Worldwide business leaders who try to comprehend China’s unavoidable impact on their livelihoods often ignore the most important voices: those of expatriate managers with years of experience in the country. Based on interviews with China-based corporate executives over five years, Dragon Suit brings to life the country’s swarming cities, recent economic tsunami, unstoppable middle class, endemic pollution, intermittent internet, confusing culture, and endless opportunities. This book is a rare insight into the way global firms select, relocate, manage, motivate, and reward top managers in the world’s most populous market. CEOs, C-suite executives, and senior managers recall their careers since China’s early 2000s reform period until a notable 2014 policy paper declared “the end of a golden age for foreign business in China”, and beyond to the present day. Dragon Suit addresses crucial questions for international business: How did China become a key market for global firms? Why are most foreign managers unprepared for its challenges? Why did the country’s near-million foreigners begin to leave in the mid-2010s, and who will replace them? Most importantly, how can managers, entrepreneurs, experts, and students prepare for an increasingly China-facing future in business?

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.

Sally Gardner's whimsical tale about the daughter of a mermaid and an ice cream maker, a mysterious talking tiger, and a search for a sea dragon's magical underwater orchard, is now available in paperback and printed in a dyslexia-friendly font. From a magical world of well-dressed animals, talking toads, and bossy princesses comes a fresh tale of Mr. Tiger, Betsy K. Glory, and a wicked pirate in search of golden apples. A rare egg has gone missing and a very unhappy sea dragon wants it back. It's time for Mr. Tiger, Betsy, and the Gongalongs to set sail on their second adventure.

Play as young Nick Ramos, a mechanic with a strange tattoo and a mysterious past, and help him escape a city full of bloodthirsty zombies. Stunning maps of Los Perdidos reveal all the necessary items to ensure Nick's survival. Plus, game-tested strategies and tactics will prove vital against the raging zombie infestation. Get all this and more from the official strategy guide!

From Penn Jillette of the legendary magic duo Penn & Teller: a rollicking crime caper that will bend your mind like a spoon. "Penn Jillette is an atheist, triple-goddamned lunatic, and his book is a glorious Las Vegas lunatic paean to chance and adventure—a page-turning, scabrous, hilarious ride into randomness." —Neil Gaiman "Jillette's latest novel, Random, is about a young man who inherits his father's crushing debt to a loan shark and turns to dice—and other dangerous measures—to dig himself out. That the dice bring him luck sends him a new philosophy of leaving decisions both big and small up to chance." —New York Times Two weeks before his twenty-first birthday, Las Vegas native Bobby Ingersoll finds out he’s inherited a crushing gambling debt from his scumbag father. The debt is owed to an even scummier bag named Fraser Ruphart who oversees his bottom-rung criminal empire from the classy-adjacent Trump International Hotel. Bobby’s prospects of paying off the note, which comes due the day he turns twenty-one, are about as dim as the sign on the hotel’s facade. The two weeks pass in the blink of a (snake) eye, but before Bobby’s luck runs out, he stumbles upon enough cash to pay off Ruphart and change his family’s fortune. More importantly, he finds himself with a new, for lack of a better word, faith. Bobby does not consign his big break to a “higher power”—what Penn Jillette hero ever could? Instead, he devises and devotes himself to Random, a philosophy where his life choices are based entirely on the roll of his “lucky” dice. What follows is a rollicking exploration into not so much what defines us as what divines us when we give over every decision—from what to eat to whom to marry to how or when to die—to the random fall of two numbered cubes. Random combines the intellectual curiosity of Richard Dawkins with the humor and grit of an Elmore Leonard antihero. Jillette’s up-on-his-luck Ingersoll is the character we need to help us navigate the chaos of the post-truth era. Well, unless his roll runs cold.

Follow three sexy dragons as they find their mates in swoon-worthy romances! Rage What’s a mercenary dragon to do when he meets a woman who makes his body surge with an energy he’s never felt before? Drake’s part of an elite group of dragon mercenaries. He’s a dragon for hire. Tara’s a senator’s daughter who’s been kidnapped and is being kept underground. Until a dragon shows up to rescue her. A dragon! Soon, one dragon turns into a baker’s dozen of dragons. And they’re living in a secret compound that’s more like a luxury hotel on the inside. Then, one fight breaks out in the cafeteria and Tara learns she’s so much more than a kidnap victim. And it’s somehow tied into Drake, a guy that’s beyond hot. Fury What’s a mercenary dragon to do when he meets a woman who has bruises and cuts on her face instead of joy and happiness? Braxim’s part of an elite group of dragon mercenaries. He’s a dragon for hire. Renee’s a waitress at a local diner in Charlotte. She wants to leave her abusive boyfriend Freddie, but it’s not as easy as it seems. Sure, Braxim can save her from Freddie, then what? He’s a dragon. They’re supposed to stay private and secret. Where can he take her when he’s expected to report back at the compound. Can’t take her there and risk pissing off Xedron, can he? Or can he? Rush Xedron broke a rule and now it’s cost him. He’s the prisoner of a madman scientist who wants his dragon blood for nefarious reasons. Sadly, none of Xedron’s brothers know where he is. Cody’s just recently met the man who fathered her. Fletcher’s finally a part of her life. It’s especially bittersweet now that her mother’s dying of cancer. Cody’s not normally a nosy sort, so she can’t explain why she’s gone poking around in Fletcher’s basement. What she didn’t expect to find is a hot guy in a cage. Fletcher tells her he’s a serial killer but something doesn’t seem quite right about her recently-found father’s explanation. Who is this gorgeous hunk? Why is he her father’s captive? Rage What’s a mercenary dragon to do when he meets a woman who makes his body surge with an energy he’s never felt before? Drake’s part of an elite group of dragon mercenaries. He’s a dragon for hire. Tara’s a senator’s daughter who’s been kidnapped and is being kept underground. Until a dragon shows up to rescue her. A dragon! Soon, one dragon turns into a baker’s dozen of dragons. And they’re living in a secret compound that’s more like a luxury hotel on the inside. Then, one fight breaks out in the cafeteria and Tara learns she’s so much more than a kidnap victim. And it’s somehow tied into Drake, a guy that’s beyond hot. Fury What’s a mercenary dragon to do when he meets a woman who has bruises and cuts on her face instead of joy and happiness? Braxim’s part of an elite group of dragon mercenaries. He’s a dragon for hire. Renee’s a waitress at a local diner in Charlotte. She wants to leave her abusive boyfriend Freddie, but it’s not as easy as it seems. Sure Braxim can save her from Freddie, then what? He’s a dragon. They’re supposed to stay private and secret. Where can he take her when he’s expected to report back at the compound. Can’t take her there and risk pissing off Xedron, can he? Or can he? Rush Xedron broke a rule and now it’s cost him. He’s the prisoner of a madman scientist who wants his dragon blood for nefarious reasons. Sadly, none of Xedron’s brothers know where he is. Cody’s just recently met the man who fathered her. Fletcher’s finally a part of her life. It’s especially bittersweet now that her mother’s dying of cancer. Cody’s not normally a nosy sort, so she can’t explain why she’s gone poking around in Fletcher’s basement. What she didn’t expect to find is a hot guy in a cage. Fletcher tells her he’s a serial killer but something doesn’t seem quite right about her recently-found father’s explanation. Who is this gorgeous hunk? Why is he her father’s captive?

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.