Best Selling Books by Jan Yager

Praise for the previous edition:" ... provide[s] a good background for anyone interested in the subject ... easy to use."

How to Find Help for Any Situation Although we live in the age of information and everyone is bombarded with potential sources of help, sifting through those possibilities can be a chore. This is where Help Yourself comes in! With this useful reference, author Jan Yager provides an overview of the various situations that most people have to navigate, from calling customer service or reporting a crime to finding credible and reliable information about a business, health, or legal concern. Each chapter includes a brief discussion of an issue, potential scenarios, and listings of relevant national and international organizations. Yager also instructs readers on researching state agencies, so they can contact appropriate organizations closer to home. Important topics of discussion include: Health insurance Personal finances Housing assistance Employment services Family planning K–12 education College selection and funding Small business development Legal services Crime victim resources Substance abuse Emergency preparedness And more

Taking its place alongside relationship classics The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People and How to Win Friends and Influence People, Dr. Jan Yager’s When Friendship Hurts, in print since being published twenty-two years ago, is now available in a second edition containing new original research. Friendship expert, coach, and sociologist Dr. Jan Yager’s prescriptive book on toxic friendships, what to do about them, and how to find or improve the positive friendships we all deserve, also has an updated Preface, bibliography, and resources section. The Preface shares Dr. Yager’s more recent research that asks the question, “Have you ever had a friendship that made you physically or emotionally sick?” She was surprised to find that such strong reactions were more common than she originally thought. Forty-three percent of the ninety men and women she surveyed answered “Yes” to that question. In the new Preface, she shares their most common reactions. Another new feature of Dr. Yager’s classic book includes cartoons at the beginning of each chapter by artist Cathy Wilcox and originally done for the Australia/New Zealand edition. When Friendship Hurts has helped countless men and women to better understand why they get involved in a toxic friendship, and then explore possible ways to mend it, let it fade, or end it.

"Writing a great book is the easy part. Getting people to buy the book is wicked hard. Jan’s book shows you what promotion to do so you increase the possibility that your book becomes a bestseller.” —Jeffrey Fox,bestselling author,How to Become a Rainmaker "Being an author is 50% creative and 50% promotion. Jan Yager''s comprehensive and practical book, How to Promote Your Book, tells authors exactly what they need to know and do to promote their book. I''m recommending it to all the authors I know including those whose books I share through my Bedside Reading program." —Jane Ubell-Meyer, CEO, Bedside Reading, former TV producer, Good Morning America, Entertainment Tonight, WSJ-TV Whether your book is being released through a commercial publisher or an academic press, or you are self-publishing it, as the author, you can and should play a crucial role in getting your title seen, talked about, and sold. And while you may watch dozens of authors pitch their books on TV, in social media, and in bookstores, they represent only a fraction of the writers who come out with new books each year. What do they know that you don’t? They know what to do to get attention for themselves and, more important, for their books—and as you will discover in book publishing veteran Jan Yager’s How to Promote Your Book, you can, too. The book is divided into three sections. Part One begins with a look at promotion basics. These include knowing what your book’s marketplaces are, who your audience is, how the media is divided, the elements involved in publicity, and how to create an effective promotional timeline. Once you understand the basics, Part Two focuses on the ways to package and market yourself to the various book and media outlets. It discusses putting together professional looking press releases and media kits. It also explains how to obtain endorsements and reviews, as well as how to generate speaking engagements and interviews with journalists; bloggers; and radio, TV, and podcast hopes. Part Three provides a plan that covers the fi rst three months of an author’s publicity program—from the day the book is formally released through all the media events that have been lined up. Throughout the book, you will find insets that answer important questions such as, “What are the real costs involved?” and “Should I promote myself or hire a publicists?” Just as important, the author includes a valuable resource guide that provides the names, addresses, and links to many of the key places covered in the book. Jan Yager has enjoyed a fabulous career as both a best-selling author and a publisher. She has been interviewed by many of the top shows on TV and radio. In How to Promote Your Book, she lets you in on what she has done—both for herself and for her authors—to open the door to effective publicity.

A comprehensive study of friendship including children and friendship, marriage and friendship, how friendships are initiated and maintained; thebest predictor of longevity in friendship; how the friendship principles that Dr. Yager learned could be applied to oter relationships; index; linedrawings; charts and self-quizzes.

SECOND EDITION, REVISED AND UPDATED In Put More Time on Your Side: How to Manage Your Life in a Digital World, sociologist, business, and relationship expert Dr. Jan Yager helps you to become more efficient in a work world that is more demanding and 24/7 than ever before. In this concise and provocative book, you will learn: The #1 factor you can control to revolutionize your time management. How to deal with distractions and fragmentation. Coping with time wasters like over-scheduling, inadequate pacing, poor planning, procrastination, or perfection. How to master office relationships and politics to save time. Cultural considerations And lots more.

If you want to create an efficient and high performing team, use this book to help your employees develop strong time management skills that will bring personal and team success.

Explores career opportunities within the publishing industry, examining employment options in newspaper, magazine,and book publishing.

Along with Medicare, Social Security is one of the "rites of passage" older Americans experience. After contributing funds to this program their entire working lives, people are anxious to start cashing in on their monthly benefits. Idiot''s Guides: Social Security offers simple and clear explanations of the history of the program, the traditional age requirement, disability and survivor benefits, and the future of Social Security. A bonus decision tree helps recipients maximize benefits based on such factors as how and when benefits are filed, marital status, and future plans.

Abstract: Organizations and societies that provide direct professional help for social, economic, and medical problems are listed. The subject matter ranges from Alcoholism to Volunteerism, and from Battered Adults to Suicide Prevention. Each chapter opens with a summary of professional knowledge on a specific problem, and each lists many contact organizations. Health, the family, counseling, education, women''s issues, crime, citizen action, emergencies, and employment are the broad areas covered. Base or national organizations listed will help readers locate more local or specialized ones.

Here are 125 annotated ways to meet the love of your life organized into 9 categories such as introductions by friends and family, dating services, trips, at work, cybermatching, online dating, singles clubs, parties, and lots more. Inspiring examples of successful matches based on original research throughout the book; Dr. Yager and her husband Fred even share their own "how we met" story. Relationships and workplace expert Dr. Jan Yager, author of FRIENDSHIFTS, WHEN FRIENDSHIP HURTS, SINGLE IN AMERICA, and CREATIVE TIME MANAGEMENT FOR THE NEW MILLENNIUM also has a chapter devoted to applying time management principles to the search so it might be more productive, as well as chapters on getting ready to search, staying safe during your search, coping with rejection, and, once you find "the one," tips for becoming and remaining a happy couple. There is an extensive appendix of resources as well as a bibliography and index.

Murder. Rape. Theft. Assault. Crime doesnmt discriminate. We are all victims.

Building on two decades of original research into workplace issues and friendship patterns, sociologist and consultant Dr. Jan Yager offers insights into how to succeed by mastering workplace relationships. Based on an international survey of 400 men and women and over 100 interviews, Yager discovered a relationship unique to the workplace and business. She calls it a workship--more connected than an acquaintance but not as intimate as a friend. Workships, especially positive ones, help work to be more productive and more fun. Yager is also the author of Business Protocol, When Friendship Hurts, and Friendshifts, translated into 10 languages, among other titles. Best-selling author Don Gabor, praising Yager''s book, writes: "Who''s That Sitting at My Desk? is the best researched and most useful book on getting along with friends and foes at work that I''ve ever read. Don''t go to work without it!" Bibliography, resources, and index.

A collection of powerful affirmations on time management by productivity expert, coach, speaker and sociologist Dr. Jan Yager, and selected famous quotes on time, that also includes useful activities for improving efficiency at work and in one''s leisure time. There is an introduction about time management, an essay on the three time management lessons that the author''s father taught her, and a bibliography. ""Productivity guru Jan Yager''s original and insightful affirmations are a wonderful tool for gaining control over your time, at work or in your leisure hours."-Laura Stack, Supercompetent About the author: Dr. Jan Yager has been researching time management, and conducting workshops, coaching, and delivering keynote addresses on productivity, since the 1980s. She is also the author of Creative Time Management for the New Millennium; Work Less, Do More and 28 other nonfiction and fiction titles translated into 24 languages. She has been interviewed on major talk shows such as Oprah, Today Show, Good Morning, America, and has been on several international author tours. For more information, visit the author''s website: www.timemasters.com Publisher''s website: http: //www.hannacroixcreekbooks.com

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. Book jacket.

Examines occupations in the area of films, discussing requirements, education, salary, and prospects.

Habits to Transform Your Life How to Finish Everything You Start is just the book you need to get more done! This book will help you in understanding the causes of the “unfinished” epidemic, its cures, and when choosing not to finish something is okay. By focusing on this one key issue that is sabotaging so many today in their quest to be more productive at work, and to have a more satisfying personal life, you are more likely to: • Understand what is behind your occasional or chronic reluctance to finish • Apply the author’s unique FINISH systematic approach to get more done • Complete priority projects or tasks • Be more confident if you do put something aside it is for the right reasons and lots more... Jan Yager is the author of 46 books translated into 34 languages including seven titles on time management such as Work Less, Do More. She holds a Ph.D. in sociology from The City University of New York Graduate Center. For more on this awardwinning author, speaker, entrepreneur, and coach, go to: http://www.drjanyager.com.

"Master the skills you need for successful business and personal writing"--Dust jacket.

"The friendship between two married couples begins to unravel when one of the wives seduces a stranger in a bar. Blackmail, betrayal and murder ensue, and the danger seems to come from all directions."--PUBLISHERS WEEKLY, Mystery NOTES

Like Jerry, the cat who likes to eat cantaloupe, everyone is special and unique in some way.

Una colección de afirmaciones sobre la administración del tiempo por la experta en productividad, coach, oradora y socióloga Dra. Jan Yager, y citas famosas seleccionadas sobre el tiempo; el libro también incluye actividades útiles para mejorar la eficiencia en el trabajo y en el tiempo de disfrute. Se ofrece una introducción sobre la administración del tiempo, un ensayo sobre las tres lecciones de administración del tiempo que el padre de la autora le enseñó, y una bibliografía.

美國亞馬遜書店讀者★★★★★推薦 這是一本很實用的書。幾乎朋友相處的所有問題，都可以在這裡找到SOP的解答。 ――海苔熊 如果你一直對自己的人際關係存有疑問，絕對要看這本書。 ――亞馬遜網路書店讀者 世界上傷人最深的一件事， 莫過於被好朋友背叛。 當友誼變質了，該怎麼辦？ 要如何尋找、培養正面的朋友關係？ 當友誼變質時，有的純粹是莫名其妙地疏遠，有的是令人覺得天崩地裂的背叛，而負面的朋友關係更可能帶來災難，使人生慘淡，讓我們覺得受到傷害，倍感煎熬，連帶影響其他人際關係。 朋友關係是我們人生重要的關係，它不是我們應對家庭、伴侶、職場關係後才面對的「額外」關係。本書探討朋友關係的複雜之處，分析各種不同朋友的行為模式，並探索友情破裂的原因，提出修補或結束友誼的方法，包括： 【朋友要如何定義？你有「好天氣朋友」？還是「壞天氣朋友」？】 本書明確提出朋友關係的四大要素、勾勒健康的朋友關係，還有何人是「假朋友」、網友關係該怎麼面對。 【你身邊有這21種負面朋友嗎？】 書中歸類出21種潛在的惡質朋友，包括「沒斷奶的」、「控制欲過強的」、「過度干涉的」、「吹毛求疵的」等等，幫助讀者覺察與應付負面朋友、如何在交到負面朋友前就認出不適合交往的朋友。 【與朋友建立界限】 明確訂出與朋友相處的方式，清楚地讓朋友知道，哪些人際關係、太個人的議題或情境不要過度干涉，或發表太過分的看法與意見，為朋友的行為設下界限。 【朋友關係為何失敗？】 本書整理出朋友為什麼會傷害彼此的25種原因，包括報復、嫉妒、錢財、鏡像、錯位、罪惡感等等，以及家庭成長背景的因素。 【朋友關係如何挽救？】 本書以評量表確認友誼是否值得挽救，以4大步驟、9種化解衝突的方法與6種心態調整幫助讀者挽救開始走下坡的友誼。 【朋友關係如何結束？】 當一段友誼已演變成災難，或一段友誼已經無法挽救，作者提供和朋友絕交的13個考慮因素、結束朋友關係的7項守則、結束的時機和步驟，以及該如何面對與放下對這段關係的執著。 【職場友誼的潛規則】 要在職場上建立友誼，需先考慮熟識度、信任度與位階等因素，而要避免職場上的朋友說謊、欺騙、在背後捅你一刀，作者提供職場10大要訣保護自己。 【如何交到真正的好朋友？】 本書作者研發一個「友誼適配性測驗」，幫助讀者檢視自己與新認識的朋友，察覺對方是否可能背叛你，或你們往來是否會發展出負面或有害的朋友關係。另外本書也提出11個提升友誼的方式，幫助讀者真正結交到豐富人生的益友。 本書探討了友誼的每一個層面，清楚講解如何結交、培養正面友誼的步驟與訣竅，以及遠離負面朋友的方法、原因和時機。如果你曾疑惑朋友為何背離、傷害或拒絕你，你可以在這本關於友誼的教戰手冊中找到寶貴的知識與建議，一勞永逸解決難題。

Bing is a quiet dog, unlike the other dogs who like to bark, but Sam loves his dog anyway. In this illustrated story that shares some of the activities that Bing likes to do, something happens that shows that being quiet doesn''t stop Bing from making itself heard. This story helps children to appreciate how we are all unique. On the last page, there are follow-up questions to ask as well as suggestions for additional books to read. About the author and illustrator Jan Yager has taught elementary school and she worked in the school division of Macmillan Publishing Company. She is the author of numerous books including ROAD SIGNS ON LIFE''S JOURNEY, FRIENDSHIFTS, and the children''s books, THE CANTALOUPE CAT and THE QUIET DOG, also illustrated by Mitzi Lyman. Jan has happy memories from her childhood of her quiet dog, Queenie, and of her dog, Wags, who barked alot. For more on this author, go to: drjanyager.com. Illustrator Mitzi Lyman is a graphic designer and artist who graduated from the University of Massachusetts and studied at various art schools including The School of Visual Arts in New York, the Corcoran School in Washington, D.C. and the Silvermine School of Art in Connecticut.

This is the second edition of the international hit self-help book by singles and relationship expert/coach Dr. Jan Yager. There are 125 annotated way to meet the love of your life divided into 9 categories/chapters. There is also a part about getting ready for the search. Dr. Yager, who is also a productivity expert, applies time management techniques to finding the love of your life. Part 1 includes a chapter on suggestions for staying safe during the search. Dr. Yager and her husband Fred also share about their meeting. Throughout the book, there are quotes and anecdotes based on the original research Dr. Yager conduced including a survey of 202 men and women. Part 3 of this unique and practical book includes suggestions for dealing with relationships.