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 ...

The Five Dysfunctions of a Team Workshop Team Assessment is a 38-item paper handout that is an excellent team development tool A key component of the facilitator-lead Five Dysfunctions of a Team Workshop the Team Assessment delivers what the name implies a team assessment rather than an individual self-assessment It provides participants with an opportunity to begin exploring the pitfalls that are side-tracking their team Easy to use the Assessment is ideal for team off-sites retreats or a series of team development meetings It will help teams of all types increase their cohesiveness & productivity ...

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 ...

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
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- & 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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Winner of the Best Story Blue Peter Book Award 2017A thick white blanket covers the wide slopes of the band of hills known as the Razorback Downs Podkin is the son of a warrior chieftain He knows that one day it will be up to him to lead his warren & guard it in times of danger But for now he's quite happy to laze around annoying his older sister Paz & playing with his baby brother Pook Then Podkin's home is brutally attacked & the young rabbits are forced to flee The terrifying Gorm are on the rampage & no one & nowhere is safe With danger all around them Podkin must protect his family uncover his destiny & attempt to defeat the most horrifying enemy rabbitkind has ever known ...

Despite what you might have been told we're not inherently selfish The truth is we're inherently kind Scientific evidence has proven that kindness changes the brain impacts the heart & immune system is an antidote to depression & even slows the ageing process We're actually genetically wired to be kind In The Five Side Effects of Kindness David Hamilton shows that the effects of kindness are felt daily throughout our nervous system When we're kind we feel happier & our bodies are healthiest In his down-to-earth & accessible style David shares how Kindness makes us happier Kindness is good for the heart Kindness slows ageing Kindness improves relationships Kindness is contagious ...