Mindfulness on the Go - Pocket Edition

Jan Chozen Bays

A pocket-sized collection of mindfulness practices anyone can do anytime--from the author of "Mindful Eating." Mindfulness can reduce stress, improve physical health and quality of life, and give you deep insight. Meditation practice is one way to do it, but not the only way. In fact, there are easy way...

The Beauty and the Terror: An Alternative History of the Italian Renaissance

Catherine Fletcher

The Italian Renaissance shaped western culture - but it was far stranger and darker than many of us realise. We revere Leonardo for his art but few now appreciate his ingenious designs for weaponry. We know the Mona Lisa for her smile but not that she was married to a slave-trader. We visit Florence to ...