Bøger af Bob Cohen

Marty Fenton is an older graduate student who moonlights as a PI. As he struggle to complete his PhD in psychology he unexpectedly finds himself embroiled in two new cases, one of which involves a dark family secret his mother has kept from Marty and his sister since they were children. Marty is forced to revist his family's history as he tries to track down a long-missing relative. As he pursues this secret he encounters some interesting characters and several shocking surprises. At the same time he is trying to unravel his family mystery, Angie, his good friend's wife, asks him to find a confused, disheveled woman who has wandered into Sunday Mass and abruptly disappears. His search for this woman takes him to a Catholic monastery as well as several churches where he learns about what really goes on inside these sacred spaces.While Marty tries to complete his dissertation and conduct his investigations, he is also dealing with his chronic ambivalence about making a commitment to a romantic partner. Faith Pasternak, an attorney he has been dating since they met on a previous case, has issued an ultimatum: either get married or end the relationship. Marty propsed to her several months ago but is having difficulty setting a wedding date .Marty is not your typical sleuth. More brains than brawn; tortoise than hare. His pesonal demons compete for his attention but he persists until he solves the case he is wworking on.

In plain easy-to-understand language, you'll be able to understand over 50 common technology terms that are used in everyday language. Written by education expert Bob Cohen, you'll discover the meaning and function of technology in a new, simpler way. With technology terms being tossed around in everyday conversation at work, home, television shows, and movies, it's easy to miss out on the meaning of conversations. Ask someone to explain a technical term and what it means and your response is often an explanation that makes it more confusing or no explanation at all. Don't be left behind by the use of technical terms any longer and start using them yourself. With this book learning about technology is as easy as ABC.

Whether you are retired, laid-off, re-entering the workforce, or starting a career, the Internet has changed how people find work and earn an income. New opportunities exist using Internet sites and Web apps where you can find work. Instead of hiring part-time workers, many people and organizations look to freelancers and contractors instead of employees. From mystery shopping to legal advice, the Internet is changing the way you can find work and earn money. Learn about more than 50 websites and smartphone apps that offer opportunties to make money. This workbook is used in the class "The New Moonlighting" taught by technology trainer Bob Cohen at West Los Angeles College and Pasadena City College. If you're interested in ways to make money on the Internet, this book is for you.

Updated for 2021. Used in classes and certificate programs at California Community Colleges, this workbook helps the beginner to intermediate business or marketer learn how to use all of the popular social media sites to promote their business or organization. This book is organized to help anyone who is starting social media marketing or anyone who needs help advancing their social media marketing efforts. This book covers using Facebook, the most widely used of all social media websites, and an excellent place to learn how to market on any social media site. Inside you'll find a detailed explanation of using Facebook and the marketing options available. Then we move on to other social media sites, and depending on your business, organization, industry, or market, these may be more effective for your specific goals. We'll take a look at some of the options on the market today. This workbook covers the following topics: What is social media marketing - we'll start by taking a look at what social media marketing is, why using it can help your marketing efforts, and how businesses, nonprofits, and other organizations use it. Content Marketing - using social media requires supplying fresh information (content) to publish on your social media accounts. Facebook Pages - since Facebook is the dominant social media platform in the marketplace, we'll take a close look at how Facebook works to get a foundation that will prepare us for marketing using Facebook.Facebook Advertising - since Facebook is the dominant social media platform in the marketplace, you'll learn how Facebook ads work to get a foundation that will prepare you for marketing using Facebook and other sites. Facebook Advertising - by creating a page for a business or organization on Facebook, Facebook can use Facebook to advertise and reach a targeted audience. You'll receive an introduction to how Facebook advertising works, how you can target specific groups of users based on their location, age, and other profile information that they entered into their Facebook user accounts. Twitter, LinkedIn, Instagram, Pinterest, and other social media - these social media sites are also a valuable way to market your business. We'll take a look at the most popular social networks and what they can do for your marketing. Planning social media Marketing - effective social media marketing includes putting together a schedule and a plan that focuses on accomplishing the most important activities. Get tips you can use to start or improve your social media marketing efforts. If you're thinking of doing your marketing, you'll learn how to target your audience and determine the time and skills necessary for social media marketing. If you're planning to assign the work to someone else, I'll give you tips on picking a qualified resource or contractor. We'll go through each of these topics by the end of the book, and you'll be prepared to start your social media marketing efforts!

Marty Fenton is an older psychology graduate student at Syracuse University who is struggling to complete his Ph.D. dissertation while moonlighting as a PI. Unfortunately, his primary referral source, Professor Singletary, his advisor, keeps finding pro bono cases for his Marty to solve. In Montague's Fix, Singletary gets Marty caught up with Greg Liakos, who worked for Roland Montague, a successful investor until convicted for conducting a notorious Ponzi scheme. Greg Liakos, a former employee, has been receiving frightening threats warning that him to keep his mouth shut. Claiming innocence, Greg connects Marty encounters to some of the high rollers in Syracuse's financial scene. Some earn their money in legitimate ways. Others, not so much. As Marty continues to dig for answers, the threats escalate, and Marty becomes a target. As if he doesn't have enough on his plate, Marty is tasked by his advisor to help SU women's basketball team find a star players who has gone missing. Montague's Fix, set in Syracuse, New York, is filled with quirky characters, continuously evolving plot lines and a few surprises. Marty, with his wry sense of humor and preference for cerebral exercise, stands in sharp contrast to the hard-boiled and sophisticated big city sleuths that inhabit other mystery novels. This is the fourth book in the Marty Fenton Mystery series.

A collection of watercolor paintings by Kari Naglestad, 1950-2013. Color was her "thing" and in the last several years of her life Kari burst forth with a variety of watercolor paintings. In just a few years her natural sense of color and style resulted in over 30 watercolors on a variety of subjects, all with vibrant hues. Her patience and attention to detail resulted in watercolor paintings with life-like precision, with each detail offering eye-candy enjoyment. This collection shows all of her work in full color.

n plain easy-to-understand language, you'll be able to understand over 175 common technology terms that are used in everyday language. Written by education expert Bob Cohen, you'll discover the meaning and function of technology in a new, simpler way. With technology terms being tossed around in everyday conversation at work, home, television shows, and movies, it's easy to miss out on the meaning of conversations. Ask someone to explain a technical term and what it means and your response is often an explanation that makes it more confusing or no explanation at all. Don't be left behind by the use of technical terms any longer and start using them yourself. With this book learning about technology is as easy as ABC.

The Legendary Woofer-Tweeter Experiment is my story about two unusually enterprising 11-year-old boys, their disparate dads, and a very affectionate dog named Woofer. Kit Quakenbush thinks PJ Purvy is just about the coolest kid he's ever known. PJ's lived all over the world, has seen and done tons of terrific stuff - and Kit would give almost anything to trade his own dull, boring existence for PJ's fascinating one. So when the two of them set out together to create a legendary science presentation, the most memorable their middle school has ever seen, Kit has great expectations. And, as it turns out, "memorable" is exactly what it becomes. . . . But not at all in the way they'd intended - or would have wanted. For kids in the middle-reader years, especially boys who would rather do just about anything besides sit down and read a "boring" book, exciting stories that tackle hard-to-discuss issues head-on are all too rare. Written from Kit's point of view, The Legendary Woofer-Tweeter Experiment looks at how shockingly different life experiences can be, even for people who seem outwardly similar; how at times the most seemingly respectable of fathers can traumatically overstep the bounds; how first impressions can sometimes hide far more sinister elements. And, in the end, how crucial the qualities of patience, compassion, respect, and loyalty truly are.

When Marty Fenton's professor asks him to look into the death of a civil rights activist in the 1960s, he is not sure where to begin. Fenton, a 40 year-old graduate student in psychology at Syracuse University who moonlights as a private investigator, has worked on some challenging mysteries but has never worked on a case that occurred before he was born . As he delves into the death of Hattie Ferson he encounters some interesting people who were involved with her in the protest movement in Syracuse. He learns about civil rights activity in Central New York during that era and becomes enthralled with Hattie, a charismatic and enigmatic figure who appeared to be a woman whose commitment to the cause of civil rights was matched by her desire to be intimate with the men in the movement. From the accounts of the individuals Marty speaks with it is apparent that she had a strong impact on the people she worked with. Although he identifies several potential suspects, Marty's investigation keeps leading him down blind alleys as he tries to find Hattie's killer. When he finally discovers the circumstances of her death he is surprised and disturbed. Marty, who enrolled in graduate school after a twenty year hiatus from academia, is having a difficult time with his graduate studies. After two years of struggling with the mysteries of statistics and research methodology he has just completed his Master's thesis and is currently working on his dissertation proposal. In addition to trying to find out who killed Hattie, he is also helping Lou DeSantis, his police lieutenant friend, discover who was responsible for the hit-and-run care crash that nearly killed Lou's teenage children. When he isn't studying or sleuthing Marty is concerned with nurturing his long-distance relationship with Faith Pasternak, whom he met on his last case after his sculptor/bodybuilder girl friend broke up with him. Faith is a lawyer from Northampton, Massachusetts who lost the use of her legs after her own horrific automobile accident that killed her husband and young son. In addition to engaging the reader in unraveling the puzzle of Hattie's death, this book provides a snapshot of Syracuse in the sixties and the way in which discrimination manifested itself in this mid-size Central New York city. The novel describes how the civil rights movement, primarily associated with the South, attempted to confront prejudice in the North and glimpse into what happened to the activists during the ensuing forty plus years. Some individuals remained committed to the core values of the civil rights movement while others followed a different course. Marty Fenton, is not your conventional hard-boiled PI. He is neither a macho, gun-wielding hero nor a brilliant, quirky Sherlock Holmes-like investigator. He is a fairly average guy with a penchant for working on puzzles and a fair amount of self-doubt who relies on patience, persistence an inquiring mind and a quirky sense of humor to solve the cases his professor asks him to tackle.

Updated for 2021. For beginning to advanced bloggers, learn how to start a blog, make money with blogging, find content ideas for your blog, and where to get a blog. With easy-to-understand directions, you'll be setting up and posting articles, photos, videos, and more. Used in Bob Cohen's class taught at community colleges, this book will take you from start to finish and help experienced bloggers improve their current website. Included inside are steps for how to set up a free blog, how to use editing tools, and how to add content and manage your blog. Learn why a blog is the best type of website for a business and how blogs can improve your search ranking and save you time posting on social media sites. If making money is your goal as a blogger, you'll learn how to profit from advertising, affiliates, and getting paid for your content.

Four Poems written by Bob Cohen during a year in which he wanted to understand and discover love.

Every organization needs to have an internet marketing approach, and there are more ways than ever to market on the internet, with new ones becoming available all the time. This book, written for professionals, entrepreneurs, and small business owners who need to promote their business on the internet, will help you start or expand your online marketing.This book and the corresponding class taught at community colleges is an introduction covering all of the essentials for you. For more in-depth information, you can read these books or take the courses: Marketing with Facebook and Social MediaSearch Engine, Google Ads, Email, and E-Commerce MarketingBlogging for Fun and ProfitMost of my readers and students are trying to catch up, keep up with, or understand the changes that internet marketing has brought to the age-old process of reaching prospective customers. You might be: the owner of a small-to-medium sized businessa self-employed professionala one-person marketing department for a businessa salesperson who does lead developmenta business executive trying to learn more about internet marketinga fund-raiser for a non-profit organizationa web designer who wants to learn more about internet sales and marketingThese are some of the jobs people have who attend my classes on internet marketing, social media marketing, blogging, and computers. As you'll see from the chapter headings in this book, there are many topics to cover on internet marketing, and there are many ways to do it. My goal is to help you understand enough about the choices and options you have available to make informed decisions about what tools to apply for your specific needs

In this mystery novel set in central New York, sleuth Marty Fenton is drawn into the most complex and dangerous puzzle he has ever encountered.

In Hammond's Choice, Ruth and Larry Hammond have been forced to relinquish custody of their son, Tommy, in order to obtain services for his serious emotional and behavioral problems. The Hammonds turn to Marty Fenton to discover what happened the night Tommy was accused of stabbing to death Kevin Landry, another resident at Possum Ridge School. As Fenton, a graduate student in psychology and part-time private investigator, delves into this case, he learns a lot about the child mental health system and becomes aware of its questionable policies and practices. He encounters skillful counselors as well as individuals whose problems rival those of the children they serve. Join sleuth Marty Fenton as he uncovers another dark secret buried in this strange place of healing and discovers unsettling truths about the mental health care system. ABOUT THE AUTHOR Bob Cohen is Professor and Vice-Chair in the Department of Psychiatry, as well as Director of the Virginia Treatment Center for Children at Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU). He earned an M.S. and Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from Syracuse University. Cohen is engaged in research and program development in child mental health, youth violence prevention and autism, and is extensively published in his field. He is also the author of Majorski's Ghost, and is at work on a third Marty Fenton mystery. He lives in Richmond, Virginia.