Bøger af Ray Dizazzo

During the 60's and 70's, at a time when our society was in the midst of great upheaval and cultural change, poets like Charles Bukowski, Billy Collins, Allen Ginsberg, Bob Dylan, James Dickey and others were publishing unique styles of poetry. One of those poets, Ray DiZazzo, wrote primarily of the dark corners of our society and continually strove for more precise and powerful imagery. He believed that good poetry was like fine art. The poem, he contended, was worthwhile if it did nothing more than create a unique, powerful visual experience for the reader.

Sarah and Lauren. Two identical twin girls with opposite personalities. Their mother has died years earlier and their father is a telescope maker and stargazer. On the night of the girls' eleventh birthday, Dad invites a special visitor to their backyard viewing deck. An odd but likable woman, Mrs. Olsen brings two amazing gifts - glowing, magical lenses. And just how are they magical? With a little practice, they allow the girls to understand each other's personalities! So begins a lifelong journey in which the girls discover what their mother was never able to pass on to them - the ability to lead happy, rewarding lives through the gifts of empathy and balance.

A top secret astronaut team is sent to the backside of the moon. Their mission? Destroy the first man-made organism, a horse-like creature named Moonmare. With only a scribbled note telling of his sudden departure, one astronaut's fiancée is drawn into a personal nightmare of anxiety, terror and intense psychiatric sessions. Meanwhile, the Vice President, intent on erasing all evidence of his involvement in the Moonmare project, orders the murder of her creator and plans a nuclear explosion that will vaporize Moonmare, the astronauts and all traces of his failed endeavor.

Gourmet food critics Norm and Jane Miles are just back from the Cayman Islands and enjoying a holiday weekend at their mountain cabin. In the midst of a powerful nighttime snowstorm, they begin experiencing bizarre hallucinations. Meanwhile, their daughter, Kelly, and her cocaine addicted boyfriend, Eric, are en route to the cabin, and chemistry professor Carl Maddy, a close family friend, is analyzing a small amount of a spice called "Washington's Salt," which Norm and Jane brought back from the Caymans. What Kelly and her boyfriend find when they reach the cabin is horrifying, and what Maddy discovers under his microscope sends him on a frantic, midnight, motorcycle ride in an attempt to save his friends' sanity.

Business managers are victims of an age-old, very damaging ailment. It's called the Us and Them Syndrome and although we think of it as an attitude problem, in many ways it's like a communication "disease" that infects businesses at virtually all levels. Management and hourly will never see eye-to-eye, right? Many hourly people and supervisors think executive managers spend their time with their feet up on a desk, pulling shenanigans in the ivory tower. And if you happen to reside in the ivory tower, you probably believe those hourly people and front-line supervisors just can't be told the whole truth. They have no sense of the broad perspective that senior managers use to guide an organization. Sound about right? Us...and them. Because of this syndrome senior management teams expend an enormous amount of time and energy working through productivity, safety and other employee problems. Well, here's the good news. The Us and Them Syndrome is not a given. It can be "treated". The companies who make it their business to do so and "get well" find themselves at a tremendous advantage on the business playing field. While their competitors trudge along in the mistaken belief that us and them just comes with the territory, these newly energized companies experience a greatly improved commitment to company goals and an increased understanding on everyone's part of what it takes to be successful in business.

Ever wonder what it would be like to actually peer into someone's mind and see how they perceive you as you speak to them? If you're a boss, for instance, how is that employee viewing you when you nonchalantly utter, "By the way, I need your report on my desk by Friday morning." Or, as a parent, what do your kids envision when you look down wearing your sternest poker-face and declare, "No staying out till midnight - period." And what about your spouse? What kind of mental images do you conjure up in his or her mind with, "Look, I've had it with these continual arguments!" Impossible to see inside someone else's head, you say? Not for author Ray DiZazzo in his unique new book, THE CLARITY FACTOR. Written in a fresh conversational style, DiZazzo uses the vivid dreamscape of finance supervisor Gloria Donovan to let us (and her) glimpse how people view her in a series of important business and personal conversations. For Gloria this "gift" of sorts is not always easy to deal with, but it certainly is an eye-opener!