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I was so looking forward to this book as his previous I found to be very much along a Machiavellian line of reasoning, baring human nature in all its uncomfortable glory. This book neither delineates human nature as it has been understood throughout the ages, nor reveals any laws, as that term could be understood. This is a self-help book that should be classified as part of the New Age genre or popular psychology. As other reviewers pointed out, this book is an abrupt departure from his previous books. Those recounted OTHER great thinkers, pre-moderns, in their observations of actual human nature in regards to seduction and power dynamics. This time, he draws on the wishful thinking of the 20th Century that has given us the present crisis of character.