Author: Niccolo Machiavelli
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Keywords: discourses
Number of Pages: 544
Published: 1984-05-01
List price: $14.00
ISBN-10: 0140444289
ISBN-13: 9780140444285

Few figures in intellectual history have proved as notorious and ambiguous as Niccolo Machiavelli. But while his treatise "The Prince" made his name synonymous with autocratic ruthlessness and cynical manipulation, "The Discourses" (c.1517) shows a radically different outlook on the world of politics.In this carefully argued commentary on Livy’s history of republican Rome, Machiavelli proposed a system of government that would uphold civic freedom and security by instilling the virtues of active citizenship, and that would also encourage citizens to put the needs of the state above selfi

Author: Niccolo Machiavelli
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Language
Keywords: discourses, prince
Number of Pages: 540
Published: 1950-08-01
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 0075535777
ISBN-13: 9780075535775

Translated by Luigi Ricci, Revised by E.R.P. Vincent, Introduction by Max Lerner

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Publisher: PIMS
Keywords: texts, studies, discourses, monastic
Number of Pages: 418
Published: 1992-01-01
List price: $69.00
ISBN-10: 0888441118
ISBN-13: 9780888441119

Author: Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Publisher: Bedford/St. Martin’s
Keywords: discourses, second, first
Number of Pages: 248
Published: 1969-10-15
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 0312694407
ISBN-13: 9780312694401

One of the most respected translations of this key work of 18th-century philosophy, this text includes a brief introduction to the two works as well as abundant notes that range from simple explanations to speculative interpretations.

Author: Igor R. Shafarevich
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: algebra, discourses
Number of Pages: 286
Published: 2002-11-11
List price: $69.95
ISBN-10: 3540422536
ISBN-13: 9783540422532

Using various examples this monograph shows that algebra is one of the most beautiful forms of mathematics. In doing so, it explains the basics of algebra, number theory, set theory and probability. The text presupposes very limited knowledge of mathematics, making it an ideal read for anybody new to the subject. The author, I.R. Shafarevich, is well-known across the world as one of the most outstanding mathematicians of this century as well as one of the most respected mathematical writers.

Author: Marilyn Ivy
Publisher: University Of Chicago Pre
Keywords: japan, phantasm, modernity, vanishing, discourses
Number of Pages: 277
Published: 1995-06-15
List price: $24.00
ISBN-10: 0226388336
ISBN-13: 9780226388335

Japan today is haunted by the ghosts its spectacular modernity has generated. Deep anxieties about the potential loss of national identity and continuity disturb many in Japan, despite widespread insistence that it has remained culturally intact. In this provocative conjoining of ethnography, history, and cultural criticism, Marilyn Ivy discloses these anxieties�and the attempts to contain them�as she tracks what she calls the vanishing: marginalized events, sites, and cultural practices suspended at moments of impending disappearance.Ivy shows how a fascination with cultural margins accompani

Author: Catharine A. MacKinno
Publisher: Harvard University Pre
Keywords: law, life, discourses, unmodified, feminism
Number of Pages: 332
Published: 1988-04-01
List price: $26.00
ISBN-10: 0674298748
ISBN-13: 9780674298743

Catharine A. MacKinnon, noted feminist and legal scholar, explores and develops her original theories and practical proposals on sexual politics and law. These discourses, originally delivered as speeches, have been brilliantly woven into a book that retains all the spontaneity and accessibility of a live presentation. MacKinnon offers a unique retrospective on the law of sexual harassment, which she designed and has worked for a decade to establish, and a prospectus on the law of pornography, which she proposes to change in the next ten years. Authentic in voice, sweeping in scope, startling