Thirty-Six Stratagems Condition:Well Read and its suspense and profound

and its suspense and profound sense of urban menace rank it with Hitchcock's Rear Window and the gritty crime novels of Dennis Lehane

and streamlined for ease-of-use

Socrates spent his life examining himself and the assumptions of others

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Thirty-Six Stratagems Condition:Well Read and its suspense and profoundWang Xuanming's pioneering work in illustrating the 36 Stratagems in comic form breathes life into these Chinese military strategies perfected through a few thousand years of battlefield tactics, political intrigue, ingenuity and human folly. The six sections of six stratagems each presents the Chinese original w pinyin at the heading of each cleverly illustrated chapter. The focus of this 300 year old text is on the use of deception, subterfuge or