Workman imprint: 373 books
Unlikely Heroes
37 Inspiring Stories of Courage and Heart from the Animal Kingdom
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2014
In her heartwarming New York Times bestsellers Unlikely Friendships and last year’s Unlikely Loves, Jennifer Holland revealed the surprising emotional bonds that exist between animals of different species. Her books spent dozens of weeks on bestseller lists and caught the attention of major media...
Parenting Is Easy
You're Probably Just Doing It Wrong
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2015
Imagine a world where pregnant women are always upbeat and glowing, newborns sleep on cue, toddlers love to have their teeth brushed, and teenagers gaze adoringly at their parents. Impossible, you say? Not according to advertisers who flood the web with stock photos of perfect parents and children....
The Art of Confession
Renewing Yourself Through the Practice of Honesty
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2012
Paul Wilkes has written an elegant, prescriptive, secular book—a spiritual gem—that reinvents the power of confession for a contemporary audience. Confession is the foundation of religion, the essence of mental health. It is listening to the voice within to follow the path to honest and conscious...
by Shaun Morey
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2014
What’s almost as good as going fishing? Hearing, telling, and swapping great fish stories. Shaun Morey is a fisherman, a connoisseur of fish stories, and a journalist with a novelist’s eye (and vice versa) in this collection of over 100 incredible (and true!) fishing stories.
Here are Remarkable...
Do More Great Work
Stop the Busywork. Start the Work That Matters.
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2010
You work hard. You put in the hours. Yet you feel like you are constantly treading water with "Good Work" that keeps you going but never quite moves you ahead. Or worse, you are mired in "Bad Work"—endless meetings and energy-draining bureaucratic traps.
Do More Great...
Self-Meditation
3,299 Tips, Quotes, Reminders, and Wake-Up Calls for Peace and Serenity
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2013
Don’t self-medicate—self-meditate. In a book of thousands of entries, written in the abundant, winningly positive way that’s helped her books sell over 1.5 million copies, Barbara Ann Kipfer shows just how we can—and should—meditate anytime, anywhere, and reap the ever-growing list of mental...
Up Your Score: ACT, 2018-2019 Edition
The Underground Guide to Outsmarting "The Test"
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2017
Fully updated to reflect the most current version of the ACT, Up Your Score: ACT remains the test prep and survival guide that kids will actually want to use. Written by Chris Arp, a Princeton graduate and top ACT tutor—with the help of four students who aced the test (and went on to the colleges...
The Essential Guide to Getting Your Book Published
How to Write It, Sell It, and Market It . . . Successfully
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2010
Now updated for 2015!
The best, most comprehensive guide for writers is now revised and updated, with new sections on ebooks, self-publishing, crowd-funding through Kickstarter, blogging, increasing visibility via online marketing, micropublishing, the power of social media and author websites,...
Dear County Agent Guy
Calf Pulling, Husband Training, and Other Curious Dispatches from a Midwestern Dairy Farmer
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2016
“Jerry Nelson’s column comes from the true heart of the Midwest. He has the true voice, the slow twang. He knows wheat from barley. He knows hardware, he knows vegetation, he knows people.”—Garrison Keillor
In the tradition of Mark Twain and Jean Shepherd, Dave Barry and Garrison Keillor,...
"Is This Thing On?"
A Friendly Guide to Everything Digital for Newbies, Technophobes, and the Kicking & Screaming
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2015
Like a personal trainer for the digital age, Abby Stokes is the hand-holding, motivating expert that newbies—specifically older newbies—turn to when they want to become digitally literate. And her book, Is This Thing On?, is as smart, comprehensive, reassuring, and jargon-free as she is: the epitome...
8,789 Words of Wisdom
Proverbs, Precepts, Maxims, Adages, and Axioms to Live By
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2001
An essential, obsessive collection of all those wise and quirky sayings we’ve heard before—plus plenty of essential, obscure ones to discover—now all in one place.
With words of comfort and motivation, humor and warmth, here are thousands of proverbs, precepts, maxims, adages, and axioms—8,789...
The Art of War Visualized
The Sun Tzu Classic in Charts and Graphs
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2015
It’s the perfect meeting of minds. One, a general whose epigrammatic lessons on strategy offer timeless insight and wisdom. And the other, a visual thinker whose succinct diagrams and charts give readers a fresh way of looking at life’s challenges and opportunities. A Bronze Age/Information Age...
Be the Elephant
Build a Bigger, Better Business
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2007
In business, there's no standing still. The trick is to become an elephant—big enough to make a difference, healthy enough to withstand financial currents, strong enough to influence your market—and smart enough to avoid the pitfalls of growth.
With Be the Elephant, bestselling author Steve...
How to Be an Everyday Philanthropist
330 Ways to Make a Difference in Your Home, Community, and World–at No Cost!
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2009
Want to help make your community, your town—your world—a better place, but don’t know where to begin? How To Be An Everyday Philanthropist shows you the way. A handbook, a resource guide, a call to action, and an inspiration, it offers 330 concrete, direct ideas for making a difference—all...