Download or read book Thirsty Dragon written by Suzanne Mustacich and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2015-11-10 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An inside view of China's quest to become a global wine power and Bordeaux's attempt to master the thirsty dragon it helped create The wine merchants of Bordeaux and the rising entrepreneurs of China would seem to have little in common—old world versus new, tradition versus disruption, loyalty versus efficiency. And yet these two communities have found their destinies intertwined in the conquest of new markets, as Suzanne Mustacich shows in this provocative account of how China is reshaping the French wine business and how Bordeaux is making its mark on China. Thirsty Dragon lays bare the untold story of how an influx of Chinese money rescued France's most venerable wine region from economic collapse, and how the result was a series of misunderstandings and crises that threatened the delicate infrastructure of Bordeaux's insular wine trade. The Bordelais and the Chinese do business according to different and often incompatible sets of rules, and Mustacich uncovers the competing agendas and little-known actors who are transforming the economics and culture of Bordeaux, even as its wines are finding new markets—and ever higher prices—in Shanghai, Beijing, and Hong Kong, with Hong Kong and London traders playing a pivotal role. At once a tale of business skullduggery and fierce cultural clashes, adventure, and ambition, Thirsty Dragon offers a behind-the-scenes look at the challenges facing the world's most famous and prestigious wines.
Download or read book The Thirsty Dragon written by Cheryl Gardner Moore and published by Fulton Books, Inc.. This book was released on 2022-02-24 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Thirsty Dragon is a fantasy poem, initially seen through the eyes of a young boy who imagines himself to be on a knight's quest but then finds himself faced with the reason for his adventure! The subsequent tale reveals another story altogether and then concludes by asking the reader about the moral, with a surprising recommendation! Would you agree? For better understanding of the poem, there is an appendix included, which gives definitions, explanations, and points for further discussion. It is hoped that Elementary or Middle school teachers, homeschooler parents, tutors, or students themselves can use these developmental notes as a springboard to further subjects or explorations.
Download or read book Vampire Dragon written by Annette Blair and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2011-04-05 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One the run from the mob, Bronte McBride needs the kind of protection that only the mysterious and handsome bodyguard Darkwyn—a former Roman warrior turned dragon—can give her. But Bronte's secrets could endanger both of them. Read Annette Blair's blogs and other content on the Penguin Community.
Download or read book X Venture CHRONICLES OF THE DRAGON TRAIL Where Dragons Dwell written by Clay and published by Kadokawa Gempak Starz Sdn Bhd. This book was released on 2018 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A century ago, the battle royale between the Heroes 3 and the First Dragon, Kriemhild the Terrible unleashed a tide of fiery monstrosities upon our unassuming world! Now, this infernal threat emerges once more, but not if the determined defenders of the Dragonfort have anything to do with it! Emerging amidst an ongoing war between man and beast, read on as rambunctious Rain, swotty Sean, and stalwart Stone take their first steps towards greatness under Wizard D'Vinci's bleary gaze! Gird yourselves, it's gonna be a bumpy ride as our hapless heroes venture WHERE DRAGONS DWELL!
Download or read book Dragons of the Bayou Complete Series Dragon Shifter Rom Com Collection written by Candace Ayers and published by Lovestruck Romance. This book was released on with total page 866 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: *A fun, spicy, shifter romcom with fated mates and a gruff, alpha hero! Guaranteed happily ever after in this standalone romance!* Something’s lurking in the swamplands of the Deep South. These massive dragons have been exiled from their homeland. Each must find his one true mate before it’s too late. Fire Breathing Beast Sky finally meets Mr.Right. but he’s off his rocker! He thinks he’s a dragon, calls her his mate, and follows her home. On the other hand, she might finally lose her V-card. Fire Breathing Cezar To woo his mate, Cezar fights his primal instincts and adopts the behavior of a human male, yet in the end, it may take the fiery passion of his dragon to win her over. Fire Breathing Blaise Chyna is on a mission to lose her V-card—no strings attached. Blaise wants strings. Blaise wants every string. And he’ll do whatever it takes to lasso her in. Fire Breathing Remy The night before Lennox’s wedding, a huge, red creature crashes to the ground and transforms into a hot, naked guy who swears she belongs to him. But it's too late to call off the wedding. Isn't it? Fire Breathing Armand “Angel of Death” is cursed. Everyone around her dies. Armand is willing to sacrifice eternal life if it means spending his last days with Angel. But if he dies, Angel will shoulder the blame. Fire Breathing Ovide When an accidentally-on-purpose claiming mark links Ovide and Margo for eternity, can they actually break down the walls they’ve constructed around their hearts enough to enjoy a future together? KEYWORDS: shifter romcom, paranormal romance, fantasy romance, comedy, humor, short, series, funny, alpha male, romance, seduction, spicy, werewolf, shifter, shapeshifter, pnr, shifter romance series, wolf shifter, bear shifter, dragon shifter, fated mates, paranormal romance with sex, steamy romance, paranormal romance books for adults, hot shifter romance, shifter romance series, instalove, ott, over the top
Download or read book The Thirsty Dragon written by Elizabeth Scully and published by . This book was released on 2024-08 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this Little Blossom Stories book, Little Dragon can't stop crying. But Mother Dragon is there to listen to what she needs. Uses decodable text and a repetition of sight words to increase readability. Focuses on the phonics skill of decoding r-controlled syllables. Original illustrations help guide readers through the story.
Download or read book Transnational Management written by Christopher A. Bartlett and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018-03 with total page 575 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Transnational Management offers a uniquely global focus on strategic development, organizational capabilities and management challenges.
Download or read book Around the World in Eighty Wines written by Mike Veseth and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2017-11-01 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inspired by Jules Verne’s classic adventure tale, celebrated editor-in-chief of The Wine Economist Mike Veseth takes his readers Around the World in Eighty Wines. The journey starts in London, Phileas Fogg’s home base, and follows Fogg’s itinerary to France and Italy before veering off in search of compelling wine stories in Syria, Georgia, and Lebanon. Every glass of wine tells a story, and so each of the eighty wines must tell an important tale. We head back across Northern Africa to Algeria, once the world’s leading wine exporter, before hopping across the sea to Spain and Portugal. We follow Portuguese trade routes to Madeira and then South Africa with a short detour to taste Kenya’s most famous Pinot Noir. Kenya? Pinot Noir? Really! The route loops around, visiting Bali, Thailand, and India before heading north to China to visit Shangri-La. Shangri-La? Does that even exist? It does, and there is wine there. Then it is off to Australia, with a detour in Tasmania, which is so cool that it is hot. The stars of the Southern Cross (and the title of a familiar song) guide us to New Zealand, Chile, and Argentina. We ride a wine train in California and rendezvous with Planet Riesling in Seattle before getting into fast cars for a race across North America, collecting more wine as we go. Pause for lunch in Virginia to honor Thomas Jefferson, then it’s time to jet back to London to tally our wines and see what we have learned. Why these particular places? What are the eighty wines and what do they reveal? And what is the surprise plot twist that guarantees a happy ending for every wine lover? Come with us on a journey of discovery that will inspire, inform, and entertain anyone who loves travel, adventure, or wine.
Download or read book 1 001 Voices on Climate Change written by Devi Lockwood and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2021-08-24 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Join journalist Devi Lockwood on this “monumental achievement” (Richard Moor, bestselling author of On Trails) as she bikes around the world collecting personal stories about how flood, fire, drought, and rising seas are changing communities. It’s official: apocalyptic climate predictions finally came true. Catastrophic wildfires, relentless hurricanes, melting permafrost, and coastal flooding have given us a taste of what some communities have already been living with for far too long. Yet, we don’t often hear the voices of the people most affected. Journalist Devi Lockwood set out to change that. In 1,001 Voices on Climate Change, Lockwood travels the world, often by bicycle, collecting first-person accounts of climate change. She frequently carried with her a simple carboard sign reading, “Tell me a story about climate change.” Over five years, covering twenty countries across six continents, Lockwood hears from indigenous elders and youth in Fiji and Tuvalu about drought and disappearing coastlines, attends the UN climate conference in Morocco, and bikes the length of New Zealand and Australia, interviewing the people she meets about retreating glaciers, contaminated rivers, and wildfires. She rides through Thailand, Laos, and Cambodia to listen to marionette puppeteers and novice Buddhist monks. From Denmark and Sweden to China, Turkey, the Canadian Artic, and the Peruvian Amazon, she finds that ordinary people sharing their stories foes far more to advance understanding and empathy than even the most alarming statistics and studies. This “luminous book” (Deborah Blum, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Poison Squad and The Poisoner’s Handbook) is a hopeful global listening tour for climate change, channeling the urgency of those who have already glimpsed the future to help us avoid the worst.
Download or read book India and China written by Rajiv Narayanan and published by Vij Books India Pvt Ltd. This book was released on 2020-06-18 with total page 409 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By the early 21st century with the rise of China economies of East Asia and India, the prognosis of a strong Asia showed promise. The Indo - Pacific Region (essentially Western Pacific and the Indian Ocean) deservedly came to be recognised as the new 'Centre of Gravity' in the evolving world economic order. Asian states have exhibited leadership in a range of significant areas, such as economics, diplomacy, military power, science & technology, innovation, and soft power thus adding traction to the notion of 'Asia Century' of shared prosperity and common destiny. Under this overarching geo-strategic environment, it is imperative that the two most populous and growing economic powers, India and China, move towards achieving consensus, co-operation and strategic trust rather than compete and contest. However, since the tumultuous border war of 1962, there exists a deep distrust of each other's motives across the Himalayan barriers. To achieve this India and China ought to share their perspectives on the key drivers of divergences and work towards mitigating the same to build strategic trust. This book seeks to assess the causes of strategic mistrust in Sino – India relations and recommend measures for building trust and improving bilateral relations. Towards that end, the ten divergences have been taken as individual chapters, with both Indian and Chinese scholars providing respective perspectives.
Download or read book Meltdown in Tibet written by Michael Buckley and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2014-11-11 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tibetans have experienced waves of genocide since the 1950s. Now they are facing ecocide. The Himalayan snowcaps are in meltdown mode, due to climate change—accelerated by a rain of black soot from massive burning of coal and other fuels in both China and India. The mighty rivers of Tibet are being dammed by Chinese engineering consortiums to feed the mainland's thirst for power, and the land is being relentlessly mined in search of minerals to feed China's industrial complex. On the drawing board are plans for a massive engineering project to divert water from Eastern Tibet to water-starved Northern China. Ruthless Chinese repression leaves Tibetans powerless to stop the reckless destruction of their sacred land, but they are not the only victims of this campaign: the nations downstream from Tibet rely heavily on rivers sourced in Tibet for water supply, and for rich silt used in agriculture. This destruction of the region's environment has been happening with little scrutiny until now. In Meltdown in Tibet, Michael Buckley turns the spotlight on the darkest side of China's emergence as a global super power.
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Download or read book The Culture of Fengshui in Korea written by Hong-key Yoon and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2006 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The term Fengshui, which literally means 'wind and water, ' is the ancient Chinese art of selecting an auspicious site to provide the most harmonious relationship between human and earth. The term is generally translated as "geomancy," and has had a deep and extensive impact on Korean, Chinese, and other East Asian cultures. Hong-key Yoon's book explores the nature of geomantic principles and the culture of practicing them in Korean cultural contexts. Yoon first examines the nature and historical background of geomancy, geomantic principles for auspicious sites (houses, graves, and cities) and provides an interpretation of geomantic principles as practiced in Korea. Yoon looks at geomancy's influence on cartography, religion and philosophy, and urban development in both Korea and China. Finally, Yoon debates the role of geomancy in the iconographical warfare between Japanese colonialism and Korean nationalism as it affected the cultural landscape of Kyongbok Palace in Seoul.
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Download or read book Environmental Entrepreneurship written by Laura E. Huggins and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2013-09-30 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this innovative book, Laura E. Huggins finds path breaking entrepreneurial solutions to difficult environmental challenges in some of the worldês poorest areas. The approaches entrepreneurs are taking to these challenges involve establishing
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