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9780824808259 | Univ of Hawaii Pr, May 1, 1983, cover price $25.00

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9780887063763 | State Univ of New York Pr, October 1, 1987, cover price $59.50

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9780887063770 | State Univ of New York Pr, October 1, 1987, cover price $31.95

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Hardback book. 334 pages. [xxi] Very good condition. Clean and complete, binding is tight. Contributors include: William Irvin Thompson, Harold Morowitz, Tu Wei-ming, Graham Parkes, David L Hall, Robert C Neville,Hubertus Tellenbach, Bin Kimura, David Edward Shaner, William LaFleur, Francis Cook, Kenneth Inada, David Kalupahana, Eliot Deutsch, Gerald James Larson. (view table of contents)
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9780887069505 | State Univ of New York Pr, May 1, 1989, cover price $59.50 | About this edition: Hardback book.

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9780887069512 | State Univ of New York Pr, May 1, 1989, cover price $31.95

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9780791410790 | State Univ of New York Pr, September 1, 1992, cover price $51.50

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9780791410806 | State Univ of New York Pr, September 1, 1992, cover price $23.50

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An ancient Chinese treatise stresses speed, subterfuge, discipline, and accurate intelligence (view table of contents)
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9780345362391 | 1 edition (Ballantine Books, January 1, 1993), cover price $27.95 | About this edition: An ancient Chinese treatise stresses speed, subterfuge, discipline, and accurate intelligence

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9780791417232 | State Univ of New York Pr, February 1, 1994, cover price $60.50

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9780791417249 | State Univ of New York Pr, May 1, 1994, cover price $31.95

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9780791420614 | State Univ of New York Pr, July 1, 1994, cover price $50.50

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9780791420621 | State Univ of New York Pr, July 1, 1994, cover price $31.95

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9780791422236 | State Univ of New York Pr, January 1, 1995, cover price $60.50

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By Roger T. Ames (editor), Joel Marks and Robert C. Solomon (editor)
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9780791422243 | State Univ of New York Pr, January 1, 1995, cover price $31.95

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Product Description: This book shows that failure to assess the significant cultural differences between China and the West has seriously affected our understanding of both classical and contemporary China, and makes the translation of attitudes, concepts, and issues extremely problematic.
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9780791424773 | State Univ of New York Pr, July 1, 1995, cover price $56.50 | About this edition: This book shows that failure to assess the significant cultural differences between China and the West has seriously affected our understanding of both classical and contemporary China, and makes the translation of attitudes, concepts, and issues extremely problematic.

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9780791424780 | State Univ of New York Pr, July 1, 1995, cover price $31.95 | About this edition: This book shows that failure to assess the significant cultural differences between China and the West has seriously affected our understanding of both classical and contemporary China, and makes the translation of attitudes, concepts, and issues extremely problematic.

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A new translation of the ancient Chinese manuscript on the principles, techniques, and tactics of war, a work lost for two millennia and rediscovered only in 1972, is accompanied by extensive notes and an introduction to the life and times of the great military innovator.
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9780345379917 | Ballantine Books, June 1, 1996, cover price $27.50 | About this edition: An ancient Chinese treatise on war stresses the importance of speed, sound tactics, subterfuge, discipline, appropriate form of attack, and accurate intelligence

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By Roger T. Ames (editor) and Wimal Dissanayake (editor)
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9780791430316 | State Univ of New York Pr, July 1, 1996, cover price $57.50

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9780791430323 | State Univ of New York Pr, July 1, 1996, cover price $29.95

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Product Description: This book continues a comparative project begun with the authors' Thinking Through Confucius and Anticipating China. It continues the comparative discussions by focusing upon three concepts--self, truth, transcendence--which best illuminate the distinctive characters of the two cultures...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9780791436134 | State Univ of New York Pr, February 1, 1998, cover price $58.50 | About this edition: This book continues a comparative project begun with the authors' Thinking Through Confucius and Anticipating China.

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9780791436141 | State Univ of New York Pr, February 1, 1998, cover price $31.95 | About this edition: This book continues a comparative project begun with the authors' Thinking Through Confucius and Anticipating China.

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Product Description: This is the third in a series dealing with the concept of self and its importance in understanding Chinese, Japanese, and Indian cultures. The authors examine the relationship between self and image and its significance in attaining a deeper knowledge of Chinese, Japanese, and Indian cultures...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
By Roger T. Ames (editor), Wimal Dissanayake (editor) and Thomas P. Kasulis (editor)
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9780791427255 | State Univ of New York Pr, May 1, 1998, cover price $60.50 | About this edition: This is the third in a series dealing with the concept of self and its importance in understanding Chinese, Japanese, and Indian cultures.

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9780791427262 | State Univ of New York Pr, May 1, 1998, cover price $31.95 | About this edition: This is the third in a series dealing with the concept of self and its importance in understanding Chinese, Japanese, and Indian cultures.

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A classic work of Daoist poetry, philosophy, and political science, offered for the first time in a dual English/Chinese edition, provides a fascinating glimpse into the intellectual culture of the ancient Han dynasty. Original. (view table of contents)
By Roger T. Ames (editor) and D. C. Lau (trans)
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9780345425683 | 1 edition (Ballantine Books, August 1, 1998), cover price $14.00 | About this edition: The subversive Chinese work offers criticism of a powerful emperor during the Han dynasty, providing a philosophic cornerstone of Daoism

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The first translation of the work of China's first and greatest philosopher to make use of a manuscript discovered in 1973--the earliest version yet discovered--includes both Chinese and English texts and an introduction by two scholars.
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9780345401540 | 1 edition (Ballantine Books, September 1, 1998), cover price $27.00 | About this edition: A new translation of the oldest known version of The analects presents the great philosopher's and teacher's ideas in English and Chinese

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Product Description: Chinese philosophy specialists examine the Zhuangzi, a third century B.C.E. Daoist classic, in this collection of interpretive essays. The Zhuangzi is a celebration of human creativity--its language is lucid and opaque; its images are darkly brilliant; its ideas are seriously playful...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
By Roger T. Ames (editor)
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9780791439210 | State Univ of New York Pr, October 1, 1998, cover price $60.50 | About this edition: Chinese philosophy specialists examine the Zhuangzi, a third century B.

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9780791439227 | State Univ of New York Pr, October 1, 1998, cover price $31.95 | About this edition: Chinese philosophy specialists examine the Zhuangzi, a third century B.

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Product Description: Will democracy figure prominently in China's future? If so, what kind of democracy? In this insightful and thought-provoking book, David Hall and Roger Ames explore such questions and, in the course of answering them, look to the ideas of John Dewey and Confucius...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9780812693942 | Open Court Pub Co, February 1, 1999, cover price $34.95 | About this edition: Will democracy figure prominently in China's future?

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Product Description: It was the editorial eye of Eliot Deutsch that made the journal Philosophy East and West the voice of comparative philosophy within the Western academy, challenging the entrenched provincialism of Anglo-American philosophy. In these essays, Deutsch's critics both praise and attack him, and he offers his thoughtful responses...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
By Roger T. Ames (editor)
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9780812694055 | Open Court Pub Co, November 1, 1999, cover price $42.95 | About this edition: It was the editorial eye of Eliot Deutsch that made the journal Philosophy East and West the voice of comparative philosophy within the Western academy, challenging the entrenched provincialism of Anglo-American philosophy.

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A groundbreaking new translation of the most important text in Chinese spirituality, derived from the recently discovered Guodian Bamboo Texts, introduces a regimen of self-cultivation to attain personal excellence and moral behavior and is accompanied by authoritative commentary on the the influential document.
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9780345444158 | Ballantine Books, December 1, 2002, cover price $23.95 | About this edition: A new translation of the most important text in Chinese spirituality introduces a regimen of self-cultivation to attain personal excellence and moral behavior and is accompanied by commentary on the document.

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Product Description: Composed more than 2,000 years ago during a turbulent period of Chinese history, the Dao de jing set forth an alternative vision of reality in a world torn apart by violence and betrayal. Daoism, as this subtle but enduring philosophy came to be known, offers a comprehensive view of experience grounded in a full understanding of the wonders hidden in the ordinary...read more
By Roger T. Ames (trans), David L. Hall (trans) and Ralph Lowenstein (narrator)
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9780792728290 | Abridged edition (Chivers Sound Library, January 1, 2003), cover price $39.95 | About this edition: Composed more than 2,000 years ago during a turbulent period of Chinese history, the Dao de jing set forth an alternative vision of reality in a world torn apart by violence and betrayal.
9780792727927 | Chivers Sound Library, January 1, 2003, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Composed more than 2,000 years ago during a turbulent period of Chinese history, the Dao de jing set forth an alternative vision of reality in a world torn apart by violence and betrayal.

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9780792728283 | Abridged edition (Chivers Sound Library, January 1, 2003), cover price $54.95 | About this edition: Composed more than 2,000 years ago during a turbulent period of Chinese history, the Dao de jing set forth an alternative vision of reality in a world torn apart by violence and betrayal.

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A groundbreaking new translation of the most important text in Chinese spirituality, derived from the recently discovered Guodian Bamboo Texts, introduces a regimen of self-cultivation to attain personal excellence and moral behavior and is accompanied by authoritative commentary on the the influential document. Reprint.
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9780345444196 | Reprint edition (Ballantine Books, January 1, 2004), cover price $13.95 | About this edition: A groundbreaking new translation of the most important text in Chinese spirituality, derived from the recently discovered Guodian Bamboo Texts, introduces a regimen of self-cultivation to attain personal excellence and moral behavior and is accompanied by authoritative commentary on the the influential document.

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Product Description: A classic of both military strategy and Eastern philosophy from the fourth century B.C.E. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
By Roger T. Ames (trans), D. C. Lau (trans) and Sun Tzu II
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9780791454954 | State Univ of New York Pr, March 1, 2003, cover price $49.50 | About this edition: A classic of both military strategy and Eastern philosophy from the fourth century B.

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9780791454961 | State Univ of New York Pr, March 1, 2003, cover price $31.95 | About this edition: A classic of both military strategy and Eastern philosophy from the fourth century BC.

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A groundbreaking new translation of the most important text in Chinese spirituality, derived from the recently discovered Guodian Bamboo Texts, introduces a regimen of self-cultivation to attain personal excellence and moral behavior and is accompanied by authoritative commentary on the influential document. Read by Ralph Lowenstein.
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9781572703087 | Abridged edition (Audio Partners, April 1, 2003), cover price $22.95 | About this edition: A new translation of the most important text in Chinese spirituality introduces a regimen of self-cultivation to attain personal excellence and moral behavior and is accompanied by commentary on the document.

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