The 48 Laws of Power

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Hodder Headline Australia, 2005 - Control (Psychology) - 480 pages
Some play with power and lose it-all by a fatal mistake. Some go too far, others not far enough. And yet others make all the right moves and are able to draw power unto themselves with an almost superhuman dexterity. Amoral, ruthless, cunning and instructive, THE 48 LAWS OF POWER is a piercing distillation of 3000 years of the history of power. This bestselling edition shares with us the wisdom of great thinkers such as Machiavelli, Sun-tzu and Carl Von Clausewitz, as well as legacies of statesmen, warriors, seducers and con men throughout the ages.

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About the author (2005)

Robert Greene was born on May 14, 1959 in Los Angeles, California. He attended the University of California, Berkeley before transferring to the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he received a B.A. in classical studies. Before becoming an author, he worked a variety of jobs including construction worker, translator, magazine editor, and Hollywood movie writer. In 1995, he worked as a writer at Fabrica, an art and media school in Italy, and met a book packager named Joost Elffers. Greene pitched a book about power to Elffers and wrote a draft, which eventually became his first book, The 48 Laws of Power. His other works include The Art of Seduction, The 33 Strategies of War, The 50th Law, and Mastery.

Joost Elffers is the producer of Viking Studio's bestselling The Secret Language of Birthdays, The Secret Language of Relationships, and Play with Your Food. He lives in New York City.

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