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Great Ideas: Tao Te Ching

Author: Lao Tzu

Fundamental to Chinese philosophy and religion, the Tao Te Ching is a simple guidebook for virtue, encouraging peace, understanding and humility. Ranging from political advice to common wisdom, it has also served as an inspiration to artists across the ages and throughout the world.

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Book Cover: Tao Te Ching
Tao Te Ching
By Lao Tzu

Traditionally attributed to Lao Tzu, an older contemporary of Confucius (551 - 479 BC), it is now thought that the work was compiled in about the fourth century BC. An anthology of wise sayings, it offers a model by which the individual can live rather than explaining the human place in the universe. The moral code it encourages is based on modesty and self-restraint, and the rewards reaped for such...

Traditionally attributed to Lao Tzu, an older contemporary of Confucius (551 - 479 BC), it is now thought that the work was compiled in about the fourth century BC. An anthology of wise sayings, it offers...

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Published: 26/01/2000
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780140441314
RRP: $9.95
Book Cover: Tao Te Ching: The New Translation from Tao Te Ching: The Definitive Edition
Tao Te Ching: The New Translation from Tao Te Ching: The Definitive Edition
By Lao Tzu
A new presentation of the classic spiritual work places its eighty-one verses in an accessible format for both casual and serious students, in a new translation that seeks to illuminate the timeless relevance of its message.
A new presentation of the classic spiritual work places its eighty-one verses in an accessible format for both casual and serious students, in a new translation that seeks to illuminate the timeless relevance...
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Published: 17/04/2008
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9781585426188
RRP: $14.95
Book Cover: Tao Te Ching: The Classic Translation by R.B. Blakney with a New
Tao Te Ching: The Classic Translation by R.B. Blakney with a New
By Lao Tzu
The essential, classic text of Taoism.

These 81 poems comprise an Eastern classic, the mystical and moral teachings of which have profoundly influenced the sacred scriptures of many

The essential, classic text of Taoism.

These 81 poems comprise an Eastern classic, the mystical and moral teachings of which have profoundly influenced the sacred scriptures of many

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Published: 22/05/2007
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780451530400
RRP: $12.95
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Published:26/10/2009
Format:Paperback, 96 pages
RRP:$9.95
ISBN-13:9780141043685
ISBN-10:0141043687
Imprint:Penguin Classics
Publisher:Penguin UK
Origin:United Kingdom
Subjects: - Literary essays(171)

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21 May 2012
2012 Australian Book Industry Awards (ABIAs) - winners

The Australian Book Industry Awards were held in Sydney on Friday night. It was a great night for Penguin with our books taking the top honors in four book categories including the prestigious Book of the Year. Congratulations also to Peg McColl, Kate McCormack and the rights team who won the International (Rights) Award for the second year running for Paul French's book Midnight in Peking. United Book Distributors were again named Distributor of the Year.

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