ELC Publishing Author
Rick Stupart
Rick Stupart is an author published by ELC Publishing with 27 titles across 3 series. Notable works include Four Lives Lost: The Bryan Kohberger Idaho Murders Case, Paper Fortunes: The Frenchman Who Tried To Buy An Empire, Built to Fail: The Tacoma Narrows Bridge Disaster.
Standalone Volume
Four Lives Lost: The Bryan Kohberger Idaho Murders Case
Four Lives Lost delivers a comprehensive, meticulously researched account of one of America's most chilling true crime cases. On November 13, 2022, four University of Idaho students — Kaylee Goncalves, Madison Mogen, Ethan Chapin, and Xana Kernodle — were brutally murdered in their off-campus home in Moscow, Idaho. The investigation that followed would captivate the nation and expose the darkest corners of criminal psychology. This gripping narrative traces every step of the case: from the horrific discovery and the initial investigative missteps to the breakthrough forensic evidence that led authorities across state lines. Author Rick Stupart weaves together police records, court documents, and firsthand accounts to construct an unflinching portrait of a tragedy that shattered a close-knit college community. Beyond the procedural details, Four Lives Lost examines the profound human cost — the families left behind, the friends forever changed, and a town forced to confront unimaginable violence in its midst. With unprecedented access to case files and expert analysis, this book stands as the definitive account of a case that redefined modern criminal investigation.
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Paper Fortunes: The Frenchman Who Tried To Buy An Empire
In the aftermath of Louis XIV's death, France teetered on the edge of bankruptcy. The nation's coffers were empty, its credit destroyed, and its future uncertain. Into this desperate situation stepped an extraordinary figure: John Law-mathematician, gambler, financial theorist, and perhaps the most audacious economic visionary in history. Paper Fortunes tells the remarkable true story of how this brilliant Scottish adventurer convinced France's rulers to embark on history's most ambitious financial experiment. In just four short years, Law transformed France's economy through an intoxicating blend of paper money, stock speculation, and colonial ambition centered on the Mississippi River valley in America. His revolutionary system created the world's first major stock market boom, minted unprecedented paper fortunes, and briefly positioned France as Europe's dominant economic power-before collapsing in spectacular fashion. This meticulously researched narrative follows Law's extraordinary journey from Scottish gambling tables to the heights of power in Paris and finally to exile in Venice. It explores how his revolutionary ideas many centuries ahead of their time, permanently transformed our understanding of money, banking, and economic growth. Beyond the historical drama, Paper Fortunes reveals how Law's experiment established enduring patterns of financial euphoria and collapse that continue echoing through contemporary markets.
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Built to Fail: The Tacoma Narrows Bridge Disaster
The engineering forensic account of the November 7, 1940 collapse of the Tacoma Narrows Bridge. Built to Fail explores how pioneering bridge engineer Leon Moisseiff ignored aerodynamic wind forces in pursuit of slender aesthetics, leading to the destructive aeroelastic flutter that tore 'Galloping Gertie' apart in 42 mph winds four months after opening.
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2025: Year of the Gig Economy
Navigating freelance platforms, independent contractor tax strategies, multi-stream digital income, and AI-augmented labor in 2025. 2025: Year of the Gig Economy delivers a practical playbook for knowledge workers transitioning from traditional 9-to-5 employment to autonomous contract consulting.
CyberShield Essentials: Building your Digital Defense
Shell Shocked: Learn Bash for Cybersecurity and Automation
Automate security vulnerability scans, parse server access logs, audit network connections, and build custom incident response scripts using Linux Bash terminal commands. Shell Shocked provides a hands-on technical guide for system administrators and cybersecurity analysts.
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ChatGPT Side Hustles: 50 Profitable Prompts to Make Money Fast
Fifty tested AI prompts and micro-workflows for digital marketing, email copywriting, client proposal writing, and automated content publishing. ChatGPT Side Hustles offers practical instructions for monetizing generative AI tools without needing coding knowledge.
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FROM CHAOS TO CLARITY
A step-by-step personal workflow framework for eliminating digital clutter, streamlining email inboxes, reducing notification fatigue, and building sustainable daily productivity systems. From Chaos to Clarity helps professionals reclaim mental focus in an era of constant digital interruption.
CyberShield Essentials: Building your Digital Defense
Secure the Server: A Guide to Discord Cybersecurity for Admins
Locking down online communities: anti-phishing bot integration, granular role permission audits, token hijack prevention, and secure webhook setups. Secure the Server provides Discord server owners and community moderators with practical defenses against social engineering attacks.
CyberShield Essentials: Building your Digital Defense
Android Security Guide: Protect Your Phone from Hackers
Complete mobile protection: identifying stealth stalkerware, auditing app permission access, securing public Wi-Fi connections with VPNs, and configuring encrypted messaging apps. Android Security Guide empowers users to lock down mobile privacy.
CyberShield Essentials: Building your Digital Defense
Your Complete iOS Privacy Guide
Hardening iPhones and iPads against data harvesting: configuring App Tracking Transparency, enabling Lockdown Mode, managing iCloud Private Relay, and setting up Advanced Data Protection for end-to-end encryption.
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The $100K Resume
How to craft an executive-level, ATS-friendly resume that highlights revenue growth metrics, cost-reduction percentages, and leadership impact. The $100K Resume helps mid-level candidates position themselves for six-figure technology and management roles.
Haunting Lanier: Secrets, Spirits, and the Submerged South
Haunted by History: Lake Lanier, Oscarville
Investigating the flooded ruins of Oscarville beneath Georgia's Lake Lanier. Haunted by History details the 1912 racial expulsions in Forsyth County, the mid-century government land acquisitions, underwater diving discoveries, and the supernatural legends that cling to America's most dangerous lake.
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The $50 Side Hustle
Practical strategies for generating recurring passive income using a single $50 Raspberry Pi computer. The $50 Side Hustle covers building self-hosted VPNs, network-wide Pi-hole ad blockers, micro-hosting services, and automated IoT nodes for small business clients.
CyberShield Essentials: Building your Digital Defense
Firewall Fundamentals: A Beginner’s Guide to Network Protection
Understanding network ports, stateful packet filtering, NAT rules, intrusion detection systems (IDS), and firewall rulesets for home routers, small business networks, and cloud instances. Firewall Fundamentals offers a non-technical entry point into network defense.
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Leading with Empathy: The New Paradigm in Business Leadership
Why empathetic communication, psychological safety, and active listening outperform traditional command-and-control management in modern corporate environments. Leading with Empathy provides executive frameworks for team retention, conflict resolution, and compassionate leadership.
Crash Course: A History of Financial Folly
Two Idiots, One Crash
The wild historical account of rival Wall Street speculators whose personal vendetta and reckless margin trading accidentally cornered the market and triggered a major stock exchange panic. Two Idiots, One Crash unmasks the hubris and greed behind Gilded Age market manipulation.
Haunting Lanier: Secrets, Spirits, and the Submerged South
Lanier’s Shadow: Oscarville, Urban Legends
Oscarville, southern folklore, and the dark history behind Georgia's deadliest body of water. Lanier's Shadow separates urban legend from historical record — investigating Buford Dam's 1956 construction, submerged structures, and the high drowning statistics that keep Lake Lanier in national headlines.
CyberShield Essentials: Building your Digital Defense
Cybersecurity for Beginners
Essential digital safety for non-technical internet users. Cybersecurity for Beginners breaks down email phishing detection, password manager setups, home Wi-Fi encryption, social engineering red flags, and identity theft recovery.
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Digital Declutter Planner
A 30-day structured guide to organizing cloud files, purging email inboxes, unsubscribing from digital noise, managing smartphone notifications, and reclaiming daily mental focus. Digital Declutter Planner delivers daily actionable steps for digital hygiene.
Haunting Lanier: Secrets, Spirits, and the Submerged South
Lanier’s Reckoning: An Investigative History
An investigative history of racial erasure, flooded towns, and modern mysteries beneath Lake Lanier's waters. Lanier's Reckoning examines federal land acquisition records, Buford Dam construction archives, and descendant oral testimonies.
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Optimize & Automate: The Smart Guide to Business Process Management
Mapping internal company workflows, auditing operational bottlenecks, and applying low-code automation tools to scale small business operations. Optimize & Automate provides practical frameworks for eliminating manual data entry and systemizing growth.
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Sustainable Success: Building Eco-Friendly Business Models
How early-stage startups and established corporations can adopt circular economy principles, reduce supply chain carbon footprints, and profit responsibly. Sustainable Success combines ESG compliance guidelines with profitable green business strategies.
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Data-Driven Decisions: Harnessing Analytics for Business Growth
Converting raw customer telemetry into actionable growth strategies: key performance indicators, cohort retention modeling, customer lifetime value optimization, and A/B testing frameworks. Data-Driven Decisions provides executive analytics playbooks.
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PROCESS-DRIVEN SUCCESS: STREAMLINING SYSTEMS
Standard operating procedures (SOPs), delegation frameworks, and systemizing company operations so founder dependencies disappear. Process-Driven Success helps business owners transition from reactive firefighting to scalable management.
Crash Course: A History of Financial Folly
THE SHIP OF FOOLS THAT SANK THE SOUTH SEA BUBBLE
How greed, parliamentary bribery, and Sir Isaac Newton's failed investments sparked the 1720 South Sea Bubble — history's first global stock market crash. The Ship of Fools documents how the South Sea Company exchanged British national debt for worthless stock, creating a speculative frenzy that ruined aristocratic families and led to strict anti-speculation banking laws.
CyberShield Essentials: Building your Digital Defense
Defense in Depth: Building Layered Security
Defense in Depth: Building Layered Security for Home, Business, and Beyond provides a definitive blueprint for protecting your digital life in an era of unprecedented cyber threats. In a world where a single vulnerability can lead to catastrophic data loss, relying on a single defense is no longer enough. Author Rick Stupart delivers a comprehensive guide to building resilient, multi-layered security architectures. From network segmentation and zero-trust access controls to endpoint protection and robust data backup strategies, this book provides actionable frameworks for both home users and small business owners. Learn how to identify potential points of failure, implement defense-in-depth principles, and create a security posture that remains strong even when one layer is compromised. Whether you're securing a home office or a growing enterprise, this is the essential manual for building a digital fortress that lasts.
CyberShield Essentials: Building your Digital Defense
Ghost in the Machine: Stuxnet Revealed
Inside Operation Olympic Games: how the US-Israeli Stuxnet worm physically destroyed nearly 1,000 IR-1 nuclear centrifuges at Iran's Natanz enrichment facility in 2010. Ghost in the Machine analyzes zero-day vulnerability exploits, Siemens Industrial PLC controller manipulation, and the dawn of nation-state cyber warfare.
Frequently Asked Questions
Who is author Rick Stupart?
Rick Stupart is an author published by ELC Publishing with 27 titles across 3 series. Notable works include Four Lives Lost: The Bryan Kohberger Idaho Murders Case, Paper Fortunes: The Frenchman Who Tried To Buy An Empire, Built to Fail: The Tacoma Narrows Bridge Disaster.
What books has Rick Stupart written?
Rick Stupart has written: Four Lives Lost: The Bryan Kohberger Idaho Murders Case, Paper Fortunes: The Frenchman Who Tried To Buy An Empire, Built to Fail: The Tacoma Narrows Bridge Disaster, 2025: Year of the Gig Economy, Shell Shocked: Learn Bash for Cybersecurity and Automation, ChatGPT Side Hustles: 50 Profitable Prompts to Make Money Fast, FROM CHAOS TO CLARITY, Secure the Server: A Guide to Discord Cybersecurity for Admins, Android Security Guide: Protect Your Phone from Hackers, Your Complete iOS Privacy Guide, The $100K Resume, Haunted by History: Lake Lanier, Oscarville, The $50 Side Hustle, Firewall Fundamentals: A Beginner’s Guide to Network Protection, Leading with Empathy: The New Paradigm in Business Leadership, Two Idiots, One Crash, Lanier’s Shadow: Oscarville, Urban Legends, Cybersecurity for Beginners, Digital Declutter Planner, Lanier’s Reckoning: An Investigative History, Optimize & Automate: The Smart Guide to Business Process Management, Sustainable Success: Building Eco-Friendly Business Models, Data-Driven Decisions: Harnessing Analytics for Business Growth, PROCESS-DRIVEN SUCCESS: STREAMLINING SYSTEMS, THE SHIP OF FOOLS THAT SANK THE SOUTH SEA BUBBLE, Defense in Depth: Building Layered Security, Ghost in the Machine: Stuxnet Revealed.
Bibliography
| # | Title | Series | Format |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Four Lives Lost: The Bryan Kohberger Idaho Murders Case | Standalone | eBook, Audiobook |
| 2 | Paper Fortunes: The Frenchman Who Tried To Buy An Empire | Standalone | eBook, Audiobook |
| 3 | Built to Fail: The Tacoma Narrows Bridge Disaster | Standalone | eBook, Audiobook |
| 4 | 2025: Year of the Gig Economy | Standalone | eBook, Audiobook |
| 5 | Shell Shocked: Learn Bash for Cybersecurity and Automation | CyberShield Essentials: Building your Digital Defense | eBook, Audiobook |
| 6 | ChatGPT Side Hustles: 50 Profitable Prompts to Make Money Fast | Standalone | eBook, Audiobook |
| 7 | FROM CHAOS TO CLARITY | Standalone | eBook, Audiobook |
| 8 | Secure the Server: A Guide to Discord Cybersecurity for Admins | CyberShield Essentials: Building your Digital Defense | eBook, Audiobook |
| 9 | Android Security Guide: Protect Your Phone from Hackers | CyberShield Essentials: Building your Digital Defense | eBook, Audiobook |
| 10 | Your Complete iOS Privacy Guide | CyberShield Essentials: Building your Digital Defense | eBook, Audiobook |
| 11 | The $100K Resume | Standalone | eBook, Audiobook |
| 12 | Haunted by History: Lake Lanier, Oscarville | Haunting Lanier: Secrets, Spirits, and the Submerged South | eBook, Audiobook |
| 13 | The $50 Side Hustle | Standalone | eBook, Audiobook |
| 14 | Firewall Fundamentals: A Beginner’s Guide to Network Protection | CyberShield Essentials: Building your Digital Defense | eBook, Audiobook |
| 15 | Leading with Empathy: The New Paradigm in Business Leadership | Standalone | eBook, Audiobook |
| 16 | Two Idiots, One Crash | Crash Course: A History of Financial Folly | eBook, Audiobook |
| 17 | Lanier’s Shadow: Oscarville, Urban Legends | Haunting Lanier: Secrets, Spirits, and the Submerged South | eBook, Audiobook |
| 18 | Cybersecurity for Beginners | CyberShield Essentials: Building your Digital Defense | eBook, Audiobook |
| 19 | Digital Declutter Planner | Standalone | eBook, Audiobook |
| 20 | Lanier’s Reckoning: An Investigative History | Haunting Lanier: Secrets, Spirits, and the Submerged South | eBook, Audiobook |
| 21 | Optimize & Automate: The Smart Guide to Business Process Management | Standalone | eBook, Audiobook |
| 22 | Sustainable Success: Building Eco-Friendly Business Models | Standalone | eBook, Audiobook |
| 23 | Data-Driven Decisions: Harnessing Analytics for Business Growth | Standalone | eBook, Audiobook |
| 24 | PROCESS-DRIVEN SUCCESS: STREAMLINING SYSTEMS | Standalone | eBook, Audiobook |
| 25 | THE SHIP OF FOOLS THAT SANK THE SOUTH SEA BUBBLE | Crash Course: A History of Financial Folly | eBook, Audiobook |
| 26 | Defense in Depth: Building Layered Security | CyberShield Essentials: Building your Digital Defense | eBook, Audiobook |
| 27 | Ghost in the Machine: Stuxnet Revealed | CyberShield Essentials: Building your Digital Defense | eBook, Audiobook |