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 enlarge | Author: Robert Greene
Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics)
Category: Book
List Price: $18.00
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Avg. Customer Rating:  49 reviews
Sales Rank: 4616
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 496
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.6
Dimensions (in): 9 x 6.5 x 1.1
ISBN: 0143112783
Dewey Decimal Number: 302
EAN: 9780143112785
ASIN: 0143112783
Publication Date: December 14, 2007
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 Can't Wait to read this June 1, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Robert Greene is great at giving examples and historical stories on his topics great book.
 Not what I thought but not bad all the same April 30, 2008
4 out of 5 found this review helpful
My girl friend got me this book for Christmas because I picked it up one day while walking around a book store. I started reading it and soon became aware of some things that I was not real keyed up on. The book breaks down into 33 chapters laying out each of the 33 strategies for war. Within these chapters there are stories and examples of the strategies to help explain how they work. Often these stories are historical but there are others. After that there are sections that reflect on the stories and try to explain how they can be applicable to your life. I am not a reader of self help books and a good 1/3 of these chapters are much like a self help book. If you like books that give you ideas about how to deal with situations at work or school this book is right up your ally. However if you are more like me and like books about history then this book may miss for you. The stories are good and I did finish the whole book but I did not read many of the sections. It got to be a little preachy some times.
Robert Greene's books are worth their weight in diamonds. April 17, 2008
Many people don't want to get near a war; I certainly don't. Greene's primary purpose is to help us succeed in the battlefields of ideas, of business, of personal relations. The warrior's vocabulary and viewpoint are extraordinarily useful in these endeavors. Don't think you can stay away from conflict; you can't. If you achieve anything of value in your life, you must be prepared to defend it against those who will lay claim to it. If you try to escape to someplace safe--a family, a church, an academic cloister--you'll find the vicious dynamics of war have set your ivory tower on fire.
I used Greene's strategies to defeat a man who violated a contract. I also succeeded in removing--non-violently, of course--several unpleasant individuals who were making my life miserable. I employ Greene's ideas with my spouse, with our child, on my job, every day.
Great Read!!! April 9, 2008
This is a fantastic read. I highly recommend this book to anyone in a stressful or political work environment looking for strategies to survive and influence others. It helped open my mind and I refer to various chapters regularly.
ANOTHER POWRFUL BOOK!! April 2, 2008
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
WHENEVER YOU WANT PEACE PREPARE FOR WAR!!! WE'RE CONDITIONALLY TRAINED TO BE PEACEFUL CITIZENS, BUT THE INEVIATBLE SOMETIMES ARISE & MOST GET SWEPT AWAY @ PEACE. PREPARE TO BUY WAR!!!
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