The Art of War Visualized: The Sun Tzu Classic in Charts and Graphs

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Its the perfect meeting of minds. One, a general whose epigrammatic lessons on strategy offer timeless insight and wisdom. And the other, a visual thinker whose succinct diagrams and charts give readers a fresh way of looking at lifes challenges and opportunities. A Bronze Age/Information Age marriage of Sun Tzu and Jessica Hagy, The Art of War Visualized is an inspired mash-up, a work that completely reenergizes the perennial bestseller and makes it accessible to a new generation of students, entrepreneurs, business leaders, artists, seekers, lovers of games and game theory, and anyone else who knows the value of seeking guidance for the future in the teachings of the past.

Its as if Sun Tzu got a 21st-century do-over.

Author and illustrator of How to Be Interesting, Jessica Hagy is a cutting-edge thinker whose languagecomprising circles, arrows, and lines and the well-chosen word or twomakes her an ideal philosopher for our ever-more-visual culture. Her charts and diagrams are deceptively simple, often funny, and always thought-provoking. She knows how to communicate not only ideas but the complex process of thinking itself, complete with its twists and surprises. For The Art of War Visualized, she presents her vision in evocative ink-brush art and bold typography. The result is page after page in which each passage of the complete canonical text (in its best-known Lionel Giles translation) is visually interpreted in a singular diagram, chart, or other illustrationtransforming, reenergizing, and making the classic dazzlingly accessible for a new generation of readers.

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Charts and graphs cartoonist Jessica Hagy has turned [The Art of War] to her own purposes. In The Art of War: Visualized, she updates Sun Tzu's strategic advice as pithy infographics for contemporary readers. -- Fast Company co.Create


Hagys book may appeal to managers in a way the original doesnt because shes taken what has always been considered metaphorical business wisdom and visualized it, sometimes literally, as business wisdom. -- The Harvard Business Review

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Jessica Hagy is known for her Webby Awardwinning blog Indexed and her cartoons, which appear regularly in the New York Times. She writes widely for national publications. Ms. Hagy lives with her family in Seattle.