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  • 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

    $6.95 USD

  • 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

    $6.99 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

  • 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

    $9.95 USD

  • 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

    $7.95 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

  • 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 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • Energy Density Functional Methods for Atomic Nuclei

    by Michael Bender, Aurel Bulgac, Thomas Duguet, Jean-Paul Ebran, Jon Engel, Michael McNeil Forbes, Markus Kortelainen, Takashi Nakatsukasa ...
    Series series IOP Expanding Physics
    In the past 20 years, energy density functional (EDF) approaches have become a powerful framework to study the structure and reactions of atomic nuclei. This book provides an updated presentation of non-relativistic and covariant energy functionals, single- and multi-reference methods, and techniques to describe small- and large-amplitude collective motion or nuclei at high excitation energy. ... Read more

    $107.99 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