Education related

• Degree Mills: the billion dollar industry that has sold more than a million fake degrees (with Allen Ezell; Prometheus Books, January 2005) ISBN 978-1591022381
• Get Your IT Degree and Get Ahead (with Mariah Bear and Tom Head; Osborne McGraw-Hill, 1999) ISBN 9780072126051
• Bears' Guide to the Best MBAs by Distance Learning (with Mariah Bear, Ten Speed Press, January 2000), ISBN 9781580082204
• Bears' Guide to the Best Computer Degrees by Distance Learning (with Mariah Bear and Larry McQueary, Ten Speed Press, March 2001), ISBN 9781580082211
• Bears' Guide to the Best Education Degrees by Distance Learning (with Mariah Bear, Thomas Nixon, and Tom Head, Ten Speed Press), March 1, 2004, ISBN 978-1580083331
• Bears' Guide to Finding Money for College (with Mariah Bear; Ten Speed Press, November 1997) ISBN 0898159334
• 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).

Miscellaneous

• Morning Food from Cafe Beaujolais (with Margaret Fox, Ten Speed Press; 1985; completely revised edition, 2006) ISBN 9780898153095
• The Something-Went-Wrong, What-Do-I-Do-Now Cookbook (with Marina Bear; Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1970), ISBN 978-0151837359
• Signals and Messages (British Publishing Company, London)
• The Blackmail Diet: lose weight or else (Ten Speed Press, January 1, 1982) ASIN: B002HGK4YM
• Not Your Mother's Cookbook (with Marina Bear; SLG Books, 2004) ISBN 978-0943389370
• Send This Jerk the Bedbug Letter: how corporations, politicians, and the media deal with consumer complaints (Ten Speed Press, May 1, 1996) ISBN 978-0898158113
• The #1 New York Times Bestseller (a book about the phenomenon of bestsellers; Ten Speed Press, January 1, 1992), ASIN: B002LNTO8I
• Complaint Letters for Busy People (with Mariah Bear, Career Press, July 1999), ISBN 978-1564144034
• How to Repair Food (with Marina Bear and Tanya Zeryck, Ten Speed Press, revised edition, March 2004) ISBN 978-0898155556
• Computer Wimp No More: the intelligent beginner's guide to computers (with David Pozerycki), Ten Speed Press, revised edition 1991. ISBN 9780898154320
• Mailing from Mexico (Wightman Publishing)
• The Unusual Guide to Unusual Shopping in San Francisco (with Jay Conrad Levinson and Pat Levinson, Price/Stern/Sloan, January 1, 1972), ASIN: B002KZOQLM
• The Prince and the Frog and the Princess and the Mole and the Prince and the Frog and (children's book, Tricycle Press, October 1, 1994), ISBN 978-1883672072
• The World's Worst Proverbs (Price/Stern/Sloan, 1976), ISBN 9780843104073
• 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