Mindfulness promotes the kind of happiness and peace that gets into your bones. It seeps into everything you do and helps you meet the worst that life throws at you with new courage.

Based on Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT), the book revolves around a straightforward form of mindfulness meditation which takes just a few minutes a day for the full benefits to be revealed. MBCT has been clinically proven to be at least as effective as drugs for depression and is widely recommended by US physicians and the UK's National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence--in other words, it works. More importantly it also works for people who are not depressed but who are struggling to keep up with the constant demands of the modern world.

MBCT was developed by the book's author, Oxford professor Mark Williams, and his colleagues at the Universities of Cambridge and Toronto. By investing just 10 to 20 minutes each day, you can learn the simple mindfulness meditations at the heart of MBCT and fully reap their benefits. The book includes links to audio meditations to help guide you through the process. You'll be surprised by how quickly these techniques will have you enjoying life again.

The revolutionary book that has helped hundreds of thousands of readers find relief from chronic unhappiness is now in a revised and updated second edition. This authoritative, easy-to-use self-help program is grounded in mindfulness-based cognitive therapy, a clinically proven approach. The expert authors explain why our usual attempts to fix sadness or just stop thinking about it can actually worsen depression, instead of relieving it. Through vivid stories and downloadable audio meditations encouragingly narrated by Jon Kabat-Zinn, the book shows how you can break the mental habits that lead to despair--and recover a sense of joy, aliveness, and possibility. Revised throughout to be even more reader friendly, the second edition features fresh insights on coping with the challenges of our ever-changing world, the latest scientific data, and four additional audio tracks.

See also the authors' Mindful Way Workbook, which provides step-by-step guidance for building your mindfulness practice in 8 weeks. Plus, mental health professionals, see also the authors' bestselling therapy guide: Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy for Depression, Second Edition.

The revolutionary book that has helped hundreds of thousands of readers find relief from chronic unhappiness is now in a revised and updated second edition. This authoritative, easy-to-use self-help program is grounded in mindfulness-based cognitive therapy, a clinically proven approach. The expert authors explain why our usual attempts to fix sadness or just stop thinking about it can actually worsen depression, instead of relieving it. Through vivid stories and downloadable audio meditations encouragingly narrated by Jon Kabat-Zinn, the book shows how you can break the mental habits that lead to despair--and recover a sense of joy, aliveness, and possibility. Revised throughout to be even more reader friendly, the second edition features fresh insights on coping with the challenges of our ever-changing world, the latest scientific data, and four additional audio tracks.

See also the authors' Mindful Way Workbook, which provides step-by-step guidance for building your mindfulness practice in 8 weeks. Plus, mental health professionals, see also the authors' bestselling therapy guide: Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy for Depression, Second Edition.

Use the hidden foundations of mindfulness to rediscover calm and reclaim your life in our chaotic world.

There are moments in life that decide your fate. They ripple into the future and dictate how you experience the world in the moments that follow; either positive and uplifting, dark and chaotic, or flat and dull.

What if you could recognize these moments before they seized control of your life? What if you could use them to set sail for a better future? What if all moments, big and small, could be harnessed this way?

In Deeper Mindfulness, Oxford Professor Mark Williams and Dr Danny Penman reunite to present a new eight-week guided meditation program that takes mindfulness to the next level. Deeper Mindfulness reveals how the latest advances in neuroscience, combined with millennia old wisdom, can be used to transform your life. These discoveries open the doors to a deeper layer of mindfulness known as the 'feeling tone'. This sets the 'background color' that tinges your entire experience of life. It is also the tipping point from which you can reclaim your life in an increasingly stressful and chaotic world.

Proven effective at treating anxiety, stress and depression, the practices in Deeper Mindfulness offer a new and more fruitful direction for both novice and experienced meditators. It also allows the rest of us to approach life with renewed strength, vigor and equanimity.

The Celtic Myths That Shape the Way We Think explores a fascinating question: how do myths that were deeply embedded in the customs and beliefs of their original culture find themselves retold and reinterpreted across the world, centuries or even millennia later? Focusing on the myths that have had the greatest cultural impact, Mark Williams reveals the lasting influence of Celtic mythology, from medieval literature to the modern fantasy genre. An elegantly written retelling, Williams captures the splendor of the original myths while also delving deeper into the history of their meanings, offering readers an intelligent and engaging take on these powerful stories.

Beautiful illustrations of the artworks these myths have inspired over the centuries are presented in a color plates section and in black and white within the text. Ten chapters recount the myths and explore the lasting influence of legendary figures, including King Arthur, the Celtic figure who paradoxically became the archetypal English national hero; the Irish and Scottish hero Finn MacCool, who as Fingal caught the imagination of Napoleon Bonaparte, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, and Felix Mendelssohn; and the Welsh mythical figure Blodeuwedd, magically created from flowers of the oak, who inspired W. B. Yeats. Williams's mythological expertise and captivating writing style make this volume essential reading for anyone seeking a greater appreciation of the myths that have shaped our artistic and literary canons and continue to inspire today.

Now, with his unique perspective as a victim seeking redemption, he counsels both victims of clergy abuse as well as faith leaders invested in transforming a broken church.

Mark Williams led a content life; from a working-class background, he worked his way up into a promising career and then met the love of his life. When his wife Michelle fell pregnant, it seemed as though everything had fallen into place for them.

Except Michelle's labour didn't go well. She was forced to undergo a C-section, an experience which deeply traumatised both of them. And when it was time to take their child home, Michelle seemed different. Gone was the woman that he had fallen in love with, replaced with someone who couldn't pull herself out of a deep, dark depression.

But it wasn't just Michelle who felt the baby blues. Mark too felt as though he had lost something, succumbing to feelings of stress, anxiety, and depression. He had never heard of fathers going through postnatal depression, but with a baby that wouldn't stop crying and a wife he could no longer connect with, he felt like he was losing himself more and more each day. So he found solace in old habits, and found his escape at the bottom of a bottle.

A touching story from a rarely explored perspective, Daddy Blues tells the tale of a man learning to deal with a problem he never knew he could have.

Phillipsport, Maine, is a quaint and peaceful seaside village. But when hundreds of creatures pour out of the ocean and attack, its residents must take up arms to drive the beasts back. They are the Clickers, giant venomous blood-thirsty crabs from the depths of the sea. The only warning to their rampage of dismemberment and death is the terrible clicking of their claws. But these monsters aren't merely here to ravage and pillage. They are being driven onto land by fear. Something is hunting the Clickers. Something ancient and without mercy.

A sweeping history of Ireland's native gods, from Iron Age cult and medieval saga to the Celtic Revival and contemporary fiction

Ireland's Immortals tells the story of one of the world's great mythologies. The first account of the gods of Irish myth to take in the whole sweep of Irish literature in both the nation's languages, the book describes how Ireland's pagan divinities were transformed into literary characters in the medieval Christian era--and how they were recast again during the Celtic Revival of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. A lively narrative of supernatural beings and their fascinating and sometimes bizarre stories, Mark Williams's comprehensive history traces how these gods--known as the Túatha Dé Danann--have shifted shape across the centuries. We meet the Morrígan, crow goddess of battle; the fire goddess Brigit, who moonlights as a Christian saint; the fairies who inspired J.R.R. Tolkien's elves; and many others. Ireland's Immortals illuminates why these mythical beings have loomed so large in the world's imagination for so long.

Now you can discover for yourself how to find the right house, flip it for the greatest profit and market it for the quickest sale.

Inside this book, we will show you how to attract a team of professionals who offer their services at the lowest prices and do the highest quality work. Not only will you learn how to make your new house flipping business a success, but you'll learn what NOT to do as well, including:

• Applying our formula to determine the potential profit
• Estimating and budgeting
• Determining current market values
• Setting the value of your flip
• Building a team of talented and affordable professionals
• Practicing creative and proven marketing strategies
• Flipping for the most profit in the quickest timeframe

Once you have finished reading this book, you'll be privy to some of the best-kept secrets of today's investors. And by avoiding the common mistakes you'll minimize risks and maximize your returns in the fastest time possible.

Yvonne, born in a Catholic enclave of France, sexually abused, and

seeks life at a convent school with the object of becoming a nun.

Confused and confounded by her own cerebral acuity, Yve clings

to faith, though her hold on Catholicism wanes.

rust into the real world, Yve confronts a conundrum. She expects

(deserved) punishment and trials. Instead, opportunities come to her,

and daunting obstacles are swept aside. Yvonne struggles to reconcile

the di erences between her expectations and the life she leads.

How Excessive Risk Destroyed Lehman and Nearly Brought Down the Financial Industry

Uncontrolled Risk will ruffle feathers--and for good reason--as voters and legislators learn thediffi cult lessons of Lehman's collapse and demand that we never forget them.
Dr. David C. Shimko, Board of Trustees, Global Association of Risk Professionals

Uncontrolled Risk is a drama as gripping as any work of fiction. Williams's recommendations forchanges in the governance of financial institutions should be of interest to anyone concernedabout the welfare of global financial markets.
Geoffrey Miller, Stuyvesant Comfort Professor of Law and Director, Center for the Study ofCentral Banks and Financial Institutions, New York University

The complex balance of free enterprise on Wall Street and the healthyregulation of its participants is the central economic issue of today.Williams's forensic study of Lehman's collapse may be the bestperspective so far on the issues that now face regulators.
Jeffrey P. Davis, CFA, Chief Investment Officer, Lee Munder Capital Group

Provides a very perceptive analysis of the fl aws inherent in risk management systems and modernfi nancial markets. Mandatory reading for risk managers and financial industry executives.
Vincent Kaminski, Professor in the Practice of Management, Jesse H. Jones Graduate School of Business, Rice University

Gives the reader much food for thought on the regulation of our financial system and its interplaywith corporate governance reform in the United States and around the world.
Professor Charles M. Elson, Edgar S. Woolard Jr. Chair in Corporate Governance, University of Delaware

The risk taking behind Wall Street's largest bankruptcy . . .

In this dramatic and compelling account ofLehman Brothers' spectacular rise and fall, author Mark T. Williams explains how uncontrolledrisk toppled a 158-year-old institution--and whatit says about Wall Street, Washington, D.C., and theworld financial system. A former trading floor executiveand Fed bank examiner, Williams sees Lehman's2008 collapse as a microcosm of the industry--aworst-case scenario of smart decisions, stupid mistakes, ignored warnings, and important lessons inmoney, power, and policy that affect us all.This book reveals:

• The Congressional inquisition of disgracedCEO Dick Fuld: Did he really deserve it?
• How the investment-banking money machinebroke down: Can it be fixed?
• The key drivers that caused the financialmeltdown: Can lessons be learnedfrom them?
• The wild risk taking denounced by PresidentObama: Is Washington to blame, too?
• The ongoing debate on reform andregulation: Can meaningful reform avertanother financial catastrophe?

This fascinating account traces Lehman's historyfrom its humble beginnings in 1850 to its collapsein 2008. Lehman's story exemplifies the everchangingtrends in finance--from investmentvehicles to federal policies--and exposes thedanger and infectious nature of uncontrolled risk.

Drawing upon first-person interviews with riskmanagement experts and former Lehman employees, Williams provides more than just a frontlinereport: it's a call to action for Wall Street bankers, Washington policymakers, and U.S. citizens--a livinglesson in risk management on which to build astronger fi nancial future. Williams provides a tenpointplan to implement today--so another Lehmandoesn't collapse tomorrow.

Includes aten-point plan toensure a strongfinancial future forboth Wall Street andMain Street

The Earth is a unique as a living planet, a cosmic oasis drifting in the vastness of barren space. It is strikingly and obviously different from our nearest heavenly neighbours, the Moon, Venus and Mars, in its thin skin of biology, extending from the surface for a few kilometres into the crust, and for a few tens of kilometres into the air. But how did this remarkable abundance and diversity of life arise? How has life survived over the enormous time frame of Earth's history? And does it continue to flourish now, especially with the growing pressure for space from humans?

The Cosmic Oasis examines life on Earth, from our earliest interactions with animals and plants to our absolute domination of biology. It follows our developing understanding of life's origins, its remarkable complexity, and its interactions with the air, oceans and land. It also shows how patterns of diversity across the surface of the planet evolved, and how humans are now homogenising these, degrading both biodiversity and the space in which life can exist. Within this overall trend of loss there are some remarkable examples of survival, from the beneficial relationships between the gelada monkeys and wolves of the Ethiopian highlands, and the people and brown howler monkeys of Porte Allegre in Brazil, to interactions between you and your gut microbiome. Thoughout, the authors ask what these interactions can teach us about building a better relationship with nature, and consider how we might become stewards, rather than destructive exploiters, of the life around us.

-Linda Neal Reising, Author of the poetry collections, The Keeping and Stone Roses

Writers do not merely reflect and interpret life, they inform and shape life, wrote essayist EB White, whose manner of speaking resembles Mark Williams' poetic voice. Williams approaches life experience as a storyteller, with curiosity, whimsy, and understated humor. Poems about illness, death, opossums, dogs, cats, and his wife, DeeGee, enliven ordinary and extraordinary life experiences. Memorable motifs are sprinkled throughout the collection, bringing disparate parts together and making the reading experience a process of discovery. Readers who begin In the insect room at the Louisville Science Center will want to carry on, gleefully, all the way to the poet's memorial service to be held at any time with anyone at the Starbucks nearest you.

-Kimberly Garts Crum, Co-editor of the anthology, The Boom Project:
Voices of a Generation

In Carrying On, Mark Williams is masterful at welcoming readers on a tour of his life and times, revealing his devotion to his wife and pets along the way. Part memoir, part poetry, part lyrical essay, Williams sprinkles endearing humor and small surprises for readers to unwrap and savor like candy tossed to parade spectators. My favorite titles include Has Becky Wright Returned A Prayer for Owen Meany?, Fred's Theory of Relativity, and Speaking of Tongues. The author's honest portrait of life experiences is recognizable as feelings we all share. Readers will not be left ho-humming through Williams's reflections, but rather feel like friends with whom he shares himself.

-Bonnie Omer Johnson, Co-editor of the anthology, The Boom Project:
Voices of a Generation

The Rubettes 1st single, Sugar Baby Love hit the top of the UK charts for 4 weeks in May 1974, selling c. 500,000 copies in Britain & 3 million copies worldwide, having made US # 37 that August. They went on to have a number of other top 10 hits across Europe during the mid-'70s, including Tonight, Juke Box Jive and I Can Do It, sung by Alan Williams, mainly written by Bickerton-Waddington. The group continued to tour well into the new millennium with a couple of line-ups.

Along with 3 other songs, Sugar Baby Love was recorded for Polydor during October 1973 at Lansdowne Studios in Holland Park, London, by session musicians featuring the distinctive falsetto & lead vocals of Paul Da Vinci, who was born Paul Leonard Prewer. However, Da Vinci didn't become a member of the band put together by John Richardson, instead focusing on solo work, having signed a contract with Penny Farthing Records. The Rubettes, The Glitter Band and Mud were among the UK groups who had roles in the movie Never Too Young to Rock in November 1974.

A term used to describe what white saw as a black anomaly, a Black outlier, or a Black unicorn.

Something or someone Black who should not exist, and yet here we stand; in spite of the systems and institutions hell-bent on extinguishing us. Our ancestors were striped of their identities, cultures, languages, religions, names and humanity; and then defined by what white was not. White limited Black access to knowledge, education, and ability to write while designing a narrative written in white ink on Black skin defining Black as the worst parts of white. White wrote the definitions of Black; while it was illegal for Black to read, write or learn.

White designed Black; while stealing. all Black created or designed, while white took what was Black, said that it was white, then told Black it was nothing without white. White has been in control of the narrative and the definition of Black, but still, look at what we have accomplished.

Watch what happens when we Define ourselves and Design our own narrative.

Bright Boy; The Art of Defined/Designed Black is an anthology focused on rewriting the narrative of Blackness and Black Culture.