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The Art of War
by: Sun Tzu, Sun Zi

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Availability: Usually dispatched within 24 hours Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 181
EAN: 9781599869773
ISBN: 1599869772
Label: Filiquarian Publishing
Manufacturer: Filiquarian Publishing
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 68
Publication Date: May 01, 2006
Publisher: Filiquarian Publishing
Studio: Filiquarian Publishing
Sales Rank: 418

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Customer Reviews

Average Rating: out of 5 stars

Rating:

- Not what I was expecting, but quirky and useful
I was expecting a huge tome full of Confuscian statements which are allegorical to warfare. What I received was a 69-page book of short instructions which are dirrectly about warfare, but in many cases allegorical to life.

Possibly they're all in some way applicable to the day-to-day, the fighting with fire section does seem a bit specialised, but doubtless the scales will fall from my eyes at some stage and I will be able to use its teachings in buying tangerines from waitrose.

The best thing about the book is the ability to spice up conversation. Never again will I use a hackneyed marketing phrase where something from Sun Tzu will work. Brilliant.

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- This translation seems hard to apply to myself
I cannot yet see the way that all the content this book offers about the principles of Sun Tzu can be applied to life on a whole.
This book is incredibily concise and seems to only demonstate practical instructions. I'm left using own imagination to discover what they could truely mean and offer to me in my own circumstances seen as I am not really in a battle field with two opposing forces.
By using this idea however as an absolute representation of lifes struggles the book can be great but in this edition, a lot of the writings are simply too practical, saying about camping and assuring you are away from rivers, for that to appear to be the case. Certainly some of these pointers can have spiritual value and ideas of balance between ... Read More:

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- useful, if you want to start a war.
when i heard about this book from friends i expected tao te chingesque aphorisms over and over again but when i first flicked through it i realised that this is so much more.
genuinely useful advice is interspersed with impassioned speeches about the honour of war
"When some are seen advancing and some retreating, it is a lure"
"If birds gather on any spot, it is unoccupied"
"the leader of armies is the arbiter of people's fate, the man on whom it depends whether the nation shall be in peace or in peril"
OK so it's not really useful to you but it will make you think differently about conflict because Sun Tzu has managed to prove that it truly can be an art

Rating:

- A must read book !
Short but Sweet !
Applicable theories even today !
Must Read, more than once !

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