Een indringend en oprecht boek over roem en liefde – en wat er gebeurt als die twee botsen Toen David uit de mede door hem opgerichte band Darkhearts stapte, had hij niet gedacht dat die zo succesvol zou worden. Nu zit hij al twee jaar gewoon op de middelbare school, terwijl Chance en Eli zonder hem de wereld over toeren. Als Eli plotseling overlijdt, komt David weer in contact met Chance. En hoewel hij nog steeds alles is waar David zich altijd aan heeft gestoord – aandachtziek en arrogant – bloeit er ook iets nieuws op tussen de twee. Iets wat Chance liever uit de media houdt, maar wat voor David een ultieme kans kan zijn om te krijgen waar hij twee jaar lang naar gesmacht heeft. Hij zal moeten kiezen wat meer voor hem betekent: roem of Chance. Een herkenbare, heerlijk onhandige en zeer romantische YA-romance over twee jongens, een oude vriendschap en nieuwe mogelijkheden voor fans van Heartstopper, Rood, wit en koningsblauw en De belevenissen van een muurbloem.

Nobody Cheats Death A warrior haunted by his past, Salim is a problem-solver for a church he hates, bound by the death goddess to hunt down those who would rob her of her due. Such is the case in the desert nation of Thuvia, where a merchant on the verge of achieving eternal youth via a magical elixir is mysteriously murdered, his soul stolen from the afterlife. The only clue is a magical ransom note offering to trade the merchant's spirit for his dose of the fabled potion. But who could steal a soul from the boneyard of Death herself ? Enter Salim, whose unique skills should make solving this mystery a cinch. There's only one problem: The investigation is being financed by the dead merchant's stubborn and aristocratic daughter—and she wants to go with him. Together, the two must embark on a tour of the Outer Planes, where devils and angels rub shoulders with fey lords and mechanical men, and nothing is as it seems. From noted author and game designer James L. Sutter comes an epic mystery of murder and immortality, set in the award-winning world of the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game.

An exciting new Pathfinder adventure begins! When an expedition into an ancient runelord stronghold meets with disaster, the Pathfinder heroes find themselves working together with some of the setting’s most notorious villains in order to survive and locate a priceless magical item. But even with their own lives on the line, can an agent of the sinister Aspis Consortium ever really be trusted? Brave the fearsome monsters and deadly traps of Hollow Mountain in the first sword-swinging issue from Pathfinder co-creator James L. Sutter (Pathfinder Origins, Death’s Heretic), with art from rising star Tom Garcia (Mercy Thompson). Contains pull-out poster map and official Pathfinder RPG bonus encounter!

In the three decades since the birth of fantasy roleplaying, a host of creatures unique to gaming have burst into dungeon corridors and trapped treasure chambers, eager to devour intrepid explorers and adventurers. Dungeon Denizens Revisited presents an in-depth look at ten of these unusual creatures, from the ravenous otyugh to the gargantuan purple worm. Learn the lost secrets of rust monsters, owlbears, and ropers, and delight at new uses for the mysterious mimic or the disgusting gelatinous cube. Each of the book's ten chapters presents a dungeon denizen's history, lore, ecological habits, and schemes, with plenty of advice on how to use the creatures effectively in an RPG campaign -- or how to kill them in their treacherous lairs.

The iconic heroes of Pathfinder delve deep into an ancient fortress built by the Runelords. Carved in the immense visage of Alaznist, Runelord of Wrath, the Hollow Mountain is home to a honeycomb labyrinth of trap-laden chambers and corridors. The Pathfinder agents must explore the ruins in search of a long-lost mystical artifact... but they're not alone. Competing explorers seek out the mountain's secrets, and it won't be long before open combat erupts! But unbeknownst to the warring factions, Alaznist has not left her former stronghold unprotected. Can the Pathfinder heroes and their bitter rivals put aside their animosity to survive the mountain's fearsome guardians? written by the collaborative team of Erik Mona (Paizo Publisher and Chief Creative Officer), F. Wesley Schneider (Paizo Editor-in-Chief), and James Sutter (Paizo Senior Editor), and featuring sensational artwork by Tom Garcia (Mercy Thompson: Hopcross Jilly), the Hollow Mountain saga expands upon the mythos of Paizo's award-winning fantasy world, fiction line, and tabletop RPG. Bonus materials include over thirty-pages of encounters and world detail for the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game.

When David quit his band, he missed his shot at fame, trapped in an ordinary high school life while his ex-best friend, Chance, became the hottest teen pop star in America. Then tragedy throws David and Chance back into contact. As old wounds break open, the boys find themselves trading frenemy status for a confusing, secret romance―one that could be David's ticket back into the band and the spotlight. As the mixture of business and pleasure becomes a powder keg, David will have to choose: Is this his second chance at glory? Or his second chance at Chance?

Schmiede Dein Schicksal im Höllenfeuer! Willkommen in Baldur's Gate, der Stadt der vielen Möglichkeiten, der Korruption und der Morde. Gerade, als du deine Abenteurerkarriere begonnen hast, findest du dich bereits in einer brodelnden Verschwörung wieder, die sich aus den Schatten von Baldur's Gate bis an die Frontlinie des Blutkriegs ausbreitet. Hast du den Mut, dich infernalischen Kriegsmaschinen zu stellen und ruchlose Verträge auszuhandeln, um damit den Erzteufel Zariel und ihre diabolischen Horden zu bekämpfen? Findest du einen sicheren Weg in die Heimat, vorbei an den unendlichen Schrecken der Neun Höllen? Ein Abenteuer für Dungeons & Dragons für Abenteurer der Stufen 1 - 13 Für den Gebrauch mit der fünften Edition des Player's Handbook (Spielerhandbuch), dem Monster Manual (Monsterhandbuch) und dem Dungeon Master's Guide (Spielleiterhandbuch).

The iconic heroes of Pathfinder delve deep into an ancient fortress built by the Runelords. Carved in the immense visage of Alaznist, Runelord of Wrath, the Hollow Mountain is home to a honeycomb labyrinth of trap-laden chambers and corridors. The Pathfinder agents must explore the ruins in search of a long-lost mystical artifact... but they're not alone. Competing explorers seek out the mountain's secrets, and it won't be long before open combat erupts! But unbeknownst to the warring factions, Alaznist has not left her former stronghold unprotected. Can the Pathfinder heroes and their bitter rivals put aside their animosity to survive the mountain's fearsome guardians? written by the collaborative team of Erik Mona (Paizo Publisher and Chief Creative Officer), F. Wesley Schneider (Paizo Editor-in-Chief), and James Sutter (Paizo Senior Editor), and featuring sensational artwork by Tom Garcia (Mercy Thompson: Hopcross Jilly), the Hollow Mountain saga expands upon the mythos of Paizo's award-winning fantasy world, fiction line, and tabletop RPG. Bonus materials include over thirty-pages of encounters and world detail for the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game.

Abstract: This dissertation examines knowledge transfer in Base of the Pyramid environments. The Base of the Pyramid (BOP) refers to environments characterized by high-degrees of poverty and informal institutional environments. While extant theory helps illuminate knowledge transfer, there are also distinct features of BOP environments which suggest important boundary conditions to current theory. The purpose of this dissertation is to explore how these boundary conditions influence theory regarding knowledge transfer. Specifically, I explore how resource constraints, embeddedness within informal institutional environments, and the autonomy of knowledge recipients in the BOP alter extant theory regarding knowledge transfer. This dissertation is comprised of three papers. Paper 1 explores the replication of knowledge in resource constrained environments and asks the question: when resource constraints necessitate adaptation from a proven template, what knowledge transfer tools best facilitate adaptation? I explore the role of social interaction in determining whether such necessity adaptations from a template prove to be beneficial or detrimental to the knowledge recipient's performance. My results suggest that more frequent interactions between the entrepreneur and practice experts who understand the 'why' behind each practice within the template can result in improved performance while more frequent interactions with entrepreneurial peers can produce much more varied results. Paper 2 examines how embeddedness within informal institutional environments creates difficulties for knowledge transfer and how such challenges can be overcome. In this study, I explore how a development organization in Nicaragua sought to dis- and re-embed rural dairy farmers into new cognitive, structural, and cultural contexts in order to facilitate knowledge transfer. I identify specific mechanisms used by the development organization for dis- and re-embedding and explore the role of human capital and intrinsic motivation in determining the extent to which re-embedding occurs. I develop a causal model to explain how such shifts in embeddedness influence the success of knowledge transfer. Paper 3 builds on Papers 1 and 2 by exploring the comparative advantages of distinct knowledge transfer arrangements within BOP environments. In this paper, I focus on how the heterogeneity and autonomy of knowledge recipients influence the choice of effective knowledge transfer arrangement. I develop a contingency framework for selecting efficient knowledge transfer arrangements and demonstrate how low-cost exchange-based knowledge transfer is more appropriate for relatively homogeneous recipients while more costly combinatory knowledge transfer methods are necessary when the recipients are more heterogeneous. In addition, when uncertainty among recipients is high regarding the effectiveness of knowledge, more combinatory knowledge transfer methods are needed to facilitate effective knowledge transfer as they require recipients to bear lower costs as compared to exchanged-based knowledge transfer mechanisms. Finally, trust influences the degree to which uncertainty matters -- when trust is high, recipients are more likely to adopt new knowledge, even in the face of uncertainty. This dissertation contributes to theory regarding knowledge transfer by questioning standard assumptions regarding resources, institutional embeddedness, and autonomy, and by developing new theory that helps explain and predict successful knowledge transfer in BOP environments.