The 48 Laws of Power The 48 Laws of Power

The 48 Laws of Power

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Publisher Description

Amoral, cunning, ruthless, and instructive, this multi-million-copy New York Times bestseller is the definitive manual for anyone interested in gaining, observing, or defending against ultimate control – from the author of The Laws of Human Nature

In the book that People magazine proclaimed “beguiling” and “fascinating,” Robert Greene and Joost Elffers have distilled three thousand years of the history of power into 48 essential laws by drawing from the philosophies of Machiavelli, Sun Tzu, and Carl Von Clausewitz and also from the lives of figures ranging from Henry Kissinger to P.T. Barnum.
 
Some laws teach the need for prudence (“Law 1: Never Outshine the Master”), others teach the value of confidence (“Law 28: Enter Action with Boldness”), and many recommend absolute self-preservation (“Law 15: Crush Your Enemy Totally”). Every law, though, has one thing in common: an interest in total domination. In a bold and arresting two-color package, The 48 Laws of Power is ideal whether your aim is conquest, self-defense, or simply to understand the rules of the game.

GENRE
Health, Mind & Body
RELEASED
1998
September 1
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
480
Pages
PUBLISHER
Penguin Publishing Group
SELLER
PENGUIN GROUP USA, INC.
SIZE
2.2
MB

Customer Reviews

Love the look but HATE THE USE! ,

The 48 Laws of Power

Very POWERFUL reading with great suggestions regarding how to adroitly move about life and work, especially working the politics of CORPORATE AMERICA.

MANY TYPOS IN DIGITAL TRANSLATION. MORE typos than I would expect from an upstanding national publisher.

The Divine Sage ,

Content good, format bad.

There are plenty of reviews explaining how great this book is.
My beef is that the conversion to ePub format has not done this work justice. It appears as if the print copy of the book was scanned using poor OCR technology. There are entire paragraphs that are almost complete gibberish because lowercase l's are substituted with 1's or backslashes and other similar typos. This seems especially prevalent during sections that are italicized.
The original book would not have been allowed to be released this way so if you're going to charge people for the digital copy some proofreading needs to done.
And those of us who have already purchased the iBooks copy should be entitled to a fixed version once it is released, otherwise why would we continue to support you?

jas_99 ,

A good book with 1 drawback

This book is good and interesting as described by the others. I have nothing to add to their comments.

I have 1 complaint though. The grammar is terrible, the electronic book is rife with typos and formatting problems. It is inexplicable as to how this could be but but it makes certain passages very frustrating to read. I presume the the hardcopy book is not this way but it is noticeable and pervades the entire text.

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