The bestselling book for those who want Power, watch Power, or want to arm them- selves against Power Amoral, cunning, ruthless, and instnxctive, ibis piercing work distills three thousand years of the history of power into forty-eight well-explicated laws. As attention-grabbing in its design as it is in its content, this bold volume outlines the laws of power in their unvarnished essence, synthesizing the philosophies of Machiavelli, Suntzu, Carl von Clausewitz, and other great thinkers.