SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2015 MAN BOOKER PRIZEShortlisted for the Guardian First Book Award Winner of the FTOppenheimer Funds Emerging Voices Award Longlisted for the Etisalat Prize for Literature In a small town in western Nigeria four young brothers
- the youngest is nine the oldest fifteen
- use their strict father's absence from home to go fishing at a forbidden local river They encounter a dangerous local madman who predicts that the oldest brother will be killed by another This prophesy breaks their strong bond & unleashes a tragic chain of events of almost mythic proportions Passionate & bold The Fishermen is a breathtakingly beautiful novel firmly rooted in the best of African storytelling With this powerful debut Chigozie Obioma emerges as one of the most original new voices of modern African literature

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New & updated The Fitness Instructor's Handbook 3rd edition is the essential guide for anyone working in or wishing to enter the fitness industry Including a brand new chapter on Cardiorespiratory machine exercises covering correct technique safety points & step-by-step photos & updated references throughout this new edition reflects the latest changes to the National Occupational Standards (levels 2 & 3) Topics covered include The skeletal systemmuscles & tendonsthe energy systemcirculation & respirationcomponents of fitnesssafety issuescustomer servicescreening clientsplanning & programme designexercise evaluation Packed full of illustrations case studies revision questions & sample programmes this is the ideal book for those new to the industry as well as experienced trainers ...

You&ve been selected for the most rigorous cutthroat reality competition on TV! As a contestant you’ll compete in challenges & work with & against the other competitors for a shot at fame & fortune You won’t win if you go it alone but don’t get too friendly! You’ll have to do a bit of backstabbing to emerge victorious The Fittest features fierce social play & shifting alliances Players will have to evaluate a challenge each round & convince other players to work with them in order to best the challenge for variable rewards The player who has best managed their alliances & achieved the best rewards at the end of the game will be the victor The Fittest was chosen as a runner-up in the Dice Hate Me 54-Card Challenge
- a contest that asked designers to create a game with 54 cards with minimal components The Fittest was chosen as one of the best out of a pool of over 100 game entries
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In The Five Dysfunctions of a Team Patrick Lencioni once again offers a leadership fable that is as enthralling & instructive as his first two best-selling books The Five Temptations of a CEO & The Four Obsessions of an Extraordinary Executive This time he turns his keen intellect & storytelling power to the fascinating complex world of teams Kathryn Petersen Decision Tech's CEO faces the ultimate leadership crisis Uniting a team in such disarray that it threatens to bring down the entire company Will she succeed? Will she be fired? Will the company fail? Lencioni's utterly gripping tale serves as a timeless reminder that leadership requires as much courage as it does insight Throughout the story Lencioni reveals the five dysfunctions which go to the very heart of why teams even the best ones-often struggle He outlines a powerful model & actionable steps that can be used to overcome these common hurdles & build a cohesive effective team Just as with his other books Lencioni has written a compelling fable with a powerful yet deceptively simple message for all those who strive to be exceptional team leaders ...

Based on the best-selling leadership fable The Five Dysfunctions of a Team the new edition of this easy-to-use workbook provides participants with an opportunity to explore the pitfalls that are side-tracking their team Beginning with a 38-item team assessment the workbook guides participants through The Five Dysfunctions of a Team Targeted toward managers & team-leaders this workshop is perfect for off-sites & retreats a series of team development meetings & as an excellent team development tool ...

A TIMES POLITICAL BOOK OF THE YEAR A LONGMANHISTORY TODAY BOOK OF THE YEAR The award-winning history of the British Welfare State -now fully revised & updated for the 21st Century A masterpiece' Sunday Times Giant Want Giant Disease Giant Ignorance Giant Squalor Giant Idleness These were the Five Giants that loomed over the post-war reconstruction of Britain The battle against them was fought by five gargantuan programmes that made up the core of the Welfare State social security health education housing & a policy of full employment This book brilliantly captures the high hopes of the period in which the Welfare State was created & the cranky zeal of its inventor William Beveridge telling the story of how his vision inspired an entire country The pages of this modern classic hum with the energies & passions of activists dreamers & ordinary Britons & seethe with personal vendettas forced compromises awkward contradictions & the noisy rows of the succeeding seventy years The Five Giants is a testament to a concept of government that is intertwined with so many of our personal histories & a stark reminder of what we might stand to lose ...

The Penguin English Library Edition of The Five Orange Pips & Other Cases by Arthur Conan Doyle' He is the Napoleon of crime Watson He sits motionless like a spider in the centre of its web but that web has a thousand radiations & he knows well every quiver of each of them' Sherlock Holmes scourge of criminals everywhere whether they be lurking in London's foggy backstreets or plotting behind the walls of an idyllic country mansion & his faithful colleague Dr Watson solve these breathtaking & perplexing mysteries In Arthur Conan Doyle's The Five Orange Pips & Other Cases we encounter some of his most famous & devilishly difficult problems The Penguin English Library
- 100 editions of the best fiction in English from the eighteenth century & the very first novels to the beginning of the First World War
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Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 or region free DVD player in order to play Biography of Red Nichols a gifted country boy who comes to the big city & becomes a famous trumpeter ...

THE FIVE PEOPLE YOU MEET IN HEAVEN is a wonderfully moving fable that addresses the meaning of life & life after death in the poignant way that made TUESDAYS WITH MORRIE such an astonishing book The novel's protagonist is an elderly amusement park maintenance worker named Eddie who while operating a ride called the ' Free Fall' dies while trying to save a young girl who gets in the way of a falling cart that hurtles to earth Eddie goes to heaven where he meets five people who were unexpectedly instrumental in some way in his life While each guide takes him through heaven Eddie learns a little bit more about what his time on earth meant what he was supposed to have learned & what his true purpose on earth was Throughout there are dramatic flashbacks where we see scenes from his troubled childhood his years in the army in the Philippines jungle & with his first & only love his wife Marguerite THE FIVE PEOPLE YOU MEET IN HEAVEN is the perfect book to follow TUESDAYS WITH MORRIE Its compellingly affecting themes & lyrical writing will fascinate Mitch Albom's huge readership ...

The bard tiptoes out of his room the crow-dream still echoing in his head making him twitch at imaginary creaks of iron wings The bard must leave Thornbury It is not safe for him to stay Rue his new apprentice travels with him
- keen to learn his trade
- & hear the next installment in the legend of Podkin One-Ear Podkin & his fellow rabbits have been sheltering in Dark Hollow after their battle with Scramashank Paz tends to the rabbits with sleeping sickness; Crom meets with the war council Podkin has nothing to do! Frustrated Podkin goes exploring & discovers an abandoned underground chamber! Armed with the Gift of Dark Hollow Podkin learns to moonstride & Paz is rewarded with a magical gift of her own

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