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 won...

This delightful book includes a retelling of the classic tale of Little Red Riding Hood, perfect for a new generation of readers. Then author Jan Yager adds her own imaginative sequel, expanding the story in surprising and entertaining ways. Young readers are invited to write or even illustrate their own sequel, sparking creativity and encouraging storytelling skills. This is a charming, interactive book for home or classroom.

In this notable one-act play, four characters-- two females and two males -- share their life-altering experiences in the tradition of Edgar Lee Masters' Spoon River Anthology. Playwright, victimologist, and sociologist Dr. Jan Yager uses time travel to enable the two different victims of hot car syndrome confront their neglectful parents that caused their untimely deaths.

In WORK LESS, DO MORE: The 7-Day Productivity Makeover, time management expert and sociologist Dr. Jan Yager distills decades of research and coaching experience into a concise, weeklong program designed to transform how readers manage their time, goals, and daily responsibilities. Each day of the seven-day makeover focuses on a different core principle—ranging from clarifying priorities and decluttering schedules to improving communication, streamlining tasks, and cultivating hea...

Middle-aged Lidia is determined to make her mark at London's major annual book fair but she also sees this as a chance to spend a week with her 81-year-old mother, who has offered to help her at her company's stand.What begins as a practical suggestion soon becomes something deeper: a rare chance for mother and daughter to truly talk, reconnect, and to at least try to address the distance that has described Lidia's entire life, till now.Warm, honest, and gently humorous, ...

Prolific, bestselling author, college teacher, sociologist, and publisher Jan Yager shares about her inspiring life, including how she became a crime victim researcher and advocate following her brother's murder when she was 20. In addition to being published by such major houses as Simon & Schuster, Scribner, and Doubleday, Jan founded her indie press, Hannacroix Creek Books, Inc., almost thirty years ago.

Here's a 14-day (2 week) productivity makeover plan from time management expert Dr. Jan Yager that will help you to become more efficient and to achieve better work-life balance.

This unique and useful workbook is a practical step-by-step guide to dealing with problematical friendships. It includes written text summaries, activities, reflection questions, selected affirmations, and exercises geared toward self-exploration and friendship repair/growth. Readers will find this guide useful as a self-study workbook. Counselors, therapists, and friendship coaches could use this book as a companion to their counseling or coaching sessions related to friendship.

Internationally-acclaimed friendship expert Dr. Jan Yager has put together this unique book illustrated with color photographs throughout. If you care about your friends, this book will help you to find new material and nonmaterial ways to celebrate them on their birthdays, during one of the annual friendship events, or for no special reason at all, just to say you care.

A classic collection of 258 perceptive and astute insights, updated now to even include a suggestion about AI -- Artificial Intelligence -- sociologist Dr. Jan Yager's advice to her oldest son as he prepared to go away for college is wisdom that all students, as well as everyone embarking on a new venture, will find useful.

What if you found out that having just one positive friend could increase your life expectancy by 10 years? Would you make a bigger effort to have such a friend? In FRIENDGEVITY, renowned friendship expert who previous books include the bestselling WHEN FRIENDSHIP HURTS (Simon & Schuster), translaed into 29 languages, and FRIENDSHIFTS (translated into 8 languages) landed her on such major talk shows as THE VIEW, OPRAH, TODAY SHOW, GOOD MORNING AMERICA, as well as on author tours to Austral...

Jan Yager, Ph.D. (the former J.L. Barkas) has added a new introduction to her classic study of major violent and property crime victims, VICTIMS, based on additional interviews and surveys. This new introduction is added to the 2015 updated introduction that precedes her original book, published by Scribner’s in 1978, and reprinted in its entirety, now with updated bibliographic and resource references.In the new introductions, you will read results of Dr. Yager’s survey of 225 men...