Download or read book The Hungry Dragon written by Sigfrido Burgos Caceres and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores China’s quest for energy sources, raw materials and natural resources around the world, with a specific emphasis on oil. China’s ubiquitous presence in Africa, Asia and Latin America is reshaping the world with regards to economics, politics and national security. It offers a comprehensive examination of China’s energy security strategy. The first two chapters delve into Chinese relations with energy markets and the world, and the global geopolitics of China's resource quest. This introductory section is complemented by three in-depth country case studies: Angola, Brazil and Cambodia. The two concluding chapters cover opportunities and risks to China, and examine how strategies can be developed into tangible actions. The volume also examines a number of overlapping debates regarding the varieties of capitalisms (autocratic vs. democratic), the urgent need for rebalancing as the world undergoes global financial crises and contestations to traditional powers, and the issues surrounding natural resource extraction in the context of global governance, neoliberalism and poverty traps. Key Features · Offers an in-depth analysis on the geopolitics of China's resource quest. · Assists students and scholars in understanding the Chinese model of autocratic capitalism and China’s novel ways of securing resources across three continents. · Explains China’s energy security strategy and its implications on US national security. · Explores the links between international relations and the geopolitics of scarcity.

Download or read book Oscar and the Very Hungry Dragon written by Ute Krause and published by NorthSouth Books. This book was released on 2015-10-01 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It was time to feed the dragon a princess. But since no princess was available, the next best thing was to give him a child. All the children wrote their names on pieces of paper and put them in a hat. Then a name was pulled from the hat: Oscar! Oscar’s mom wept bitterly—what mother wouldn’t? But she should have known Oscar was far too clever to get eaten by an old dragon!

Download or read book Dragon Bound written by Thea Harrison and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2011-05-03 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE FIRST NOVEL IN THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING ELDER RACES SERIES! Half-human and half-wyr, Pia Giovanni spent her life keeping a low profile among the wyrkind and avoiding the continuing conflict between them and their Dark Fae enemies. But after being blackmailed into stealing a coin from the hoard of a dragon, Pia finds herself targeted by one of the most powerful—and passionate—of the Elder races. As the most feared and respected of the wyrkind, Dragos Cuelebre cannot believe someone had the audacity to steal from him, much less succeed. And when he catches the thief, Dragos spares her life, claiming her as his own to further explore the desire they’ve ignited in each other. Pia knows she must repay Dragos for her trespass, but refuses to become his slave—although she cannot deny wanting him, body and soul...

Download or read book This Hungry Dragon written by Heath McKenzie and published by Scholastic Press. This book was released on 2016-05-01 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This hungry dragon is ready for a yummy meal. He eats and eats and eats-and eats! Soon, he's as big as a house! Can anything fill this greedy gobbler's guts?

Download or read book The Very Hungry Dragon written by Nathan Miles and published by . This book was released on 2020-06 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written by a six-year-old, "The Very Hungry Dragon" is a cute, vividly illustrated story about a group of goats and a dragon that keeps stealing all their food. A captivating tale, showcasing a child's imagination, "The Very Hungry Dragon" is a book that your child(ren) will want to read over and over. Synopsis: A playful dragon steals food from a group of goats. The goats continuously try to get away from the dragon, even moving to the bottom of a lake, but the dragon always finds them. Finally, the goats take a rocket to Mars where they live happily with a group of alien goats.

Download or read book My Vampire written by TJ Bell and published by Tami Lund. This book was released on 2023-09-17 with total page 79 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kiara Jackson has made a lucrative career out of giving her blood to vampires for a profit. Problem is, she hasn’t taken any time off in more than five years. When she mentions this to her favorite client, Amare Conrad, he suggests they vacation together at a nearby resort—as friends. No business expectations. No blood. Just relaxing and doing whatever she wants to do. But what if she wants to be more than just friends?

Download or read book There s No Such Thing as a Dragon written by Jack Kent and published by Golden Books. This book was released on 2001 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Billy Bixbee's mother won't admit that dragons exist until it is nearly too late.

Download or read book Taming the Dragon written by Tami Lund and published by Tami Lund. This book was released on 2024-11-21 with total page 511 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dragons need love too… sometimes they’re just too stubborn to admit it. Luckily, it’s true what they say about love: it really does conquer all. Eventually. This box set contains: Taming the Dragon, in which Gabe is a reluctant dragon leader who just found out he has a kid. And wait a minute—his dragon thinks his PR manager is his mate? Yeah, that’s not happenin’… Hungry Like a Dragon, in which dragon shifters Petra and Noah have a baby and an intense attraction, but no relationship. They’re going to have to figure all this out…right after they save their infant daughter from kidnappers. Dragon in Denial, in which Ketu Ormarr’s job is to take down the drug trade that’s plaguing his dragon colony. That’s it. He definitely doesn’t need to know that his sister’s BFF is his fated mate. This series contains dragons, witches, gargoyles, steam, action, and a hearty dose of humor. You have been warned. Taming the Dragon series, in its entirety: Dragon His Heels Hungry Like a Dragon Dragon in Denial Bewitching the Dragon Let Go My Gargoyle

Download or read book The Demon You Love written by Tami Lund and published by Tami Lund. This book was released on 2022-03-09 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Clarissa Andrews is a witch. And yes, her ex-boyfriend is a demon. A desperately gorgeous, great in bed, mischievous, infuriating demon she thought she’d never see again. Now Drek’s back in her life. And he wants her to send him to Hell. Which would solve her problems, because he’d never be able to get back out again. Except she kind of, possibly, maybe might not want to never see him again. Nobody said relationships weren’t complicated.

Download or read book Rhythm of the Warrior written by TJ Bell and published by Tami Lund LLC. This book was released on 2024-06-14 with total page 103 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Welcome back to the kingdom of Faerell, land of fae and wolves. Pippa and Conan have been Warrior partners for decades. A faery and a wolf, bonded, the way it was supposed to be. Until she left to protect her kingdom. Their kingdom. She expected him to go with her. He didn’t. She thought their bond was stronger than his natural instincts. She was wrong. Or was she? Rhythm of the Warrior is a novella; a quick jaunt meant to sate your hunger for more of Faerell, the land of fae and wolves, while the author works on the next book, A Perfect Enemy, which will bring even more intrigue and danger and steam to this fantastical world. Faerell series, in reading order: Once Rejected, Twice Shy Every Rejection You Make Hard to Reject Rhythm of the Warrior A Perfect Enemy ~ coming soon

Download or read book Eternity written by Tami Lund and published by Tami Lund. This book was released on 2018-11-06 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I wanted to find myself, so I joined the shadowy vampire world of Blood Courtesans, where blood and sex are money and humans are sold to the highest bidder. Instead, I found love. And then he cut me loose. So I ran away to Jamaica to forget him. My name is Abby, and now I’ve stumbled into a world far, far worse than the Blood Courtesan circuit. The only one who can save me is the one who swore he loved me too much to keep me. Welcome to the Blood Courtesans Series, where vampires are real, rich, powerful—and hungry. Blood is bought and sold like fine wine, and the best blood goes to the highest bidder. It's not supposed to be about love...until it is. ETERNITY is Abby’s story and is the sequel to RESIST, her sister Anya’s story, which can be purchased at your favorite ebook retailer.

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 Every Rejection You Make written by TJ Bell and published by Tami Lund LLC. This book was released on 2023-07-11 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Betrayed by another and assigned to bond with a wolf she doesn’t even like… In Faerell, the land of fae and wolves, to be a true Warrior, one must bond with another. A wolf and a faery. It has been that way since the beginning of time. Tessa, a faery, was betrayed by her Warrior partner and wants nothing more than to hide in the forest and tend to her wounded pride. The queen has other ideas. She assigns Tessa to work with Rollo, a once-rogue wolf who has never bonded with a faery in all of his hundreds of years of existence. Now, the two of them are tasked with guarding the queen’s most dangerous prisoner. While they see to that important task, Rollo insists they can figure out how to bond as Warriors. Tessa isn’t interested. She just wants to do her job and avoid the demons from her past. She is also worried about this attraction brewing between the two of them. Because that is not the sort of bond they should be forming. This book contains a freshly appointed queen who is still finding her way in a new-to-her world, bad guys lurking in the shadows, a strong heroine, a snarky anti-hero, an undeniable attraction… and it all happens in a world parallel to ours, one few know even exists. Faerell series, in reading order: Once Rejected, Twice Shy Every Rejection You Make Hard to Reject ~ coming soon

Download or read book Lyall written by Tami Lund and published by Tami Lund. This book was released on 2020-09-22 with total page 125 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Welcome to Dark Moon Falls…where everything is not as it seems. There are secrets, shifters, romance, villains, and so much more… She’s back. His high school sweetheart. The love of his life. The woman he let go because she needed to find herself. Looks like she found herself back in Dark Moon Falls. She also found herself an enemy. And even though Lyall swore he was through chasing someone who didn’t want to be caught, he sure as hell was going to protect her from danger. He’d figure out how to protect his heart later. When she left town again. Lyall is a stand-alone novella set within the Dark Moon Falls world. All stories can be read on their own, however, I recommend reading these three in this order: Lyall Benjamin Anthony

Download or read book Bear It All written by TJ Bell and published by Tami Lund LLC. This book was released on 2024-04-16 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Four years ago, bear shifter Remy Ibhere found his fated mate. Four years ago, he was forced to let her go. His bear has never forgiven him. Now his bear refuses to stay away any longer, so Remy devises a plan to conquer the demons from her past in order to win her over. When his plan is unexpectedly thwarted, suddenly, Remy and Mallory are charging across country in a race against time, against their enemy—and her past demons. When they make it to their destination, will Mallory walk away again? Will Remy let her this time? This book contains bear shifters, found family, fated mates, and a second chance at love. While it can be read as a stand-alone, it is the companion novella to Bear With Me, which takes place four years prior. You guessed it…when Remy and Mallory first met.

Download or read book Once Rejected Twice Shy written by TJ Bell and published by Tami Lund LLC. This book was released on 2023-02-21 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two weeks ago this faery princess in disguise thought hitting middle age was the worst of her problems… On her fortieth birthday, Faith Calhoun serves divorce papers to her cheating ex and then heads to her favorite hole-in-the-wall bar to hang out with her favorite hot bartender. Who takes her home and shows her what she’s been missing for all those years she was married to that chump. He also unleashes her magic. Magic she didn’t know she possessed. Because Faith thought she was human. Not a faery. ’Xcuse me, faery princess. And now that her magic has been freed, her enemies have discovered her previously hidden location. With the bartender—who is really a wolf shifter warrior—by her side, Faith must learn how to wield her magic so she can cross through a magical veil into a world she didn’t know existed. So she can conquer her enemies and claim her crown. No sweat…right? This is the first book in the Faerell fantasy romance series. This series is best enjoyed when read in order: Once Rejected, Twice Shy Every Rejection You Make Hard to Reject A Perfect Enemy ~ Coming soon!

Download or read book Demigods the Trilogy written by TJ Bell and published by Tami Lund LLC. This book was released on 2023-03-24 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Searching for your next favorite Why Choose Romance? Look no further! Demigods the Trilogy has everything you never knew you were looking for. A bada$$ heroine. Three hot and very different mates. Demigod heroes. Full-blooded and not-very-nice gods. Plenty of action. Lots and lots and lots of steam. Happily ever after guaranteed.... for our heroine and all three of her guys. Because, why choose? This box set includes the following books: Justice and Her League Justice Loses Her League In League With Justice