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Richard Stooker - EzineArticles.com Expert Author
My name is Richard Stooker. I've published short stories
of imaginative fiction (science fiction, fantasy and horror),
some in professional magazines.
Now I stick with money-making nonfiction.
I write for myself, and for hire.
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Copywriting
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- Transforming Your Self by Steve Andreas
[Book-Reviews:Self-Help] Steve Andreas helped bring Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) to the attention of the world. I'm no expert, but I believe this book is a major contribution to the field.
- Ultramind ESP System by Ed Bernd, Jr
[Book-Reviews:Self-Help] Although not well-known because he's dead and his followers and family have split his organization, one of the founders of today's mind movement was Jose Silva. He studied mind technologies for years and eventually came up with a remarkable 4-day seminar.
- The World of Suzie Wong by Richard Mason
[Book-Reviews:Fiction] Set in 1950s Hong Kong, this novel depicts an unlikely love between a captivating Chinese bar girl and an English artist. In its time it was scandalous for its tolerance of vice, and now is scandalous for its tolerance of politically incorrect behavior.
- Email Marking - An Hour a Day by Jeanniey Mullen and David Daniels
[Book-Reviews:Business] This book is a handy and useful guide to incorporating email into the marketing mix for a small or medium sized business. Small entrepreneurs can also use some of the information.
- Unlimited Power by Anthony Robbins
[Book-Reviews:Self-Help] This is the book that launched Anthony Robbins' career on the national stage. After all those infomercials, it'd be easy to dismiss but it is worth reading.
- Encouraging Blog Trackbacks and Comments
[Internet-and-Businesses-Online:Blogging] Part of the beauty and usefulness of blogging is its interrelatedness. You make a post I like or, heck, disagree so much I want to argue with it.
- WordPress Plugins
[Internet-and-Businesses-Online:Blogging] One of the best reasons to use WordPress for your blog is that thousands of talented programmers are designing little subprograms called plugins to make it do many different things. There're thousands available.
- WordPress and Search Engine Optimization
[Internet-and-Businesses-Online:Blogging] Many Internet marketers take the proposition that "Google loves WordPress blogs" as a matter of faith. Is using a WordPress blog really a better search engine optimization technique than a static web site?
- Getting Started With WordPress
[Internet-and-Businesses-Online:Blogging] Millions of people are going online and want to use the Internet for love or money, yet they're intimidated by websites and HTML. Blogs, especially WordPress, are their salvation.
- China Saga by CY Lee
[Book-Reviews:Fiction] We seem to love family sagas. Even though there's no real emotional connection between Jimmy the former Red Guard member finding true love after Mao's death and the downfall of the Gang of Four and Fong Tai his great-grandfather whose story begins the book, we enjoy the story better because they are family -- though neither would understand the other's world. In their own way, though, both are rebels.
- Steal This Book! By Harlan D Kilstein Ed d
[Book-Reviews:Business] Harlan teaches by example -- he stole the title of this book from Abbie Hoffman. A highly successful copywriter, he's generously inviting other copywriters to steal from him to write their own successful sales letters.
- Survive Your Next Plane Crash
[Reference-and-Education:Survival-and-Emergency] Many people believe that if they're ever in a plane crash, they're going to die no matter what. Here's good news -- over 90% of plane crashes have survivors. And what you do can make a big difference whether you live or die.
- The Door to December by Dean Koontz
[Book-Reviews:SciFi-Fantasy-Horror] This must have been a difficult book to write, and is difficult to read. Despite its flaws, it's a worthwhile effort from the best horror thriller writer.
- The Miko by Eric Van Lustbader
[Book-Reviews:Mysteries-Thrillers] Van Lustbader evidently has had a lot of martial arts training, has studied Asian countries and cultures, and has traveled a lot. All those interests appeal to me, and so I read him to learn what he knows that I don't.
- Vittorio the Vampire by Anne Rice
[Book-Reviews:SciFi-Fantasy-Horror] After enormous success writing novels on vampires and other horror topics, Anne Rice returned to the Catholic Church in 1998 and in 2002 dedicated her works to Jesus. Copywrited in 1999, VITTORIO THE VAMPIRE seems to be a transitional work.
- Effective Email Marketing by Herschell Gordon Lewis
[Book-Reviews:Business] Herschell Gordon Lewis is a longtime, well-known copywriter and writer about copywriting. He's the "God" of the catalog writing industry. In this book he turns his attention to the subject of email.
- The Law of Success Volume 2 by Napoleon Hill
[Book-Reviews:Self-Help] The Law of Success was unavailable for a long time, but in 2000 the Wilshire Book Company reprinted those 16 lessons in two volumes. Volume 2 contains lessons Eight through Sixteen.
- The Encyclopedia of Survival Techniques by Alexander Stilwell
[Book-Reviews:Non-Fiction] It also contains chapters on first aid, making fires and weapons, hunting and fishing, surviving natural disasters, foraging wild plant food, navigation and signaling, ropes and knots, rafts and river crossings, and urban survival. However, it's too comprehensive to be complete.
- Keep Your Prostate Healthy
[Health-and-Fitness:Mens-Issues] A man's prostate is not physically close to his heart, but as the organ which manufactures ejaculate fluid, it's almost as emotionally powerful as life itself. Yet men in developed countries have a growing increase in prostate size and cancer as they age.
- Melatonin - True Wonder Hormone?
[Health-and-Fitness:Supplements] Melatonin is the second most hyped hormone supplement, second only to DHEA. Will it really help you sleep more soundly, let alone increase your lifespan to 120 years?
- Andropause - Men's Slow-Motion Version of Menopause
[Health-and-Fitness:Mens-Issues] Everybody knows that around ages 40 to 50 women go through a physical transition that makes her unable to bear more children, and puts them through a lot of biological disruption while her hormones shift and adjust. What many people don't know is that men also go through a similar change, but it lasts for many years, from age 40 to 70 or so.
- The Official Anti-Aging Revolution by Ronald Klatz, Md, DO And Robert Goldman, MD, PhD, DO
[Book-Reviews:Health-Mind-Body] This book makes a big promise -- "Stop the Clock, Time is on Your Side for a Younger, Stronger, Happier You" -- and goes a long way toward fulfilling it. However, don't cancel your life (or medical) insurance coverage just yet.
- The Paradise Eater by John Ralston Saul
[Book-Reviews:Mysteries-Thrillers] It's somewhat slow moving. Field hangs around Bangkok so we can get a sense of its sex and drug scene. His good friend is a male fictional version of a real female AIDS activist. Then he takes a trip to Vientiane Laos to negotiate a business deal and finally, on page 90 discovers the bodies of two friends.
- Surgery For Weight Loss
[Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] If all else fails, cut it out or off. That's a common slogan in modern American medicine and it applies to weight loss as well. The severely obese who can't seem to lose weight through diet and exercise may elect bariatric surgery: gastric bypass, liposuction or gastric banding (stomach stapling).
- The Law of Success (Volume 1) By Napoleon Hill
[Book-Reviews:Self-Help] Napoleon Hill is best known as the author of THINK AND GROW RICH. What's not as well known is that in 1928 he wrote and sold a 16 lesson mail order course called The Law of Success. Unavailable for years, Wilshire reprinted it in a two volume set. The first one contains lessons one through seven.
- Lose Weight While You Sleep - Really
[Health-and-Fitness:Sleep-Snoring] One of the classic slogans of unbelievable weight loss products is "Lose weight while you sleep." However, science shows that getting plenty of sleep actually does help you lose weight.
- Your Body's Set Point - Key to Long-Term Weight Loss
[Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] Quickie, crash diets can work for a few months, but soon you'll reach a plateau. Your body doesn't want you to starve, so it resists further weight loss.
- The Doctor's Heart Cure by Al Sears, MD
[Book-Reviews:Health-Mind-Body] No organ is more important to our lives than our hearts, even our brains -- some people exist for years with a minimally functioning brain. But if our heart stops for more than a short time, it's all over. This book is for those of us who want to know what the American Heart Association is not telling us about preventing and treating heart disease.
- Food Journaling For Weight Loss Success
[Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] Weight loss begins in your mind. You must decide you're going to lose weight. Then you must decide how you're going to lose it. Then you have to follow through.
- Pushing Yourself to Power by John E Peterson
[Book-Reviews:Health-Mind-Body] The author contracted polio at the age of 4 and was left with broken legs that forced him to use crutches. After an encounter with a bully at age 10, his grandfather and a friend introduced him to the courses of Charles Atlas and Earle Leiderman. He hasn't stopped since.
- 12 Secrets to Virility by Al Sears, MD
[Book-Reviews:Health-Mind-Body] The modern world and its lifestyle is making a silent war on the masculinity of the modern man. The Introduction outlines the problem. Men in the developed world have decreasing sperm counts.
- The National Weight Control Registry - Studying Successful Weight Loss
[Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] In 1994 Drs. Jim Hill and Rena Wing set up the National Weight Control Registry. They track thousands of people who report losing at least 30 pounds and keeping it off for at least one year or more.
- Body Mass Indicator (BMI) - What is it?
[Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] BMI is an acronym you see a lot in the worlds of weight loss and fitness. It stands for Body Mass Indicator, and is one way of determining how skinny or fat someone is based on the actual composition of their bodies, not their appearance.
- Your Best Health Under the Sun by Al Sears, MD And Jon Herring
[Book-Reviews:Health-Mind-Body] Could it be that the current conventional wisdom that "everybody knows" is wrong? What if sunlight in normal amounts is not only NOT dangerous, but healthy?
- The Omegarx Zone by Dr Barry Sears
[Book-Reviews:Health-Mind-Body] Prior to this book, Dr. Sears' focus was on the Zone diet. Yet he continued his research, and this book describes how he learned that pharmaceutical grade fish for Omega-3 essential fatty acids is also extremely important. And he explains how they work in tandem to increase your health.
- PACE - Rediscover Your Natural Fitness by Dr Al Sears
[Book-Reviews:Health-Mind-Body] P.A.C.E. is short for "Progressively Accelerating Cardiopulmonary Exertion." What's most important is that it's a compelling, credible challenge to the current practice of "cardio" to achieve a healthier heart.
- The Miracle Seven by John E Peterson and Wendie Pett
[Book-Reviews:Health-Mind-Body] According to the cover, this is about Transformetrics, which is the "Ultimate Training System." It features exercises for both men and women you can do anywhere, anytime.
- The Age-Free Zone by Barry Sears, PhD
[Health-and-Fitness:Anti-Aging] Originally published as The Anti-Aging Zone, this is my second favorite Zone book. The Zone diet-related information has been somewhat supplanted by more recent books, and there's no emphasis on pharmaceutical-grade fish oil, but it contains a lot of information on improving your health and extending your life as much as possible.
- Water For Health, For Healing, For Life by F Batmanghelidj, MD
[Book-Reviews:Health-Mind-Body] You're not sick, you're thirsty! is this book's subtitle, and it sums up the book's message. We're not drinking enough water for optimum health.
- The Anti-Inflammation Zone by Dr Barry Sears
[Book-Reviews:Health-Mind-Body] Reversing the silent epidemic that's destroying out health is the subtitle. This is my favorite Zone book because it's up to date and ties itself to good health rather than the more popular weight loss.
- The Soy Zone by Dr Barry Sears, Phd
[Book-Reviews:Health-Mind-Body] Dr. Sears is on a mission to develop the Zone into the way all people who want to get or remain healthy will eat. He continually keeps it up to date with the latest scientific research, and adds to it as necessary. Plus, by coming up with new angles to spin, he's finding ways to market it to more people.
- Testosterone is Your Friend by Roger Mason
[Book-Reviews:Health-Mind-Body] This is subtitled "A Book for Men and Women." It's worth noting that although this hormone is associated with men, women need to have adequate amounts also, if they want good health. The author starts out with a down to earth explanation that testosterone is important, but only one hormone. And it's the proper balance of hormones which is important...
- Yoga and Health by Selvarajan Yesudian and Elisabeth Haich
[Book-Reviews:Health-Mind-Body] Although this book was written in 1953, Amazon readers still call it the best book on yoga ever written. It's still as useful as the day I bought the first paperback edition in 1965 when only a young boy.
- Face Exercises That Prevent Premature Aging by Jeanette Johnson
[Book-Reviews:Health-Mind-Body] People rarely think about exercising their facial muscles, yet those muscles grow old and flabby just like any of our other muscles. This accounts for some of the changes in our faces as we age. Can we reverse some of them through exercise? According to this book, the answer is yes.
- Break Through Your Set Point by George L Blackburn, MD, PhD
[Book-Reviews:Health-Mind-Body] The title is somewhat misleading, since the book covers many other aspects of weight loss. Many of them useful, but the connection with how to overcome your set point was not clear. Researchers first came up with the "set point" theory in 1982.
- The Zone by Dr Barry Sears
[Book-Reviews:Health-Mind-Body] This is the book which, in 1995, brought back the connection between the latest scientific medical research, historical findings, weight loss, good health -- and sanity. THE ZONE advocates eating truly balanced meals for good health and weight loss or control.
- Enron - The Rise and Fall by Loren Fox
[Book-Reviews:Business] Learn the investing lessons of Enron. Not only how to avoid putting your money into dishonest, doomed companies such as Enron, but also how to avoid the mistakes that company made.
- How Depreciation Increases the After-Tax Yields of Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs)
[Real-Estate:Investing] REITs are even better investments than commonly realized. Because of depreciation, their after-tax net yields to shareholders are substantially higher than stock dividends from other companies.
- Investing in REITs by Ralph L Block (3rd Edition) Book Review
[Book-Reviews:Personal-Finance] Real Estate Investment Trusts bring terrific benefits to equity investors, especially those seeking high levels of income from their portfolios. This book tells you everything you need to know to get started investing in REITs.
- How Important is Keeping Up With Inflation -- Really?
[Investing] All too many financial advisors make a fetish out of keeping up with inflation. If you can, great, but don't be discouraged if you can't. It's better to save some money than to spending all your money now just because inflation will make it worth less in the future.
- Canadian Income Trusts Time To Buy Or Dump?
[Investing] Although Canadian politics make the future of taxation of Canadian income trust uncertain, politics outside of Canada makes it even riskier not to own energy assets inside Canada. Take advantage of high yields while you can.
- How Modern Portfolio Theory is a Secret Plot of the IRS
[Investing] Individual investors are trying to implement the asset allocation and rebalancing techniques used by large funds on their own portfolios, without realizing that those funds don't have to pay capital gains. How can individuals (who must pay capital gains taxes) compete against institutions that can rebalance without the IRS taking a chunk of the profits?
- The REAL Risk to Your Investments
[Investing] Most financial writers regard "risk" as a simple mathematical construct that measure the up and down price swings of a investment. In the real world, risk means danger. Real investment risk is the business risk faced by the companies you invest in.
- Start Businesses Like an Entrepreneur, but Invest Like an Investor
[Investing] Entrepreneurship is great. Investing is great. But they're two separate activities, skills and disciplines. Don't mix them together.
- The Secret Code of the Superior Investor by James K Glassman
[Investing] The best investing "secret" is to buy stock in good companies and partake in their success for the rest of your life. If you try to outsmart the market, you'll wind up losing money or not keeping as much as you could have.
- Yes, You Can Still Retire Comfortably! The Baby Boom Retirement Crisis and How to Beat It
[Home-and-Family:Retirement] This book offers a lot of great advice on retirement, but beware that for us baby boomers and Gen Xers, its "conservative" formula of selling off 4% of your saved assets a year may be dangerous. Within a few years, massive selling by baby boomers could greatly depress stock and bond prices.
- Motley Fool's Rule Breakers, Rule Makers-The Foolish Guide to Picking Stocks by David & Tom Gardner
[Investing] In this book, The Motley Fool brothers give a lot of good stock picking advice, but fail to see that the "Emperor's" robe of capital gains is also invisible. They steer you away from mutual funds (yeah!) but toward picking individual stocks (boo!) instead of exchange traded funds.
- Diversification or Di "Worse" Ification - Which Is It?
[Investing] Diversification is a proven and common-sense technique to protect your wealth. Those who deride it as "diworsification" usually have their own agenda, which doesn't include protecting your wealth.
- Warren Buffett Deserves His "Good Luck" Just as Much as Highly Accomplished Experts
[Investing] Efficient market academics claim that Warren Buffett and other stock pickers with long term, market-beating records are just lucky coin flippers. I claim that Buffett possesses and developed stock picking skills that are rare but not a matter of luck - except that he is lucky to be endowed with those skills. But success in developing them is no more luck than the hard work of a successful athlete.
- American Sucker by David Denby - Book Review
[Investing] A New York-based journalist got a unique insight into the high tech/dotcom boom. His story of how he lost a million dollars can help investors learn from his mistakes.
- Yes - You Can Time the Market! by Ben Stein and Phil DeMuth - Book Review
[Investing] This book defies the current wisdom of Wall Street that "you can't time the market". You can pick when you buy and sell, so you might as well do so intelligently, using indicators that have been proven to make money in the long run.
- The Fourth Mega-Market by Ralph Acampora
[Investing] Ralph Acampora predicted the bull market of the late 1990s, and in this book published in 2000 predicts it will continue for more years. Too bad he failed to predict the "Tech Wreck," but maybe the trend will continue up for some more years.
- A Mathematician Plays The Stock Market By John Allen Paulos
[Investing] Quite informative and thought provoking book in the stock market and how and why investors make the mistakes they do. Author is a split-personality - a mathematician who understands probability for more than most of us, yet also an investor who lost a lot of money buying WorldCom stock during the bull market.
- Crash Profits - Make Money When Stocks Sink and Soar
[Investing] Martin Weiss's book is good at scaring you by laying out the risks investors faced. Much of this information is still good. But there are new threats. And he is weak on how to actually profit from stock market crashes.
- How to Protect Yourself from HYIP Frauds
[Investing] HYIPs are online frauds. Don't be fooled. Don't waste your time or money. Invest your money for income from real stocks, bonds and mutual funds.
- How Software Programmers Can Become Rich
[Business:Entrepreneurialism] Software programmers and developers can use their expertise to make themselves financially independent and even wealthy if they focus on helping solve problems for people. Many are forming their own software companies, called micro-ISVs.
- One Way For Techies to Succeed, Despite Themselves
[Business:Careers-Employment] Join your company's management team, in your own mind at least, even before you actually have the authority. And you're that much more likely to be promoted.
- The Most Important Skill Techies Need to Succeed
[Business:Careers-Employment] A Microsoft "service representative" made me so angry I discovered an important skill for every techie -- and all of us. Learning how it feels to wear another person's shoes.
- High Tech Jobs Are Growing Fast
[Business:Careers-Employment] According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, some high tech jobs will be among the fastest growing job fields in the country by 2014. There're other reasons for believing that more jobs will soon be available in the high tech industry.
- Why Techies Who Don't Believe in ESP Make More Money
[Business:Careers-Employment] Learn to communicate with people on their level. You understand that you must do that for computers. People are no different, just much more complicated and emotional.
- Why Techies Get Laid Off and How to Avoid It
[Business:Careers-Employment] Why accounting affects the careers of techies. When you understand it, you can help protect your job.
- Changing to a Computer Career For Retired Baby Boomers
[Home-and-Family:Baby-Boomer] The retirement of lots of baby boomers will create an opportunity for many people to change to a computer career. And many of them will also be baby boomers.
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