Months away from the NHL Draft, one night with my best friend changes everything. She was the one person I could trust. Until I fell in love with her... And she kept a secret from me that ripped us apart. Now, in the NHL, I’m one step closer to becoming the star I was born to be... until Kat's brother hits me with the news I never saw coming. One night was all it took to change our lives. Now, it's up to Kat and me to decide if we can salvage our friendship to find our happily ever after.
Rule #1 - Don't get drunk and marry your sister's best friend. Rule #2 - Don't fall in love with your sister's best friend. I'm the last player in the NHL anyone would expect to get hitched. I couldn't even stand Clarke before we said I do. But our fake marriage is a golden opportunity. My bad boy ways are messing up my career. And after my publicist sees my drunken wedding pics on Instagram, she thinks a marriage--real or fake--will keep my general manager from trading me to another team. Too bad Clarke would rather eat glass than stay married to me. So I make her the deal of a lifetime. Spend three months under the same roof, pretending we are in love, and I will give her the one thing she wants. But what happens when our deal is over, and I'm no longer faking it?
In his classic book, The Five Dysfunctions of a Team, Patrick Lencioni laid out a groundbreaking approach for tackling the perilous group behaviors that destroy teamwork. Here he turns his focus to the individual, revealing the three indispensable virtues of an ideal team player. In The Ideal Team Player, Lencioni tells the story of Jeff Shanley, a leader desperate to save his uncle’s company by restoring its cultural commitment to teamwork. Jeff must crack the code on the virtues that real team players possess, and then build a culture of hiring and development around those virtues. Beyond the fable, Lencioni presents a practical framework and actionable tools for identifying, hiring, and developing ideal team players. Whether you’re a leader trying to create a culture around teamwork, a staffing professional looking to hire real team players, or a team player wanting to improve yourself, this book will prove to be as useful as it is compelling.
Offering an often hilarious, occasionally heart wrenching memoir of his life as a professional basketball player, Shirley details his years playing in America, Spain, and even Siberia.
Game designers today are expected to have an arsenal of multi-disciplinary skills at their disposal in the fields of art and design, computer programming, psychology, economics, composition, education, mythology—and the list goes on. How do you distill a vast universe down to a few salient points? Players Making Decisions brings together the wide range of topics that are most often taught in modern game design courses and focuses on the core concepts that will be useful for students for years to come. A common theme to many of these concepts is the art and craft of creating games in which players are engaged by making meaningful decisions. It is the decision to move right or left, to pass versus shoot, or to develop one’s own strategy that makes the game enjoyable to the player. As a game designer, you are never entirely certain of who your audience will be, but you can enter their world and offer a state of focus and concentration on a task that is intrinsically rewarding. This detailed and easy-to-follow guide to game design is for both digital and analog game designers alike and some of its features include: A clear introduction to the discipline of game design, how game development teams work, and the game development process Full details on prototyping and playtesting, from paper prototypes to intellectual property protection issues A detailed discussion of cognitive biases and human decision making as it pertains to games Thorough coverage of key game elements, with practical discussions of game mechanics, dynamics, and aesthetics Practical coverage of using simulation tools to decode the magic of game balance A full section on the game design business, and how to create a sustainable lifestyle within it
Months away from the NHL Draft, one night with my best friend changes everything.She was the one person I could trust. Until I fell in love with her, and she kept a secret from me that ripped us apart.??Now in the NHL, I'm one step closer to becoming the star I was born to be... until Kat's brother hits me with the news I never saw coming.??One night was all it took to change our lives.Now, it's up to Kat and me to decide if we can salvage our friendship to find our happily ever after.
