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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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Product Description: Tao Te Ching, also commonly known as Lao Tzu, is perhaps the most important of Chinese classical texts, with an unparalleled influence on Chinese thought. This bilingual edition consists of two parts. The English text in Part One is a reprint of the earlier translation of the so-called Wang Pi text, first published by Penguin Books in 1963...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
By D. C. Lau (trans)
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Hardcover:

9780679433163 | Everymans Library, October 1, 1994, cover price $18.00 | About this edition: (Book Jacket Status: Jacketed)Written during the golden age of Chinese philosophy, and composed partly in prose and partly in verse, the Tao Te Ching is surely the most terse and economical of the world’s great religious texts.

Paperback:

9789622019928 | Blg sub edition (Chinese Univ Pr, September 1, 2001), cover price $20.00 | About this edition: Tao Te Ching, also commonly known as Lao Tzu, is perhaps the most important of Chinese classical texts, with an unparalleled influence on Chinese thought.
9780140441314 | Reprint edition (Penguin Classics, June 1, 1985), cover price $10.00 | About this edition: Presents the sacred teachings of Taoism, including lessons on simple living, contentment, and prizing culture.

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9780517288559 | Random House Value Pub, November 1, 1998, cover price $7.99

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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 (trans) and D. C. Lau (editor)
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Paperback:

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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Product Description: The Analects express a philosophy, or a moral code, by which Confucius, one of the most humane thinkers of all time, believed everyone should live. Upholding the ideals of wisdom, self-knowledge, courage and love of one's fellow man, he argued that the pursuit of virtue should be every individual's supreme goal...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9789622015272 | Chinese Univ Pr, March 1, 1997, cover price $38.00 | About this edition: The Analects express a philosophy, or a moral code, by which Confucius, one of the most humane thinkers of all time, believed everyone should live.

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Brings together the philosophical teachings of the ancient Chinese philosopher, in a study that explains how one can live in harmony with humankind and the universe by developing one's innate moral nature and by acting with justice and benevolence. Reprint.
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Hardcover:

9789622013131 | Bilingual edition (Chinese Univ Pr, March 1, 1997), cover price $60.00 | About this edition: The Confucian philosopher, Mencius (c.
9789622013490 | Chinese Univ Pr, March 1, 1984, cover price $30.00 | About this edition: The Confucian philosopher, Mencius (c.

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9780140449716 | Reprint edition (Penguin Classics, June 28, 2005), cover price $16.00 | About this edition: Discusses Confucius's theories of yi, or righteousness, and jen, or goodness, explaining that individuals can attain harmony with the universe by acting with morality, benevolence, and justice.
9789622018518 | Rev sub edition (Chinese Univ Pr, July 1, 2003), cover price $25.00 | About this edition: Mencius, who lived in the 4th century B.

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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 D. C. Lau (compiler)
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9789622013919 | Revised edition (Chinese Univ Pr, June 1, 1990), cover price $12.00

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