Published books
Scientific books on invention, water and ions, and the science of viruses, alongside creativity books including the novel Polishing Diamonds.
Science
2026Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Summary: Dr. R. Cuero presents in this book, The Process of Scientific Invention: The Key to Competing in a Technological and AI-driven Society, his scientific inventing experience, as confirmed by his more than 40 inventions, of which 32 have been patented by the U.S. Patent Office, and rest are patent pending, and others are currently undergoing experimental process, as of 2026. Also, this book contains a few chapters about what it took for other inventors from different civilizations around the world and throughout history to create inventions, including descriptions of their inventions and pitfalls.
However, not every one of the author’s inventions is described or mentioned in the book due to the limitation of space or number of pages and/or because some are still in the process of optimization. Nonetheless, the general description of some of the inventions used as examples fulfill the objective of the book, which is to show what it takes to develop scientific invention. This book is timely written because making inventions is the alternative to compete in today’s fast-paced technological and AI society. In fact, the book contains a chapter on how AI and some aspects of invention could potentially synergize.
In the book, Dr. Cuero shares his scientific knowledge and skills integrating concepts of biology, chemistry, and physics as well as biochemistry, microbiology, molecular and synthetic biology applied to biotechnological, biomedical and environmental areas. Dr. Cuero also shares, in an enlightening chapter, about how his inventions led him to reconcile the concepts of geo-genesis and biogenesis toward a better understanding of biomolecular evolution and for production of new and effective products related to health and environmental protection. In addition, Dr. Cuero presents in the book his technical, intellectual, and personal experiences that led him to create inventions in different parts of the world, including the challenges he had to overcome to become an inventor. The book presents the human, mental, and heuristic capacities required for inventing, in addition to using scientific knowledge base and technical experience and skills.
Dr. Cuero hopes this book will become a source of inspiration for any children or adults with a curiosity for invention and scientific knowledge. Even though invention is a result of individual capacity, knowledge, skill, experience, attitude, as well as social and cultural conditions, this book is a good general road map or guide for individuals and institutions toward invention.
This book can be purchased on the Cambridge Scholars Publishing website
2022Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Summary: Based on his own scientific experience and from other scientists around the world, Dr. Cuero presents in this book the importance of water and ions in the biological system at the atomic, molecular, and cellular level. The book also expresses the relationship of water and ions to life, metabolism, health, and interactions with atmospheric conditions throughout evolution.
This book can be purchased on Amazon or the Cambridge Scholars Publishing website
2026Ewings Publishing
A pictorial, humorous, and cartoony story that makes complex biological science accessible.
2023Cuero and Gutierrez
Summary: COVID Ghost Game was written to reflect how the COVID-19 pandemic left many people across the world fearful of the unknown. Whilst the pandemic was not the first instance of such widespread infection in human history, it was for the majority of the population alive today, and it is the fear of the unknown that kept many people in a state of terror.
Therefore, the author of this book, R. Cuero, PhD, using his forty years of experience as a microbiologist at the cellular and molecular level, attempts to share a grounded knowledge of the COVID-19 virus in order to demystify the people’s beliefs of the pandemic, but rather to use knowledge to understand it. Within an easily understandable and humorous narrative, this book gives us a glimpse of a more comprehensive molecular, and epidemiological perspective of the virus without losing its scientific significance. Tales of the Covid Mutants is the sequel to this book.
This book can be purchased on Amazon
Creativity
2025Novel
Polishing Diamonds explores the great creative capacities of women, as well as overcoming difficult situations. After a sudden tragedy leaves three sisters orphaned, their lives are forever changed.
With a great sensitivity to companionship and love, this novel is a testament to overcoming adversity and finding one’s true calling by finding the balance between the purpose of life and social purpose, including professional, which is now highly emphasized by women. The characters in the novel are orphan triplets, adopted by three different types of families – a wealthy and educated family, an educated and middle-class family, and a low-income family of faith but with little education. The author chose triplets to be the main characters of this novel to present the three traditional references toward success in society, which include wealth, education, and faith. Despite the triplets being comfortable following these three factors and being equally highly educated, they still don’t feel satisfied.
Hence the novel unfolds with the triplets trying to find the balance between professional purpose and the purpose of life. The triplet girls must overcome adversities since the time of their birth, when their mother died shortly after delivering them. They continue confronting challenges throughout their adulthood, including betrayal in personal relationships, illness and other life-threatening situations, as well as social and professional obstacles. However, they survive with functional creativity and courage, hence they each become successful women that are equally intelligent and capable.
One is an artist/fashion designer, who became well-known around the world, the other is a doctor, who became an inventor, and the other one is a lawyer, who became the president of their country. They all confront social obstacles that are common to women, especially professionals and other women under different capacity, with creativity and courage, but using different approaches. Over the course of the novel, they learn more about themselves and each other as they could have ever thought possible. This book was written based on the author’s experience living and interacting with many different cultures throughout traveling around the world as well as mentoring many young people of both genders to be creative or inventors.
This book was also inspired by author’s experience as a scientist (Ph.D.) who became an inventor as the only way for him to overcome adversity and survive in a competitive society through creative inventions (more than 40 scientific inventions, of which 32 have been granted patents by the U.S. Patent Office and the rest are patent pending, as of 2026). This book is inspirational and very much of today’s situation of women in the world, especially those who are educated. This is an inspirational story, not only for women but also for men, of true triumph and survival using creativity and courage. However, the author presents in the novel that creativity must be functional in today’s highly competitive society, hence creative inventiveness will guarantee survival and success.
This is demonstrated by how the triplets create a unique industry that nobody in history, not even men, has created. The book is written in an accessible style with a cheerful sense of humor, which any person older than 15 years old can enjoy. Also, the book is a source of recommendations for women about how to become free from job dependency to be engaged in a self-productive process, be highly competitive, develop a sense of ownership, and achieve prosperity.
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2023Amazon
Summary: This book is based on history report by different authors, and also the cultural, intellectual, and scientific perceptions and experiences of the author confronting fear and courage throughout his life in many parts of the world. He highlights overcoming fear of diseases and illiteracy when he was growing up.
The COVID-19 pandemic is an example of what the author describes as a cause of fear in this book. Hence, COVID-19 brought an apocalyptic view as well as the exposure of our most hidden feelings of fear, which produced different collective responses including ritualism and myths, or reasoning.
This book can be purchased on Amazon
2015Amazon and Kindle
Summary: Learn what creativity is, how it can lead to previously unforeseen solutions, and follow its lead toward a life of personal fulfillment and success. Find out and adopt the ten attitudes of a creative individual, which include aspiring to reach your maximum potential and always remaining open to adversity.
Understand creativity’s evolution and how experiences are the building blocks of this mental state.
This book can be purchased on Amazon
2014Amazon and Kindle
Summary: What if you never had to fear being lonely again—not because you could avoid the pain of being alone, but because you knew how to transform that feeling into positive action? Author R. Cuero, PhD, offers a compelling view of loneliness as a tool—not a burden. Cuero traces how, throughout human history, those who have learned the art of channeling their loneliness into action have achieved personal success and led society to progress and peace.
This book can be purchased on Amazon
2004American Binding and Publishing Co.
Summary: In the eyes of Raul Cuero’s high school basketball coach, everybody is born with one particular attribute. And, according to Raul Cuero’s coach, Raul would never be anything more than a big and burly guy who could play sports.
Why would anyone expect anything else from a guy whose grandmother couldn’t even speak Spanish. Here was a 109-year old woman who had lived in Buenaventura, Colombia her whole life and still could only speak an African language that wasn’t spoken by many people in Buenaventura. The change of house and language did provide Raul with a break from the regimented household of his parents.
This book can be purchased on Amazon
Science for everyone
2026Amazon · Barnes and Noble · Ewings Publishing
Summary: Tales of the Covid Mutants creates a natural human appeal within the reader to be attracted to science and understand its complexity in an accessible way, which today, due to the dominance of technology and AI, scientific knowledge is appearing to be more complex and remote for people of any age, from any culture and even any level of education. From the beginning of mankind, graphic or symbolic representations have always been the best means to present and communicate knowledge, as it is shown in this book.
Also, since populations today are more visual learners, this book is presented as a pictorial, humorous, and cartoony story. Biological scientific concepts, which are intrinsically relevant to our daily living existence, have been abstract for people in general, thus creating confusion and fear and making them difficult to understand. Therefore, the book uses COVID-19 viral mutants as central characters of the story for accessible and easy appreciation of complex biological knowledge. In fact, one of the viral mutant characters becomes the hero of the story, thus the readers must entertain themselves to find out who is the hero among the mutants.
Hence, humanizing the coronavirus mutants as a story tale helps readers better understand complex biological concepts and reduce fear in people to be better prepared, emotionally and with knowledge, for future pandemics.
This book can be purchased on Amazon, Barnes and Noble, or the Ewings Publishing website