As the barriers between worlds start to crumble… …superhero Ted Finley must battle his greatest enemy yet. After a summer spent protecting the vulnerable from natural disasters, Ted couldn't be more excited to return home for his senior year of high school. While he dreams of training with and dating his protector, Erica LaPlante, life as a teenage superhero continues to get harder. A cunning presidential candidate, a disgruntled gatekeeper between realms, and two familiar villains threaten to end Ted and Erica's mission, as well as the world. When a new and powerful enemy emerges, Ted and Erica must choose their allies wisely to keep a deadly army at bay. If they fail, the people they know and love will find themselves on a planet-wide battlefield. Portal Combat is the third novel in a YA sci-fi/fantasy series that features action-packed fight scenes, terrifying villains, witty banter, and a pinch of heart. Author Bryan Cohen's Ted Saves the World Series continues to grow in scope and excitement in his third installment. Buy the third book in the series today! Young Adult Sci-Fi and Fantasy Superhero - Suitable Age Range: 12 - 18+ yrs. Portal Combat is a novel of approximately 75,000 words. Books available by Bryan Cohen: Ted Saves the World (Free!) Mind Over Easy (Ted Saves the World #2) Portal Combat (Ted Saves the World #3) Keywords: young adult, superheroes, science fiction, fantasy, series, second book, book 2, comedy, fantasy fiction, adventure, american literature, american fiction, fantasy series, modern fantasy, urban fantasy, stories, 21st century literature, genre fiction, highly recommended, series fiction, young adult fiction, superhero, villains, supernatural, paranormal, teen, teen fiction, romance, sci-fi, coming of age, first love, supernatural powers, super powers, superhuman, teen & young adult fantasy coming of age, contemporary fantasy, action & adventure, telekinetic powers, telekinesis, young adult comedy, young adult fantasy fiction, young adult adventure, young adult american literature, young adult american fiction, young adult fantasy series, young adult modern fantasy, young adult urban fantasy, young adult stories, young adult 21st century literature, young adult genre fiction, highly recommended young adult, young adult series fiction, young adult superhero, young adult supernatural, young adult paranormal, teen & young adult, young adult romance, young adult sci-fi, young adult coming of age, young adult first love, young adult contemporary fantasy, young adult action & adventure

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.

Enhances libraries worldwide through top research compilations from over 250 international authors in the field of e-business.

"This book presents new concepts regarding reliability, availability, manageability, performance, scalability, and secured-ability of applications, particularly those that run over the Web. It examines causes of failure in Web-based information system development projects, and indicates that to exploit the unprecedented opportunities offered by e-service applications, businesses and users alike need a highly available, reliable, and efficient telecommunication infrastructure"--Provided by publisher.

Investigates the impact of information technology, biogenetic, and pharmacological innovation on individuals quality of life, safety, individual and system health care utilization, occupational and environmental health and formulary decision making, and costs.

This new study reconciles cognitive metaphor theory with Critical Discourse Analysis to offer a fresh approach to the study of metaphor. In applying this framework to a substantial corpus of texts from business magazines, the author shows how metaphors of war, sports and evolutionary struggle are used to construct business as a masculinized social domain. In view of the subtle but pervasive socio-cognitive impact of these metaphors, the study raises the question of possible alternatives and the scope for change in business media discourse.

Cross 'Ghost in the Shell' with 'Alice in Wonderland, ' and you'll come to appreciate Hildy's situation. What is the mysterious stone column? Where did it come from? And why did she have to find it? These are the questions which confront Ms. Hildy Turner, small-town dog groomer and the stone-column doohickey's unfortunate inheritor. There are no answers, but she knows this: pressing the column's end opens a doorway to another world, which she and her best friend have mistakenly entered. Can they find their way back home? And just what's with the dreamlike nature of the places they end up in? It's a long, strange trip, with sidetracks into the future, the distant past, and everywhere in between, a journey that can only be described as "other."