boston ward boss, Joe Sr. attended...
Herald News, August 27, 2009
...In book after book, family patriarch Joseph Patrick Kennedy Sr. comes off as equal parts Horatio Alger and Niccolo Machiavelli. The son of a first-generation Irish Catholic saloonkeeper-turned-Boston-ward-boss, Joe Sr. attended Harvard and married the...
Buffalo News, August 26, 2009
...In book after book, family patriarch Joseph Patrick Kennedy Sr. comes off as equal parts Horatio Alger and Niccolo Machiavelli. The son of a first-generation Irish Catholic saloonkeeper-turned-Boston-ward-boss, Joe Sr. attended Harvard and married the...
TheStar.com.my, May 8, 2009
...impressions. Indeed, many readers might be uneasy about adopting ?a philosophy for life? that pays tribute to 16th-Century Niccolo Machiavelli, ?whose ruthless understanding of personal ambition has inspired us both?. But there?s nothing...
AGI Online, May 6, 2009
...- Italian politics 'infected' by the message of Niccolo' Machiavelli: such is the hope of Gianni Letta, who quoted the author during a reading of classic literature on occasion of an initiative by the Fondazione De Sanctis named 'L...
Mississauganews.com, May 6, 2009
...great political leadership â?? fortuna and virtu (luck and skill) â?? said Urbaniak, quoting political thinker and author Niccolo Machiavelli. In his speech, Urbaniak commended the mayor on her ability to pick up on shifting concerns among her...
Washington Post, April 2, 2009
...EVENING GREAT BOOKS CLUB, 7 p.m. Monday, Warrenton Library, 11 Winchester St. Discussion of 'The Prince' by Niccolo Machiavelli. New members welcome. Free. 540-364-4910. MARSHALL AFTERNOON BOOK CLUB, 1 p.m. Wednesday, John Marshall Library, 4133...
Washington Post, March 26, 2009
...GREAT BOOKS CLUB, 7 p.m. April 6, Warrenton Library, 11 Winchester St. Discussion of 'The Prince' by Niccolo Machiavelli. New members welcome. Free. 540-364-4910. SOCRATES CAFE, for adults, 7 p.m. April 14, Warrenton Library, main meeting room, 11...
iPodDailyNews, March 5, 2009
...Jim Lynch reports for Extreme Tech, 'Now you can read your Kindle ebooks right on your iPhone or iPod touch. No need to carry your Kindle around with you while you're out and about.' MacDailyNews Take: Or ever. Think about it, no more geeks coming up to...
San Francisco Chronicle, February 14, 2009
...Times columnist Thomas Friedman and classic military strategist Carl von Clausewitz. But perhaps his closest intellectual cousin is Niccolo Machiavelli, the oft-misunderstood proponent of understanding power and politics for what they are, not for what...
Christian Science Monitor, December 14, 2008
...his honors, and forced to leave his beloved city of Florence for the primitive countryside, the Italian humanist Niccolo Machiavelli found solace in his books: When evening comes, I return home and enter my study; on the threshold I take off my workday...
National Post, December 8, 2008
...Abbey by Jane Austen 13 Persuasian by Jane Austen 14 Poems by Emily Dickinson 15 The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli 16 Pulp by Charles Bukowski 17 The Salmon of Doubt by Douglas Adams 18 The Silmarillion by J. R. R. Tolkien 19 Suite Francaise by Irene...
Very Good Search Info Center, October 21, 2009
...conflicts. A common example of this is how political science has a huge emphasis on the writings of Niccolo Machiavelli. Historians believe that Machiavelli was the first political theorist to modify the principles of warfare for politics, leadership,...
The Proverbial Lone Wolf Librarian's Weblog, September 8, 2009
...Women by Louisa May Alcott. #109. The Beautiful and Damned by F. Scott Fitzgerald. #136. The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli. #138. Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad. #139. The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne. #143. Gulliver’s Travels by...
The Zeray Gazette, August 30, 2009
...with what appears to be (at a very quick glance) Wiker's primary critique. 1. The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli. The author advocated that leaders divorce themselves from moral standards. 2. Discourse on Method by Rene Descartes. The author introduced...
Wonkette, August 25, 2009
...just like back in the 1990s when Dan Quayle comically claimed that he tried (and failed) to read Niccolo Machiavelli’s The Prince each summer, because that seemed — to Dan Quayle, anyway — like the kind of thing a politician maybe should’ve know...
POLITICO Top Stories, August 3, 2009
...D-Calif.), the summer reading list includes two philosophy classics — Sun Tzu’s “The Art of War” and Niccolo Machiavelli’s “The Prince” — that he plans on rereading before starting business school at Northwestern University in August. ...
At Home With Books, June 16, 2009
...47. Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut 48. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain 49. The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli 50. Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle 51. Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell 52. The Bell Jar by...
The Razor, June 5, 2009
...two military geniuses, but I view their works as two chapters in the same book. The Prince – Niccolo Machiavelli – The first chapter in that book that explains the sources, uses and abuses of power. As relevant today in today’s Obamanation as it...
Keeping up with the Huxtables, June 5, 2009
...Kind of People by Lawrence Otis Graham Purpose Driven Life by Rick Warren The Art of War by Niccolo Machiavelli Why should white guys have all the fun? by Reginald Lewis Kindred by Octavia Butler Tree grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith Roll of thunder hear...
Ask MetaFilter, May 14, 2009
...Prison gang reading lists and what's on them. Does anyone out there know a concise answer?Most people think you've got to be dumb to get sent to prison or stupid to get caught. But there is a small majority, mainly ex-cons, their families ... I won't...
PARENTING FREEDOM.com, April 20, 2009
...Tom Clancy The Chosen ~ Chaim Potok How the Other Half Lives ~ Jacob Riis The Prince ~ Niccolo Machiavelli Invisible Man ~ Ralph Ellison Labyrinths ~ William Gibson New Complete Works of Josephus ~ Flavius Josephus Safely Home ~ Randy Alcorn The Club of...
dave's MySpace Blog, April 13, 2009
...of the Gods? by Eric Von Daniken and The Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livy by Niccolo Machiavelli. I read one of the books that week, the other sat in the trunk of my car for five years until boredom necessitated my picking it up. I wonder...
Cheryl Kinney (aka C.K)'s MySpace Blog, April 6, 2009
...you know, the better off you are- as long as you maintain perspective and think like a leader. Niccolo Machiavelli, author of The Prince, wrote, "Minds are of three kinds. One capable of thinking for itself; another is able to understand the thinking of...
Daily Inklings, March 5, 2009
...Republic - Plato The Canterbury Tales - Geoffrey Chaucer Shakespeare’s Sonnets - William Shakespeare The Prince - Niccolo Machiavelli The Scarlet Letter - Nathaniel Hawthorne The Art of War - Sun Tsu Works of O Henry - O Henry Short Stories of Edgar...
Daily Inklings, March 5, 2009
...Republic - Plato The Canterbury Tales - Geoffrey Chaucer Shakespeare’s Sonnets - William Shakespeare The Prince - Niccolo Machiavelli The Scarlet Letter - Nathaniel Hawthorne Works of O Henry - O Henry Short Stories of Edgar Allan Poe - E. A. Poe...
Neurotopia (version 2.0), December 31, 2008
...Christian Nation by Sam Harris. 12) The Trial and Death of Socrates by Plato. 13) The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli. 14) St. Augustine's Confessions , translated by Gary Wills. 15) The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins. 16) Wittgenstein's Poker by David...
BiblioHistoria, December 20, 2008
...Don Quixote 7th entry: Ulysses 8th entry: Das Kapital 9th entry: The Confessions of St. Augustine 10th entry: Niccolo Machiavelli's The Prince 11th entry: The Great Gatsby 12th entry: Middlemarch 13th entry: The Wealth of Nations 14th entry: The...
Life Optimizer, December 17, 2008
...Darwin (3 recommendations) The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien (3 recommendations) The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli (3 recommendations) Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert M. Pirsig (3 recommendations) Animal Liberation by Peter...
Life Optimizer, December 17, 2008
...Darwin (3 recommendations) The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien (3 recommendations) The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli (3 recommendations) Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert M. Pirsig (3 recommendations) Animal Liberation by Peter...
Right Wing News, December 15, 2008
...Sowell: The Vision of the Anointed Self-Congratulation as a Basis for Social Policy Human nature and foreign policy. Niccolo Machiavelli: The Prince...
LISNews - Librarian And Information Science News, December 14, 2008
...material about books and the people who have loved them. This story is told of the Italian humanist Niccolo Machiavelli: "Dismissed from high office, stripped of all his honors, and forced to leave his beloved city of Florence for the primitive...
