Should you or your company expand into China? What are some of the goods and services that Chinese consumers want to buy? What kinds of risks are involved in doing business on the mainland? These questions and dozens more are discussed in detail as Tim Swanson interviews more than forty businesspeople, entrepreneurs, professors and market research experts regarding the potential opportunities and challenges of doing business in China. Dispensing of hyperbole and exaggerated rhetori...

College soccer star Mark Zupan had been out drinking one night and had passed out in the back of his best friend's pickup truck when his friend got in the driver's seat, decided to take the truck for a spin, and accidentally crashed it. Thrown into a canal and stuck in frigid water for fourteen hours, Mark was finally rescued and learned soon after that he'd broken his neck. He'd most likely be a quadriplegic and spend the rest of his life in a wheelchair, doctors told him. At first Mark's...

Pedro Gomez of ESPN was a beloved figure in baseball. His death from sudden cardiac arrest on Feb. 7, 2021, unleashed an outpouring of heartfelt tributes. He was 58, both a hard-nosed reporter and a smiling ambassador of the sport. These 62 personal essays soar beyond sports to delve into life lessons.Pedro, a proud Cuban American, was known for his dramatic reporting from Havana. Fully and fluidly bilingual, he did as much as anyone to bridge the wide gap that had...

Four translations of major accounts of the life of the fourth-century Egyptian desert father St. Bishoi, in one volumeSaint Bishoi of Scetis (d. ca. 417) enjoys tremendous popularity throughout the Christian east, particularly among the Copts. He lived during a remarkable era in which a litany of larger-than-life monastics lived and interacted with one another. Even then, Bishoi stood out as the founder of one of the four great monasteries of Scetis (Wadi al-Natrun...

Mein Job ist es, für fünf Männer als private Stewardess zu arbeiten. Doch ich bin nicht ihre Angestellte – sondern ihr Eigentum. Es sollte nur ein harmloser Job sein, den mir mein skrupelloser Bruder besorgt hat. Doch dass er mich an fünf Gangster-Rapper – die sogenannten Poets – verschachert, hätte ich ihm nicht zugetraut. Dumm nur, dass ich das Geld so dringend brauche. Jetzt spiele ich die Privat-Stewardess für diese ultra-heißen Typen, die ständig Waffen hervorzaubern, mir drohen und m...