From Fake to Forever/ The Tycoon's Marriage Deal/the Temporary Mrs Marchetti/ The Greek's Bridal Bargain

From Fake to Forever/ The Tycoon's Marriage Deal/the Temporary Mrs Marchetti/ The Greek's Bridal Bargain

Author: Melanie Milburne

Publisher:

Published: 2022-06-15

Total Pages: 528

ISBN-13: 9781867255543

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The Tycoon's Marriage Deal Ruthless playboy Blake McClelland dominates in the boardroom and commands in the bedroom. So when he's required to produce a fiancée in order to clinch the most important deal of his life, his solution is as cold-hearted as Blake himself -- he'll choose a woman innocent enough to convince the world he's a reformed man! After being jilted at the altar, shy bakery owner Matilda Toppington is in no hurry to wear another man's ring. Blake's cynical proposition is scandalously, shockingly outrageous -- of course she should refuse! Unless Tillie dares surrender to the unknown pleasures his sinful gaze promises... The Temporary Mrs Marchetti When Cristiano Marchetti proposes to former mistress Alice Piper, the deal has an expiry date. He has six months to fulfil the conditions of his grandmother's will. But the hotelier has another agenda...exacting revenge on Alice for daring to walk away seven years before! Alice needs the financial security her enemy is providing but soon their every clash is a shockingly tempting encounter. Yet as she uncovers the man beneath the hard-hearted exterior, the future Mrs Marchetti wonders if she could break the rules of their engagement...and walk down the aisle as more than Cristiano's temporary bride! The Greek's Bridal Bargain She was the little rich girl, he was the poor housekeeper's son, and their innocent affair was cruelly crushed. But now Kane Kaproulias has Bryony Mercer in the palm of his hand! She's been bought with cold, hard cash and Kane will take her and his revenge on her family! Bryony's family is now penniless and she's at Kane's mercy. He's waited a long time to get Bryony right where he wants her -- in his bed, as his wife!


Stalin's Agent

Stalin's Agent

Author: Boris Volodarsky

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 2015

Total Pages: 832

ISBN-13: 0199656584

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This is the true story behind General Alexander Orlov, the man who never was, now revealed in full for the first time: Stalinist henchman, Soviet spy, celebrated defector to the West, and central character in the greatest KGB deception ever.


Historical Dictionary of International Intelligence

Historical Dictionary of International Intelligence

Author: Nigel West

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2015-05-21

Total Pages: 489

ISBN-13: 1442249579

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Intelligence is now acknowledged as the hidden dimension to international diplomacy and national security. It is the hidden piece of the jigsaw puzzle of global relations that cements relationships, undermines alliances and topples tyrants, and after many decades of being deliberately overlooked or avoided, it is now regarded as a subject of legitimate study by academics and historians. This second edition of Historical Dictionary of International Intelligence covers its history through a chronology, an introductory essay, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 500 cross-referenced entries on espionage techniques, categories of agents, crucial operations spies, defectors, moles, double and triple agents, and the tradecraft they apply. This book is an excellent access point for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about the international intelligence.


Extreme Exoticism

Extreme Exoticism

Author: W. Anthony Sheppard

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2019-09-20

Total Pages: 608

ISBN-13: 0190072725

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To what extent can music be employed to shape one culture's understanding of another? In the American imagination, Japan has represented the "most alien" nation for over 150 years. This perceived difference has inspired fantasies--of both desire and repulsion--through which Japanese culture has profoundly impacted the arts and industry of the U.S. While the influence of Japan on American and European painting, architecture, design, theater, and literature has been celebrated in numerous books and exhibitions, the role of music has been virtually ignored until now. W. Anthony Sheppard's Extreme Exoticism offers a detailed documentation and wide-ranging investigation of music's role in shaping American perceptions of the Japanese, the influence of Japanese music on American composers, and the place of Japanese Americans in American musical life. Presenting numerous American encounters with and representations of Japanese music and Japan, this book reveals how music functions in exotic representation across a variety of genres and media, and how Japanese music has at various times served as a sign of modernist experimentation, a sounding board for defining American music, and a tool for reshaping conceptions of race and gender. From the Tin Pan Alley songs of the Russo-Japanese war period to Weezer's Pinkerton album, music has continued to inscribe Japan as the land of extreme exoticism.


Guanxi and Business

Guanxi and Business

Author: Yadong Luo

Publisher: World Scientific

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 364

ISBN-13: 9789810241148

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Guanxi (interpersonal relationship) is one of the major dynamics of Chinese society. It has been a pervasive part of the Chinese business world for the last few centuries. It binds literally millions of Chinese firms into a social and business web. It is widely recognized to be a key determinant of business performance, because the life-blood of the macro economy and micro business conduct in the society, including local firms as well as foreign investors and marketers, inevitably faces guanxi dynamics. No company can go far unless it has extensive guanxi in this setting. In China's new, fast-paced business environment, guanxi has been more entrenched than ever, heavily influencing Chinese social behavior and business practice. Despite the current academic and practical interest in guanxi, there is no book-length treatment systematically and vigorously exploring the concept and practice from the business perspective. This book fills that gap by exploring the various social economic cultural, and business issues relating to the complex concept and practice of guanxi.


Policing the World on Screen

Policing the World on Screen

Author: Marilyn Yaquinto

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2019-11-08

Total Pages: 320

ISBN-13: 3030248054

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This book analyzes Hollywood storytelling that features an American crimefighter—whether cop, detective, or agent—who must safeguard society and the nation by any means necessary. That often means going “rogue” and breaking the rules, even deploying ugly violence, but excused as self-defense or to serve the greater good. This ends-justifies-means approach dates back to gunfighters taming the western frontier to urban cowboy cops battling urban savagery—first personified by “Dirty” Harry Callahan—and later dispatched in global interventions to vanquish threats to national security. America as the world’s “policeman often means controlling the Other at home and abroad, which also extends American hegemony from the Cold War through the War on Terror. This book also examines pioneering portrayals by males of color and female crimefighters to embody such a social or national defender, which are frustrated by their existence as threats the white knight exists to defeat.


Creativity and Its Discontents

Creativity and Its Discontents

Author: Laikwan Pang

Publisher: Duke University Press

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 312

ISBN-13: 0822350823

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Laikwan Pang offers a complex critical analysis of creativity, creative industries, and the impact of Western copyright laws on creativity in China.


Operatic China

Operatic China

Author: D. Lei

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2016-09-23

Total Pages: 356

ISBN-13: 1137061634

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In this study Lei focuses on the notion of 'performing Chinese' in traditional opera in the 'contact zones', where two or more cultures, ethnicities, and/or ideologies meet and clash. This work seeks to create discourse among theatre and performance studies, Asian and Asian American studies, and transnational and diasporic studies.


The hidden world part 1

The hidden world part 1

Author: John Baselmans

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2015

Total Pages: 530

ISBN-13: 1326036440

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Through these two books I want to show you as much as possible the completely blueprint where I've worked on for years. It's my library, a collection from which I work, and the many documents that I now use as evidence. This book is a collection of quotations from many books, magazines, newspapers, internet documents and reports from others. Therefore I see this book as a manual / reference book for those interested. It's important to me that finally there is a book where everything that is concealed for us for centuries, is at a glance. What you do with the information and how much it is worth to you to know these things is up to you. Here I simply put those pieces that in my eyes came closest to the truth, and which fitted together like a puzzle. The past has big secrets which still are carefully concealed in the present. By putting the many citations and articles at a glance we see a strong message: Wake up people.