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He knows every prime number up to 7,057, cannot bear to be touched, and reads faces and social situations only with great effort. When he discovers his neighbour's dog, Wellington, killed with a garden fork, he decides to investigate the crime and to write a murder-mystery novel about it — modelled on the Sherlock Holmes stories he loves.\n\nChristopher's methodical inquiry, though, keeps leading him past the dog and into the far more bewildering territory of his own family. As he uncovers things his father would rather he never knew, his careful, ordered world is upended, and he is forced onto a terrifying journey that takes far more courage than any maths problem.\n\nNarrated entirely in Christopher's precise, literal, and often very funny voice, Mark Haddon's The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time is a crossover phenomenon and a modern classic. 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Composed after the author's fall from office in Florence, it is a compact, unsentimental manual on how rulers seize power, hold it, and keep their states intact.\n\nBreaking sharply with the classical tradition that treated politics as a branch of ethics, Machiavelli argues that a ruler must be prepared to act against conventional morality when necessity demands it. He weighs whether it is better to be feared or loved, why appearing virtuous can matter more than being virtuous, how fortune must be mastered rather than trusted, and why a prince's first concern must be the strength of his own arms. Drawing on the recent history of Italy's city-states and figures such as Cesare Borgia, he illustrates his maxims with cold, concrete examples.\n\nPublished in 1532, five years after his death, The Prince has been read ever since as everything from a cynical handbook for tyrants to a clear-eyed diagnosis of how power actually works.","https:\u002F\u002Fapi.seekquel.app\u002Fstorage\u002Fcovers\u002Feditions\u002F01\u002F01kjq85kmrhhg685esqbrjxk2e.jpg","LAA+QS}p0*0,=Hw_EiE$n7xExXNc",1959,176,[985],{"id":986,"slug":987,"name":988},"01kjq85kjwq0kr4s8fz4j2nx6g","niccolo-machiavelli-wdp5","Niccolò Machiavelli",[990,994,998,999,1000,1001,1005,1006,1007],{"id":991,"name":992,"slug":993,"is_fiction":18},102,"Politics","politics",{"id":995,"name":996,"slug":997,"is_fiction":18},105,"Philosophy","philosophy",{"id":250,"name":251,"slug":252,"is_fiction":19},{"id":932,"name":933,"slug":934,"is_fiction":18},{"id":438,"name":439,"slug":440,"is_fiction":18},{"id":1002,"name":1003,"slug":1004,"is_fiction":18},75,"Philosophy & Religion","philosophy-religion",{"id":242,"name":243,"slug":244,"is_fiction":18},{"id":37,"name":38,"slug":39,"is_fiction":18},{"id":266,"name":267,"slug":268,"is_fiction":19},[],{"pace":69,"complexity":7,"audience":72,"mood":1010,"themes":1011,"setting_period":7,"summary":7,"content_warnings":7},[302,74],[],{"id":1013,"slug":1014,"title":1015,"description":1016,"primary_cover_url":1017,"cover_blurhash":1018,"first_publish_year":780,"community_rating_avg":7,"community_rating_count":14,"page_count":1019,"authors":1020,"genres":1025,"series":1040,"enrichment":1041},"01kkca66ht4jmnhghptw9ndwn7","journals-uacz","Journals","This collection offers an intimate look into the mind of Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain through his personal journals. 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He presents what humanity must do to survive on Earth, articulating the depth of the climate crisis with rare honesty. Scranton calls for a reimagined humanism to help us meet our stormy future with decency. 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