Finding My Status

In my seventh week of graduate school (having gone back 18 years after I graduated from college) I packed up my minivan with the red flames on it, took my kids and left my not-so-nice husband. I then spent the next year becoming a single mom, a teacher, a size six and a cougar. This is my memoir. Yes, unfortunately, it's a common story that way too many women have gone through; but here's the twist: my story is written in facebook status updates only. One line for each triumph, each failure, each heartbreak and each exhausting, overwhelming, non-sleeping, anxiety crammed, toddler filled, student teaching, boy crazy, wonderful moment of that year. I realize now, that year, was not only my most challenging year but my favorite as well. FINDING MY STATUS is a fresh and original look at an all too common predicament. It's funny, engaging, and topical. My friends and family log in to facebook each day to check my status. The book was created primarily from the actual status updates from my facebook page. And the rest...went through my mind as I narrated that first year where I found myself again. I think I was lost between the cushions of my sofa where all of the loose change goes...

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From the Sunday Times bestselling author of The Science of Storytelling comes a bold and ambitious investigation of status that will redefine human culture for our times There's something humans desire even more than gold. It's a fundamental drive that's common to all humanity, cutting across race, gender, age and culture. Our need for it is such that exactly how much of it we possess dramatically effects not only our happiness and well-being but also our physical health. It'sstatus, argues Will Storr. You can't understand human behaviour without understanding The Status Game. This game, which we are all playing, is not only the secret of our success, but also of our most evil behaviour. Everything is subordinate to status, and humans aren't unique in our complicity with it. By reflecting on the various ways humans negotiate this game - through status hierarchies, values, myths and sacred markers, Storr gives readers a master class in this most malevolent of social mysteries.

Shackled Love is a very gripping romantic story of incompatible love.....where age is no barrier, only the material and physical needs of the body are taken care of. Paul , a young promising officer, comes to Ambala as a project in charge, develops a good relation with a princely family introduced by his own relatives. His daily visits to that family brings him near to Rani Sahiba who is the mother of a teenage daughter. Rani Sahiba does not acclaim a good reputation as she was abandoned by her husband in the prime of her youth with a lot of riches. Being a victim of her husband's wrath she badly craves to fulfill her carnal desires. She falls in love with Paul who is much younger than her. Within this affair Paul starts neglecting his duties and later on resigns. Getting another job he leaves the place as well as Rani Sahiba. She nurtures this love till the end but to know its outcome, Let's take the book in hand.

Four yachtsmen find a manuscript sealed in a copper cylinder. It is the manuscript of Adam More, a British sailor shipwrecked on the homeward voyage from Tasmania. After passing through a subterranean tunnel of volcanic origin, he finds himself in a "lost world" of prehistoric animals, plants and people sustained by volcanic heat despite the long Antarctic night.

Laboring in the Shadow of Empire: Race, Gender, and Care Work in Portugal examines the everyday lives of an African-descendant care service workforce that labors in an ostensibly “anti-racial” Europe and against the backdrop of the Portuguese colonial empire. While much of the literature on global care work has focused on Asian and Latine migrant care workers, there is comparatively less research that explicitly examines African care workers and their migration histories to Europe. Sociologist Celeste Vaughan Curington focuses on Portugal—a European setting with comparatively liberal policies around family settlement and naturalization for migrants. In this setting, rapid urbanization in the late twentieth century, along with a national push to reconcile work and family, has shaped the growth of paid home care and cleaning service industries. Many researchers focus on informal work settings, where immigrant rights are restricted and many workers are undocumented or without permanent residence status. Curington instead examines workers who have accessed citizenship or permanent residence status and also explores African women’s experiences laboring in care and service industries in the formal market, revealing how deeply colonial and intersectional logics of a racialized and international division of reproductive labor in Portugal render these women “hyper-invisible” and “hyper-visible” as “appropriate” workers in Lisbon.