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Please Note That The Following Individual Books As Per Original ISBN and Cover Image In this Listing shall be Dispatched Collectively: Robert Greene 2 Books Collection Set: The Laws of Human Nature: Robert Greene is a master guide for millions of readers, distilling ancient wisdom and philosophy into essential texts for seekers of power, understanding and mastery. Now he turns to the most important subject of all - understanding people's drives and motivations, even when they are unconscious of them themselves. The 48 Laws Of Power: Drawn from 3,000 years of the history of power, this is the definitive guide to help readers achieve for themselves what Queen Elizabeth I, Henry Kissinger, Louis XIV and Machiavelli learnt the hard way. Law 1: Never outshine the master Law 2: Never put too much trust in friends; learn how to use enemies Law 3: Conceal your intentions Law 4: Always say less than necessary. The text is bold and elegant, laid out in black and red throughout and replete with fables and unique word sculptures. The 48 laws are illustrated through the tactics, triumphs and failures of great figures from the past who have wielded - or been victimised by - power. Read more


Publisher ‏ : ‎ PROFILE BOOKS (January 1, 2020)


Language ‏ : ‎ English


ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 9124039896


ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 91


Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.63 pounds


Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.98 x 1.97 x 9.06 inches


Best Sellers Rank: #243,176 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) #140 in Government Social Policy


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Customer Reviews: 4.8 out of 5 stars 10,546 ratings


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    • Why,why?!? Tell them that it's Human Nature!!
Robert Greene does it once again,as far as discerning the psyche of the inhabitants of Earth,with a book that uses historical references to drive home a point made about the proclivities of people. Many points made in this book bear the ring of truth,when one simply thinks back and references their very own life-experiences. One observation in this excellent book ALONE made it worth the price of purchase!! "Remember ,people don't do something only ONCE;they will inevitably REPEAT their behavior." This was true with a purportedly honest,pious and innocent cousin of mine who pilfered an expensive merino wool winter cap which came as a set with matching merino wool sweater. I thought this nadir deed was simply a solitary lapse in her veracity,as she likely felt one of her sons would appreciate having such a quality hat,but that nadir act was followed by subsequent purloinings,by this mendacious madam,who receives the sympathy and"defense"of the family as a whole because both of her parents have"gone over to the majority"and she undertook the raising of her deceased sisters two daughters. Oh,boo,hoo,because the ONLY person to tread this vile,accursed planet to ever make me feel as though I MATTERED,is no more,yet I never used that tragic occurrence to attain sympathy from relatives,but just steeled and STILLED my mind and moved forward with my life armed WITH the advice on surviving in life,that was imparted to me prior to my sires demise. This nadir knaves latest nefarious deed was purloining a birthday card with sweet sentiments from a friend I hadn't heard from in a quarter of a CENTURY,which arrived at my domicile in a box containing TWO-DOZEN roses(one for EVERY year we'd been estranged)and a cute,tawny teddy bear!! Unaware that evil had usurped the person she formerly was(or pretended to be)after READING the sweet card IN my presence,she put on the "pitiful"face which has worked for her since little Amy Carter romped around the White House during the Jimmy Carter Administration,and stated:"I'm going to GO and read this back in your mothers room." Never even SUSPECTING this purportedly devout believer was PLANNING from the moment she read my special card,to take it WITH her to read at her leisure,since she often talks of liking love songs and romantic movies,but never being able to experience such in her tumultuous relationships!!! 8 minutes later emerging from my mothers bedroom,as I am engrossed in finishing chapter 7 of my third book:"On 7th Thought"she briskly skips straight out the front door without a WORD spoken to me!! My acute-intuition(which operates neither on reputation of another or logic)told me:STOP her Ant;she STILL has your card!!" But(as usual,and always to my regret)I allowed my conscious/"reasoning"mind to tell me that hopnest,innocent,naive"Harper"would never just TAKE a priceless birthday card from YOU!! After my acute Nonconscious mind won this debate,I arose from my PC to see this treacherous cousin backing out of the driveway,so,since she,in her hurry to get"in the wind"hadn't even rolled the window up on the drivers side,so I yelled:WHAT did you do with my CARD?!?" She leans her drawn and haggard face out the window and replies:"I don't KNOW!!" I immediately started down the porch stairs with:"What do you mean you DON'T know?!?"as she hits the accelerator,zooms back to the middle of the street,turns north and speeds into the distance!!! Avoiding my society for 2 MONTHS made me totally forget her bizarre conduct,and so I asked her what became of my card she insisted on reading in my mothers room,and she resorted to the"self-pity card"as usual,pretending to be"hurt"by my inquiry,nearly in tears saying I always blame HER when something of mine vanishes!! So,falling for this ruse,I said apologeticaly:"I didn't SAY you took it; I only want to know what became OF it when you exited my mothers room with it. Exploiting my ravaged memory after multiple brain surgeries that resulted in a quarter of my frontal temporal lobe being tossed into the garbage,she SMILED reassuringly,looked me dead in the eye with:"I gave it right BACK to you,outside of the kitchen remember?!? Remember? REMEMBER?!?" I fell,hook,line and sinker for her mendacity,until a week or two later I had a TOTAL recall,and remembered that she NEVER handed me my special card back TO me,as WOULD have been the case had Satan not entered into her at an unspecified date in 1998,but that she inexplicably exited the house with a:"Nice card.","Gotta go.","Be right back.","See you in a little while."or ANYthing,but straight to her car,JUST as she INTENDED to do all along!! Now,the extended family is trying to make it seem that I'M the one who sinned,by being UNpleased with the loss of a card that I would've added to my lifetime scrapbook of precious memories,as my uncle quips:"The Bible says forgive her." I replied:"I WILL ,when she returns my card,since God Himself doesn't forgive until you ASK forgiveness and REPENT(turn from evil)and a price is paid FOR you transgressions!! Your precious niece,has neither yet ADMITTED to her black deed against me,nor,as a result asked for my pardon,so I'll try to forgive,but I can NEVER ever truly TRUST her again!! It's like this uncle;if you take a clean,white,crisp,sharp-edged sheet of paper,with the"new paper"SMELL,and proceed to crumple/BALL-it-up,you can lay it flat on a table and attempt to smooth it over,by running your palm across it 78 THOUSAND times over the span of a YEAR,but it will NEVER beethe same as it was BEFORE you "betrayed"/crumpled-it-up;the"evidence"of the crumpling/"betrayal"will still be perceptible with the tiny,folds,wrinkles and irregularities which can NEVER be righted!! And of course you know the Bible states that if we WILLFULLY sin,after being spiritually washed,there remains NO room for forgiveness!! So since your backslidden bald-headed niece willfully took my card when she had a CHANCE to return it to me when I asked her what did she do with it,but elected to remain in her treachery,there remaineth NO room for forgiveness in "Anthon the Zappers"heart!!" This book addresses my aforementioned experience with human nature and MORE within it's prodigious pages!! This is an indespensible work,if you wish to prepare yourself against the baseness of Mans innate proclivities. My sagacious sire paraphrased about half of this book,over the decades while preparing me for life in a high-population DENSITY metropolis like Le' Strait,as its called in French. He accurately informed me:"Don't waste a SECOND worrying about what people SAY about you when you aren't present,because people have ALREADY made-UP their mind HOW they WANT to perceive you AT first SIGHT,no matter what the truth of the matter is!! People are going to THINK what they WANT to think about you!! So you would be a pathetic FOOL,for losing a night of sleep,or a MOMENT of peace over what another may think OR say about you!!" Chapter 1:Mastering Your Emotional Self is a lesson my sire continually impressed upon me. Working on an arduous job,shoulder-to-shoulder 12 hours a day,7 days a week with the man whose very PRESENCE caused me to BLOAT with pride and self-assurance,caused a lot of the men working with us to lose their cool and EXPLODE in anger at a foreman or co-worker,so my sire taught me to keep my composure and poise,at all times,but especially when it would feel good TO"unload"pent-up passion on another. Right when he perceived,I was at my"breaking-point"he would smile and cackle:"Don't make an ass of yourself;don't make an ass of yourself!!" I also learned that the first thing TO do when you are angry is to REALIZE you ARE so. Chapter 3:See Through Peoples Masks is an endeavor I've been successfully embarking on since the 3rd grade at Clara S. Barton Elementary in west-central Detroit,as people are NEVER satisfied with what they truly ARE,so they enlist upon the task of erecting a FACADE which they feel will impress those they have discourse with. People would rather cultivate the society of total strangers before they will DARE to abide with their OWN vacuous,deranged personality,which is like unto deliberately entering into a horrid,ghastly NIGHTMARE!! It is this very aversion which makes the club-scene,concerts and other crowded venues SO popular!! On the whole people ABHOR who they really are,and will do ANYthing to avoid an encounter with Themselves!! I was also versed on chapter7:Soften Peoples Resistance by Confirming Their Self-opinion with:"These off-balanced broads out here get manipulated and"ran-through" by these jack-legged jokers out here,because they simply TELL these dim broads everything they WANT to hear!!" chapter10:Beware The Fragile Ego is a dialogue on the most insidious aspect of human nature:ENVY,which the Bible asserts as potent with:"Wrath is cruel.anger is OUT rageous;but WHO is ABLE to stand before ENVY?!?" Chapter 10 even lists the"leakage"of envy that is perceptible in the face of one who inwardly harbors a SAVAGE hatred of your qualities with the shocking:"Signs of Envy"where the look of ones eyes who detests you because of your innate character is like that of a child who feels cheated. Something I experienced in 1982 at my churchs' Vacation Bible School lent credence to an assertion under"Signs of Envy"was:"People who are envious cannot HELP feeling GLEE when they hear of the bad luck/misfortune(or a loss suffered by)of those they envy. As the awards were being announced for each age-group of children,I stood(legitimately,not pridefully by ANY stretch of the imagination)confident that I'd doubtless secured the award for"Best Student",by a LONG-shot,but the awards emcee announced:"And the winner for"Best Student Ages 10-12 is...…………….Mark Jones!!!" I stood in utter SHOCK,as even the teacher of my class shook HER head slowly in disbelief at this gross injustice,but someone who inwardly resented my cognition,eyed me from across the width of the entire sanctuary,as he slowly made his way toward me,smile widening as he drew closer,until a few feet from me,he jogged right up TO me,pointed his finger right in-between my welling eyes,threw his head BACK as he loudly,LAUGHED with UNholy GLEE,at the sight of me psychologically devastated by a criminally-wrong slight for an honor I NO doubt fully deserved,but unaware that the awards were being given NOT by MERIT,but by attendance,and my mother being a working single parent with four progeny,was called-in to work one evening,so I missed a day,but the PASTOR(who is expected to be present perpetually) and his brood,were in attendance EVERYday,and so his kids SWEPT the award for"Best Student"in every age group. Chapter 4:Determine the Strength of Peoples Character,becomes an easy-enough task,when one who touted their piety will LASH-out at another with a TYPHOON of profanity,at the merest suspicion of a contrary opinion on the part of another!! I also perceive that when one speaks extremely harshly yo another it was NOT something that came out in the"heat-of-the-moment,but rather something they had LONG felt about the victim of their verbal venom,and ire caused them to throw caution,decorum and restraint to the jet-stream. chapter 4 asserts:"Others can SEE patterns in the psychological addict,but the adsdic them self doesn't because NO one wants to believe THEY are operating UNDER a compulsion,totally BEYOND their control. It is TOO disturbing a thought."Guilty as charged,because of exposure to salacious material at NINE years-old,I had a life-long pitched battle with my libido,until my beloved sire,with the last words he uttered on this vile Earth charged me to:"NEVER let"something"get SUCH an hold over on you,that you'll KEEP doing it,even thought you KNOW it's doing nothing BUT dragging you down DEEPER into its web." I vowed to him I wouldn't but unknown to me,I already WAS,so all I could do from that point was to REVERSE the effects of this thralldom by sheer strength of MIND!! And this I DID for the most part,being the 1ST-magnitude cognitionist I became at birth because of the impartation of cognition my sire bequeathed me with!! This is a profound,practical and preter-prudent book!! I learned a lot about Howard Hughes I wasn't previously aware of!! I am SO glad I didn't heed the many reviews that stated it not being on par with the prior books by Mr. Greene,but listened to my acute-intuition,and purchased it!! I forsee MANY days of loading my mind/"lethal weapon" with the psychological"ammunition"this book wields. ' ... show more
Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on November 9, 2020 by Anthony Tuc-9 Tucker
    • Amazing
A must read book for ALLLLL.
Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on November 8, 2022 by Komaty LLC
    • Great book
it’s a good book over all it had all i was looking for not a big reader only down side for me was that the book was big and width but good book over all
Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on October 28, 2022 by Norberto
    • A "Must Read" Book
Review Image by DES
Robert Greene’s “The Laws of Human Nature” may be the best book I have read in a long time and if I had my way would be a textbook in every high school in America. I feel that way because it lays out a comprehensive guide for the way we think and behave. He mixes philosophy with ancient wisdom and recent events to help us understand the 18 laws that guide us. Each section begins my explaining the ‘law’, then shares a story from that supports the theory. He summarizes what we have learned and shares strategies on how we can build our skills or improve our behavior in each area. Here are Greene’s laws with my one sentence summaries: The Law of Irrationality – How our emotions lead us to bad decisions and create negativity in our lives. The Law of Narcissism – Why people are narcissists and how they can be dangerous. The Law of Role-playing – The impact of hiding our true personalities. The Law of Compulsive Behavior – People fall into the trap of repeating bad behaviors. The Law of Covetousness – Why we want what we don’t have. The Law of Shortsightedness – Why we overreact to short term situations and ignore the long-term. The Law of Defensiveness – We resist when people are trying to change our minds, yet we look for opportunities to change others. The Law of Self-sabotage – If you change your attitude who can avoid problems that you will face. The Law of Repression – Be cautious of your dark side. We all have one. The Law of Envy – Because people are naturally envious, you need to work to draw attention away from yourself and develop your own self-worthy but the way you view yourself. The Law of Grandiosity – A little success goes to our head. It is wise to be realistic when looking at your own accomplishments. The Law of Gender Rigidity – We are born with male and female genes, but as we grow older, we repress parts of our traits. This is to our own detriment. The Law of Aimlessness – When you have a sense of purpose, you will be more successful. The Law of Conformity – We act differently when we are in groups. We are more likely to take risks when we feel the support of those around us. The Law of Fickleness – Authority results from creating the appearance of power and when others see you as a leader. The Law of Aggression – Recognize the signs of our repressed frustrations and anger and learn to tame them. The Law of Generational Myopia – As you grow up you identify with others from your generation, but when you get older these attitudes prevent you from being open to the ideas of others not in your group. The Law of Death Denial – We spend a lot of our lives avoiding the subject of our own death. But as we accept it, we enjoy more aspects of our life. Read this book. ... show more
Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on November 7, 2020 by DES
    • Everyone should read this book.
Robert Greene is a genius. Each chapter of his book becomes more interesting as you learn about human nature and begin to understand why you and those around behave in such predictable behavior. This book is well written and easy to follow.
Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on September 21, 2022 by Ashley.
    • Incredible View into Our Deep Secrets and Shadow Selves
The Laws of Human Nature is one of the best books I've read on this intriguing subject. The subject of us - our inner selves. The deep insights, the detailed stories, the structure of the material is incredibly well-done. I learned more about myself in this book than through any other books, assessments, or personality quizzes. I highly recommend this book to everyone who truly wants to know the good, the bad, and the ugly about who you are as a person. Be prepared to read and reread...it's so rich with insight, research, and wisdom. ... show more
Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on August 19, 2022 by Kae Wagner

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