Exit The Dragon

JonMac enters the cage of his second pro-fight amped to prove his destiny as a world champion--he was born for this. Or was he? A freak accident sends him on a spiritual journey, leaving no truths unquestioned. Exit The Dragon is a metaphysical awakening; a tell-all tale of heartbreak and new beginnings. Words that cut into the marrow of your bones, stitched with graphic illustrations, photos, and videos, create the perfect combination of strikes to light up your soul. If you've ever questioned who you are or why you're here, then this is for you.

The dragon queen is dead, her dragon flown off into the east. The capital city is in flames and ruin. Who will rebuild the city and how? While the lords squabble over who should be king, a self-appointed council - a former-pirate, a thief-turned-treasurer, a knight of the realm and someone who calls himself a dentist - need to save the city from itself. Because the dragon might have gone but perhaps it left something behind...

At the end of the 10th century a lone creature struggles to survive. Her entire race has been hunted to the brink of extinction and she had no place left to run. Now she will fight for her right to live. She is Jade, and she is the last dragon.

Searching for her missing brother, Grace Carlyle never dreamed she would discover a secret world populated by mythological monsters—or find herself facing a sword-wielding being whose looks put mortal men to shame. But there he was, Darius en Kragin, one of a race of shape-shifting warriors bound to guard the gates of Atlantis, and kill all travelers who strayed within its borders. Now Grace's life was in his hands, and Darius had to choose between his centuries-old vow and the woman who had slipped beneath his defenses and stolen the heart of Atlantis's fiercest dragon.

This work evaluates China's privatization experience, drawing on the research of ten scholars from around the world. It investigates the factors determining the decision by government officials to sell or retain their firms, discusses how credible the government's ambition is to create world-class, state-owned conglomerates and much more.

It is generally accepted that Revelation’s heavenly scenes were intended to demonstrate that God continued to exercise his control even when the audience’s experience might suggest otherwise. In The Abyss in Revelation, Edward Gudeman argues that even though the scenes of the underworld and its inhabitants are describing reality from the opposite perspective, they declare God’s sovereignty and power in an equally powerful way. Examining the motif and imagery of the abyss and the sea in Old Testament, New Testament, Greco-Roman, and Second Temple Jewish writings, Gudeman identifies traditions that John appropriates in Revelation in order to create his unique vision of the abyss. Gudeman shows that the abyss and related concepts in Revelation are variously envisioned as the abode of evil creatures, the place from which they exit, and a prison that holds them captive. In all of this, John consistently demonstrates that God is in control of the activity of Satan and demonic beings and that their destruction is both planned and certain. Original and convincing, this volume sheds light on Revelation’s message about how God responds to evil and advances our understanding of several interpretive problems related to the abyss and its inhabitants. Biblical scholars especially will benefit from Gudeman’s research.

Although China's centrally planned economy is a little more than a shadow of its former self, the closely inter-linked reforms of the enterprise and banking sectors are still incomplete. The relative size of the state-owned enterprise sector has been much reduced, however, the sector remains the dominant borrower from the banking system and is responsible for the majority of bank non-performing assets. Thus in the interests of financial stability it is crucial to implement the remaining reform agenda. The accession to the WTO has also made it more urgent for China's most-dynamic state-owned en.

A child pixie by the name of Pix, grows up in the province of Gaara and the village by the same name. All is well as she begins the first year of her scorn education. But as things go underway, a new conflict arises between the humans, mutants, and spell casters. Things get even more complicated as some of the spell casters of Gaara begin to betray one another by creating alliances with the humans and mutants. Join Pix, her friends and peers, and family as she navigates her way through this new world of conflict, battle, and war!