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Chutzpah - Unlocking the maverick mindset for success
Published by Oak Tree Press (April 2006)
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Chutzpah is a wonderfully evocative and rich concept that has no exact translation in English. According to criminal appeals lawyer Professor Alan M. Dershowitz of Harvard Law School, who had the chutzpah to call his autobiography Chutzpah, the word is more easily demonstrated than defined. He describes chutzpah as a special brand of courage that defies conventional wisdom and conventional logic. Chutzpah is best understood by its context, and the book includes dozens and dozens of examples of chutzpah in action, All the people featured in the book believed in the art of the impossible. They all chose unconventional routes to achieve their goals. Everyone has the chutzpah spark, just dying to be allowed out. This book encourages you to create your own chutzpah-inducing environment, a place where you can cultivate a wacky, non-conformist frame of mind.

CONTENTS
1. Introduction
2. Thirty centuries of chutzpah
3. Go easy on me, I'm an orphan
4. Showbiz chutzpah
5. Publishing chutzpah
6. Mile-high chutzpah
7. Wining and Dining Chutzpah
8. Female feistiness
9. Industrial Size Chutzpah
10. Chutzpah for all ages
11. Chutzpah - User's Manual

Fire in the Belly - An exploration of the entrepreneurial spirit
Published by Oak Tree Press
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Featured in Recommended Books on Entrepreneurship in The Entrepreneurs' Chronicle, www.zeromillion.com, The Top Entrepreneurship Resource Online
In this take-no-prisoners approach to entrepreneurship, Yanky explores the emotional transition that every aspiring entrepreneur must make from employee to self-employed. He outlines the thrill, the challenge and the fun of going it alone, and he offers practical tips.

Chapter 1 - Getting off the Ladder
Chapter 2 - Entrepreneurs - a question of definition
Chapter 3 - The ladder world
Chapter 4 - Are we genetically conditioned to become entrepreneurs?
Chapter 5 - Health warning: Ladders can be hazardous to your health
Chapter 6 - The triggers that push us off the ladder
Chapter 7 - What do I want to be when I grow up?
Chapter 8 - Fire in the belly and 9 other preconditions for being your own boss
Chapter 9 - Entrepreneurs and Ladder People - two different breeds
Chapter 10 - Bad things can happen to nice entrepreneurs
Chapter 11 - 10 fun things about being your own boss
Chapter 12 - Wearing different hats
Chapter 13 - Off the ladder, on the ladder
Chapter 14 - 10 Don't's
Chapter 15 - Get out there and do it

My Family Doesn't Understand Me! Coping strategies for entrepreneurs
Published by Oak Tree Press
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The Start Your Own Business field abounds with myths. One of these myths is the myth of family support. 'My Family Doesn't Understand Me!' questions the prevailing wisdom trumpeted by too many books, articles, websites and training courses. Yanky claims that most families are incapable of delivering the level of emotional support that entrepreneurs crave. In his trademark witty yet perceptive style, Yanky offers a suite of coping strategies for the real world, where entrepreneurs are more likely to meet hostility than encouragement from their family and close friends.

Chapter 1: Once upon a time there were Three Bears
Chapter 2: Family support - the myth
Chapter 3: Expressions of hostility
Chapter 4: Why do we go to school?
Chapter 5: On becoming a citizen of planet ladder
Chapter 6: The planet where they speak entreprenese
Chapter 7: Lonely at the top
Chapter 8: So where do entrepreneurs get support?
Chapter 9: Bridging the communication gap
Chapter 10: How are families meant to cope?
Chapter 11: The three bears revisited

The Vow
Published by Trafford Publishing
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On their wedding day in a field in Buckingham, England, in 1944, Yanky's parents Eva (born in Frankfurt in 1922) and Eli (born in Berlin in 1923) made a vow to re-establish the Fachler tribe that had been decimated in the Holocaust. The tribe they created now includes 7 children, 25 grandchildren, and 35 great-grandchildren.
With Eli and Eva's encouragement, Yanky has recorded their story in The Vow, which offers a fascinating view of the 20th century through the prism of one Jewish family. This is a story that will make you laugh and make you cry. It is a story of miraculous escapes as well as tragic deaths. It is a story of hope, of determination, of faith and of love. Above all, The Vow is the story of two remarkable people.
"No one knows what will happen here. We thank the Almighty that you are not here now. May the Lord look after you and hold his right hand over you to protect you."
-Letter sent by Dovid Meir Fachler in Poland in the last week of August 1939 to his son Eli in Scotland, just days before the Nazi invasion of Poland.

PART I- PRE-WAR

1. Origins
   
2. Earliest Recollections
   
3. School Days
   
4. Growing up in Nazi Frankfurt
   
5. Growing up in Nazi Berlin
   
6. Flight from Germany
   
7. Eva settles down in England
   
8. Eli settles down in Scotland
   PART II - WAR
   
9. The Second World War
   
10. Wartime kibbutz - Eli and Eva meet
    
11. Army wedding vows
    
12. The War ends
    
13. Aftermath of the Holocaust'
    PART III - POST-WAR
    14 Yanky and David
    
14. Demob and civilian employment
    
15. Marcus and Chaim
    
16. David's death
    
17. Hadassa Wine Company and Luton Kosher Foods
    
18. Melanie, Meir and Yossi
    
19. The Seventies
    Postscript

6 Officers, 2 Lions, and 750 Mules
Published by PublishAmerica
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This book focuses on six British army officers. Three were Christians, three were Jews. All of them were committed Zionists who helped rekindle a dormant military spirit after 2,000 years. The three Christian officers included the Irishman who killed the man-eating lions of Tsavo, the eccentric Englishman who created the Special Night Squads, and the English intelligence officer who became an ornithologist. The three Jewish officers included the Russian journalist who founded a political movement, the Russian dentist who was a hero of the Russo-Japanese War, and the Russian-born horseman who became an Australian officer.

1. Introduction
   
2. The origins of Christian Zionism
   
3. The railway engineer who shot the man-eaters of Tsavo
   
4. A whiff of scandal
   
5. Captain, traitor, Jew
   
6. Journalist, visionary, Zionist
   
7. The one-armed veteran of the Battle of Port Arthur
   
8. The writer who tried to form an army
   
9. An audience with General Maxwell
   
10. A peninsula called Gelibolu
    
11. Changing the image of the cowardly Jew
    
12. The conquest of Palestine
    
13. The Jewish Legion
    
14. Death of a hero
    
15. The demise of the Jewish Legion
    
16. Meinertzhagen and Nebi-Musa
    
17. Between the wars
    
18. Hayedid - the friend
    
19. World War Two
    
20. The Jewish Brigade and its aftermath
    
21. The legacy of Patterson's Zion Mule Corps and the Jewish Legion
    

• Over 70 articles have appeared in Yanky's weekly Cheer up with Yanky column.
  
• Irish Independent, March 2005: Daring to be different
  
• Clarity ezine, April 2005: Getting emotional about starting a business
  
• BusinessPlus, July 2003: Emotional support from your family? Forget It!
  
• Inside Business, December 2004: Entrepreneurship is an Emotional Experience
  
• Enterprise Magazine, Autumn 2001: A book on enterprise - penned on the Enterprise!
  
• Institute of Business Advisors Journal, July 2004: The question of whether entrepreneurial skills can be taught is a red herring
  
• Business News, March 2005: Stick to your guns
  
• SmartMoves ezine, July 2002: Using chutzpah to promote yourself
  
• History Ireland, January 2004: The first Jewish fighting unit in nearly 2,000 years - and its Irish commander
  
• The Jewish Veteran, February 2005: The Zion Mule Corps, the Jewish Legion, and their Irish commander, Colonel John Henry Patterson
  
• Nahalath Dublin September 2004: Zionism's Forgotten Allies
  
• Nahalath Dublin September 2005: Captain, Traitor, Jew - The story of Alfred Dreyfus
  
• Inflight magazines and hotel guest magazines (El Al, Hilton Hotels, Moriah Hotels)

ACCLAIM FOR YANKY'S BOOKS AND ARTICLES:
Yanky's book will give you loads of ideas to start, build and expand your business. Brody Sweeney, founder of O'Brien's Irish Sandwich Bars

Yanky gets under the skin of the entrepreneur, and helps to explain what makes entrepreneurs so driven and obsessive. Michael O'Dwyer, founder of Pigsback.com

I have witnessed this book's ability to change peoples' lives. I recommend it highly. David Harrington, trainer, USA

Whatever business you decide to start, prepare yourselves for a shock. Yanky Fachler's books cover the whole spectrum of the unexpected personal and social problems that setting up in business can cause. He writes about these issues in a fun and enthusiastic way and I wholeheartedly recommend his books to students on all my business courses. Alison Branagan, Lecturer, Central Saint Martin's College of Art and Design, London

You don't often find a book that will help you decide whether or not you are more suited to the world of the entrepreneur or to that of salaried positions. This book walks you through things like the pros and cons of entrepreneurship. I really enjoyed it, the tone is light and easy to read. If you are seriously considering becoming your own boss, the book does a very good job in making you think about the decision to go it alone - before you jump in up to your neck. Deiric McCann, Cara, Aer Lingus Magazine