The quests are real, the rewards are real, and the dangers are unimaginable.Jen Jacobs's nights are spent traversing a strange city finding hidden objects, slaying dragons, and tangling with a host of fellow adventurers. And her days are spent counting down the seconds until she can return to the grind and continue racking up tokens and leveling up.Except Jen isn't playing a video game.It's all real and happening right in New York City.After...

Joining the Guild was only the beginning. Now Jen's next quest could spell life or death.Jen Jacobs thought she was in over her head when she first discovered the secret Quest Board and the world of alchemy and magic hiding just out of sight in New York City. But after a ghost from her mentor Beatrice Taylor's past nearly kills the two of them, Jen finds herself on the cusp of joining the fabled Guild. Except now Beatrice has gone missing, leaving Jen alon...

The quests are real, the rewards are real, and the dangers are unimaginableBeatrice Stallard is your run-of-the-mill post-college 20-something trying to make her way in New York City.That is, until she discovers the Quest Board one night and everything changes.The rules of the Board are simple:Complete a Quest, get a token.The harder the Quest, the more tokens you earn.Get enough tokens, and you level up.Except the ...

When the Quests are real, the consequences can be deadly.It's been six years since Beatrice Taylor discovered the Quest Board and her life changed forever.The rules of the Board are simple:Complete a Quest, get a token.The harder the Quest, the more tokens you earn.Get enough tokens, and you level up.Except the Quest Board isn't in a video game. It's real.Beatrice has worked her way up from the bottom and now she’s re...

When the stakes are at their highest, the Guild sends Hugo Clouser to get the job done...Hugo Clouser is known for his ability to find anything.But when a piece of Guild property goes missing, he's going to need more than luck to track it down.

She wants to level up her humdrum existence. But her next quest could spell life or death.Jen Jacobs's nights are spent traversing a strange city finding hidden objects, slaying dragons, and tangling with a host of fellow adventurers. And her days are spent counting down the seconds until she can return to the grind and continue racking up tokens and leveling up.Except Jen isn't playing a video game.It's all real and happening right in New York Ci...

Auerbach was one of the foremost literary critics of the 20th century whose work has relevance within the fields of literary criticism, historiography and postcolonial theory. The opening chapter of this book explains how he understood the task of interpretation and his role as an interpreter. The following chapter outlines the important phases in his life with reference to the writers and thinkers who influenced him in his thinking and practice. The central chapters of the book focus on s...

Project success is an elusive goal in every business or technical domain. Project failure usually results from unhandled risks to the technical, cost, and schedule aspects of the project. There are four primary root causes of project failure.Unrealistic performance expectation, with missing Measures of EffectivenessUnrealistic cost and schedule estimates based on inadequate risk adjusted growth modelsInadequate assessment of risk and unmitigated exposure t...

The book provides a comprehensive approach to configuration management from a variety of product development perspectives, including embedded and IT. It provides authoritative advice on how to extend products for a variety of markets due to configuration options. The book also describes the importance of configuration management to other parts of the organization. It supplies an overview of configuration management and its process elements to provide readers with a contextual understanding...

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The rapid advancement of semantic web technologies, along with the fact that they are at various levels of maturity, has left many practitioners confused about the current state of these technologies. Focusing on the most mature technologies, Applied Semantic Web Technologies integrates theory with case studies to illustrate the history, current state, and future direction of the semantic web. It maintains an emphasis on real-world applications and examines the technical a...