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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]
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 ...
It being thus manifest that the power of Kings and Magistrates is nothing else, but what is only derivative, transferr’d and committed to them in trust from the People, to the Common good of them all, in whom the power yet remains fundamentally, and cannot be tak’n from them, without a violation of thir natural birthright. [19]
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.
Who Rules America? is a book by research psychologist and sociologist G. William Domhoff, Ph.D., published in 1967 as a best-seller (#12). WRA is frequently assigned as a sociology textbook, documenting the dangerous concentration of power and wealth in the American upper class . [ 1 ]
The book opens with Cicero, Quintus and Atticus walking through the shaded groves at Cicero's Arpinum estate, where they encounter an old oak tree linked by legend to the general and consul Gaius Marius, who was born in Arpinum about a century earlier. Atticus questions whether or not the specific tree still exists, to which Quintus replies ...
"The Rule of Names" is a short story by American writer Ursula K. Le Guin, first published in the April 1964 issue of Fantastic and reprinted in collections such as The Wind's Twelve Quarters. [1] This story and " The Word of Unbinding " convey Le Guin's initial concepts for the Earthsea realm, including its places and physical manifestation.
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 ...