Nonfiction

125 Ways to Meet the Love of Your Life

By: Jan Yager

ISBN 1-889262-50-1, trade paperback $19.95
ISBN 1-889262-52-8 hardcover $29.95

6x9 187 pages, bibliography, resource guide, index

125 Ways to Meet the Love of Your Life helps readers to find the love of their life as well as what to do to keep the new relationship going. The 125 annotated ways are divided into 9 categories such as introductions by friends and family, parties, matchmakers, personal ads, travel, and lots more. Examples of successful matches based on Dr. Yager's original research are included throughout those chapters. Extensive appendix of additional resources.

365 Daily Affirmations for Creative Weight Management

By: Jan Yager

ISBN 1889262579 $16.95 trade paperback

An inspirational and motivational book to take control of your eating as well as learning how to love yourself whatever your weight or size.

365 Daily Affirmations for Creativity

By: Janet Luongo

1-889262-57-9 $16.95 trade paperback (English language edition)

Foreword by Jack Canfield, co-creator, Chicken Soul for the Soul® book series Artist, workshop leader, and writer Janet Luongo provides affirmations to inspire creativity, divided into 12 categories. There are 60 exercises for individuals and managers.

Business Protocol: How to Survive & Succeed in Business

By: Jan Yager

ISBN: 1889262-14-5 $21.95 trade paperback (retail list price)
ISBN: 1889262-23-4 $31.95 hardcover (retail list price)
6x9 2001, 2nd edition (1st edition published by Wiley, 1991)
Winner, 1st prize, best nonfiction book, Communications Contest, 1992, National Federation of Press Women

In this highly-acclaimed book, sociologist and workplace expert Dr. Jan Yager shows how to use protocol as a business strategy. With targeted anecdotes and examples, based on Dr. Yager's extensive research and consulting including surveys of 108 human resource managers and of 234 men and women in diverse workplace settings, Business Protocol probes the skills and knowledge necessary to master any business situation.

You will learn about:

• quickly creating a positive impression
• improving male-female work
• relationships
• business entertaining etiquette
• holiday gift-giving guidelines
• international etiquette
• communicating more effectively
• e-mail etiquette
• how manners make $
• 17 types you may encounter at work
• and more

Effective Business and Nonfiction Writing

By: Jan Yager

2nd Edition

1889262269 $20.95 trade paper retail list price

1889262331 $30.95 HC retail list price

Covers the basics of style and content as well as how to conduct research for nonfiction writing plus how to write a memo, business letter, report, and how to try to get published in magazines, newspapers, or books. The second edition includes time management tips for writers as well as guidelines for writing faxes or e-mails.

Creative Time Management for the New Millenium

By: Jan Yager

188926220X $19.95 trade paper retai list price

1889262153 $28.95 HC retail list price

Based on an original survey of 236 men and women, this practical guide to taking control of your time includes the 7 principles of creative time management as well as how to get organized, 125 top tips, work and leisure time concerns, overcoming the top emotional blocks to time management, and how to find your "hidden" time.

Road Signs on Life's Journey: Sayings and Insights to Help You Find Your Way

By: Jan Yager

ISBN 1-889262-91-9 $26.95 Hardcover only

"A wise and witty compilation of thoughts."-Lynn A. Robinson, author, Compass of the Soul

Inspired by the realization that her oldest son would be leaving for college, this remarkable book is being treasured by teens and adults alike. Covers friendship, love, reading, joy, studying, family, writing, and lots more. Indexed.

Who's That Sitting at My Desk? Workship, Friendship, or Foe?

By: Jan Yager

1889262943 $29.95 hardcover retail list price

An exploration of friendship at work and including the unique relationship that the author uncovered in her research about workplace friendships: a workship, which is more than an acquaintance but less than a friend. Identifies and describes the four workships that every worker needs.

"Solid advice about how to get along and make friends at work, as well as many relevant quotes and stories from people describing their own experiences with their co-workers, make Who's That Sitting at My Desk? a useful guidebook to creating more productive work relationships." -Soundview Executive Book Summaries®

Friendshifts: The Power of Friendship and How It Shapes Our Lives 2nd edition

By: Jan Yager

• ISBN 1-889262-29-3 $22.95 trade paperback retail list price
• ISBN 1-889262-39-0 $31.95 hardcover retail list price

Sociologist Dr. Jan Yager shows the impact our friends have on how long we live and how successful we are during our lifetime in her comprehensive book Friendshifts®: The Power Of Friendship and How It Shapes Our Lives. This book is the culmination of more than 15 years of study and scores of original interviews and numerous surveys by Dr. Yager whofound that while healthy friendships can help your self-esteem, reduce stress, and improve the quality of your life, harmful friends put you in jeopardy. Friendshifts® is the word coined by Dr. Yager to reflect the way friendships, and even what you are looking for in a friend, sometimes shifts as we move from one stage in life to another, from childhood to being single, to marriage, having children, retirement, or widowhood.

When Friendship Hurts

By: Jan Yager

"When Friendship Hurts: How to Deal with Friends Who Betray, Abandon, or Wound You" is friendship expert Jan Yager's exploration of 21 types of potentially negative friends as well as how to deal with negative friends, seeking out positive friends, including friendship at work.

This book is published by Simon & Schuster, Inc./Fireside Books.

"When Friendship Hurts" has been translated into 17 foreign languages with three more in preparation.

Career Opportunities in the Film Industry, 2nd edition

By: Fred Yager, Jan Yager

Profiles of 84 careers including screenwriting, acting, casting director, makeup artist, marketing, film archivist, and animal safety representative. Foreword to 2nd edition by actor David Carradine. Includes an overview of the film industry as well as an extensive Appendix on film schools, website for information and job hunting, and more.

This book is published by Facts on File, Inc. in both hardcover and trade paperback. This second edition (2009) is an update of this well-regarded book, originally published in 2003.

Career Opportunities in the Publishing Industry

By: Fred Yager, Fred Yager

This book is published by Facts on File, Inc. in hardcover and trade paperback. First edition, 2005.

Work Less, Do More: The 14-day Productivity Makeover

By: Jan Yager

This book is published by Sterling Publishing Company, Inc. (http://www.sterlingpublishing.com)

Jan Yager's third book on time management that helps you to eliminate distractions as well as deal with e-mail as well as how to handle changes and interruptions. Yager conducts workshops on time management; this book is based on original research that pinpoints the top three obstacles to getting things done efficiently -- trying to do too much at once, paperwork, and procrastination -- and how to deal with each of those issues.