Author : David W. Wang
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2009-07
Category : China
ISBN : 1592321739
Decoding the Dragon¿s Mindset
David W. Wang
Decoding The Dragon S Mindset
Decoding The Dragon S Mindset Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle version is available to download in english. Read online anytime anywhere directly from your device. Click on the download button below to get a free pdf file of Decoding The Dragon S Mindset book. This book definitely worth reading, it is an incredibly well-written.
Talking with the New Dragons
Melville Petrie
Author : Melville Petrie
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 138 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Business enterprises
ISBN : UCSD:31822035166016
Talking with the New Dragons by Melville Petrie Pdf
With this pocket-size volume, written by an acknowledged China expert, the business traveller can cut through millennia of culture and understand what is going on. Deals will be reached faster and negotiations clarified. Immensely readable and relevant, this thought-provoking book takes a structured view of China as it leads the way into the 21st Century economy. Melville Petrie dissects crucial history and distils the relevance for busy executives, who will then quickly come to grips with the way the Chinese think and how they react. Quick reference charts and photographs of important business skills for China support the text. This important book is essential reading for anyone travelling to China on business for the first time, and seasoned China hands will also find it very useful. It will not only save time, but business readers will understand things far better than they could have dreamt.
Keeper of the Lost Cities
Shannon Messenger
Author : Shannon Messenger
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2012-10-02
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781442445932
Keeper of the Lost Cities by Shannon Messenger Pdf
At age 12, Sophie learns that the remarkable abilities that have always caused her to stand out identify her as an elf. After being brought to Eternalia to hone her skills, she discovers that she has secrets buried in her memory for which some would kill.
Dragonswood
Janet Lee Carey
Author : Janet Lee Carey
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2012-01-05
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9781101559680
Dragonswood by Janet Lee Carey Pdf
On Wilde Island, there is no peace between dragons, fairies, and humans. Wilde Island is in an uproar over the recent death of its king. As the uneasy pact between dragons, fairies, and humans begins to fray, the royal witch hunter with a hidden agenda begins a vengeful quest to burn girls suspected of witchcraft before a new king is crowned.. Strong-willed Tess, a blacksmith’s daughter from a tiny hamlet, wants more for herself than a husband and a house to keep. But in times like these wanting more can be dangerous. Accused of witchery, Tess and her two friends are forced to flee the violent witch hunter. As their pursuer draws ever closer they find shelter with a huntsman in the outskirts of the forbidden Dragonswood sanctuary. But staying with the mysterious huntsman poses risks of its own: Tess does not know how to handle the attraction she feels for him—or resist the elusive call that draws her deeper onto the heart of Dragonswood.
A Genius for Confusion
Richard M. Fried
Author : Richard M. Fried
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 435 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2022-10-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781538145784
A Genius for Confusion by Richard M. Fried Pdf
This new biography of Joseph R. McCarthy shows how the Wisconsin Senator’s campaign against American Communists prized sensation above truth. McCarthy often put aside his hunt for Reds while he pursued his anti-communist critics. He fought foes not just with noisy accusations but with covert gossip. He was gullible enough that some con artists managed to lure him on wild goose chases. The man who charged others with being “dupes” was sometimes one himself. Historian Fried’s book builds on over a decade’s research in a multitude of sources, many of them newly opened—not just McCarthy’s own papers but those of forty-seven Senate colleagues, plus records of journalists, observers, and activists. It brings to light such theatrical episodes as a CIA “op” against McCarthy as well as Joe’s quixotic search for Soviet security chief Lavrenti Beria in Spain. The resulting multi-focal perspective on the political and institutional setting in which McCarthy operated with such abandon is full of drama.
Gamification in the RhetComp Curriculum
Christopher McGunnigle
Author : Christopher McGunnigle
Publisher : Vernon Press
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2023-01-17
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781648896101
Gamification in the RhetComp Curriculum by Christopher McGunnigle Pdf
Gamification is an up and coming popular trend in all levels and types of education, including public and private schools, higher education, the military, the private sector, and elsewhere. Gamification introduces aspects of game design like teamwork, competition, rewards and prizes, storytelling, and more into lesson plan units. In many cases, actual games, whether it be Scrabble, Hangman, Candy Crush, Dungeons & Dragons, and many others, are adapted into educational tools. This chapter collection will specifically look at the use of gamification techniques in Freshmen Writing courses and related Composition, Writing and Rhetoric classes. Each chapter will provide sample gamified lessons supported by relevant scholarship in both Gamification Theory and Writing Studies.
Article 5
Kristen Simmons
Author : Kristen Simmons
Publisher : Tor Teen
Page : 365 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2012-01-31
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9781429987738
Article 5 by Kristen Simmons Pdf
New York, Los Angeles, and Washington, D.C., have been abandoned. The Bill of Rights has been revoked, and replaced with the Moral Statutes. There are no more police—instead, there are soldiers. There are no more fines for bad behavior—instead, there are arrests, trials, and maybe worse. People who get arrested usually don't come back. Seventeen-year-old Ember Miller is old enough to remember that things weren't always this way. Living with her rebellious single mother, it's hard for her to forget that people weren't always arrested for reading the wrong books or staying out after dark. It's hard to forget that life in the United States used to be different. Ember has perfected the art of keeping a low profile. She knows how to get the things she needs, like food stamps and hand-me-down clothes, and how to pass the random home inspections by the military. Her life is as close to peaceful as circumstances allow. That is, until her mother is arrested for noncompliance with Article 5 of the Moral Statutes. And one of the arresting officers is none other than Chase Jennings...the only boy Ember has ever loved. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
The Wastes of Keldora
Alex Raizman
Author : Alex Raizman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2020-08-10
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798672823638
The Wastes of Keldora by Alex Raizman Pdf
After one too many failed inventions, Julian has hit rock bottom.Summoned to another world where gods and monsters roam, Julian continues his streak of bad luck. Rather than touching the Godcore directly, he let his smartphone absorb it. Now, he's got to figure out how to make the Godcore and his phone work together to help the people who summoned him survive their upcoming annihilation by the mad God of Chains. He's going to have to innovate his way out of his bad luck. Good thing Julian has a plan - he's going to build a factory in a medieval world.
Life as We Knew it
Susan Beth Pfeffer
Author : Susan Beth Pfeffer
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9780152061548
Life as We Knew it by Susan Beth Pfeffer Pdf
I guess I always felt even if the world came to an end, McDonald's still would be open. High school sophomore Miranda's disbelief turns to fear in a split second when an asteroid knocks the moon closer to Earth, like "one marble hits another." The result is catastrophic. How can her family prepare for the future when worldwide tsunamis are wiping out the coasts, earthquakes are rocking the continents, and volcanic ash is blocking out the sun? As August turns dark and wintery in northeastern Pennsylvania, Miranda, her two brothers, and their mother retreat to the unexpected safe haven of their sunroom, where they subsist on stockpiled food and limited water in the warmth of a wood-burning stove. Told in a year's worth of journal entries, this heart-pounding story chronicles Miranda's struggle to hold on to the most important resource of all--hope--in an increasingly desperate and unfamiliar world. An extraordinary series debut Susan Beth Pfeffer has written several companion novels to Life As We Knew It, including The Dead and the Gone, This World We Live In, and The Shade of the Moon.
Sisters Red
Jackson Pearce
Author : Jackson Pearce
Publisher : Hachette Children's
Page : 189 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2011-04-07
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781444902235
Sisters Red by Jackson Pearce Pdf
The story of Scarlett and Rosie March, two highly-skilled sisters who have been hunting Fenris (werewolves) - who prey on teen girls - since Scarlett lost her eye years ago while defending Rosie in an attack. Scarlett lives to destroy the Fenris, and she and Rosie lure them in with red cloaks (a colour the wolves can't resist), though Rosie hunts more out of debt to her sister than drive. But things seem to be changing. The wolves are getting stronger and harder to fight, and there has been a rash of news reports about countless teenage girls being brutally murdered in the city. Scarlett and Rosie soon discover the truth: wolves are banding together in search of a Potential Fenris - a man tainted by the pack but not yet fully changed. Desperate to find the Potential to use him as bait for a massive werewolf extermination, the sisters move to the city with Silas, a young woodsman and long time family friend who is deadly with an axe. Meanwhile, Rosie finds herself drawn to Silas and the bond they share not only drives the sisters apart, but could destroy all they've worked for.
Re-Designing Learning Contexts
Rosemary Luckin
Author : Rosemary Luckin
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2010-04-12
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781136992773
Re-Designing Learning Contexts by Rosemary Luckin Pdf
What do we mean by the word ‘context’ in education and how does our context influence the way that we learn? What role can technology play in enhancing learning and what is the future of technology within learning? Re-Designing Learning Contexts seeks to re-dress the lack of attention that has traditionally been paid to a learner’s wider context and proposes a model to help educators and technologists develop more productive learning contexts. It defines context as the interactions between the learner and a set of inter-related resource elements that are not tied to a physical or virtual location. Context is something that belongs to an individual and that is created through their interactions in the world. Based on original, empirical research, the book considers the intersection between learning, context and technology, and explores: the meaning of the concept of context and it’s relationship to learning the ways in which different types of technology can scaffold learning in context the Learner-Centric ‘Ecology of Resources’ model of context as a framework for designing technology-rich learning environments the importance of matching available resources to each learner’s particular needs the ways in which the learner’s environment and the technologies available might change over the coming years the potential impact of recent technological developments within computer science and artificial intelligence. This interdisciplinary study draws on a range of disciplines, including geography, anthropology, psychology, education and computing, to investigate the dynamics and potential of teacher-learner interaction within a learning continuum, and across a variety of locations. It will be of interest to those teaching, researching and thinking about the use of technology in learning and pedagogy, as well as those involved in developing technology for education and those who use it in their own teaching. For practical examples of the way the Ecology of Resources framework has been used visit: http://eorframework.pbworks.com.
Script Effects as the Hidden Drive of the Mind, Cognition, and Culture
Hye K. Pae
Author : Hye K. Pae
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2020-10-14
Category : Education
ISBN : 9783030551520
Script Effects as the Hidden Drive of the Mind, Cognition, and Culture by Hye K. Pae Pdf
This open access volume reveals the hidden power of the script we read in and how it shapes and drives our minds, ways of thinking, and cultures. Expanding on the Linguistic Relativity Hypothesis (i.e., the idea that language affects the way we think), this volume proposes the “Script Relativity Hypothesis” (i.e., the idea that the script in which we read affects the way we think) by offering a unique perspective on the effect of script (alphabets, morphosyllabaries, or multi-scripts) on our attention, perception, and problem-solving. Once we become literate, fundamental changes occur in our brain circuitry to accommodate the new demand for resources. The powerful effects of literacy have been demonstrated by research on literate versus illiterate individuals, as well as cross-scriptal transfer, indicating that literate brain networks function differently, depending on the script being read. This book identifies the locus of differences between the Chinese, Japanese, and Koreans, and between the East and the West, as the neural underpinnings of literacy. To support the “Script Relativity Hypothesis”, it reviews a vast corpus of empirical studies, including anthropological accounts of human civilization, social psychology, cognitive psychology, neuropsychology, applied linguistics, second language studies, and cross-cultural communication. It also discusses the impact of reading from screens in the digital age, as well as the impact of bi-script or multi-script use, which is a growing trend around the globe. As a result, our minds, ways of thinking, and cultures are now growing closer together, not farther apart.
The Third Door
Alex Banayan
Author : Alex Banayan
Publisher : Crown Currency
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2018-06-05
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780804136679
The Third Door by Alex Banayan Pdf
FORBES #1 CAREER BOOK TO READ IN 2018 The larger-than-life journey of an 18-year-old college freshman who set out from his dorm room to track down Bill Gates, Lady Gaga, and dozens more of the world’s most successful people to uncover how they broke through and launched their careers. The Third Door takes readers on an unprecedented adventure—from hacking Warren Buffett’s shareholders meeting to chasing Larry King through a grocery store to celebrating in a nightclub with Lady Gaga—as Alex Banayan travels from icon to icon, decoding their success. After remarkable one-on-one interviews with Bill Gates, Maya Angelou, Steve Wozniak, Jane Goodall, Larry King, Jessica Alba, Pitbull, Tim Ferriss, Quincy Jones, and many more, Alex discovered the one key they have in common: they all took the Third Door. Life, business, success… it’s just like a nightclub. There are always three ways in. There’s the First Door: the main entrance, where ninety-nine percent of people wait in line, hoping to get in. The Second Door: the VIP entrance, where the billionaires and celebrities slip through. But what no one tells you is that there is always, always… the Third Door. It’s the entrance where you have to jump out of line, run down the alley, bang on the door a hundred times, climb over the dumpster, crack open the window, sneak through the kitchen—there’s always a way in. Whether it’s how Bill Gates sold his first piece of software or how Steven Spielberg became the youngest studio director in Hollywood history, they all took the Third Door.
Living in Flow
Sky Nelson-Isaacs
Author : Sky Nelson-Isaacs
Publisher : North Atlantic Books
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2019-02-19
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9781623173128
Living in Flow by Sky Nelson-Isaacs Pdf
Go beyond simplified self-help practices to harness the scientific principles of synchronicity and flow—so you can live better, work smarter, and find purpose in your life. When we align with circumstance, circumstance aligns with us. Using a cutting-edge scientific theory of synchronicity, Sky Nelson-Isaacs presents a model for living “in the flow”—a state of optimal functioning, creative thinking, and seemingly effortless productivity. Nelson-Isaacs explains how our choices create meaning, translating current and original ideas from theoretical physics and quantum mechanics into accessible, actionable steps that we can all take to live lives in better alignment with who we are and who we want to be. By turns encouraging and empowering, Living in Flow helps us develop an informed relationship to meaning-making and purposefulness in our lives. From this we can align ourselves more effectively within our personal, professional, and community relationships to live more in flow.
Allegiant
Sara Mack
Author : Sara Mack
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2013-10-04
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1491266236
Allegiant by Sara Mack Pdf
** Allegiant by Sara Mack is the second novel in The Guardian Trilogy. It is not affiliated with the Divergent series by Veronica Roth. **Last summer, Emma discovered that true love never dies.It can return.It can give you hope.It can pull you from darkness.Until it's ripped from you.Again.As her 22nd birthday approaches, Emma Donohue finds herself back at school and utterly alone. Hours away from family and friends, her solitary days are spent contemplating what never should have been. James should never have died, but he did. He should never have been assigned as her Guardian, but he was. And she should never have allowed Dane to get too close to her heart.But she failed.Desperate to fill her time, Emma is intrigued by her mysterious new neighbor, Garrett. She's never met anyone quite like him before, and, curious, she attempts to discover his past. Little does she know his presence will pull her into a world she could never imagine. A world that follows an ancient doctrine. A world built on loyalty, yet plagued by secrets and lies.A world that will threaten everything - and everyone - she loves.Allegiant is a new adult/college paranormal romance containing moderate language/mild innuendo.Allegiant is the second story in The Guardian Trilogy. The third novel, Reborn, is complete and due to be published in February 2014.