Power, Pleasure, and Profit: Insatiable Appetites from Machiavelli to Madison, Hardcover - David Wootton

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In this fascinating study, Alison Cole explores the distinctive uses of art at the five great secular courts of Naples, Urbino, Ferrara, Mantua, an...

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Twenty years ago Joel Salatin wrote You Can Farm, which has launched thousands of farm entrepreneurs around the world. With another 20 years of exp...

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Revised edition of the author's Profit and pleasure, 2000.

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A superb overview of pivotal Renaissance philosopher, writer and historian Machiavelli.Publisher: Reaktion BooksAuthor(s): Robert BlackIllustration...

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This book develops an embodied model of aesthetic engagement derived from Greek poetry and Plato's philosophy, and uses this model to resolve an in...

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