{ "item_title" : "A BRIEF HISTORY OF POWER. How Humans Learned to Rule, Obey, Resist, and Rebel", "item_author" : [" Isaac Volpe "], "item_description" : "Who really holds power, and why do the rest of us obey? Power has shaped every civilization in human history. It built kingdoms and empires, created laws and institutions, inspired revolutions, and determined who would rule, who would serve, and who would dare to resist. But power is not confined to presidents, generals, monarchs, or billionaires. It operates through governments, corporations, religions, social customs, economic systems, classrooms, workplaces, and even the ideas people accept as natural or inevitable. In A Brief History of Power, Isaac Volpe traces humanity's struggle with authority from primate hierarchies and hunter-gatherer societies to ancient kings, colonial empires, democratic revolutions, totalitarian regimes, digital surveillance, and artificial intelligence. Along the way, discover:How early societies prevented powerful individuals from dominating the groupWhy did agriculture make permanent hierarchy and inequality possibleHow rulers transformed force into legitimate authorityWhat Machiavelli, Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau, Weber, Arendt, Gramsci, and Foucault revealed about powerWhy do people obey systems that may work against their own interestsHow enslaved, colonized, and oppressed communities resisted dominationWhy power can reduce empathy and distort judgmentHow propaganda, bureaucracy, social media, and surveillance shape modern behaviorWhether artificial intelligence will distribute power or concentrate it as never beforeClear, compelling, and global in scope, this book reveals that power is not simply something possessed by rulers. It is a relationship, a system, and a continuous contest between authority and freedom. Understanding power is the first step toward recognizing when it is legitimate, when it becomes dangerous, and when it must be challenged. Key Learning PointsWhere power comes from, beginning with evolutionary dominance, coalition-building, and early human egalitarianism.How hierarchy became permanent through agriculture, property, cities, taxation, writing, religion, and organized government.Why people obey, including the roles of legitimacy, tradition, charisma, law, ideology, and social conditioning.How invisible power works by controlling agendas, shaping preferences, defining acceptable behavior, and limiting what people imagine possible.Why power can corrupt, including its effects on empathy, judgment, accountability, and access to accurate information.How resistance succeeds, from everyday noncompliance and civil disobedience to organized rebellion and democratic revolution.How power is changing today through corporations, algorithms, surveillance capitalism, artificial intelligence, climate politics, and weakening democratic institutions.Discover how power is built, justified, challenged, and transformed. Buy and read A Brief History of Power and discover the hidden forces that have ruled humanity for thousands of years.TAGShistory of power, political power, authority and obedience, history of government, political philosophy, rulers and rebels, history of civilization, democracy and dictatorship, tyranny and resistance, rise and fall of empires, social hierarchy, human domination, psychology of power, sociology of power, political theory, history of revolutions, colonialism and empire, totalitarianism, authoritarianism, civil disobedience, social movements, propaganda and control, surveillance capitalism, artificial intelligence and power, Machiavelli, Thomas Hobbes, John Locke, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Max Weber, Hannah Arendt, Antonio Gramsci, Michel Foucault, freedom and authority, legitimacy and government.", "item_img_path" : "https://covers1.booksamillion.com/covers/bam/9/79/818/735/9798187359660_b.jpg", "price_data" : { "retail_price" : "14.95", "online_price" : "14.95", "our_price" : "14.95", "club_price" : "14.95", "savings_pct" : "0", "savings_amt" : "0.00", "club_savings_pct" : "0", "club_savings_amt" : "0.00", "discount_pct" : "10", "store_price" : "" } }

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