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  • The Art of War (Translated by Ralph D. Sawyer)

    Translated by Ralph D. Sawyer ...
    by Sun Tzu ...
    The definitive translation of Sun Tzu's timeless classic of military strategy, The Art of War**.**A quintessential guide to strategy, The Art of War has influenced leaders for over a thousand years. Beyond the battlefield, people have long turned to its wisdom for advice on succeeding in competitive situations, and companies worldwide now make this book required reading for their executives.Ralph ... Read more

    Was $16.99 CAD Now $2.99 CAD

  • The Tao Of War

    by Ralph D. Sawyer ...
    Wang Chen, a ninth-century military commander, was sickened by the carnage that had plagued the glorious T'ang dynasty for decades. "All within the seas were poisoned," he wrote, "and pain and disaster was rife throughout the land." Wang Chen wondered, how can we end conflicts before they begin? How can we explain and understand the dynamics of conflict? For the answer he turned to a remarkable ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • The Seven Military Classics Of Ancient China

    by Ralph D. Sawyer ...
    The Seven Military Classics is one of the most profound studies of warfare ever written, a stanchion in sinological and military history. It presents an Eastern tradition of strategic thought that emphasizes outwitting one's opponent through speed, stealth, flexibility, and a minimum of force -- an approach very different from that stressed in the West. Safeguarded for centuries by the ruling ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

  • Intelligence Elsewhere

    Spies and Espionage Outside the Anglosphere

    by Philip H. J. Davies, Kristian C. Gustafson, Stephen Welch, Ralph D. Sawyer, Abdulaziz A. Al-Asmari, Robert Johnson, Carl Anthony Wege, Peter Gill, Lee Wilson0, Ken Kotani1, Emmanuel Kwesi Aning2, Emma Birikorang3, Ernest Ansah Lartey4, Eduardo E. Estévez5, Wilhelm Agrell6, Lauri Holmström7 ...
    Spying, the “world’s second oldest profession,” is hardly limited to the traditional great power countries. Intelligence Elsewhere, nevertheless, is the first scholarly volume to deal exclusively with the comparative study of national intelligence outside of the anglosphere and European mainstream. Past studies of intelligence and counterintelligence have tended to focus on countries such as the ... Read more

    $40.69 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Tao of Deception

    Unorthodox Warfare in Historic and Modern China

    by Ralph D. Sawyer ...
    The history of China is a history of warfare. Wars have caused dynasties to collapse, fractured the thin fasade of national unity, and brought decades of alien occupation. But throughout Chinese history, its warfare has been guided by principles different from those that governed Europe. Chinese strategists followed the concept, first articulated by Sun-tzu in The Art of War, of qi (ch'i), or ... Read more

    $26.99 CAD

  • Ancient Chinese Warfare

    by Ralph D. Sawyer ...
    The history of China is a history of warfare. Rarely in its 3,000-year existence has the country not been beset by war, rebellion, or raids. Warfare was a primary source of innovation, social evolution, and material progress in the Legendary Era, Hsia dynasty, and Shang dynasty -- indeed, war was the force that formed the first cohesive Chinese empire, setting China on a trajectory of state ... Read more

    $30.99 CAD

  • One Hundred Unorthodox Strategies

    Battle And Tactics Of Chinese Warfare

    by Ralph D. Sawyer ...
    One Hundred Unorthodox Strategies was compiled in the fifteenth century, during the Ming Dynasty, as a handbook of tactics based on Chinese military classics. Translated into English for the first time, this unique work draws on over two thousand years of experience in warfare to present a distillation of one hundred key strategic principles. Originally prepared as a text for students aspiring to ... Read more

    $86.99 CAD

  • Unorthodox Strategies For The Everyday Warrior

    Ancient Wisdom For The Modern Competitor

    by Ralph D. Sawyer ...
    This is a handbook of tactics based on the ancient Chinese military classics. This unique work draws on over two thousand years of experience of warfare to present a distillation of a hundred key strategic principles applicable to modern life, including business and human relations. ... Read more

    $83.81 CAD

  • The Essence Of War

    Leadership And Strategy From The Chinese Military Classics

    by Ralph D. Sawyer ...
    From antiquity, the history of China has been marked by invading tribes, warring states, and popular uprisings. This heritage of conflict produced a body of martial literature exploring the fundamental principles of warfare and their methods of employment. Fully aware of the tragic consequences of battle, the authors of these texts emphasized that bloodshed and war should be avoided whenever ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

  • Sun Pin: Military Methods

    by Ralph D. Sawyer ...
    A description of the awesome army commanded by Sun Pin, a direct descendent of the legendary Sun Tzu. This translation comments on Sun Pin's life and times. It analyzes in detail Sun Pin's tactics in battles, and compares his strategic thinking with that of Sun Tzu. ... Read more

    $105.99 CAD

  • Growing Up Pure

    White Girls, Queer Teens, and the Racial Foundations of Purity Culture

    by Lauren D. Sawyer ...
    Takes seriously youths’ ownership of their sexual choices within purity cultureGaining mass popularity in the mid-1990s with the True Love Waits rally on the Washington Mall, purity culture began as an urge from evangelical conservatives for Christian adolescents to publicly commit to practicing abstinence until marriage. Throughout this decade and the next, millions of evangelical teenagers ... Read more

    $23.09 CAD

  • The Complete Art Of War

    Sun Tzu/sun Pin

    by Pin Sun, Sun Tzu ...
    Translated by Ralph D. Sawyer ...
    Sun Tzu's Art of War is the most famous, and the most thought-provoking, work of strategy ever written. The profound insights of this book have endured for over two thousand years, and they continue to reward careful study. The Military Methods of Sun Pin, the great-grandson of Sun Tzu, is a brilliant elaboration on his ancestor's work, which has been lost for nearly two millennia. Presented here ... Read more

    $30.99 CAD