In this work, Ruby Wax tries to come up with some answers to that niggling question about who we are. With the input of a monk (an expert on our inner lives) and a neuroscientist (an expert on the brain), Ruby explores how to find happiness in the modern world - despite the constant bombardment of bad news, the need to choose between 5000 different types of toothpaste, and the loneliness of having hundreds of friends who we've never met and don't...

Easyway has brilliantly transformed lives all over the world. The message is: you don't need alcohol; you don't need cigarettes; you don't need refined sugar. You are fine as you are. Mindfulness lies at the heart of Allen Carr's philosophy. 'The Easy Way to Mindfulness' shows you how you can free yourself from the pressures and stresses of modern life. It encapsulates the method behind quitting with Easyway and spells out the benefits of clearing...

In the modern world, we have become addicted to positivity. We try to eradicate pain through medication and by insulating ourselves from risk and offence, even though we are the safest and most comfortable generation that ever lived. Yet social psychologist Brock Bastian shows that hardship and sadness are neither antithetical to pleasure nor incidental: they are necessary for happiness. In 'The Other Side of Happiness', he draws on psychology, neuroscience...

Due to the recent widespread media coverage on the far-reaching health benefits of mindfulness, misconceptions about the practice have become common as it has moved from spiritual to secular realms. So what is the reality? And how can this one thing have such a dramatic impact on so many people, in so many areas of their lives? This book aims to demystify the confusions that often get in the way of mindfulness training, and help readers get to grip...

It takes just ten minutes a day to train your mind - you will feel more awake, more alive and more creative. Using these carefully researched exercises you can increase your attention span, realise your potential and use your mind to its full capacity.

From the winner of the Wellcome Trust Science Writing Prize 2014 comes a book of weird and wonderful psychological experiments from the far-flung corners of human experience. What do you know about sex lives of lab rats? Or why swearwords should be prescribed by doctors? How about why hangovers can make you drink more, or why rollercoasters can reduce symptoms of asthma? 'Black Sheep' provides a weird and wonderful tour of fascinating research from...

For over forty years, Bel Mooney has been one of this country's best-loved journalists. Readers who value this writer's wisdom on issues of the human heart - from marital breakup, through grief, to family problems - also keenly follow the short 'opinion' column in which, as an adjunct to her problem page, she shares her thoughts on a wide variety of issues affecting the human condition. Called simply 'And Finally', this column makes her unique among...

Uncover the secrets of the Swedish philosophy of life called Lagom - meaning 'just enough'. At its core is the idea that we can strike a healthy balance with the world around us without having to make extreme changes, and without denying ourselves anything.

In 'The H Spot', Filipovic argues that the main obstacle standing in between women and happiness is a rigged system. In this world of unfinished feminism, men have long been able to 'have it all' because of free female labor, while the bar of achievement for women has gotten higher - never before have we had to work so much at every level (whether it's to be an accomplished white-collar employee or just make ends meet), and never before have the requirements...

'Mindfulness' reveals the secrets of lifelong happiness and details a unique programme developed by Oxford University psychologist Professor Mark Williams with colleagues around the world.