United States of America: The Land and Its People (Macdonald Countries)

Bear, John

Teen & Young Adult

Silver Burdett Pr

The alternative guide to college degrees & non-traditional higher education

Stonesong Press

San Francisco: an unusual guide to unusual shopping

PRICE/STERN/SLOAN

The Eighth Edition of the book that describes & discusses every approach known to earning a degree without ever taking a single traditional course - from the most respectable to the most outrageous - describes hundreds of innovative programs at colleges & universities which offer fully-accredited degrees - the only college guide dealing with the latest developments in education.  Includes non-resident & short-residency, Bachelor's, Master's, Doctorates & Law Degrees...  Also Medical Degrees, Honorary Doctorates, Diploma Mills & much more.

How to Get the Degree You Want: Bear's Guide to Non-Traditional College Degrees

Business & Money

Ten Speed Press+

Discusses buying criteria, dealers, warranties, hidden costs, computer applications, programming, computer crime, and the psychological impact of computers

Computer Wimp

Science & Math

Mathematics

John Bear, overweight most of his life, set out to invent a diet that would work for him. He succeeded grandly by ignoring anything to do with food, and concentrating on the psychology of human behavior. Principle # 1: Everyone is enthusiastic and dedicated on the first day of a diet - but 98% of all dieters fail because that enthusiasm doesn't last. Principle #2: There are situations in life that we enter into voluntarily, but once we have done so, we cannot turn back. Getting married, joining the Army, walking through the gate onto a roller coaster ride, and so on. Bear's great breakthrough was to combine these two principles: to harness that initial enthusiasm and create a diet you begin voluntarily but which becomes involuntary once you have begun. On the first day, you "simply" enter into an unbreakable agreement that calls for something unpleasant to happen if you don't lose weight. For Bear, it involved money: he put up $5,000 that would all go to the American Nazi Party if he didn't make his weight loss goal. He literally blackmailed himself thin. You don't need money to set up a self-blackmail scheme, as long as you arrange for something negative to happen if you don't lose weight. It works just as well by pledging your time, giving away or destroying beloved objects, writing letters which would cause great embarrassment if mailed, and a whole raft of other possibilities , described here in detail. The Blackmail Diet has nothing to do with food. There are hundreds of diets out there, and they all work. You can lose weight with any or all. Most people begin with enthusiasm, then give up after a few days or a few weeks. They simply don't have the incentive to stick with it. And that's the beauty of The Blackmail Diet. Now you've got incentive. Lose weight or else. It's that simple.

The Blackmail Diet

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Diets & Weight Loss

This is the book for those who want to go beyond the tried-and-true sources of student aid, with unusual advice on how to bargain with schools, how to fund an education through entrepreneurial ventures, and hundreds of listings giving full contact information for private foundations that exist solely to fund students. Fully revised and updated.

Finding Money for College

Gathers recipes for cereals, fruit dishes, biscuits, muffins, bread, coffee cakes, pancakes, waffles, French toast, eggs, sandwiches, soups, salads, main dishes, side dishes, and desserts.

Cafe Beaujolais

Cookbooks, Food & Wine

Fox, Margaret S.

Cooking Education & Reference

Bear's Guide to Non-Traditional College Degrees (Bear's Guide to Earning Degrees by Distance Learning)

Bear's Guide to Non-Traditional College Degrees

Education & Teaching

Higher & Continuing Education

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