Iona Portal
Iona Portal

Author: Robert MacNeil

Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform

Published: 2011-12-04

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781467992541

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The ancient battle between good and evil is nearing its end. Evil is winning. Since ancient times, our planet has been visited by super-intelligent aliens who shift between parallel worlds as easily as we move from sunlight to shadow. Described in our myths as angels, gods, and demons, these trans-dimensional beings often walk among us unnoticed, but they're locked in a battle older than time, with our future hanging in the balance. The Archons' goal is to destroy the human race and seize our world for their own. Standing against them are the Irin, a benevolent race of winged aliens with great power but limited numbers. As our planet sinks rapidly toward apocalyptic doom, our only hope lies in the Synaxis, a group of ordinary men and women conscripted by the Irin and given supernormal powers. But it's a race against time. And as the Synaxis members trek across the Scottish highlands to open the ancient dimensional portal on Iona, they must overcome heavily-armed psychopaths, flying bat-winged demons, and the awakening of a long-dormant volcano. Most of all, they must learn how to use their fantastic new powers to drive back the Archons and rescue the world from destruction.

Cooperative Environments for Distributed Systems Engineering
Cooperative Environments for Distributed Systems Engineering

Author: Khalil Drira

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2003-06-30

Total Pages: 281

ISBN-13: 3540455825

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The engineering life cycle for complex systems design and development, where partners are dispersed in different locations, requires the set-up of adequate and controlled processes involving many different disciplines. The “design integration” and the final “system physical/functional integration and qualification” imply a high degree of cross-interaction among the partners. The - place technical information systems supporting the life cycle activities are specialized with respect to the needs of each actor in the process chain and are highly heterogeneous between them. To globally innovate in-place processes, specialists must be able to work as a unique team, in a virtual enterprise model. To this aim, it is necessary to make interoperable the different technical information systems and to define co-operative engineering processes, which take into account “distributed roles”, “shared activities”, and “distributed process controls”. In this frame an innovative study, aimed at addressing this process with the goal of identifying proper solutions – in terms of design, implementation, and deployment – has been carried out with the support of the European Community and the participation of major industrial companies and research centers.

Web Portals
Web Portals

Author: Arthur Tatnall

Publisher: IGI Global

Published: 2005-01-01

Total Pages: 388

ISBN-13: 9781591404385

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A Web portal is a special web site designed to act as a gateway giving convenient access to other related sites. This book investigates the various types of portals and describes how they can be used in business applications. After considering the nature of portals, the book describes the first general portals like Yahoo, and how they came into being. Portals are used in businesses of all types and sizes and this book discusses how portals can be used in large business corporations as well as small to medium enterprises. Web portals have increasing importance to marketers as, by their nature, they retain their users who must return to them frequently. They also provide a useful means of making information and knowledge readily available in a convenient form to authorised users. This book covers a wide range of issues relating to the use of portals in business.

The Fireborn Road
The Fireborn Road

Author: L.G. Surgeson

Publisher: Next Chapter

Published: 2022-12-09

Total Pages: 508

ISBN-13:

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Five years have passed since the Summer of Fire, and the downfall of General Salamander. The outside world has begun to heal, but inside Tartaria, where brother fought brother and whole clans were wiped out, the wounds still run deep and raw. Fear and suspicion have made rebuilding hard, and rumours of a new threat rising in the shadows of the steppe have reached Aberddu. Once again, the Aberddu Adventurers Guild find themselves heading to Tartaria. This time they are in the company of two powerful but eccentric wizards, ostensibly engaged in an attempt to expand the continental portal network. Cosseted and used to their own way, the wizards have little first-hand experience of the world outside the walls of the Mages Guild, and have much to learn about life in the war-torn shell of a once-great nation. The adventurers will have to teach them that there is more to be feared than bad manners, fisticuffs, and unsatisfactory bathroom arrangements as they travel together down the Fireborn Road.

Packs & Portals
Packs & Portals

Author: Rachel D. Adams

Publisher: WTC Creatives, LLC

Published: 2023-11-28

Total Pages: 361

ISBN-13: 1958442062

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Trouble's brewing in both worlds. Friends or enemies - it'll take everyone the Dragon Tasker knows to stop it. Jean-Michel and Gabriel are in our world of Gaia, investigating who is responsible for opening dangerous portals between worlds. As they investigate the corruption around them, they also explore their own connections and emotions. Meanwhile, Jean-Michel's best friend, Devon Weylyn, must travel back to his world of Ordia to help the family and pack he left behind. Pack Weylyn is in dire straits, but to help means relying on people he thought were enemies. Tightly regulated portals connect these sister worlds. Not many beings have the power to create unnatural portals nor the desire to create such unstable doorways. Who is taking the risk, and could this be tied to the wars and struggles of the Ordian Packlands? Who would benefit? Who might pay? Will the secrets uncovered in both worlds drive our heroes together or rip them apart? ◆◆◆◆◆◆◆◆ Packs & Portals is Book Two of The Dragon Tasker Series. It's a wild urban fantasy and paranormal romance that introduces you to the lives of a chorus of paranormal characters connected to a dejected dragon and an introverted human trying to solve a mystery concerning portals between worlds, while their friends are fighting to protect their pack in one of those other worlds…

Blood Magick
Blood Magick

Author: Nora Roberts

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2017-05-02

Total Pages: 337

ISBN-13: 0515152919

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From #1 New York Times bestselling author Nora Roberts comes the final novel in a trilogy about the land we’re drawn to, the family we learn to cherish, and the people we long to love… Book Three of The Cousins O’Dwyer Trilogy Blood Magick County Mayo is rich in the traditions of Ireland, legends that Branna O’Dwyer fully embraces in her life and in her work as the proprietor of The Dark Witch shop, which carries soaps, lotions, and candles for tourists, made with Branna’s special touch. Branna’s strength and selflessness hold together a close circle of friends and family—along with their horses and hawks and her beloved hound. But there’s a single missing link in the chain of her life: love… She had it once—for a moment—with Finbar Burke, but a shared future is forbidden by history and blood. Which is why Fin has spent his life traveling the world to fill the abyss left in him by Branna, focusing on work rather than passion. Branna and Fin’s relationship offers them both comfort and torment. And though they succumb to the heat between them, there can be no promises for tomorrow. A storm of shadows threatens everything that their circle holds dear. It will be Fin’s power, loyalty, and heart that will make all the difference in an age-old battle between the bonds that hold their friends together and the evil that has haunted their families for centuries. Don’t miss the other books in the Cousins O’Dwyer Trilogy Dark Witch Shadow Spell

Corporate Portals
Corporate Portals

Author: Heidi Collins

Publisher: AMACOM/American Management Association

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 426

ISBN-13: 9780814425602

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The executive director of architect services at InfoImage gives readers an inside look at enterprise portals, the new technology that gives employees one-stop access to all their company's information resources.