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This is the award-winning how to book on using business etiquette as a strategy for success by international speaker Jan Yager who is also a sociologist and workplace consultant. Here she explains her six business protocol principles and also covers image, gift-giving, ethics, international etiquette and communication skills.

Finally, a book on time management for those who say they don’t have enough time to read a book on this crucial topic. Put more time on your Side is a quick read exploring the key skills of effective time managers, including short- and long-term goal setting, prioritizing, dealing with such common time wasters as procrastination, doing too much at once, perfectionism, and even jealousy.

In Untimely Death, a new amateur sleuth, criminology professor Dr. Kimberly Stone, is introduced. Forced to help detective Blake to solve the murder of her best friend and colleague, Joan Walsh, to avoid her friend's murder being ignored, this well-reviewed novel probes the darkest depths of the human psyche to show how a nightmarish world of twisted sexuality evolves into murderous rage.

Your office can make or break your career. It can affect how well you work and how well you feel. Making Your Office work For You helps you create a work space that provides a sense of comfort, reduces stress, increases productivity, and makes a strong statement of who you are.

A practical guide to developing productive business relationships to hasten your success, whether you work for a major corporation, a small business, or are a self-employed entrepreneur or freelancer.

Dr. Jan Yager, who is also author of the award-winning book, Business Protocol, among other titles, covers the 15 international protocol concerns that readers need to be aware of as well as tips on foreign business travel, making your website more global, faux pas to avoid, negotiating styles, contracts and getting paid, gift-giving, legal considerations, and ethics. There is a chapter that provides a country by country etiquette guide and another chapter on how to build a global relationship so that the business will follow.

Just Your Everyday People by Fred Yager and Jan Yager is the second thriller by this dynamic husband and wife couple. In this standalone suspense novel, in addition to being a pause resister of a thriller, the novel deals with the potentially dire consequences of withholding information and practical jokes.

In this engrossing first solo novel - the author is also co-author of two thrillers, Untimely Death and Just Your Everyday People, prolific author Jan Yager tells the engrossing story of psychologist Dr. Emily Taylor who seemed to have it all. She's thin, attractive, happily married with children, and with a successful therapy practice and writing career, when she is interviewed on a major talk show to discuss her new bestseller. The author's strong novel explores how success catapults Emily on a food binge.

Words of wisdom about life by noted author and sociologist Jan Yager. Inspired by the realization that her oldest son would be leaving for college, this remarkable book will be treasured by graduating seniors, college freshman, teens and even adults. Covers learning, friendship, family, romance, love, time management, joy, and lots more.

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. In addition to the 365 affirmations, 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.

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 friendship.

Whatever your weight or shape, you will find in this inspirational book daily original affirmations to motivate you, to help you to your build self-esteem, and to offer comfort to anyone who is concerned about weight, dieting, overeating, body image, or other weight-related issues.

"Friendshifts" is a word Dr. Yager coined to denote how sometimes our friendships may shift throughout our lives, and even how we define a friend. Fortunately, in some instances, lifelong friendship does happen. The examples, anecdotes, quotes, and studies cited throughout the audiobook reinforce the notion that the right friends will help you get ahead or be happy in life, and even live a longer life; whereas the wrong friends can sabotage you or even get you hurt or killed.

A practical guide to public speaking for those just starting out as well as seasoned pros. A useful audiobook covering everything from speech preparation and delivery, protocol for speakers, speaking concerns for authors, how to prepare and excel if you're asked to speak on TV, and lots more. In this audiobook, you will learn: How to research, prepare for, and give the most popular types of speeches, from the keynote address to a 90 minute workshop, all-day seminar, participating in a panel, the toast, roast, and more.

This is a collection of the author's original inspirational affirmations including two dozen famous maxims on happiness. This useful little book begins with an introduction about happiness, highlighting the work of Norman Vincent Peale, author of The Power of Positive Thinking, and other related works of sociologists, psychologists, and even economists on happiness.

Dr. Yager's latest book, TIME MASTERS, is a game changer in the world of time management books, offering new insights and examples from a diverse group of achievers. Each concept/chapter is enhanced at the end by one or more exercises to give you a deeper understanding of what you are learning, as you reinforce key ideas, in an interactive and experiential way.

A unique book that shares about the value of friendship as well as material and non-material celebrations including friend getaways and annual friendship events such as International Friendship Day (July 30th). This little gem of a book, illustrated with color photographs throughout, will be helpful if you want some fresh ideas about how to maintain your friendships and even how to initiate and improve them.

How do you juggle five or more courses as well as a social life, family obligations, and possibly even working part-time or full-time? College makes so many demands that learning the basic principles of time management just might be what you need to get more done in less time.

You don't have to be rich to travel the world. Jan Yager shares 80 ways that you can make it happen—60 are free and 20 involve some financial investment. Whether you want to go to just one country besides your many countries and even around the world, this inspiring book by the award-wining, best-selling self-help expert Jan Yager—whose books include Help Yourself Now—is a great place to start making your global travel dreams come true.