Title Index
A-K L-Z

Search Books

Bestsellers

What's New

LeaderShop
Main Page

Help

View Cart

	Description and Reviews Excerpt Reader's Index About the Author Table of Contents Customer Reviews Find Similar Items See Also: Business

Secure Online Ordering Guaranteed!

Visit the author's Art of War website.
When you buy this edition, you also get access to the on-line study guides at the ArtofWarPlus.com.

Sun Tzu's The Art of War Plus The Original Chinese Revealed

Sun-Tzu and Gary Gagliardi

Retail Price: ~~$10.95~~
LS Price: $0.00

Availability: Out-of-Print

Format: Hardcover, 160pp.
ISBN: 1929194196
Publisher: Clearbridge Publishing
Pub. Date: January 2003

Average Customer Review:

Out-Of-Print

A new copy is not available from the LeaderShop at this time. A used copy may be available from our network of book dealers.

Search Out-of-Print

Description and Reviews
From The Publisher:

Winner of the 2003 Independent Publishers Book Award for Best Multicultural Non-fiction. Recognized as the newest and most accurate translation of Sun Tzu's ancient classic with six significant improvements over other translations:

It uses the Taipei compilation of the main Chinese textual traditions instead of older fragmentary sources.
It individually translates each Chinese ideogram to let readers see the precise formulas in the original text.
It offers English sentences that clarify the central meaning of the text but chooses words to demonstrate the range of meaning in the original.
It preserves the original weight of ideas by creating one and only one line of English for each line of Chinese.
It duplicates the original format of the Chinese by grouping and numbering lines clearly to preserve the original contextual associations.
It assumes that Sun Tzu was rigorously consistent in his ideas. The imprecise word usage that creates contradictions in other versions are eliminated.

Excerpt

The text looks like this, except that in the book, each column is on a facing page.

Character Translation	English Translation
High mound do not face,	Do not take a position facing high ground.
Back walls do not oppose,	Do not oppose those with their backs to the wall.
Pretend flee do not follow,	Do not follow those who attempt to flee.
Sharp soldiers do not attack,	Do not attack the enemy's strongest men.
Bait war do not feed,	Do not swallow the enemy's bait.
Returning home legion do not block,	Do not block an army that is headed home.
Encircling troops must watch-tower,	Leave an escape route for a surrounded army.
Poor pillage do not force,	Do not press a desperate foe.
Here use war’s method also.	This is the art of war.

See a PDF Excerpt Planning Chapter

Reader's Index
Send us your favorite quotes or passages from this book.

About the Author and Translator

Gary Gagliardi is America's leading expert on using the Sun Tzu’s The Art of War. He has created three ground-breaking works on Sun Tzu. 1) He authored the first published English-language transliteration of The Art of War. 2) He mapped the key elements of Sun Tzu’s competitive system into graphical diagrams, following the traditional methodology used all ancient Chinese sciences. 3) He developed a 306 page, stanza-by-stanza explanation of Sun Tzu’s competitive system in the terms of modern competitive principles and game theory.

Mr. Gagliardi has also written a large number of other adaptations applying Sun Tzu’s methods to everything from career building, management, running a small business, marketing, selling, and even romance and parenting.

Mr. Gagliardi began studying Sun Tzu 30 years ago, using Sun Tzu's secrets in a successful career in sales, marketing, and management. He went on to start his own software company (which became a multimillion dollar business, twice appearing on the Inc. 500 list of fastest growing companies) developing his first Sun Tzu adaptation for his company's distributors and sales people. In 1996, he sold his company, to focus full time on speaking and writing about Sun Tzu's strategic principles.

Gary lives near Seattle with his wife.

Table of Contents

Contents

Customer Reviews
Write your own online review.

Find Items On Similar Subjects

Sun Tzu's The Art of War Plus The Art of Management

The Art of War Hardcover

The Art of War Paperback

Sun Tzu: The Art of War for Managers - 50 Strategic Rules

A Book of Five Rings

Copyright ©1998-2009 LeadershipNow / M2 Communications, LLC All Rights Reserved

All materials contained in http://www.LeadershipNow.com are protected by copyright and trademark laws and may not be used for any purpose whatsoever other than private, non-commercial viewing purposes. Derivative works and other unauthorized copying or use of stills, video footage, text or graphics is expressly prohibited. LeadershipNow is a trademark of M2 Communications, LLC.