Personal development

Some kids get all the breaks. Some don't. DOIN' TIME tells the stories of nine men who got offered a second chance and grabbed it. Facing up to their troubled, sometimes criminal, pasts and the impact their actions have had on their victims, they have overcome many obstacles to become valued members of the community.

Happiness, that simple and sometimes elusive emotion, can be something that we take for granted – until we realise that perhaps we aren't feeling it quite as much as we wish to. Yet, learning how to feel happy again is not hard to do.

We spend more than 200,000 hours sleeping in a lifetime, the equivilant of more than 8,000 days, yet research has only just begun to decode the mysteries behind what can go wrong. Here, Dr. Schenck, one of the most prominent sleep doctors and researchers around today, takes us on an incredible journey into the mechanisms of sleep and the spectrum of disorders that can occur when these mechanisms ...

Journey into lands, strange and familiar, as Jasmine Becket-Griffith joins Alice on her adventures down the rabbit hole in 55 scenes of big-eyed wonder. Bring your own colour to the pool of tears, the Madhatter's infamous tea party, the frog footman and some looking-glass insects.

Release your creativity and deepen your connections with the animal world as you bring the majesty, mischief, and grace of the wild to life. Meet Fire Fox, Ghost Cat, Storm Falcon and more fantastic creatures from the skies, oceans, gardens, and forests of the world.

Being Upright takes us beyond the conventional interpretation of ethical precepts to the ultimate meaning that informs them.

A longtime yoga teacher and Buddhist meditation practitioner, Charlotte Bell describes in passionate detail how she applied the eightfold path of the Yoga Sutras and the Buddha’s heed for mindfulness to her hectic Western life

What would we find if, over a period of time, we paid careful attention to the coincidences in our lives? What would clusters of coincidental events reveal? Susan M. Watkins examines, from the inside out, coincidences in her own life and asks, What's going on here? She discovers powerful insights into the workings of the conscious mind, into the concepts of time and space, past and future.

The Diamond Sutra, a mainstay of the Mahayana tradition, has fascinated Buddhists for centuries because of its insights into dualism and illusion: the "diamond" can cut through any obstacle on the road to enlightenment.