The Book of Rule: How the World Is Governed

by D.K. Publishing

Providing a clear, comprehensive and colorful guide to how the world is governed both in theory and practice, "The Book of Rule" examines the governments of all the world's nations -- from major powers to the newest developing countries, from democracies to dictatorships -- and shows exactly how power is exercised in each. In addition to profiling national governments, "The Book of Rule" also explains the general principles behind today's political systems and charts the evolution of governments from ancient times to the present.

Genres: Politics, History

319 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1900

About the author

Dorling Kindersley (DK) is a British multinational publishing company specializing in illustrated reference books for adults and children in 62 languages. It is part of Penguin Random House, a consumer publishing company jointly owned by Bertelsmann SE & Co. KGaA and Pearson PLC. Bertelsmann owns 53% of the company and Pearson owns 47%.

Established in 1974, DK publishes a range of titles in genres including travel (including Eyewitness Travel Guides), arts and crafts, business, history, cooking, gaming, gardening, health and fitness, natural history, parenting, science and reference. They also publish books for children, toddlers and babies, covering such topics as history, the human body, animals and activities, as well as licensed properties such as LEGO, Disney and DeLiSo, licensor of the toy Sophie la Girafe. DK has offices in New York, London, Munich, New Delhi, Toronto and Melbourne.

Source: Wikipedia.

Reviews

[Mostafa Ahmed · Rating 5 out of 5]

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[Lloyd Downey · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is a most impressive book. But, like all books of this encyclopaedic nature, it will become dated very rapidly. However, various sections of the book do not date...or will date very slowly indeed. For example, the section on the Chronology of rule will probably outlast me at very least. And systems of government in most of the countries listed will probably only change slowly over time. (Although the countries themselves might be more unstable than the forms of governance). The book includes profiles of 193 of the world's countries ...including some as small as Paulau and Kiribati. For the larger more significant countries like USA , China, Germany ...there is more detail but even the smallest country has sufficient to give some insights. In addition there is some nice overview information at the beginning about the various forms of government that exist in the world at the moment. I recall, that I once had the CIA version of this book but it seemed to get out of date very rapidly.....maybe because they included the current names of people and parties in power....whereas this book doesn't try to capture this level of detail. And it's not just systems of government. Each country has details of their flag, currency, population GDP per capita..etc. ...also a map (which I find helpful). There is also a significant section at the beginning about international forms of government such as the UN and the International Court of Justice. And, like all the DK books, it is superbly illustrated. I really like it. So five stars from me.

[Jenny]

By the time I was going to finish this I realized it was severely out of date due to how quickly the world climate has changed since I first bought this edition. So I got halfway... and decided to keep it on the shelf for reference but not technically finished.

[Freddie williams · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is a great basic book on government structures. Good civics FYI book.

[Mohamed Alsaid · Rating 4 out of 5]

i start to read about different political system in the world