Want a happier, more content life? I highly recommend the down-to-earth methods you'll find in 'Mindfulness.' Professor Mark Williams and Dr Danny Penman have teamed up to give us scientifically grounded techniques we can apply in the midst of our everyday challenges and catastrophes.

Western business people often don't get the importance of establishing human relationships.

The basic premise that children must learn about emotions is that all feelings are okay to have; however, only some reactions are okay.

When the eyes of a woman that a man finds attractive look directly at him, his brain secretes the pleasure-inducing chemical dopamine - but not when she looks elsewhere.

Teachers need to be comfortable talking about feelings. This is part of teaching emotional literacy - a set of skills we can all develop, including the ability to read, understand, and respond appropriately to one's own emotions and the emotions of others.

True compassion means not only feeling another's pain but also being moved to help relieve it.

Shipping by sea produces 1/60 the emissions of shipping by air and about 1/5 that of trucking.