Lipstick On Your Collar is a light hearted view on the familiar issues of flirting and cheating, and the resulting stress that emerges from it, a mesh you simply cannot emerge from unscathed. Or can you? This is the two-sided story of Jaya, a sex-denying, menopausal wife and of Pankaj aka Pinkoo, her frustrated husband. At a cocktail party, Jaya witnesses a flirtatious encounter between Pinkoo and a voluptuous widow, both enjoying and laughing a bit too much, or so Jaya concluded. Right or wrong, her feminine instincts were on overdrive. Egged on by her neurotic friend, she checks the apartment for evidence of an affair. Three pieces of incriminating evidence emerge, and Jaya decides to confront Pinkoo before convicting him. Jaya jiggles the evidence in Pinkoo's face while he wiggles his way out. Is Pinkoo really guilty? Can he disprove the evidence? A farcical comedy in some ways, seriously funny in other ways, and amusingly realistic in many ways - take your pick.

For readers who crave stories of uninhibited, unrepentant sex between women, Lesbian Lust truly delivers. Sensual, inventive and sizzling hot, the lesbian sex featured in Sacchi Green's relentless, raw stories is nothing less than breathtaking. No fantasy goes unfulfilled; butches abound, baby dykes learn important life lessons, femmes and fatales bring each other to the brink. Not to be missed by any fan of lesbian erotica!

This dog training guide reveals nature's application of quiet cont rol without raised voices and aggression. Posture, eye contact, clear boundaries, feedback and follow-through are incorporated and studied.

Struggling to balance her powers as a Siren with her new vampire nature, Celia is perplexed by a seemingly ineffective magical bomb at a local elementary school only to discover that a zombie plague has been triggered, a situation that is challenged by family foibles and the disappearance of her boyfriend.

High Tech and High Heels in the Global Economy is an ethnography of globalization positioned at the intersection between political economy and cultural studies. Carla Freeman’s fieldwork in Barbados grounds the processes of transnational capitalism—production, consumption, and the crafting of modern identities—in the lives of Afro-Caribbean women working in a new high-tech industry called “informatics.” It places gender at the center of transnational analysis, and local Caribbean culture and history at the center of global studies. Freeman examines the expansion of the global assembly line into the realm of computer-based work, and focuses specifically on the incorporation of young Barbadian women into these high-tech informatics jobs. As such, Caribbean women are seen as integral not simply to the workings of globalization but as helping to shape its very form. Through the enactment of “professionalism” in both appearances and labor practices, and by insisting that motherhood and work go hand in hand, they re-define the companies’ profile of “ideal” workers and create their own “pink-collar” identities. Through new modes of dress and imagemaking, the informatics workers seek to distinguish themselves from factory workers, and to achieve these new modes of consumption, they engage in a wide array of extra income earning activities. Freeman argues that for the new Barbadian pink-collar workers, the globalization of production cannot be viewed apart from the globalization of consumption. In doing so, she shows the connections between formal and informal economies, and challenges long-standing oppositions between first world consumers and third world producers, as well as white-collar and blue-collar labor. Written in a style that allows the voices of the pink-collar workers to demonstrate the simultaneous burdens and pleasures of their work, High Tech and High Heels in the Global Economy will appeal to scholars and students in a wide range of disciplines, including anthropology, cultural studies, sociology, women’s studies, political economy, and Caribbean studies, as well as labor and postcolonial studies.

Lipstick Brigade tells the dynamic, inspiring-and until now, untold-story of Washington's World War II "Government Girls," recruited from every corner of the nation to staff the offices of America's central command post. Sometimes called white-collar Rosie the Riveters, this clerical corps over 100,000 strong became federal stenographers, typists, code breakers, analysts, and spies. Filled with firsthand accounts and extensive primary research, Lipstick Brigade brings World War II-era Washington to life. Despite its romanticized image, the nation's wartime capital was gritty, carnal, frustrating, and sometimes deadly. From Sister Carrie to Carrie Bradshaw, the adventures of young, single women working in the big city have captured the public's imagination. Lipstick Brigade explores the captivating, surprising, and often moving stories of how these real-life adventurers confronted the challenges of war and transformed the usually sedate capital into a rollicking boomtown.

The renowned knitter and author of The Yarn Whisperer spins tales of a creative life enriched by world travel in this New York Times–bestselling memoir. In Knitlandia, Parkes invite readers and devoted crafters on excursions to be savored, through seventeen of her most memorable journeys across the globe. Her knitting adventures span from the fjords of Iceland to a cozy yarn shop in Paris’s thirteenth arrondissement. Also known for her PBS television appearances and hugely popular line of small-batch handcrafted yarns, Parkes weaves her personal blend of wisdom and humor into this eloquently volume that is part personal travel narrative and part cultural history, touching the heart of what it means to live creatively.

$10,000 and an all-expense paid getaway at a kink resort? What's the catch? Tessa Fauns has but one dream: Move to France and never leave. So when she's offered the chance to get enough money while putting her bilingual skills to use, how can she possibly say no? The fact that it requires her to join a select group of Club Vitalz submissives for a week-long kinkfest in paradise is just icing on the cake! Unless it's too good to be true… Despite her experience in the BDSM lifestyle, Tessa's unprepared for the extravagant activities their mysterious host has planned—and the clash of unexpected emotions her temporary Dom awakens inside her. Can a lifelong dream be enough to keep this little fox on her leash, or will the truth behind her Master's desires have Tessa rethinking her place on Dark Day Isle altogether?