One minute, Zuri is standing at the altar saying ‘I do’ with the man of her dreams, the next, she gets a call saying her newfound husband, Phantom, has put himself in a situation and he may not make it out alive. Suddenly, her world is turned upside down and she’s barely able to hold on. When her battles start to affect their unborn child, she is forced to choose between being a mother and being a wife. She quickly finds out that doing both is easier said than done when tragedy strikes again. This time, her husband isn’t around help her through what may become a life changing experience for them both. After the birth of their baby girl, Boog and Zaharie are still struggling to find out their rightful place in each other’s lives. Just when they’re starting to get it together, Boog gets involved in a war with an enemy that no one see’s coming, and with Phantom down, he’s having trouble coping. The streets don’t seem to know who’s after him and he isn’t sure either. The only thing he is really sure about is that he wants to be with Zaharie So when she decides it’s time to move on, he’s left feeling confused and betrayed; especially once he finds out that she’s been dating someone that may be a missing piece of the puzzle he’s trying to solve. Someone he doesn’t trust. The built-up aggression from the situations in Boog’s life causes him to spiral out of control. His inability to figure out who’s behind the knife coming for his back makes him feel as if the world is against him, and the only way to come out on top is to kill anyone that crosses him the wrong way. His trust wears thin and everyone’s loyalty becomes questionable. The main goal is to protect his family, but when Zaharie’s new social life puts the whole gang in jeopardy, it may be something he can never forgive.

In this explosive finale of Boog and Zaharie: In Love with the Savage in Him, betrayal isn’t taken too lightly. Zaharie is being held hostage and Boog is racking his brain trying to figure out who in his city would be bold enough to mess with his family. Although someone close to him might know, they’re skeptical about coming forth with the information. Just when he feels like everything is back to normal, he realizes that the snake has been hissing in his face the entire time. After all they’ve been through, this may be just enough to break what Zaharie and Boog built, if they let it. With all they’ve endured, will this more than likely be the thing to break them up? Or will all the hardships they’ve experienced together be just what they need to appreciate each other and make it work? Find out in this last installment of Boog and Zaharie.

“Cut the head off a snake, another one will grow in its place.” In the second installment of Boog and Zaharie: In love With The Savage In Him, everyone’s limits are tested. Both Boog and Zaharie wake up bound to chairs, staring death in the face. Once they’re separated, Zaharie’s trepidations of dying are accompanied by regrets of falling for Brandon and leaving her daughter in the world alone. However, Boog is ready to lay down his life for the game, with hopes that his daughter’s earliest memories of him will stick for life. A miracle is what they both need in order to make it home to their little one, and a miracle is what they shall receive. Zuri is still MIA while Phantom is left in a compromising position, and the one person that’s able to save him doesn’t seem to have the strength to do it; himself. He’s forced from his hospital bed too soon, which can lead to his demise if he doesn’t play his cards right. With time not on his side and his life on the line, he goes to depths past his body’s capabilities in order to ensure his family is safe. With one problem solved, another one always seems to appear. Phantom is ready to leave the game, putting Boog in charge of all drug operations, but he may have to let his grass grow so high that he isn’t able to see snakes directly in his face. With trouble coming from all directions, will he be able to save his relationship and complete the mission his plug set him out on discretely? Or will the pressure of it all cause his whole world to crumble?

Zuri never imagined she could endure so much pain from the man that claimed to love her. But that’s exactly what she has been doing ever since she found out she was pregnant with Tez’s son five years ago. His physical, mental, and emotional abuse tore her down until she felt worthless. Her only strength comes from the love of her son and her anticipation of better days is slowly fading. When Tez is brutally murdered, she has short-lived hope but when she and her son are taken hostage, then she’s sure her life will only take turns for the worst. Now her only priority is to protect her young. Phantom is the head of the Money Getting Mafia. Although no one except for his closest companions can put a face with the name, he’s one of the most powerful men in California. Once he gets word that his little brother is holding hostages, he orders him to let them go and Zuri is set free. Phantom notices her and he’s instantly drawn in. Taken away by the energy between them that he can’t ignore, he goes after her knowing that he has a fiancée waiting at home. Zuri unknowingly falls right into the arms of a taken man that murdered her child’s father. Will she stay after she finds out who she’s truly dealing with? Will Phantom be able to keep his identity AND new fiancée concealed after pursuing the long-time girlfriend of his latest victim?

This book reviews, integrates, and synthesizes research on emotional labor and emotion regulation conducted over the past 30 years. The concept of emotional labor was first proposed by Dr. Arlie Russell Hochschild (1983), who defined it as "the management of feeling to create a publicly observable facial and bodily display" (p. 7) for a wage. A basic assumption of emotional labor theory is that many jobs (e.g., customer service, healthcare, team-based work, management) have interpersonal, and thus emotional, requirements and that well-being and effectiveness in these jobs is determined, in part, by a person’s ability to meet these requirements. Since Hochschild’s initial work, psychologists, sociologists, and management scholars have developed distinct theoretical approaches aimed at expanding and elaborating upon Hochschild’s core ideas. Broadly speaking, emotional labor is the study of how emotion regulation of oneself and others influences social dynamics at work, which has implications for performance and well being in a wide range of occupations and organizational contexts. This book offers researchers and practitioners a review of emotional labor theory and research that integrates the various perspectives into a coherent framework, and proposes an agenda for future research on this increasingly relevant and important topic. The book is divided into 5 main sections, with the first section introducing and defining emotional labor as well as creating a framework for the rest of the book to follow. The second section consists of chapters describing emotional labor theory at different levels of analysis, including the event, person, dyad, and group. The third section illustrates the diversity of emotional labor in distinct occupational contexts: customer service (e.g. restaurant, retail), call centers, and caring work. The fourth section considers broader contextual influences – organizational-, societal-, and cultural-level factors – that modify how and when emotional labor is done. The final section presents a series of ‘reflective essays’ from eminent scholars in the area of emotion and emotion regulation, where they reflect upon the past, present and future of emotion regulation at work.

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