Dragons And Tigers

Author : Barbara A. Weightman
Publisher : Wiley Global Education
Page : 541 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2011-08-24
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781118139998

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Dragons and Tigers by Barbara A. Weightman Pdf

Dragons and Tigers: A Geography of South, East, and Southeast Asia, Third Edition is the only book that covers all three regions South Asia, East Asia, and Southeast Asia. It is the most comprehensive book on the market for a Geography of Asia course. It contains updated and additional maps covering distribution of religions, physical features, linguistic and religious pluralism in Southeast Asia, and more. Using a cross-disciplinary approach, the author discusses evolving physical and cultural landscapes. New to this edition is added content coverage on the impact of globalization, environmental issues, recent environmental disasters and their effects on the region, the recent global economic crisis, migration and urbanization, gender and child welfare issues, religious conflict, agribusiness and sustainability and new patterns of trade.

Author : Robert J. Antony,Jane Kate Leonard
Publisher : Cornell East Asia Series
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015052541821

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Dragons, Tigers, and Dogs by Robert J. Antony,Jane Kate Leonard Pdf

A dozen papers from the Workshop on Qing Management and the Bonds of Civil Community, 1600-1014, held in Cumberland Falls, Kentucky in October 1998 examine the strategies and institutions the Qing government used to solve practical problems and needs of a regionally diverse and culturally complex empire. Most of the contributing historians are American. Annotation (c)2003 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com).

Author : Douglas B. Fuller
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780198777205

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Paper Tigers, Hidden Dragons by Douglas B. Fuller Pdf

China presents us with a conundrum. How has a developing country with a spectacularly inefficient financial system, coupled with asset-destroying state-owned firms, managed to create a number of vibrant high-tech firms? China's domestic financial system fails most private firms by neglecting to give them sufficient support to pursue technological upgrading, even while smothering state-favoured firms by providing them with too much support. Due to their foreign financing, multinational corporations suffer from neither insufficient funds nor soft budget constraints, but they are insufficiently committed to China's development. Hybrid firms that combine ethnic Chinese management and foreign financing are the hidden dragons driving China's technological development. They avoid the maladies of China's domestic financial system while remaining committed to enhancing China's domestic technological capabilities. In sad contrast, China's domestic firms are technological paper tigers. State efforts to build local innovation clusters and create national champions have not managed to transform these firms into drivers of technological development. These findings upend fundamental debates about China's political economy. Rather than a choice between state capitalism and building domestic market institutions, China has fostered state capitalism even while tolerating the importing of foreign market institutions. While the book's findings suggest that China's state and domestic market institutions are ineffective, the hybrids promise an alternative way to avoid the middle-income trap. By documenting how variation in China's institutional terrain impacts technological development, the book also provides much needed nuance to widespread yet mutually irreconcilable claims that China is either an emerging innovation power or a technological backwater. Looking beyond China, hybrid-led development has implications for new alternative economic development models and new ways to conceptualize contemporary capitalism that go beyond current domestic institution-centric approaches.

Author : Lindsay Buroker
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2020-02-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1951367030

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Sinister Magic by Lindsay Buroker Pdf

A tough, snarky heroine and an aloof dragon shifter must work together to save Seattle in this new urban fantasy series.

Author : George R. Gardiner Museum of Ceramic Art. Macdonald Collection,Oliver R. Impey,C. J. A. Jörg,Charles Q. Mason
Publisher : Douglas & McIntyre
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : STANFORD:36105133169412

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Dragons, Tigers and Bamboo by George R. Gardiner Museum of Ceramic Art. Macdonald Collection,Oliver R. Impey,C. J. A. Jörg,Charles Q. Mason Pdf

Since the early seventeenth century when the secret of porcelain was first carried from China to Japan by Korean potters, Japan has produced some of the world's most exquisite porcelains. The Kakiemon masters in Arita on the island of Kyushu gained particular renown for the quality of their colourful overglaze enamels and artistic designs. Through exports Kakiemon ware had a profound impact on the development of European porcelain in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, inspiring ceramic manufacturers in both continental Europe and England to reach new levels of technical and artistic achievement. Dragons, Tigers and Bamboo highlights 170 masterpieces from the Bill and Molly Anne Macdonald Collection at the Gardiner Museum of Ceramic Art in Toronto, Canada. This extraordinary collection illustrates many different aspects of the historical interaction between Japanese and European porcelain during the seventeenth, eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. It is unquestionably the best cross-cultural porcelain collection in Canada and is among the best of its kind in the world. Illustrated with more than 160 full-colour photographs commissioned for this volume, Dragons, Tigers and Bamboo for the first time makes the Macdonald Collection accessible to an international audience.

Author : Colleen Houck
Publisher : Union Square & Co.
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2011-11-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781402784873

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Tiger's Voyage (Book 3 in the Tigers Curse Series) by Colleen Houck Pdf

The third book in the gripping Tigers Curse series! With the head-to-head battle against the villainous Lokesh behind her, Kelsey confronts a new heartbreak: in the wake of his traumatic experience, her beloved Ren no longer remembers who she is. As the trio continues their quest by challenging five cunning and duplicitous dragons, Ren and Kishan once more vie for her affections-leaving Kelsey more confused than ever. Fraught with danger, filled with magic, and packed with romance, Tigers Voyage brings Kelsey and her two tiger princes one step closer to breaking the curse.This fast-paced novel includes a sneak peek at Tigers Destiny (Book 4) and a smartphone Tag code on the back cover that links to the series website.

Author : Jim A Tompkins
Publisher : Tompkins Press
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2009-04
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781930426061

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Caught Between the Tiger and the Dragon by Jim A Tompkins Pdf

Caught Between the Tiger and the Dragon is a modern-day fable that cleverly brings to life the ups and downs of business interactions with China and being under the thumb of a private equity company. Rich Morrison, the new CEO of a lingerie manufacturing company, feels as if he's on a crazy, never-ending treadmill powered by a tightfisted overlord who thinks China holds the key to all riches and that financial forecasts can actually predict the future. From North Carolina to New York City and finally to China Rich navigates the stormy waters of today's global business world with his executive team and his wife, Melissa. Along the way, he learns what he really wants out of life and how to get it. A compassionate and intelligent leader, Rich also learns how the tigers of the Western world and the dragons of the Chinese world can come together by developing and cultivating Guanxi. It is no wonder that executives from large and medium-sized companies alike are calling Jim Tompkins' latest book 'a fun read that teaches us the realities of doing business with Asia.'

Author : Simone Marnier
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 158 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2000-10
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780595125753

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White Tiger, Green Dragon by Simone Marnier Pdf

White Tiger, Green Dragon follows the spiritual, erotic and psychic evolution of Tu Ming, a Taoist monk in Old China. Tu is apprenticed in sequence to five female adepts in the discipline known as the “dual cultivation,” a kind of tantra yoga in which sexual techniques replicate states of spiritual progress. This practice culminates in the creation of a spiritual embryo at the moment of enlightenment. The five masters who instruct Tu run the gamut of Chinese folklore characters, including the gentle pillow girl, Mei Cha, the doughty herb gatherer, Su Ba, and Lekshe Tsogyel, an acrobatic aristocrat from Tibet. Tu advances not only in his practice, but also in his understanding of life and love as he falls under the spell of five unforgettable women unequaled in religious literature. In the exciting conclusion, he experiences an epiphany that redefines what it means to attain the highest knowledge.

Author : Peter Kuhn,Dominique Brizin,Florian Hartnack,Peter Jentzen,Carolin Kraft,Thomas Leffler,Sebastian Liebl,Eric Mbarga,Martin Joh Meyer,Petra Schmidt
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 3948378126

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Dragon and Tiger by Peter Kuhn,Dominique Brizin,Florian Hartnack,Peter Jentzen,Carolin Kraft,Thomas Leffler,Sebastian Liebl,Eric Mbarga,Martin Joh Meyer,Petra Schmidt Pdf

Author : Julie Lawson
Publisher : Dundurn
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2016-12-17
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781459737563

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White Jade Tiger by Julie Lawson Pdf

On a trip to Chinatown in Victoria, British Columbia, thirteen-year-old Jasmine falls through a doorway back to the 1880s, and finds herself in caught up in a scramble for a lost amulet — and a race against time. Will she ever make it back home?

Author : Zhixin Lin
Publisher : Zhixin Lin
Page : 749 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2024-07-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Martial Arts Collection: Dragon Tiger Meeting in the Capital by Zhixin Lin Pdf

Author : Ruth Stiles Gannett
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2014-01-15
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780486492834

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My Father's Dragon by Ruth Stiles Gannett Pdf

A young boy runs away from home to rescue an abused baby dragon held captive to serve as a free twenty-four hour, seven-days-a-week ferry for the lazy wild animals living on Wild Island.

Author : Jon Alan
Publisher : Gray Duck Creative Works
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2018-10-23
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781948052559

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Lion vs. Tiger by Jon Alan Pdf

It’s fight time for the lion and the tiger! One animal is The King of Beasts, and the other animal is The Stealthy Slayer. Both fighters show bursts of speed. But which one will be crowned champion of the Big Cat Brawl?

Author : Huiling Wang
Publisher : Newmarket Press
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2000-12-04
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : UOM:39015051306705

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Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon by Huiling Wang Pdf

Commentaries about the making of the film accompany the complete screenplay of the martial arts drama set in ancient China.

Author : Laurence Yep
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2021-02-02
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780063056510

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The Tiger's Apprentice by Laurence Yep Pdf

Soon to be an animated movie! Don’t miss this middle grade fantasy adventure about a boy, a magical tiger, an outlaw dragon, and a mischievous monkey who carry the fate of the world on their shoulders. From two-time Newbery Honor-winning author Laurence Yep (Dragonwings, Dragon’s Gate), now with an all-new cover and introduction! Tom Lee’s life changes forever the day he meets a talking tiger named Mr. Hu and discovers that he has magical powers and great responsibilities that he never imagined. Despite his doubts and fears, Tom joins Mr. Hu’s ragtag band of creatures in their fight to keep an ancient talisman out of the hands of the worst possible enemy. This action-packed fantasy from two-time Newbery Honor-winning author Laurence Yep reveals a hidden world within our own where animals take human form, where friendship is the final weapon in the battle between good and evil, and where a young boy is responsible for saving the world he knows . . . and the one he is just discovering. This updated edition includes an all-new introduction by Laurence Yep!