About the Book
Here is a book for anyone who cares about their friends and who wants to find out more about friendship but also about material and non-material ways to celebrate their friends. Read about such formal opportunities to celebrate your friends as International Friendship Day/world Friendship Day (July 30th), International New Friends, Old Friends Week, beginning the Sunday after Mother's Day in May, which the author founded back in 1997, or Friendsgiving, and many others.
After an introduction, chapter 1 covers Friendship and gift Giving: An Overview. Chapter 2 is devoted to Birthday Festivities. Chapter 3 covers Gifts for a Friend for Any Occasion, from jewelry and flowers to clothing or making donations. Chapter 4 explores experiences to share with a friend including a friend getaway, going to concerts, or volunteering together among many other ideas. Chapter 5 explores the Annual Friendship Events that you can consider celebrating with your friends. Chapter 6 is the concluding chapter which addresses such key issues that we must all face, how to celebrate a friend who has passed away.
To research Celebrating Friends and Friendship, Dr. Yager surveyed 254 men and women throughout the U.S. and, in a second survey, another 37 including men and women from around the world including Thailand, India, Singapore, and the UK. Illustrated with color photographs, art work, and line drawings throughout. Includes resources, a biblioigraiphy, and places to keep a record of what you swend, and what you receive, as well as contact information for friends and even a place for selected photographs. Here's what they're saying about this unique, useful, and inspirational book:
"Friendships are priceless. Dr. Jan Yager's new book, Celebrating Friends and Friendships, is also priceless. Totally worth reading."
-Jeffrey J. Fox, author, How to Become a Rainmaker "I am grateful for my friendships and grateful that Jan Yager has written a book that helps me to celebrate my friendships and their power every day!"-Leslie A. Yerkes, author, 301 Ways to Have Fun at Work "As someone who values my friends, I'm always looking for additional ideas about how to let them know I care. That's why I really appreciate Jan Yager's book, Celebrating Friends and Friendship. It's a fun book with lots of practical information as well as provocative sociological insights into friendship, gift-giving, and even the value of rituals."
-Dara Tyson, freelance publicist "As a person whose circle of friends has gradually been reduced, whether through pandemic proximities, attrition, or sheer neglect, Jan's book, Celebrating Friends and Friendship, has rejuvenated my awareness of how important and fulfilling my friendships have been, and still can be, in enriching my life."-Bob McGee, author, A View Through the Fog
About the Author
Jan Yager, Ph.D. is a globally known friendship coach, sociologist, expert, and author whose acclaimed books on friendship, translated into more than 30 languages, include: When Friendship Hurts (Simon & Schuster); Putting WHEN FRIENDSHIP HURTS to Work; 365 Daily Affirmations for Friendship; Friendshifts: The Power of Friendship and How It Shapes Our Lives; Friendship Thoughts, Famous Quotes, and a Journal, and Friendgevity: How to Make and Keep the Friends Who Enhance and Extend Your Life. She is also an Adjunct Associate Professor in the Sociology Department of John Jay College of Criminal Justice, among other colleges and universities. Dr. Yager has been interviewed about her friendship research on such major talk shows as Oprah, The View, Today Show, Good Morning America, CBS Sunday Morning, and others. For more on this prolific author, go to: www.drjanyager.com
