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 Linda's Books  

***Note -- New Book:  Weight Loss Surgery with the Adjustable Gastric Band: Everything You Need to Know Before and After Surgery to Lose Weight Successfully

Linda’s latest book has been released by Da Capo division of the Perseus Book Group.

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Co-authored with top laparoscopic surgeon Robert Sewell, MD (www.mastercenters.com), this title is the “everything you need to know” guide to the adjustable gastric band (AGB or “the band”), a safe and effective weight loss surgery. It is aimed at the more than nine million people in this country with severe weight problems, along with their family members and friends. The book is also designed to serve as a credible source of information and support for those who already have the band.

Chock-full of stories of individual patients, from before AGB surgery to several years after their band surgery it also includes helpful information from other experts such as psychologists, dieticians, and exercise therapists will illustrate the special challenges, the triumphs, the financial benefits, and the medical “miracles” (such as remission of diabetes) for band patients.

Note from Linda: I've lost about 136 pounds since my band surgery in 2004 and went from a size 32 to a size 12. I also saved enough money on medical co-pays, special clothes, orthopedic shoe inserts and groceries to buy the 2005 Chevy Tahoe you see in my after photo. (Note: I was in a size 18 when the after shot was taken in October of 2005.)

 

Before: Linda’s husband can’t get his arms around her.

“In 2002, I was invisible. I wore bright orange outfits with huge white stripes and spots and still people didn’t see me. I stood in a perpetual shadow. Obesity affected every area of my life in a profoundly negative way. But even though I knew about weight loss surgery, I was not willing to 'die trying.”’ -- a quote from Linda in the proposal for the book.

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Before: Linda with her great aunt in 2003.  

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After: Linda with her new Tahoe in October of 2005.

 

After: Linda’s husband gets his arms around her with room to spare, December 2005.

 

After: Linda’s new look now.

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Upgrade Your Own PC, 1st and 2nd Edition

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Upgrade Your Own PC is aimed at the intermediate to advanced PC users who want to do it themselves. Especially for those who want a cut-to- the-chase approach rather than details you don't have to know to upgrade (such as serial port pin-outs or the type of metal components are made from). The second edition is "upgraded" with over a hundred new photos/illustrations -- just under 300 in all. It includes Windows 98, USB, the Pentium II, the new Celeron processor and more. For the second edition, IDG changed the binding to one a larger format that will lay flat (so the book is easier to use) and redesigned the cover. Order Upgrade Your Own PC

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Making Money In Cyberspace

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Named the best in general in the computer book category in 1998 by the Computer Press Association.

It was important to me that this book should be more than a restatement of the obvious. By obvious, I mean what every other book on making money on the Internet says, such as -- the kinds of businesses that work on the Internet, how to put up a web page, what to do to get advertisers, how to take credit cards, and so on. What's new and compelling about this book is it's the first to identify the appeal of the Internet to our psychological make-up as humans -- in much the same way that researchers have already identified how people respond to other mediums such television or radio. From that springboard, I explain the basic principles that work for business in cyberspace. Over 30 widely varied case studies include detailed information about how to succeed in business on the net. Order Making Money In Cyberspace                      

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Start Your Own Computer Repair Business

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This was the second book I did for McGraw-Hill and part of the Entreprenurial PC Series of how-to computer-based business books. While the series failed overall, this book lives on (despite a hideous lilac cover). It's even been translated into Chinese and includes a diskette of software utilities. (McGraw-Hill paper 300p illus ISBN 0-07-911901-8 1995) Order Start Your Own Computer Repair Business

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Mailing List Services On Your Home-Based PC

Best Non-fiction Computer Book, 1994, from the Computer Press Association

Mailing List Services On Your Home-Based PC (McGraw-Hill, 1994) was my first book for McGraw-Hill. To everyone's surprise, it won the title of Best Non-Fiction Computer Book. Part of McGraw-Hill's Entreprenurial PC Series of how-to computer-based business books, there was a shortage of writers interested in this book project. I was willing to take on this project because I thought I could prove myself. McGraw-Hill decided I could handle it because of my computer background and because I was doing all the domestic and international mailing for a non-profit organization. Unfortunately, the market for this book was smaller than first anticipated and the maillist book is now out-of-print. If you're interested in obtaining a copy, let me know -- there's talk of reviving this title. (McGraw-Hill paper 240p illus ISBN 0-8306-4474-1 1994) Order Mailing List Services on Your Home-Based PC

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