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  • Neural Pathways, Not Prompts

    Why Authentic Literacy Education Cannot Be Outsourced to AI

    by Michael K Bender ...
    It's 11:47 PM. A high school junior opens ChatGPT, pastes in her essay prompt about Kafka's The Trial, and six minutes later submits a polished analysis. She gets an A. But what did she actually learn?Nothing about thinking. She bypassed the cognitive work that builds intellectual capacity.Multiply this moment by millions of students and years of education. This is the crisis we face.What's Really ... Read more

    $9.59 CAD

  • Everything We Deleted

    by Michael K Bender ...
    Everything you ever deleted on your phone or computer went somewhere.The apology you typed at midnight and erased. The breakup you wrote at 2:14 a.m. and never sent. The photograph you took down. The letter you dragged to the trash. You believed they were gone. You believed your draft folder belonged to you alone.You were wrong.For three years, one of the world's biggest social media companies has ... Read more

    $9.89 CAD

  • The Greenland Affair: Fiction or Prediction

    The Race for Arctic Dominance

    by Michael K Bender ...
    THE GREENLAND AFFAIR: A Geopolitical Thriller About Power, Conscience, and the Price of TruthIn the new Arctic competition between superpowers, CIA Director James Blake sees an opportunity. Greenland-with its rare earth minerals, strategic location on Arctic shipping routes, and hosting of Thule Air Base-represents the ultimate prize. Operation Silent Merian is his masterpiece: a covert operation ... Read more

    $8.09 CAD

  • The Clarity to Live Well

    A Practical Guide to Thinking Clearly, Reducing Stress, and Living Intentionally

    by Michael K Bender ...
    Six years ago, Michael K. Bender's oncologist gave him 18 to 36 months to live. Three years later, he underwent open-heart surgery with a triple bypass. Today, at seventy-eight, he's in remission and thriving-walking with the energy of someone half his age.What made the difference? Three learnable skills he'd developed across fifty years in diplomacy, business, and education: Strength (daily ... Read more

    $8.69 CAD

  • The Things We Carry into Our 40s, 50s, 60s, and Beyond

    by Michael K Bender ...
    No one throws you a party when you win these battles. No one sends flowers when you lose them.You know the feeling. It's ten at night, the dishes are done, the house is quiet, and a low hum rises beneath an ordinary life: Is this it? Is this who I've become? You don't say it to your spouse, because it would sound ungrateful. You don't say it to your friends, because most of them carry the same hum ... Read more

    $8.69 CAD

  • IN SEARCH OF EXPERTISE

    GOVERNMENT-TO- BUSINESS TRANSITIONS AND THE ARCHITECTURE OF GLOBAL POWER

    by Michael K Bender ...
    Government employees develop classified knowledge, operational relationships, and technical expertise that remain valuable for decades after they leave government service. When they transition to defense contractors, consulting firms, or corporations, they carry this expertise with them-creating conflicts of interest, national security vulnerabilities, and opportunities for elite enrichment that ... Read more

    $13.59 CAD

  • Frankly, We Did Win This Election

    The Inside Story of How Trump Lost

    by Michael C. Bender ...
    THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER!Michael C. Bender, senior White House reporter for the Wall Street Journal, presents a deeply reported account of the 2020 presidential campaign that details how Donald J. Trump became the first incumbent in three decades to lose reelection—and the only one whose defeat culminated in a violent insurrection.Beginning with President Trump’s first impeachment and ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

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  • The Gilded Cage

    Reminiscences of a Shadow Man

    by Michael K Bender ...
    He was too brilliant to ignore. Too useful to acknowledge. Too compromised to release.Alex Carter is a gifted analyst with a talent for seeing patterns others miss. When the FBI approaches him with an opportunity to serve his country, he says yes-believing he's finally found his purpose.But the work quickly spirals beyond what he imagined. Infiltrating activist groups. Analyzing classified ... Read more

    $11.19 CAD

  • Project Risk Management - Simplified!

    by Michael Bender ...
    Perhaps the most misunderstood of the project management disciplines, project risk management is simple to master and is one of the most powerful tools for both novice and advanced project managers.Whatever concerns your project may offer: political, technical, resource or inexperienced team, project risk management can reduce or eliminate them.You'll learn how to use risk management to:• manage ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The End User

    A Novel of Economic Espionage

    by Michael Bender ...
    Elena Marsh doesn't carry a badge. She carries a clipboard.As a Foreign Commercial Officer with the U.S. Commercial Service, stationed in Singapore, Elena's job is unglamorous by design: verify that the companies buying American technology are who they claim to be. International Company Profiles. Site visits. Paperwork nobody reads twice. It is the quiet, thankless machinery of economic diplomacy, ... Read more

    $10.69 CAD

  • What the Ground Keeps

    by Michael Bender ...
    Two years after the reservoir gave up its dead, Callan believed he'd left this particular work behind him - the drive out to some other county's failing department, the slow, patient dismantling of a corruption nobody wanted looked at too closely. He'd built a consulting practice out of the wreckage of Marrow Falls: a training module, a reputation, a way of practicing the posture of the thing ... Read more

    $10.69 CAD

  • THE LEADER EVERYONE UNDERSTANDS

    by Michael Bender ...
    Leadership and communication are taught as two different skills - often in two workshops, sometimes bought from two vendors who've never spoken. They're not two skills. They're one discipline, and missing that is quietly expensive in almost every organization.THE LEADER EVERYONE UNDERSTANDS is a practical playbook built on two frameworks:THE FOUR C'S OF LEADERSHIP - Chart the Course, Choose Wisely ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD