Machiavelli The Prince

The Original Classic
1. Auflage 2010
ISBN: 978-0-85708-091-2
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 260 Seiten, E-Book

Reihe: Capstone Classics

The Handbook for Leaders
The Prince is often regarded as the first trueleadership book. It shocked contemporary readers with its ruthlesscall for fearless and effective action. With simple prose andstraightforward logic, Machiavelli's guide still has the power tosurprise and inform anyone hoping to make their way in theworld.
This keepsake edition includes an introduction by TomButler-Bowdon, drawing out lessons for managers and businessleaders, and showing how The Prince remains vitalreading for anyone in the realm of business or politics.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Machiavelli, Niccolò

Weitere Mitwirkende

Butler-Bowdon, Tom

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Dedication.
I Of the Various Kinds of Princedom, and of the Ways in WhichThey Are Acquired.
II Of Hereditary Princedoms.
III Of Mixed Princedoms.
IV Why the Kingdom of Darius, Conquered by Alexander, Did Not,on Alexander's Death, Rebel Against His Successors.
V How Cities or Provinces Which Before Their Acquisition HaveLived Under Their Own Laws Are To Be Governed.
VI Of New Princedoms Which a Prince Acquires With His Own Armsand by Merit.
VII Of New Princedoms Acquired By the Aid of Others and By GoodFortune.
VIII Of Those Who By Their Crimes Come to Be Princes.
IX Of the Civil Princedom.
X How the Strength of All Princedoms Should Be Measured.
XI Of Ecclesiastical Princedoms.
XII How Many Different Kinds of Soldiers There Are, and ofMercenaries.
XIII Of Auxiliary, Mixed, and National Arms.
XIV Of the Duty of a Prince In Respect of Military Affairs.
XV Of the Qualities In Respect of Which Men, and Most of allPrinces, Are Praised or Blamed.
XVI Of Liberality and Miserliness.
XVII Of Cruelty and Clemency, and Whether It Is Better To BeLoved or Feared.
XVIII How Princes Should Keep Faith.
XIX That a Prince Should Seek to Escape Contempt and Hatred.
XX Whether Fortresses, and Certain Other Expedients to WhichPrinces Often Have Recourse, are Profitable or Hurtful.
XXI How a Prince Should Bear Himself So As to AcquireReputation.
XXII Of the Secretaries of Princes.
XXIII That Flatterers Should Be Shunned.
XXIV Why the Princes of Italy Have Lost Their States.
XXV What Fortune Can Effect in Human Affairs, and How She May BeWithstood.
XXVI An Exhortation to Liberate Italy from the Barbarians.

Über Autor(innen)

Niccolò Machiavelli was an Italian philosopher andwriter, and is considered one of the founders of modern politicalscience. He was a diplomat and civil servant in the FlorentineRepublic in the sixteenth century, until arrested for conspiracy in1513 after which he gave his time to writing.
Tom Butler-Bowdon is the author of five bestselling bookson classic self-help and motivational writing. He has beendescribed by USA Today as "a true scholar ofthis type of literature."
His first book, 50 Self-Help Classics, won the2004 Benjamin Franklin award. www.butler-bowdon.com