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John Bear
Books Published so far

* Morning Food from Cafe Beaujolais (with Margaret Fox, Ten Speed Press; 1985; completely revised edition, 2006)

* Degree Mills: the billion dollar industry that has sold more than a million fake degrees (with Allen Ezell; Prometheus Books, 2005)

* Not Your Mother's Cookbook (with Marina Bear; SLG Books, 2004)

* Bears' Guide to Earning Degrees by Distance Learning (with Mariah Bear; 15th ed., 2003)

* Send This Jerk the Bedbug Letter: how corporations, politicians, and the media deal with consumer complaints (Ten Speed Press, 1996)

* Computer Wimp: 166 things I wish I had known before I bought my computer (Ten Speed Press, 1984)

* The #1 New York Times Bestseller (a book about the phenomenon of bestsellers; Ten Speed Press, 1992)

* Complaint Letters for Busy People (with Mariah Bear, Career Press, 1998)

* Get Your IT Degree and Get Ahead (with Mariah Bear and Tom Head; Osborne McGraw-Hill, 1999)

* How to Repair Food (with Marina Bear and Tanya Zeryck, Ten Speed Press, 3rd edition, 1995)

* The United States of America: the land and its people (for the Time-Life countries series)

* Cafe Beaujolais, Mendocino, California (with Margaret Fox, Ten Speed Press)

* The Unusual Guide to Unusual Shopping in San Francisco (with Jay Conrad Levinson and Pat Levinson, Price/Stern/Sloan)

* Bears' Guide to the Best MBAs by Distance Learning (with Mariah Bear, Ten Speed Press)

* Bears' Guide to the Best Computer Degrees by Distance Learning (with Mariah Bear and Larry McQueary, Ten Speed Press)

* Bears' Guide to the Best Education Degrees by Distance Learning (with Mariah Bear, Thomas Nixon, and Tom Head, Ten Speed Press)

* The World's Worst Maxims (Price/Stern/Sloan)

* So You're In Your Twenties (Price/Stern/Sloan)
* So You're in Your Thirties
* So You're in Your Forties
* So You're in Your Fifties
* So You're in Your Sixties

* Computer Wimp No More: the intelligent beginner's guide to computers (with David Pozerycki, Ten Speed Press)

* Mailing from Mexico (Wightman Publishing)

* Bears' Guide to Finding Money for College (with Mariah Bear; Ten Speed Press)

* Signals and Messages (British Publishing Company, London)

* The Blackmail Diet: lose weight or else (Ten Speed Press)

* The Prince and the Frog and the Princess and the Mole and the Prince and the Frog and (children's book, Tricycle Press)

* The Something-Went-Wrong, What-Do-I-Do-Now Cookbook (with Marina Bear; Harcourt Brace Jovanovich)

* Guide to Nontraditional Higher Education (Grosset & Dunlap)

* Fifteen monographs on the higher education systems of the United States, Germany, Cuba, Mexico, and other countries (NOOSR, the Australian National Office on Overseas Skills Recognition, published by the Australian National Publishing Office, 1990-1994).