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- How Analogies Reveal Connections, Spark Innovation, and Sell Our Greatest Ideas
- Written by: John Pollack
- Narrated by: Sean Pratt
- Length: 7 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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Analogies are far more complex than their SAT stereotype and lie at the very core of human cognition and creativity. Once we become aware of this, we start seeing them everywhere - in ads, apps, political debates, legal arguments, logos, and euphemisms, to name just a few. At their very best, analogies inspire new ways of thinking, enable invention, and motivate people to action. Unfortunately, not every analogy that rings true is true. That's why, at their worst, analogies can deceive, manipulate, or mislead us into disaster.
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- How Analogies Reveal Connections, Spark Innovation, and Sell Our Greatest Ideas
- Narrated by: Sean Pratt
- Length: 7 hrs and 21 mins
- Release date: 2014-09-11
- Language: English
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The Pun Also Rises
- How the Humble Pun Revolutionized Language, Changed History, and Made Wordplay More Than Some Antics
- Written by: John Pollack
- Narrated by: Pete Larkin
- Length: 4 hrs and 57 mins
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The Pun Also Rises is an authoritative yet playful exploration of a practice that is common, in one form or another, to virtually every language on earth. At once entertaining and educational, this engaging book answers fundamental questions: Just what is a pun, and why do people make them? How did punning impact the development of human language, and how did that drive creativity and progress? And why, after centuries of decline, does the pun still matter?
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The Pun Also Rises
- How the Humble Pun Revolutionized Language, Changed History, and Made Wordplay More Than Some Antics
- Narrated by: Pete Larkin
- Length: 4 hrs and 57 mins
- Release date: 2011-08-01
- Language: English
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Cork Boat
- Written by: John Pollack
- Narrated by: Jonathan Marosz
- Length: 8 hrs and 14 mins
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In the late 1990s, John Pollack was working as a Washington speechwriter when, frustrated by the cynicism and hypocrisy on Capitol Hill, he quit his job to pursue a boyhood dream: to build a boat made entirely of wine corks and take it on an epic journey. Cork Boat tells the story of Pollack's improbable quest. Overcoming one obstacle after another, he convinces skeptical bartenders to save their corks, corrals a brilliant but disorganized partner, and eventually cajoles more than one hundred volunteers who help build the boat until their fingers bleed.
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Cork Boat
- Narrated by: Jonathan Marosz
- Length: 8 hrs and 14 mins
- Release date: 2004-02-05
- Language: English
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Cork Boat
- Written by: John Pollack
- Narrated by: John Pollack
- Length: 5 hrs and 25 mins
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In the late 1990s, John Pollack was working as a Washington speechwriter when, frustrated by the cynicism and hypocrisy on Capitol Hill, he quit his job to pursue a boyhood dream: to build a boat made entirely of wine corks and take it on an epic journey.
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Cork Boat
- Narrated by: John Pollack
- Length: 5 hrs and 25 mins
- Release date: 2004-01-14
- Language: English
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