{"isbn_13": ["9780262025461"], "physical_format": "Hardcover", "weight": "2.6 pounds", "languages": [{"key": "/l/eng"}], "publishers": ["The MIT Press"], "number_of_pages": 550, "last_modified": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2008-04-30 09:38:13.731961"}, "id": 12589022, "first_sentence": {"type": "/type/text", "value": "Thomas Hobbes, writing in 1651, observed of life in the state of nature that it is \"solitary, poore, nasty, brutish and short\" (Hobbes [1651] 1996, chap. 13, p. 89)."}, "isbn_10": ["0262025469"], "publish_date": "October 1, 2003", "key": "/b/OL9331402M", "authors": [{"key": "/a/OL3237842A"}, {"key": "/a/OL2667760A"}, {"key": "/a/OL766022A"}, {"key": "/a/OL577909A"}], "title": "The Logic of Political Survival", "type": {"key": "/type/edition"}, "subjects": ["Central government policies", "Political economy", "Political leaders & leadership", "Political Science", "Politics / Current Events", "Politics/International Relations", "History & Theory - General", "Political", "Political Process - Leadership", "Public Policy - Economic Policy", "Heads of state", "Political planning", "Succession", "Term of office"], "physical_dimensions": "9.3 x 7.2 x 1.5 inches", "revision": 1}