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Amoral, cunning, ruthless, and instructive, this piercing work distills 3,000 years of the history of power into 48 well-explicated laws. This bold volume outlines the laws of power in their unvarnished essence, synthesizing the philosophies of Machiavelli, Sun Tzu, Carl von Clausewitz, and other infamous strategists. The 48 Laws of Power will fascinate any listener interested in gaining, observing, or defending against ultimate control.

Dr. Montgomery's inaugural lecture on the occasion of his appointment as professor of law and humanities at the University of Luton, England. Do law and morals have an essential interrelationship? If so, from where can moral values justifiably be derived?

Drawing upon the timeless wisdom of Thomas Aquinas, The Natural Law offers clear insights into perplexing ethical dilemmas. The compelling conclusions of Aquinas emerge through a critical examination of contemporary ethical frameworks, including moral relativism, utilitarianism, and Machiavellian politics. In part one, which elucidates the core principles of natural law ethics, the listener will discover fundamental truths underpinning the concepts of right and wrong, which are rooted in the very fabric of our humanity.

From the nation's most peripatetic civil liberties lawyer comes a "dazzling and stimulating" exploration of how the creation of the ten commandments provides the origins to today's law (Library Journal). Alan Dershowitz is one of America's most famous litigation experts. In the Genesis of...

Is the modern administrative state illegitimate? Unconstitutional? Unaccountable? Dangerous? Intolerable? American public law has long been riven by a persistent, serious conflict, a kind of low-grade cold war, over these questions. Cass Sunstein and Adrian Vermeule argue that the administrative state can be redeemed, as long as public officials are constrained by what they call the morality of administrative law. Law and Leviathan elaborates a number of principles that underlie this moral regime.

Compilación de los 12 libros del filósofo Griego Platón sobre las leyes. Un manifiesto de la buena organización política y social de aquella época.

Este audiolivro explica, em linguagem simples, as principais regras e a estrutura básica da Justiça. Há normas para o nascimento e a morte, a infância e a adolescência, o infrator e o eleitor. Leis regulam a propriedade e o aluguel, o amor e a separação, o trabalhador, o empreendedor e os impostos. O direito protege a vida, a mulher, o consumidor e o meio ambiente. Saber como essas coisas funcionam pode ajudar a enfrentar as inevitáveis dificuldades do dia a dia e a fugir de algumas armadilhas.