People Tools: 54 Strategies for Building Relationships, Creating Joy, and Embracing Prosperity (SelectBooks 2014), provides time-proven techniques that you can use to build a better, happier, more successful life. It is the perfect resource for busy people looking for fast and effective solutions to the challenges we face every day.

Getting along well with others is the real secret to success and happiness. In tens of thousands of classrooms we teach reading, writing, and arithmetic and yet we leave solutions to the universal problems of human relationships to be discovered, if at all, by trial and error. The trial is painful and the error is costly.

Alan C. Fox is the founder, editor, and publisher of Rattle, one of the most respected literary magazines in the United States. He is well known for the publication of his conversations with noted American poets, including several Pulitzer Prize winners. Fox has energetically researched and tested People Tools his entire life. These tools have proven to be indispensable in achieving success in his business, his thirty-year marriage, and in parenting six assertive children, two stepchildren, and one foster child.