Vintage books The Prince Machiavelli Niccolo

At the end of an industrious political career in conflic-triven Italy, the Florentine diplomat Niccolo Machiavelli composed his masterpiece The Prince, a classic study of power and politics, and a manual of ruthlessness for any ambitious ruler • Controversial in his own time, The Prince made Machiavelli’s name a byword for manipulative scheming, and had an impact on such major figures as Napoleon and Frederick the Great. It contains principles as true today as when they were first written almost five centuries ago • This edition contains notes, extra material and a select bibliography as well as Machiavelli’s The Prince and Italy by G.W.F. Hegel and first pages of The Prince in the original Italian

"Новый Макиавелли" - захватывающий рассказ о жизни внутри "бункера" под номером 10. В своей переработке влиятельного шедевра Никколо Макиавелли "Принц", посвященной двадцать первому веку, Джонатан Пауэлл - глава администрации Тони Блэра с 1994 по 2007 год - рассказывает внутреннюю историю того периода, опираясь на свои собственные неопубликованные дневники • Используя уроки Макиавелли, извлеченные из его опыта работы чиновником во Флоренции XV века, Пауэлл показывает, как эти уроки все еще могут быть применимы сегодня. Иллюстрируя каждое из изречений Макиавелли описанием событий, произошедших во времена Тони Блэра на посту премьер-министра, новый Макиавелли призван стать принцем современности • Книга на английском языке • The New Machiavelli is a gripping account of life inside 'the bunker' of Number 10

Winner of the National Jewish Book Award and finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award • A youthful tale of geriatric amateur theatrics and one of the most powerful and affecting comedies of modern times • In the Emma Lazarus retirement home in uptown Manhattan, the Jewish inmates embark on a chaotic, bitchy production of Hamlet. But for our hero, Otto Korner more is at stake than simply directing his quirky, libidinous fellow residents in the play. Somebody knows Otto's secret, and as comedy and tragedy combine he is transported back to his pre-American past in Germany, Zurich, and finally, Auschwitz • Winner of the National Jewish Book Award and finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, The Prince of West End Avenue was a critical sensation on its first publication in 1994

HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible 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, Machiavelli's The Prince is an intense study on the nature of power and the course it should take when ruling a country and expresses the author's strong and unyielding ideals and beliefs on using force rather than law to achieve your aims • Responsible for the widely-used phrase 'Machiavellian', with all of its negative connotations, his extreme treatise remains a classic text to this day

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 Prince, his tough-minded, pragmatic handbook on how power really works, made his name notorious and has remained controversial ever since. How can a leader be strong and decisive, yet still inspire loyalty in his followers? When is it necessary to break the rules? Is it better to be feared than loved? Examining regimes and their rulers the world over and throughout history, from Roman Emperors to renaissance Popes, from Hannibal to Cesare di Borgia, Machievalli answers all these questions in a work of realpolitik that still has shrewd political lessons for today

This deluxe clothbound edition presents Machiavelli's classic work on the philosophy of power • Published posthumously in 1532, Machiavelli's treatise on the manipulation and exercise of power advocated a ruthless realpolitik, sparking a debate about the morality of statesmanship that is still very much alive today • His shrewd text presents strategies that some of history's greatest - and most infamous - rulers have borrowed to achieve their goals. The Prince continues to show enduring popularity among anyone interested in the theory of leadership and power • This compact clothbound edition features silver embossing on the cover, gold-gilded page edges and illustrations inside, making a wonderful gift

Никколо Макиавелли – выдающийся политический деятель эпохи Возрождения. Его трактат «Государь», долгое время запрещенный католической церковью из-за крамольных высказываний автора, – одна из самых знаменитых книг о политике, государстве и власти. «Цель оправдывает средства» – таков, по мнению Макиавелли, главный принцип управления государством. Он выступает сторонником деспотической власти, когда правитель должен внушать подданным не любовь, а страх, и считает деяния, недопустимые с точки зрения морали, благими для процветания государства. Вот уже пять столетий имя Макиавелли связывают с самыми циничными методами управления, а термин «макиавеллизм» стал синонимом коварства, лицемерия, подлости и жестокости • Книга на английском языке • The most famous line of Machiavelli's The Prince reveals both his extraordinary insight and his willingness to disregard convention

Написанный в 1513 году для Медичи, после их возвращения к власти во Флоренции, "Государь" представляет собой руководство по правлению и осуществлению власти. Сегодня этот труд остается столь же актуальным, как и в шестнадцатом веке. Широко цитируемый в прессе и научных публикациях, "Государь" имеет непосредственное отношение к вопросам бизнеса и корпоративного управления, с которыми сталкиваются глобальные корпорации на пороге нового тысячелетия. Многое из того, что написал Макиавелли, стало общепринятым в реальной политике, но его идеи по-прежнему сохраняют способность шокировать и раздражать • Книга на английском языке • Written in 1513 for the Medici, following their return to power in Florence, The Prince is a handbook on ruling and the exercise of power

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The Leopard is a modern classic which tells the spellbinding story of a decadent, dying Sicilian aristocracy threatened by the approaching forces of democracy and revolution • 'There is a great feeling of opulence, decay, love and death about it' Rick Stein • In the spring of 1860, Fabrizio, the charismatic Prince of Salina, still rules over thousands of acres and hundreds of people, including his own numerous family, in mingled splendour and squalor. Then comes Garibaldi's landing in Sicily and the Prince must decide whether to resist the forces of change or come to terms with them • 'Every once in a while, like certain golden moments of happiness, infinitely memorable, one stumbles on a book or a writer, and the impact is like an indelible mark

In the autumn of 1502 three giants of the Renaissance period - Cesare Borgia, Leonardo da Vinci and Niccolo Machiavelli - set out on one of the most treacherous military campaigns of the period. Cesare Borgia was a ferocious military leader whose name was synonymous with brutality and whose reputation was marred with the suspicion of incest. Niccolo Machiavelli was a witty and subversive intellectual, more suited to the silken diplomacy of royal courts than the sodden encampments of a military campaign. And Leonardo da Vinci was a visionary master and the most talented military engineer in Italy. What led him to work for the monstrous Borgia? And what attracted him to the cunning Machiavelli? • In his extraordinary new book acclaimed historian Paul Strathern ingeniously focuses on this improbable collusion of three iconic figures of the Italian Renaissance to unite three mighty strands of the period - war, politics and art

The Vintage Classics Europeans series - with covers provided by textile design firm Wallace Sewell, these are must-have editions of European masterpieces, celebrating the warp and weft of a shared literary treasury • It is the spring of 1869 and there is talk of revolution in Sicily, by day the rattle of firing squads and by night the flickering lights of bonfires lit by rebel bands. Prince Fabrizio knows that beneath these outward signs of transformation, the sensuality, languor and corruption of his native land will never change. But can his family’s ancient power endure? Lampedusa’s macabre myth remains astounding relevant, reflecting any modern edifice of power and money just as surely as it shows us a corner of Italy long ago