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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

    $7.99 USD

  • 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

    $8.95 USD

  • The Quiet County

    by Michael Bender ...
    The water was low the morning they pulled Ana Vance out of the Marrow Falls reservoir, and Sheriff Wade Holt called it before the fog had even lifted: an accident, a girl who'd had too much to drink and lost her footing on the dock. Case closed by Friday.Deputy Callan Reyes doesn't buy it. Not with the bruises on her forearms. Not with a sheriff who's never once rushed to judgment before deciding, ... Read more

    $6.95 USD

  • 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

    $8.95 USD

  • 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

    $8.99 USD

  • The Listener

    by Michael Bender ...
    Forensic psychologist Mara Williams has spent her career listening to other people's darkest secrets. She never expected to come home to one.Twelve years after leaving Ashford Hollow, Mara returns to the Catskills town she grew up in to help care for her mother, Celia, whose grip on her own memory has started to slip. The town looks exactly as she left it -- the same steeple over the sugar maples, ... Read more

    $8.95 USD

  • The Fear or Joy of Missing Out

    by Michael Bender ...
    You already know this feeling. Your phone lights up, and for one unguarded second, you feel two things at once.Through vivid, true-to-life scenarios - a retired teacher adjusting to the quiet of an empty schedule, a search-and-rescue volunteer who has never felt torn about a weekend the way he does about this one, a father watching his teenager pull away, a widow rebuilding an ordinary Tuesday - ... Read more

    $8.95 USD

  • MAKING THE MOST OF YOUR GOLDEN YEARS

    by Michael Bender ...
    Twenty-four centuries ago, a man walked the covered colonnades of the Lyceum in Athens, talking with anyone willing to keep pace, about what it means to live well. He was not interested in living long for its own sake, or in living comfortably for its own sake. He was interested in a harder question: what does it mean to live a life that is actually good? That man was Aristotle, and this book ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • GO GLOBAL WITHOUT GOING BROKE

    by Michael Bender ...
    "Go Global Without Going Broke" is a comprehensive, practical guide for small business owners, marketing directors, and consultants navigating cross-border expansion with limited budgets and resources. Through nine core chapters-covering market research, cultural adaptation, regulatory compliance, distributor relationships, e-commerce strategy, email marketing, ROI measurement, and real-world case ... Read more

    $9.95 USD

  • 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

    $7.95 USD

  • 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

    $6.95 USD

  • 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

    $11.39 USD