Miyamoto Musashi's Go Rin no Sho or the book of five rings, is considered a classic treatise on military strategy, much like Sun Tzu's The Art of War and Chanakya's Arthashastra. The five "books" refer to the idea that there are different elements of battle, just as there are different physical elements in life, as described by Buddhism, Shinto, and other Eastern religions. Through the book Musashi defends his thesis: a man who conquers himself is ready to take it on on the world, should need arise.

A new translation of the great Japanese treatise on strategy and combat updates the three-hundred-year-old text for modern readers. 17,500 first printing. (view table of contents)

Explains how business executives can apply the strategic thinking of the 17th-century Japanese swordsman, and looks at the stories of today's top business leaders (view table of contents)