Based on a three-year life story study of students from working-class backgrounds at four elite universities in China, this book offers a new way to understand and be inspired by Bourdieu.This book shows how Bourdieu’s ideas can be used to go beyond the analysis of domination and imagine a positive sociology of emancipation. Drawing on life stories of high-achieving students from working-class backgrounds, who experienced extreme social mobility in the education system and beyond, t...

**The instant New York Times and USA Today bestseller!Change when you eat and change your body, your health, and your life!**Diets don’t work. You know you know that, and yet you continue to try them, because what else can you do? You can Fast. Feast. Repeat. After losing over eighty pounds and keeping every one of them off, Gin Stephens started a vibrant, successful online community with hundreds of thousands of members from around the w...

From USA Today bestselling author Gin Jones comes homicide for the holidays...Jess Walker is spending Christmas with her sisters for the first time in years, but it's a working holiday at the Three Sisters B&B in the heart of Kentucky's bourbon country. Jess, Em, and CJ are expecting a guest who has long dreamed of running her own B&B, so she'll be playing hostess while her extended family will join her as additional guests.Except the sisters end up doing most of the hard w...

When four college kids are buried alive and there’s only one way out, don’t ask questions. Just survive.After barely escaping a torturous series of undiscovered tunnels far beneath the Sierra foothills, Mae and her friends emerge, dehydrated and nearly dead from starvation.But everything Mae knows and loves is now gone.Through some bizarre tangle in time, they’ve been reeled back into the past. To a time that, according to Mae—“is constipated with a...

Clean(ish) leads readers to a focus on real foods and a healthier home environment free of obvious toxins, without fixating on perfection. By living clean(ish), our bodies’ natural processes become streamlined and more effective, while we enjoy a vibrant life.In Gin Stephens's New York Times bestseller Fast. Feast. Repeat., she showed you how to fast (completely) clean as part of an intermittent fasting lifestyle. Now, whether you’re an i...

The sinister RX organization s hell-bent on world domination, however its top general has a different goal in mind: getting up close and personal with the strapping superhero Braveman! Though she has no powers and very little brains the General is determined to do whatever it takes to seduce her number one crush/greatest foe. One thing's for certain, Braveman's never faced a villain like this before!

A new power known as the Organization has emerged, led by the charismatic-and-definitely-not-copyright-infringing Jester! What kind of might does this Organization have at its disposal? And does the Villain League, including our intrepid General, have what it takes to stand up to them? Well, if it's a fight they want, then it's a fight they'll get! The entire Villain League is rolling out!

Gin Stephens is unstoppable! And she won’t even pause until she’s introduced every potential reader to Intermittent Fasting. In her 28-Day FAST Start Day-By-Day, she dispenses the “hows” and “whys” of IF day by day for a reader’s first month, giving IFers what they need to know, when they need to know it.Supported throughout with inspirational case histories that add up to a troubleshooting primer, as well as tips, truths and tweaks, 28-Day FAST Start ...

Discover the Power of Clean(ish) Living: Boost Your Health and Vitality Without the Stress of PerfectionIn Gin Stephens's New York Times bestseller Fast. Feast. Repeat., she introduced readers to the transformative power of intermittent fasting. Now, in Clean(ish), Stephens guides you on a journey to a healthier lifestyle by focusing on real foods and reducing exposure to everyday toxins – without the pressure of achieving perfection.By em...

After a falling out between their mothers, 13-year-old best friends Nell and Lydia are forbidden from seeing each other for the whole summer. Nell struggles with the thought of not only losing her best friend, but also losing the only person in whom Nell finds refuge from the difficulties she faces at home. Determined to find a place of their own, Nell and Lydia spend the summer hiding out in an abandoned golf course where Nell and Lydia find mysterious symbols scattered throughout the gro...

In Delay, Don’t Deny, Gin Stephens taught people around the world how to live an intermittent fasting lifestyle. Still, many wonder what foods they should be eating for best results. Is there one best diet that works for every one of us? The surprising answer to that question is an emphatic NO! In Feast Without Fear, the follow up to Delay, Don’t Deny, you will learn what makes each of us unique, and why there is not a one-size-fits-all approach, no matter what a...

Haunted by the loss of her cousin, Cedar, Delilah has curated a world of revenge-playing judge, jury, and executioner while, you know, searching for love. Maybe murdering gives her the control she craves. Maybe it fills the gaping hole that was left when Cedar disappeared. Maybe her rage is ancestral, dating back to all of the Indigenous women before her whose cases were closed without much of a search. She's never been close to getting caught, but as a virus ripples through the world, dev...