Product Description: Though better known today as a political theorist than as a dramatist, Machiavelli secured his fame as a giant in the history of Italian comedy more than fifty years before Shakespeare's comedies delighted English-speaking audiences...read more

Product Description: The question of order inspired two of the greatest political thinkers of the Renaissance—Niccolò Machiavelli and Francesco Guicciardini, whose major works on the nature of government are linked in an authoritative new translation...read more

Product Description: New Hampshire's Cornish Colony illustrates this distinguished American art colony. First settled in 1885 by colleagues of America's Michelangelo, Augustus Saint-Gaudens, the Cornish Colony was a retreat for sculptors, painters, writers, and musicians...read more

Product Description: Near the end of World War II, four days after Allied armies landed at Normandy, a unit of Waffen SS troops en route to that front surrounded the French village of Oradour-sur-Glane and, without warning, systematically massacred its citizens...read more

Product Description: This volume contains two works by Renaissance writers: Machiavelli's "Discourses on the First Decade of Livy" and Guicciardini's "Considerations of the Discourses of Niccolo Machiavelli". Reflecting on Ancient Rome, both thinkers refined their conceptions of government with an eye to the political turmoil of their own Florence...read more

Product Description: This succinct text covers the pathology of cardiovascular diseases. It addresses ischemic heart disease and reviews the many recent advances that have led to new concepts in cardiovascular pathology and pathophysiology. The text emphasizes general approaches to heart examination and outlines expectations and limitations of pathologic assessment of cardiovascular disease...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Intended for pathologists, cardiovascular surgeons, and cardiologists, this book addresses ischemic heart disease, reviewing recent advances which led to new concepts in cardiovascular pathology and pathophysiology. Topics discussed include the effects of such new therapies as thrombolysis and angioplasty on pathology, and the surgical pathology of valvular disease, cardiomyopathies and heart and heart-lung transplantations...read more

Product Description: This volume presents a complete annotated collection in English of known personal correspondence to and from Niccolo Machiavelli. Spanning the years of Machiavelli's adult life, from 1497 until his death in 1527, this correpondence between Machiavelli and his friends, colleagues and compatriots - some of whom were the most influential thinkers of the day - presents a panorama of life, people and critical events in Renaissance Italy...read more

Answers questions about the feeding, health, behavior, and breeding of Chow chows

Product Description: Book by Machiavelli, Niccolò