This book investigates the transfer of parent country organizational practices by the retailers to their Chinese subsidiaries, providing insights into employment relations in multinational retail firms and changing labour-management systems in China, as well as their impact on consumer culture.

Two sisters in the midst of sudden tragedy, a mother with a haunted past, a small town that hides its dark secrets from the outside world, and the strange otherworldly forest that holds sway over life, death, and everything in between. Meadowlark Downs is the first book in E.J. Gambles' creatively bizarre Feathers Series. This young adult, dark fantasy, cosmic horror opus spans over 18 novels, novellas, and various short stories, culminating in a shocking finale.

Trying to navigate their complicated lives within the town of Meadowlark Downs, sisters Willet and Adelie, inadvertently become the center of an age old feudal war between family clans. This attention sets off a series of events attracting ancient feral entities and dark cosmic wraiths, hungry for fresh meat.Building off the anticipation and promise from my first novel, "Nether Here Nor There" is the exciting second chapter in the Feathers Chronicles.

Their world is one of shadows and lies.Maxim Ivanov never met a person who didn't want something from him and wasn't willing to lie to get it. There has only been one person he'd had any honest interactions with—Aida Roussel—but only because her time and attention was bought and paid for. Well, he is ready for more with her.Aida isn't without a few secrets of her own but Max is the only one who's ever made her want to share them. She knows who he really is behind the debona...

Can his touch thaw her icy façade?Dr. Lily Cole might just be as cool as the surrounding ice to others, but awkward and shy Lily chooses to focus on her research rather than pursuing relationships. Her interests widen somewhat when she's put in charge of showing a handsome philanthropist around the facility in the hopes of acquiring much needed funding.Kieran King is used to having people fawning over him so when he meets surly Dr. Cole, he's intrigued. His research has dee...

**‘This book made me laugh and then order an unholy amount of takeaway.’ GREG DAVIES‘One of my favourite comics has now written an annoyingly great book.’ ROMESH RANGANATHAN‘Full of belly laughs and full bellies, this book is warm, honest and wonderfully entertaining.’ TOM KERRIDGE'One of the funniest comedians in the world, Ed is only serious about one thing - dinners.'NISH KUMAR**---The hi...

'Incredible insight with a transgressive, witty, spirit.' COURTNEY LOVE'The most sensational read of 2022!' GEMMA COLLINS'A breath of fresh air... I want so many people to read this!' TRAVIS ALABANZA'Visionary' VIV ALBERTINEA STYLIST MUST-READ FOR 2022Wellness is oppressive, self-love is a trap, hustling is a health risk and it's all the patriarchy's fau...

Reimagining Black Masculinities: Race, Gender, and Public Space addresses how Black masculinities are created, negotiated, and contested in public spaces, focusing on how theory meets praxis when mobilizing for social change. Contributors disentangle complexities of the Black experience and reimagine the radical progressive work required for societal health and wellbeing, forming a mental picture of what the world has the potential to be without excluding current realities for Black boys a...

Health Psychology: A Lifespan Approach offers a comprehensive exploration of health psychology theory, issues, and applications through a lifespan lens. Its biopsychosocial approach and chronological organisation examine the interactions of health and illness from preconception through to older age, with each chapter focusing on a specific life stage and highlighting mind-body interactions, health behaviours, and relevant interventions. Emphasis is placed on lifecourse health traj...

Making money from the living to handle the affairs of the dead! This is a unique profession-doing business with the dead. If I told you that Hu Xueyan, the Qing Dynasty's foremost "red-topped merchant," built his fortune by doing business with the dead, would you believe it? Take Fan Li, the "Lord of Tao Zhu," or Shen Wansan, the tycoon of the early Ming Dynasty-do you really think these men simply built their fortunes from scratch? Do you truly believe that Shen Wansan, the Ming Dynasty's...

A retreat on Lake Michigan for old-money WASPs, Sand Isle has long been the summer residence of the Addison family. The youngest member of the clan, Maddie Addison, survived an awkward but sheltered adolescence only to be plagued in adulthood by alcoholism, a failed marriage, and an unendurable loss that sent her fleeing the burden of family expectations. Now, after an eleven-year hiatus, Maddie has been summoned back to Sand Isle, where her widowed mother languishes near death. What await...

Tamara Roberts only wanted to live her life and write her novels. After living hard and fast in her youth, life now happens almost exclusively on the page for Tamara. Her carefully constructed life is torn apart when her long estranged husband makes an appearance on her doorstep looking too sexy for comfort.Peter Worthington has one request before they part ways for good—that Tamara comes to make peace with his dying father. But the simple request comes with a huge tangle of compli...