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The Tycoon's Wager

Author : Olivia Logan

Publisher : Simon and Schuster

Page : 186 pages

File Size : 41,94 MB

Release : 2015-03-23

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 1440590419

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To boost ratings and save her radio show, agony aunt CJ Stratt has no choice but to agree to a publicity proposition from London's renowned playboy Jack Harper. They'll go on eight dates, which she'll tweet about to prove he's not the unreliable wastrel he's been painted as in the press. Jack's desperate to squelch his irresponsible image to insure that the business deal that could make or break his career goes smoothly. He's willing to do anything, including dating this quirky DJ with pastel-colored hair and a sassy mouth. Jack knows seduction, but he has no idea how to love. Love is CJ's business, yet she has never been seduced. Somehow, this business just got personal . . . Sensuality Level: Behind Closed Doors



Pascal's Wager

Author : Mark Jacobs

Publisher : Mark Jacobs

Page : 198 pages

File Size : 12,59 MB

Release : 2012-04-05

Category : Fiction

ISBN :

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Whether it's in Las Vegas' glitzy casinos or its seamy back alleys, Black Belt magazine columnist and poker pro Mark Jacobs captures the excitement with the vision of an insider in his new novel Pascal's Wager... Pascal Silver is an action junkie down on his luck. One of the best poker players alive, a losing streak has forced him to take work as a private detective. But when the gorgeous daughter of murdered casino owner "Houston Phil" LaPierre turns to him for help, he finds himself in over his head dealing with the cops, the mob and the enigmatic but beautiful Allegra LaPierre. Now he'll have to pull off the biggest bluff of his life to come out on top. And even if he does, he'll still be left with the question "Who killed Phil?" a question only he is shrewd enough to answer.



Tycoons In Hong Kong: Between Occupy Central And Beijing

Author : Tai Wei Lim

Publisher : World Scientific

Page : 242 pages

File Size : 11,82 MB

Release : 2016-07-21

Category : Political Science

ISBN : 1783269812

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This book seeks to survey the role of tycoons in Hong Kong's socio-political and socioeconomic developments. Summoned to Beijing just before the onset of the territory's longest social movement, it highlights the tycoons' symbolic intermediary role between Beijing's elite and the people of Hong Kong. Also investigated is the unwritten social contract between Beijing's elite and Hong Kong society — that the tycoons will be rewarded economically or left alone to conduct their business activities if they remain compatible with Beijing's policy directions (or at least remain neutral in contentious issues) and facilitate policy implementation if necessary.Tycoons in Hong Kong has three research objectives: first, in understanding the roles that tycoons play in Hong Kong, it is necessary to understand Beijing's crafted political and social spaces for Hong Kong's economic elites to exert their influence. Second, it examines the integrated roles that the tycoons play as consultative members of the Chinese one-party socio-political structures. Third, it presents the humanized side of the tycoons, highlights the positive contributions that tycoons make to Hong Kong and mainland China and deconstructs the idea of a hegemonic tycoon class by emphasizing their heterogeneity in the biographical entries section of the publication.



The Quotable Tycoon

Author : David Olive

Publisher : Sourcebooks, Inc.

Page : 236 pages

File Size : 15,18 MB

Release : 2004

Category : Business & Economics

ISBN : 9781402203053

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The Quotable Tycoon covers more than a century of inspirational, irreverent and timely insights, arranged thematically on subjects such as marketing, hiring, family business and customer service. At turns insightful, wise and hilarious, this treasury is essential reading for those seeking a deeper insight into the inner workings of the great business minds. From Rockefeller, Ford, Buffett and Trump to Twain and Churchill, The Quotable Tycoon offers more than 700 instructive and often outrageous perspectives on business from the world's most powerful corporate leaders and entrepreneurs, past and present.



Tied to the Tycoon

Author : Chloe Cox

Publisher :

Page : 246 pages

File Size : 19,74 MB

Release : 2012-12-22

Category : Erotic stories

ISBN : 9781481131087

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TIED TO THE TYCOON is an emotional erotic romance about the one that got away. It contains mature themes and content, consensual BDSM activities, and at least one thing you should *not* try at home without a whole lot of practice first...Ten years ago, tech entrepreneur Jackson Reed broke Ava Barnett's heart. As best friends in college they each had their reasons for keeping their relationship platonic, but when they finally let go and gave in to their desires, things were perfect for one night--and then Jackson screwed it all up.Since then, he's never forgotten her, and she's tried her best to forget him. Jackson has become one of the most sought after Doms in the city, and Ava has pretended she's never had a submissive thought. Which suits Ava just fine: after a decade of failed dating in New York, she's decided she's done with getting her heart broken.But at a Club Volare engagement party, Jackson catches sight of the one who got away: Ava. One quick wager later, and Ava is massively in his debt. To pay it off, she'll need to be his submissive for one week.Jackson Reed has spent ten years becoming the man Ava Barnett deserves. They've been tied to each other all this time, whether she knows it or not. Now he's got one week to show her that she's the only woman he'll ever truly love--and the only one he wants to Dominate.



Puck

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Publisher :

Page : 410 pages

File Size : 43,13 MB

Release : 1887

Category : American wit and humor

ISBN :

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Breakout Nations: In Pursuit of the Next Economic Miracles

Author : Ruchir Sharma

Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company

Page : 359 pages

File Size : 41,44 MB

Release : 2012-04-09

Category : Business & Economics

ISBN : 0393083837

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International Bestseller One of Foreign Policy's "21 Books to Read in 2012" A Publishers Weekly Top 10 Business Book “The best book on global economic trends I’ve read in a while.”—Fareed Zakaria, CNN GPS To identify the economic stars of the future we should abandon the habit of extrapolating from the recent past and lumping wildly diverse countries together. We need to remember that sustained economic success is a rare phenomenon. After years of rapid growth, the most celebrated emerging markets—Brazil, Russia, India, and China—are about to slow down. Which countries will rise to challenge them? In his best-selling book, writer and investor Ruchir Sharma identifies which countries are most likely to leap ahead and why, drawing insights from time spent on the ground and detailed demographic, political, and economic analysis. With a new chapter on America’s future economic prospects, Breakout Nations offers a captivating picture of the shifting balance of global economic power among emerging nations and the West.



Asian Godfathers

Author : Joe Studwell

Publisher : Profile Books

Page : 362 pages

File Size : 40,69 MB

Release : 2010-09-03

Category : Biography & Autobiography

ISBN : 1847651445

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40 or 50 families control the economies of Hong Kong, Singapore, Thailand, the Philippines and Indonesia. Their interests range from banking to property, from shipping to sugar, from vice to gambling. 13 of the 50 richest families in the world are in South East Asia yet they are largely unknown outside confined business circles. Often this is because they control the press and television as well as everything else. How do they do it? What are their secrets? And is it good news or bad for the places where they operate? Joe Studwell explosively lifts the lid on a world of staggering secrecy and shows that the little most people know is almost entirely wrong.



Toward a Theory of True Crime Narratives

Author : Ian Case Punnett

Publisher : Routledge

Page : 185 pages

File Size : 22,44 MB

Release : 2018-02-01

Category : Language Arts & Disciplines

ISBN : 1351180460

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Toward a Theory of True Crime Narratives vivifies how nonfiction murder stories are told, what role they play in society, and in the form of true crime why they remain enduringly popular internationally on every platform. This book establishes for the first time the actual line—or dotted line—between mainstream journalism and the multimedia phenomena of true crime. Presenting a stable definition of what is—and what is not—true crime will either challenge or justify Truman Capote’s claims regarding the creation of a "new journalism" with In Cold Blood, and accordingly expose the reluctance of the promoters of NPR’s Serial, HBO’s The Jinx, and Netflix’s Making a Murderer to refer to their products as such. This research codifies true crime texts of various types on multiple platforms—radio, television, print, digital, and film—to reveal the defining characteristics of the genre.



Cameroon's Tycoon

Author : Max Esser

Publisher : Berghahn Books

Page : 228 pages

File Size : 47,8 MB

Release : 2001

Category : Biography & Autobiography

ISBN : 9781571813107

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Max Esser was an adventurous young merchant banker, a Rhinelander, who became the first managing director of the largest German plantation company in Cameroon. This volume gives a vivid account of the antecedents and early stages as experienced and described by Esser. In 1896 he ventured, with the explorer Zintgraff, into the hinterland to seek the agreement of Zintgraff's old ally, the ruler of Bali, for the provision of laborers for his projected enterprise. The consequences, many optimistically unforeseen, are illustrated with the help of contemporary materials. Esser's account is preceded by a look at his and his family's connections, added to by an account of newspaper campaigns against him, and completed by an examination of his Cameroon collection, which he gave to the Linden Museum in Stuttgart. E.M. Chilver is well known for her joint work with Phyllis Kaberry in Cameroon. Her last university post was as Principal of Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford. Ute Röschenthaler teaches at Frankfurt University.