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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.

This is the first of a new series by sociologist, educator, artist, and author Jan Yager entitled Fairy Tale Sequels. Book 1 is Little Red Riding Hood. This book is divided into four parts. After a Note to Parents or Educators, Part 1 is a brief summary of the evolution of the tale. Part 2 is the author's retelling of the classic fairy tale of "Little Red Riding Hood." In Part 3, the author shares her sequel. In Part 4, in the activities section, the author asks readers to create their own sequel to "Little Red Riding Hood," writing it down, and even sharing it with family, friends, or ...

How can you get the most out of your college experience? Do you have all the tools you need to succeed? With the Skills Building Workbook for College Students, you will learn the skills you need to not only get through college, but to excel. Chapters include lessons and exercises or activities such as: Note Taking 101, Introduction to Time Management, Dealing with Procrastination, and Better Writing Skills.

Your office can make or break your career. It can effect 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.

This prescriptive self-help book by acclaimed friendship coach, expert, and sociologist Dr. Jan Yager, author of the international hit titles When Friendship Hurts (in 29 languages) and Friendshifts (in nine languages) now looks at how the right friends can extend your life and even delay or avoid the onset of dementia and how the wrong ones can have catastrophic effects.

This fast-paced novel combines two genres - coming of age and crime. It is initially set in Texas but the action moves on to Nevada and Arizona. On the Run has strong themes and occasional violent confrontations as the author explores the motivations behind the characters and the events they find themselves in as well as the aftermath. The two main characters, Angelina and Steven, are 17-year-olds who have grown up in very different worlds.

This practical step-by-step guide shows you everything you need to know about selling or buying foreign rights. Written by an international foreign rights expert, this useful book provides the information you need so your book can be translated or sold into additional English language markets. Aimed at authors, publishers, foreign rights managers, literary agents, and even those aspiring to enter the foreign rights field, Foreign Rights and Wrongs goes beyond just describing the do’s and don’ts of selling or buying rights.

Transform your nonfiction writing now! Through concrete examples and clear guidelines, seasoned and prolific writer, teacher, and coach Jan Yager gives solid advice on how to create business and nonfiction writing that will help you to get ahead in your career. Originally published by Arco with the title, How to Write Like a Professional, this practical and extremely useful book provides guidelines for improved nonfiction writing including a self-evaluation to access your current writing skills.

With The Fast Track Guide to Losing Weight and Keeping It Off, follow Jan Yager, PhD on her mission to help you not only lose weight and maintain the loss but also to understand the different sociological and psychological reasons behind why the weight is so hard to get off and especially to keep off.

A collection of 87 poems by a husband and wife, writing separately although several of the poems are about each other. It covers all types of love, from romantic love to the love of a parent, sibling, child, grandchild, pet, and friend, to work, whether that work is serving in the Navy, witnessing the 9/11 terrorist attacks on the way to work, writing, being an artist, and more. There are poems in celebration of birthdays, Valentine's Day, and wedding anniversaries.

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.

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 audiobook 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.

In this third edition of her international hit time management book, Work Less, Do More, sociologist/productivity and relationship coach and expert Dr. Jan Yager offers a 7-day plan to get more done in less time.

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.