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  • After The Barn

    A Brother's Memoir

    On that fateful day in the barn, Richard Pollak angrily shouted down to his parents, “Tell him you’ll punish him if he doesn’t stop hiding!” Moments later he was sucked into a maelstrom of hot straw. He has no memory of how he managed to extricate himself and get down from the loft, or of anything else on that summer day, when his 11-year-old mentally disturbed brother, with whom he had been ... Read more

    $4.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Creation of Dr. B

    A Biography of Bruno Bettelheim

    The Creation of Dr. B, Richard Pollak's riveting biography of Bruno Bettelheim, reveals the world-renowned child psychologist as a dogmatic tyrant and compulsive liar who often terrorized his young patients and their parents, plagiarized his prize-winning work, made false claims about his concentration camp experiences, and grandly invented his own past. ... Read more

    $6.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Episode

    The Episode is a novel of epilepsy and suspense. Only yesterday, reporter Daniel Cooper was a free man–free to ignore the limits of conventional journalism, free from the seizures that anticonvulsant drugs had suppressed for more than two decades. But now a violent epileptic attack has stolen more than 24 hours from his memory and there is a dead man on his doorstep, a mysterious .45 in his ... Read more

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  • The Colombo Bay

    In the face of killer storms, fires, piracy, and terrorism, container ships the length of city blocks and more than a dozen stories high carry 90 percent of the worlds trade. This is an account of one ship's voyage and of the sailors who daily risk their lives to deliver six million containers a year to United States ports alone. Inside these twenty-foot and forty-foot steel boxes are the ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

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    Moonshots

    Unabridged

    12 hours 15 min

    Secrets of the Entrepreneurial Mindset Revealed: Learn how curiosity, imagination, and exponential innovation are creating life without limitsNaveen Jain is leading disruptions today that will reshape the world—and beyond. From redefining civilian space exploration to creating a path to free energy to disrupting healthcare and education, Jain is at the forefront of the exponential technology ... Read more

    $14.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    Brain Words

    How the Science of Reading Informs Teaching

    Unabridged

    5 hours 19 min

    “Gentry and Ouellette are cannonballing into the reading research pool, they’re making waves, and these waves are moving the field of reading forward.” - From the foreward by Mark Weakland, Super SpellersThe past two decades have brought giant leaps in our understanding of how the brain works. But these discoveries—and all their exciting implications—have yet to make their way into most classrooms ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

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    Psychology of Intelligence Analysis

    Narrated by Scott R. Pollak ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 19 min

    Psychology of Intelligence Analysis has been required reading for intelligence officers studying the art and science of intelligence analysis for decades. Richards Heuer, Jr. discusses in the audiobook how fundamental limitations in human mental processes can prompt people to jump to conclusions and employ other simplifying strategies that lead to predictably faulty judgments known as cognitive ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

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  • Sleepwalker

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