Plastic: The Side Dish You Get with Every Meal

This book provides an eye-opening revelation about how our current practices continue to harm the environment and all its inhabitants. To ensure a more sustainable future for the planet, we must adopt new ways of doing things and eliminate consumer products and practices that cause the most damage to natural ecosystems and threaten life on Earth.

Wildlife species, ecosystem functions, and human health have all been negatively impacted by the excessive amounts of garbage produced globally every day. Many commonly used products linger in the environment for years after disposal, resulting in grave consequences for essential wildlife organisms and their ecosystems, including water sources, land, and soils. Natural resources have been rapidly depleted for decades, diminishing habitats and generating excess pollution.

The time is now to take decisive action. We must move towards using alternative materials and methods that reduce environmental harm caused by today’s common products and practices. This shift is crucial in minimizing the increasing risks of climate change and preserving our planet for future generations.

Leadership Lessons Inspired By a Six-Year-Old

Thinking Like a Computer

The Amazing Zoo in My Backyard

Schoolhouse Burning

Attack, Parry, Riposte: A Fencer's Guide to Better Business Execution

Business is more than just a sport, it is a battle. You have to expertly wield weapons to professionally defeat the internal and external disruptive challenges confronting your organization, to compete against your competition, and combat against the market forces that will oppose you. For the first time ever, Norman A. Katz has applied the strategies and tactics of the martial art of fencing to showcase how to successfully win at business. Attack, Parry, Riposte: A Fencer’s Guide to Better Business Execution will explain how to foil the forces of operational inefficiencies, slash through software project disasters, target leadership defects, improve cultural missteps, enhance brand respect and recognition, analyze both yours and your competitor’s strengths and weaknesses, unmask supply chain execution failures, make better use of organizational resources, and more. Because in business, it’s best to be en garde.

You're Hired and Certified

Are you thinking about a career in the Skilled Trades or maybe you have an Apprentice to mentor?

David Pocock knows first-hand with over 40 years’ experience working with apprentices, employers and advising people looking to work in the Skilled Trades.

The 7 Steps explained provide a fast and logical plan to take you from employment to certification and beyond. Dozens of helpful tips and reminders along with action exercises and fillable templates will keep you focused during your journey to become Trade Certified and earning a higher wage.

The potential for advancement in the trades to more senior positions is excellent. There is also a skill shortage in many trades that will ensure job sustainability for years to come.

This is your Apprenticeship 101 guide to success. An indispensable book for anyone starting out or affiliated with the skilled trades. Congratulations on a great career choice, good luck and enjoy the journey!

Praise for You’re Hired and Certified:

“You’re Hired and Certified is a perfect resource for those who are looking for a career in skilled trades. With follow up exercises included with every chapter, this book will guide you on how to stay organized and think critically when navigating your search for trade employment.”

– Craig Swanberg, Journeyman Carpenter & Workforce Manager, PCL Construction.

“For someone starting or retraining in the work force, this book is an excellent road map for apprenticeship from start to finish! I wish I had this book when I started my apprenticeship!”

– Chris Copeland, RSE, Certified Journeyman Bricklayer, a Business Agent, Local 1 Bricklayers and Allied Craftworkers.

“This is a nugget of information for our society to clearly understand how to navigate into and through the trades. David has given us the blueprint to catapult youth, parents, teachers and professionals to a greater understanding of the importance of trades and how to achieve success where society needs it most.”

– Tom Loszchuk, Certified Journeyman Cabinetmaker, Apprenticeship Committee Representative, Employer and Life Coach.

“A great book, a must read for success! With Dave’s handbook as your guide, you’re in the driver seat. The road to success starts here.”

– David Lee, Certified Automotive Service Technician and Service. 

Wildlife on a Warming Earth

This engaging narrative about the harm global warming inflicts on wildlife is meant for a broad audience, people concerned about the climate crisis but without the time to read lengthy books with lots of scientific jargon. Written in an easy-to-read style, the story will appeal to teenagers and adults of all ages and education levels.

The story begins by introducing the narrator, Greta, an intrepid Carolina chickadee. Greta succinctly explains how all of nature is connected and why humans need to learn to respect the natural world on which they depend. The reader will learn how extreme weather events and a warming planet are harming some of Greta’s friends and other wild creatures on earth and in the sky and sea.

Greta admonishes us humans for creating a mess that only we can fix. But she is an optimist and appeals to the majority of people, those who listen to the better angels of their nature, to lead us into the sunshine.

Readers should come away with a sense of urgency, an appreciation of the dire consequences of a rapidly warming planet, a realization that they can make a difference, and above all with hope for a better future.

Water and Energy Knowledge for Citizen Education

Water issues have long challenged human civilization, but the 21st century has brought complex new dimensions to this age-old problem. In the wake of 9/11, cybersecurity concerns have come to dominate water infrastructure management and research. The intensifying climate crisis further strains water resources and systems. Most recently, the COVID-19 pandemic laid bare drinking water quality failings, disproportionately impacting marginalized communities.

As the water sector confronts this evolving landscape of challenges old and new, public access to objective scientific information is imperative. This book bridges that gap, providing citizens, students, educators, and other stakeholders with authoritative coverage of cutting-edge water science, technology, and innovation.

Readers will gain insight into pressing issues like infrastructure cybersecurity, climate change adaptation, contamination and pollution remediation, and equitable provision of clean, safe drinking water. The text outlines state-of-the-art technological and strategic solutions while unpacking complex themes in accessible language. It is essential reading for anyone seeking the facts and practical tools needed to meet the water sector’s unprecedented 21st century tests. From concerned citizens to aspiring scientists, this book empowers all readers with the knowledge to navigate these troubled waters.

Toward the Bigger Half

Toward the Bigger Half: Equity in Public Education explores what makes equity and schooling uncomfortable but necessary companions. Dr. Beth Godett theorizes about the goal of equity in public education and provides a vital window into history and the law. The term “equity” is demystified by introducing historical figures as if they were alive today.

Her book will make you angry, curious, and also hopeful. Challenging her readers to embrace opportunities, Dr. Godett details pragmatic ways that teachers (like herself) can make a difference in K-12 education.

Enjoy it in one sitting or break it into small bites; either way you will be eager to share new ideas with colleagues.

Things Come Together

In the spirit of Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart, which examined a turbulent time in Africa’s history, Things Come Together grapples with modern challenges and seeks to bring hope for the continent’s future. The book traverses a wide range of perspectives, from the scientific to the artistic, the physical to the sociological, political, economic, and metaphysical. Heeding Einstein’s observation that problems cannot be solved with the same mindset that created them, Mzwandile Mbatha offers thoughtful analysis of varied issues, as well as potential solutions leading to prosperity and progress. Things Come Together sends an uplifting message that, through understanding and innovation, Africa can overcome obstacles and thrive and prosper. The book aims to inspire readers to be part of positive change.

They Died on My Watch

Who was the actress who died just before Christmas? She was the voice of …..... in …......
Did Hitler commit suicide, or was he shot by Russian troops?
Do you remember what year Princess Diana died in that car crash in Paris?
How many husbands did Elizabeth Taylor divorce in her lifetime?
What was that well known British actor who passed away right after David Bowie died?

Questions you might hear at the next table of your favourite eatery. Questions you may or may not know the answer to. They Died on My Watch can answer these and many more. It is a comprehensive reference work that should prove itself indispensable to any household. Most certainly a book to sustain interest when cruising at 35,000 feet between London and New York. It might be seen as the ultimate ‘umpire’ to settle any argument that may arise within a discussion involving a deceased celebrity, recent or not.