http://www.ebooks.com/Political-ScienceFeatured Political Science titles at eBooks.comhelp@ebooks.com©2009 Ebooks Corporation Ltd11/18/2009 5:20:04 PMhttp://www.ebooks.com/ebooks/book_display.asp?IID=40927420091811.40927411/18/2009 5:20:05 PMInspiring countless business, political and military leaders (Napoleon, Mao Zedong and General MacArthur among them), The Art of War is a Chinese military treatise by Sun Tzu from the 6th century BC. Its 13 chapters are each dedicated to an aspect of warfare. 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