Books with author James CLAVELL

MP3 CD Format The words held within these pages, written over two and a half thousand years ago, ring just as true today as they did in fifth century BC China. Bestselling author and master storyteller James Clavell (Shgun) brought The Art of War to greater prominence in the West in the 1980s and showed how the book's instruction was applicable on a smaller scale and could be used for personal betterment. Clavell's wonderfully evocative foreword and helpful notes throughout the text guide the reader through preparations and battle plans, correct use of weapons and knowing when to fight--and when not to fight.With a deep understanding of both strategy and human nature, this military treatise illustrates the fine craft of knowing one's enemy and oneself. From military officers to CEOs to those simply looking to be more powerful in their own life, The Art of War has become required reading for anyone seeking a path of success through the modern world.

The heir to the magnificent English trading company, the Noble House; the direct descendant of the first Toranaga Shogun, battling to usher his country into the modern age; a beautiful young Frenchwoman forever torn between ambition and desire-their lives intertwine in an exotic land newly open to foreigners, gai-jin, and torn apart by greed, idealism, and terrorism. Their passions mingle with monarchs and diplomats, assassins, courtesans, and spies. Their fates collide in James Clavell's masterpiece set in nineteenth-century Japan-an unforgettable epic seething with betrayal and secrets, brutality and heroism, love and forbidden passions.

Thrump-O-moto explores a world we can find only in dreams-a world where fantastic folds in time and space, the fragile stuff of hope, high aspiration, enchantment, danger, and courage are the real-the here and now. This is Thump-O-motto's world: the everyday world of a little wizard and apprentice Hero who, though sometimes puzzled and afraid, always knows that the mightiest forces in the Universe bow before the Brave and Good. By chance (and a bungled spell) he sets out on his Noble Quest to rescue Patricia, a child in the evil clutches of Nurk-u the Bad. His is a realm of wonder, laughter, delight, and ever-lurking danger, a place where magic spells are a very serious matter indeed.