Download or read book Dragon in a Three Piece Suit written by Doug Guthrie and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2001-12-26 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dragon in a Three-Piece Suit is an innovative sociological examination of what is perhaps the main engine of economic reform in China, the large industrial firm. Doug Guthrie, who spent more than a year in Shanghai studying firms, interviewing managers, and gathering data on firms' performance and practices, provides the first detailed account of how these firms have been radically transformed since the mid-1980s. Guthrie shows that Chinese firms are increasingly imitating foreign firms in response both to growing contact with international investors and to being cut adrift from state support. Many firms, for example, are now less likely to use informal hiring practices, more likely to have formal grievance filing procedures, and more likely to respect international institutions, such as the Chinese International Arbitration Commission. Guthrie argues that these findings support the de-linking of Western trade policy from human rights, since it is clear that economic engagement leads to constructive reform. Yet Guthrie also warns that reform in China is not a process of inevitable Westernization or of managers behaving as rational, profit-maximizing agents. Old habits, China's powerful state administration, and the hierarchy of the former command economy will continue to have profound effects on how firms act and how they adjust to change. With its combination of rigorous argument and uniquely rich detail, this book gives us the most complete picture yet of Chinese economic reform at the crucial level of the industrial firm.

Download or read book Dragon Skins and Elves written by Alfred Bekker and published by Uksak E-Books. This book was released on 2019-09-20 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dragon Skins and Elves Alfred Bekker The size of this book corresponds to 152 paperback pages. In Jonas' grandfather's house you can discover the most extraordinary things he brought back from his expeditions. Together with his friends Pia and Benny, Jonas encounters three dragon skins that immediately nestle around their bodies. Each gives its wearer a different dragon-like quality and draws him into a magical world. Only one power is strong enough to prevent Jonas, Pia and Benny from becoming dragons once and for all: The magic of the Elfstones in Iceland. The expedition begins...

Download or read book Keptintug written by C. Dunford and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2012-05-29 with total page 151 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a world where deliverance is spoken sparingly and most are obsessed with the word not the idea there is one that hungers for nothing else for when the prey has become a shadow and quick enough to outrun an arrow its impossible to catch, unless of course the hunter is as well.

Download or read book Minotaur Planet written by Thom L. Nichols and published by Thom L Nichols. This book was released on 2010-03-01 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Durf isn't dead. Brianna's Call is back.It's all happening again, but nothing is the same. The world is populated by minotaurs and it's all happening at the World Series. Finding Durf alive, Billy is transported to an alternate world where he finds Durf inhabiting a female baseball player named Billie. Trying to get to Brianna's call, and thinking that he went back in time, Durf didn't realize that Billie wasn't Billy and that the World Series wasn't the Super Bowl or even that Billie was a girl and not a guy. Making matters worse, Brianna's Call is being chased by a fleet of ships trying to figure out a way to use the magic. Unfortunately, they accidentally transformed it solid and now it's about to crash into the Earth. While trying to transform it back, Billy and the others are forced to confront Durfs from this planet, weapons left behind by the Norse Gods, and alien wizards all while pretending to be female baseball players.

Download or read book The Sakamota Journals Sera and the Dragon written by Michael J. Wilbur and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2017-08-20 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If you think being assigned to a tiny bridge in the middle of nowhere would be boring, you obviously don't live in Wenapaj. My life used to be calm and peaceful at the Saybaro, but that was before the princess was kidnapped by a dragon, of all things ? and guess who's job the king made it to find her? At least I don't have to go it alone, though an ancient android, a punk student, a neophyte guard, an aspiring playwright and photographer, and a possessed doll aren't exactly the allies I would have chosen to face off against one of the most fearsome creatures in the known worlds. My name is Jimmy Olsen Sakamota, bridgekeeper and aspiring samurai, and have I got a story to tell you.

Download or read book Light and Shade written by Brad Tolinski and published by McClelland & Stewart. This book was released on 2012-10-23 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than 30 years after disbanding in 1980, Led Zeppelin continues to be celebrated for its artistic achievements, broad musical influence, and commercial success. The band's notorious exploits have been chronicled in bestselling books such as Stephen Davis's Hammer of the Gods. Yet none of the individual members of the band has penned a memoir or cooperated to any degree with the press or a biographer. Iconic guitarist and Led Zeppelin founder, Jimmy Page, is both the band's most reticent member and the one who most fascinates its huge fanbase. For the first time and in his own words, he opens up to journalist Brad Tolinski, exploring in-depth his remarkable life and musical journey.

Download or read book Dragon s Oath written by P. C. Cast and published by St. Martin's Griffin. This book was released on 2011-07-12 with total page 157 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first in an enthralling new mini-series of novellas from the #1 bestselling authors of the House of Night, Dragon's Oath tells the story behind the House of Night's formidable fencing instructor – the love that will transform him, and the promise that will haunt him In early 19th century England, long before he's a professor at the Tulsa House of Night, Bryan Lankford is a troublesome yet talented human teen who thinks he can get away with anything... until his father, a wealthy nobleman, has finally had enough, and banishes him to America. When Bryan is Marked on the docks and given the choice between the London House of Night and the dragon-prowed ship to America, he chooses the Dragon – and a brand new fate. Becoming a Fledgling may be exciting, but it opens a door to a dangerous world.... In 1830's St. Louis, the Gateway to the West, Dragon Lankford becomes a Sword Master, and soon realizes there are both frightening challenges and beautiful perks. Like Anastasia, the captivating young Professor of Spells and Rituals at the Tower Grove House of Night, who really should have nothing to do with a fledgling... But when a dark power threatens, Dragon is caught in its focus. Though his uncanny fighting skills make him a powerful fledgling, is he strong enough to ward off evil, while protecting Anastasia as well? Will his choices save her—or destroy them all?

Download or read book The Sea Dragon written by Miriam Gross and published by The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc. This book was released on 2005-12-15 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These creatures are hard to find when they swim among the plants of their natural habitat. If in fact the two species of sea dragons are known as weedy and leafy because they look so much like the plants in which they make their homes! This creature has a long snout that gave rise to the name sea dragon. Students will learn that the father carries sea dragon eggs in his special pouch. These delicate creatures are found on only one place on Earth, so students will learn how this creature must be protected before it vanishes!

Download or read book Dragons of Wellsdeep written by Dawn Blair and published by Morning Sky Studios. This book was released on 2021-10-15 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Born a champion. Destined for even more. Moonhunter’s dragon mother gifted him the last of her magic when she died giving birth to him and left him in the hands of his dragon brother, Balthier, to train. But when a botched recovery mission leaves Moonhunter and Balthier hiding information from each other, it jeopardizes the next assignment, one that Balthier himself already failed once. Now Balthier faces the demons of his past and the prospect of Moonhunter leaving him, while Moonhunter no longer has Balthier’s tough protection keeping him from those who want to use Moonhunter’s special powers. Separated, they must both draw deep down on their individual strength reserves to survive this operation. Even dragon born can die. Welcome to the Wells of the Onesong, where not even sanctuaries are safe and lies held silent can tear even the tightest of dragon brothers apart.

Download or read book A Plague of Dragons A Dragon Anthology written by Katie Salidas and published by Lyrical Lit. Publishing. This book was released on 2017-03-30 with total page 575 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the visionary minds of six prolific authors comes a mesmerizing collection of dragons.

Download or read book The Island of the Seven Kings written by Ken Stephenson and published by Author House. This book was released on 2012-01-27 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Island of the Seven Kings is an epic romantic adventure. It takes you to a fictional island where young Rebecca and her friends serve their kingdom as dragon riders and learn about relationships between themselves and the world around them in peace and war. Idos, the creator god and the seven gods he created to rule over his domain watch over them and lead them toward his purpose for them. It is the old story of the struggle between good and evil and how the "Sky Raiders" came into being.

Download or read book The Dragon s Lair written by Jim Anan and published by Dog Ear Publishing. This book was released on 2012-02 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Suicidal God written by Ylisa Ebert and published by Fiction4All and 4Play Press. This book was released on with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The two gods, the Lord of Salvation and the Prince of Dusk, have been warring with one another for ten thousand years, pitting their followers against one another in a constant struggle for dominance. Every five hundred years they are reborn into flesh forms to walk among their followers, and between rebirths communicate to their priests through the Eye. However, this rebirth, the god of the elves, humans, and dwarves is missing, while the underbeings and the Dusk Prince ready their attack. When an undercover dragon tells an unsuspecting young woman named Rynna that she is the reincarnation of the Lord, the two set off to the capital city to help save their people. However, in the absence of any memories of past lives or supernatural abilities, Rynna has only the dragon's assurances that she is who and what he claims her to be. More ominously, a strange disease has plagued Rynna since her childhood, one of continually and inexplicably trying to take her own life. Leaving behind a murdered mother, angry groups of suspicious countrymen, and all her belongings, Rynna must learn to master her own doubts and fears, all the while avoiding capture by the enemy so that she can be the leader her people need.

Download or read book Book of Mah Jong written by Amy Lo and published by Tuttle Publishing. This book was released on 2013-12-21 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Master the exhilarating game of Mahjong with this introductory guide. Said to have originated in the court of the Emperor of Wu, for centuries Mahjong remained a diversion exclusively for the royal class of China. Mahjong has been called "the game of a hundred intelligences." When played by experts it can be fast and subtle—even difficult to follow. Author Amy Lo, with the help and consultation of many master Mahjong players of different forms of the game, comes The Book of Mah Jong. This complete, easy-to-follow instructional mahjong handbook includes over 150 full-color photographs and illustrations to introduce players to this captivating game. This is the first Mahjong book to fully cover the Cantonese or "old rules" game. It also includes all of the most popular variations, such as the Shanghai game, the 16-tile or Taiwanese game and the 12-tile game. Included are the rules, tactics, techniques, strategy and the rituals only the most experienced players know. This Mahjong book includes: 112 page, full-color book Easy-to-follow instructions Full-color illustrations and photographs Instruction on authentic Chinese Mahjong Cantonese, Shanghai, and 12-tile versions of the game The Book of Mah Jong is the perfect guide for all skill levels to learn Mahjong.

Download or read book Dragon s Revenge written by Irene Radford and published by Astra Publishing House. This book was released on 2005-11-01 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Three brothers take shelter on a pretechnological world where dragons are worshiped as gods. When the off-world forces they have fled track them down, they must find a way to save the world they've made their own.

Download or read book Dragon s Covenant written by Natalie Grey and published by Phix Publishing LLC. This book was released on 2018-04-27 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Enjoy this military scifi series by Kurtherian Gambit co-author Natalie Grey! ** The Warlord of Ymir needs to die, and Talon Rift has sworn he'll be the one to make it happen. As commander of one of the most decorated Dragon teams in history, Talon Rift has taken down the worst humanity has to offer—slave traders, terrorists, arms traffickers, and more. But one of his quarries has always eluded him: the Warlord of Ymir, the man who marched an army of mercenaries onto a planet decades ago and has held it ever since. Taking the Warlord down with a team of 16 is a suicidal idea… But Dragons aren’t known for their good sense of self-preservation. They’re known for doing whatever it takes. And when Talon learns that the Warlord might have help from inside the Alliance government, he vows that he will stop at nothing to bring the Warlord and all of his allies to justice. ** KEYWORDS: space opera; scifi romance; science fiction; Kurtherian Gambit; Honor Harrington; David Beers; military scifi; military science fiction; space marines; epic; strong female protagonist; colonization; genetic engineering; humorous science fiction; funny science fiction; LGBTQ science fiction; galactic empire

Download or read book A Very Paranormal Family Striking Out On Our Own written by William J. Smith and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2014-09-04 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Smiths are back at it again, investigating more haunted houses with the "Paranormal Society of America", but when neighbors of theirs, when they find out that they are paranormal investigators through an appearance of "the Society", on an obscure TV show, and the rest of the team is busy with other cases, the Smiths strike out on their own using their own experiences with the paranormal to help out their neighbors