The Ounce

What can words be, or rather, what can’t they be? Poet Alastair Reid introduces children and adults to the wondrous waywardness of words in Ounce Dice Trice, a delicious confection and a wildly unexpected exploration of sound and sense and nonsense that is like nothing else. Reid offers light words (willow, whirr, spinnaker) and heavy words (galoshes, mugwump, crumb), words on the move and odd words, words that read both ways and words that read the wrong way around (rezagrats), along with much else. Accompanied by Ben Shahn’s glorious drawings, Ounce Dice Trice is a book of endless delights, not to mention the only place where you can find the answer to the question: What is a gongoozler? Well, all I can say is quoz.

Twelve_year_old Teego Chalmers, his summer looking to be a bust due to a broken wrist, is invited to accompany his archeologist uncle, Dr. Oliver Chalmers using a month-long grant to study the site of the massacre of 33 Chinese miners in Deep Canyon some 100 years prior. Teego plans to spend his time fishing while his uncle works but a prickly grad student, a daughter of a local outfitter, and the canyon with its powerful river, conspire to involve him in events that threaten his life and challenge his courage. In the process he learns a lot about himself, boats, and the power of water. This is a fast moving, action_packed adventure tale told through the eyes of a pre_teen boy.

Can disembodied spirits or demons manipulate circumstances and affect our lives? Do witches have magical powers? What happens when the natural and the supernatural worlds collide? Fourteen-year-old Alex and his aunt Molly are about to find out. When the line blurs between the natural and supernatural world, it's only natural to be afraid.Welcome to Seneca Grove, a tiny town with strange characters, a haunted past, and a rumored curse. Young Alex is hearing voices, his aunt Molly is struggling with demons of her own, and the town "witch" is on the warpath. Surely death is on the agenda. With Molly tumbling deeper into despair, will she awaken to the danger they face, rediscover the faith of her youth and rescue Alex before it's too late? "Each day we are becoming a creature of splendid glory or one of unthinkable horror."-- C.S. Lewis

The definitive book on workplace accountability by the New York Times bestselling authors of How Did That Happen? Since it was originally published in 1994, The Oz Principle has sold nearly 600,000 copies and become the worldwide bible on accountability. Through its practical and invaluable advice, thousands of companies have learned just how vital personal and organizational accountability is for a company to achieve and maintain its best results. At the core of the authors' message is the idea that when people take personal ownership of their organization's goals and accept responsibility for their own performance, they become more invested and work at a higher level to ensure not only their own success, but everyone's. Now more than ever, The Oz Principle is vital to anyone charged with obtaining results. It is a must have, must read, and must apply classic business book.

An Ounce of Prevention - Especially for Women, though well-received, has created a clamour for a book that addressed male health concerns specifically. The discipline of writing a weekly column in the premier Jamaican daily newspaper, the Gleaner for over fifteen years has been very useful. It has caused me to focus on presenting a clear and practical message on specific issues of health and wellness in approximately a thousand words. This book, An Ounce of Prevention - Mainly for Men is a compilation of those messages with the male reader particularly in mind. Some important topics in the earlier book that apply to both men and women have been updated and presented along with new subjects in four sections titled: Healthy Ideas, Healing Agents, Danger Areas and Common Complaints. A fifth section - Male Issues - focuses exclusively on matters of relevance to men. Close to 100 subjects are covered in these five sections. Like the previous volumes, each chapter in this book can be read by itself in any order and it delivers a simple massage on that particular subject. Subject headings are in alphabetical order for easy access. References have been simplified and medical jargon kept to a minimum. The appendix and the useful references section provide support information.