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  2. The 48 Laws of Power - Wikipedia

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    The 48 Laws of Power has sold over 1.3 million copies in the United States and has been translated into 24 languages. [6] Fast Company called the book a "mega cult classic", and the Los Angeles Times noted that The 48 Laws of Power turned Greene into a "cult hero with the hip-hop set, Hollywood elite and prison inmates alike". [6] [9]

  3. The 50th Law - Wikipedia

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    The 50th Law is a New York Times bestselling book on strategy and fearlessness written collaboratively by rapper 50 Cent and author Robert Greene. [1] [2] [3] The book is a semi-autobiographical account detailing 50 Cent's rise as both a young urban hustler and as an up-and-coming musician with lessons and anecdotes from historical figures such as Abraham Lincoln, Sun Tzu, Socrates, Napoleon ...

  4. Who Governs? - Wikipedia

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    Democracy and Power in an American City is a book in American political science by Robert Dahl that was published in 1961 by Yale University Press. Dahl's work is a case study of political power and representation in New Haven, Connecticut. [1] [2] It is widely considered one of the great works of empirical political science of the 20th century.

  5. Enchiridion of Epictetus - Wikipedia

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    The word sometimes meant a handy sword, or dagger, but coupled with the word "book" (biblion, Greek: βιβλίον) it means a handy book or hand-book. [1] Epictetus in the Discourses often speaks of principles which his pupils should have "ready to hand" (Greek: πρόχειρα). [1] Common English translations of the title are Manual or ...

  6. Scientific Man versus Power Politics - Wikipedia

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    The book contains Morgenthau's most systematic exposition of a realist philosophy and a critique of a position he terms 'liberal rationalism'. [2] Morgenthau argues that liberalism's belief in human reason had been shown to be deficient because of the rise of Nazi Germany [ 3 ] and that emphasis on science and reason as routes to peace meant ...

  7. Monarchia - Wikipedia

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    Monarchia is made up of three books, of which the most significant is the third, in which Dante most explicitly confronts the subject of relations between the pope and the emperor. Dante first condemns the hierocratic conception of the pope's power elaborated by the Roman Church with the theory of the Sun and the Moon and solemnly confirmed by ...

  8. Republic (Plato) - Wikipedia

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    The populism of the democratic government leads to mob rule, fueled by fear of oligarchy, which a clever demagogue can exploit to take power and establish tyranny where no one has discipline and society exists in chaos. In a tyrannical government, the city is enslaved to the tyrant, who uses his guards to remove the best social elements and ...

  9. The Conduct of Life - Wikipedia

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    Though hailed by Thomas Carlyle as "the writer's best book" [12] and despite its commercial success, initial critical reactions to The Conduct Of Life were mixed at best. The Knickerbocker praised it for its "healthy tone" and called it "the most practical of Mr. Emerson's works," [13] while The Atlantic Monthly attested that "literary ease and flexibility do not always advance with an author ...