Product Description: From warfare to commerce, the wisdom of Sun Tzu has persisted for more than 2000 years as the ultimate distillation of strategy and tactics. Each stanza provides a pearl of advice to be considered carefully, until chapter by chapter the student becomes the master of knowing one's adversary, marshalling one's forces and prevailing on the field of battle...read more

Product Description: Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

Product Description: According to Chinese tradition, Lao Tzu lived in the 6th century BCE. Lao Tzu was a central figure in Chinese culture, and is widely considered the Father of taoism, and author of the Tao Te Ching. This book is a compliation of Lao Tzu`s most seminal philosophies, translated directly from the ancient Chinese texts by Lionel Giles, prominent Asian Studies scholar, and former assistant at the British Museum...read more

Product Description: This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work...read more

Product Description: The Tao Te Ching is a spiritual, inspirational work that guides us through life, helping us to live within each moment and find the beauty that is all around each of us. Simple, beautiful, and life changing. The Tao Te Ching is fundamental to the Taoist school of Chinese philosophy (Dàojia), and strongly influenced other schools, such as Legalism and Neo-Confucianism...read more

Product Description: Sun Tzu's The Art of War has been the premier manual of Chinese military strategy for the past two millennia and, as thousands of Asian businessmen can attest, this classic work is as applicable to the corporate world as it is to the battlefield...read more

Product Description: Sun Tzu's "The Art of War" is among the oldest surviving books on military strategy. This reprint of Lionel Giles's classic 1910 English translation is typeset entirely in Adobe Fusaka, a font that causes the text to appear to be Chinese at first glance (it is actually quite readable English)...read more

Excerpts from two of the great scriptures of ancient theosophy. The Upanishads are the essence of Hindu philosophy; the Tao Te Ching expresses the eternal truths from China about the Path of Life. Charles Johnston's translations remain among the best ever made.

Product Description: Understanding Sun Tzu on the Art of War is both a source and an interpretation of Sun Tzu's Art of War written to clarify Sun Tzu's philosophies on war without compromising the subtlety of thought needed to master them. Readers of this book, from across professional disciplines, will find key advice on leadership, advantage, and how to proficiently overcome adversaries...read more

Product Description: Centuries before the Christian era, Chinese mountain hermits, called hsien, are said to have achieved, by means of diet, exercise, breath, and meditation, in prolonging life far beyond the ordinary. Later, Taoist adepts devoted themselves to compounding an elixir of immortality, and achieving a mastery over the forces of nature, that enabled them to perform all sorts of miracles...read more