Most Popular Books by Michael Williams

A no-nonsense guide to establishing a personal meditation practice, changing your life, and taking hold of your dreams. CONFESSION: This is not really a meditation book. Yes, you’re going to learn everything you need to know about meditation, but if you came looking for a typical guide to mindfulness, you’re in the wrong place. We are modern people in a high-tech world. We have first world problems and long to-do lists. And if you grew up in struggle—overcoming homophobia, sexism, trauma, shame, depression, poverty, toxic masculinity, racism, or social injustice—you need a different type of meditation ... one that doesn’t pretend the struggle doesn’t exist. Here you will discover: ● How to actually find stillness when your mind is going crazy ● Why most guided meditations get boring after a while ● What nobody tells you about “setting intentions” and the scientific process to manifesting ● Four hidden habits that sabotage your growth—and how to move past them ● Proven techniques to overcome anxiety, stress, and trouble sleeping ● Daily rituals that cement and enrich your practice ● How to use mindfulness to take action toward the causes you believe in and get sh!t done Whether you’ve tried meditation but it never sticks, or you’ve heard about it but never gave it a shot, Justin Michael Williams guides you step by step in creating a custom meditation ritual that fits in with your busy (and sometimes messy!) modern life. With free downloadable audio meditations every step of the way, Stay Woke gives people of all genders, identities, colors, religions, ages, and economic backgrounds the tools to stop wasting time, overcome self-doubt, and wake up to the lives we were really born to live.

In this introduction to epistemology, Michael Williams explains and criticises traditional philosophical theories of the nature, limits, methods, possibility, and value of knowing.

A rabbit and his friends have adventures in Eggtown.

Reviews the role of enzymes in health and disease, with emphasis on their importance in maintaining our health, disease prevention and their uses in medicine.

Options are an investment vehicle that can enhance virtually any investment philosophy. Fundamentals of the Options Market provides a clear, concise picture of this global marketplace. Using examples drawn from contemporary financial news, this completely accessible guidebook describes why and how these versatile tools can be used to hedge risk and enhance return, while explaining popular products including listed stock options, index options, and LEAPS.

Michael Williams has spent the past year travelling along the fascinating rail byways of Britain for this new collection of journeys. Here is the ''train to the end of the world'' running for more than four splendid hours through lake, loch and moorland from Inverness to Wick, the most northerly town in Britain. He discovers a perfect country branch line in London''s commuterland, and travels on one of the slowest services in the land along the shores of the lovely Dovey estuary to the far west of Wales. He takes the stopping train across the Pennines on a line with so few services that its glorious scenery is a secret known only to the regulars. Here, too, is the Bittern Line in Norfolk and the Tarka Line in North Devon as well as the little branch line to the fishing port of Looe in Cornwall, rescued from closure in the 1960s and now celebrating its 150th anniversary taking families on holiday to the seaside. From the most luxurious and historic - aboard the Orient Express - to the most futuristic - on the driverless trains of London''s Docklands Light Railway - here is a unique travel companion celebrating the treasures of our railway heritage from one of Britain''s most knowledgeable railway writers.

The genus Pissodes includes 11 currently valid species known to occur in Canada. These bark weevils attack conifers and may also be associated with primary pests such as bark beetles & root diseases. This report provides information on collecting & rearing parasitoid & predator species that attack Pissodes species. It also contains an identification key to adult Hymenoptera & Diptera associated with Pissodes species in Canada, as well as notes on the biology & abundance of reared Diptera & Hymenoptera associated with Pissodes.

Methods for sampling, collecting, and rearing parasitoids of eggs, larvae, and pupae of the forest tent caterpillar, Malacosoma disstria Hübner, in the prairie provinces are discussed. Illustrated keys are provided for the identification of 42 Diptera and Hymenoptera species, which are parasitoids, hyperparasitoids, and scavangers associated with the forest tent caterpillar. Twenty-nine of these species are known to associate with forest tent caterpillar in this region, and another 15 occur in adjacent regions and are likely to occur there as well. A brief discussion is given of the biology, abundance, and probable role of each species identified. A glossary is included.

How to Stop Stuttering The logical and traditional way to approach stuttering is to try to treat, stop, overcome or manage it. The only problem is, this way often does not work. This guide will present to you another view, one that I think you''ll find far more effective and successful in helping you achieve your fluency and life goals. You know that you are capable of being, doing and having more. You know that you are intelligent and are able or want to be able to contribute more to your job, class, family, community and world. But, something has been holding you back. You''ve felt limited, even controlled by stuttering. Well, the great news is that you can learn to start speaking more smoothly, fluently and confidently, but only IF you approach it from a completely different direction. My name is Michael Williams and I''m the founder of The Start Speaking Training Center and the PRO90D Speech System, and I stuttered for over 20 years. In this guide, I''m going to share with you no only how I have used stuttering as a springboard to excellent speech, but, how I am helping thousands of people around the globe do the same. If you are truly ready to make a change, and have an open mind, I believe you WILL find something in this guide that will truly transform your entire life. And, I don''t say that lightly. This guide contains the pure essence of all of the techniques and strategies I use everyday to help people just like you unlock their speaking potential. This is not hype, or theory. My approach to how to stop stuttering draws from the fields of Neuroscience, Neuroplasticity, Accelerated Learning Strategies, High Performance Training and real life experience. May this guide be a true blessing to you and everyone your life touches.

The purpose of this book is to review and critically evaluate the best new methods to synthesize alpha-amino acids in optically active form. There is so much new literature on amino acid synthesis that the experimentalist will undoubtedly have difficulty in selecting the most appropriate methodology for constructing the amino acid of immediate interest. This book is a guide for steering the scientist through the maze of existing reports on the subject and contains the most up-to-date critical reviews of methods of asymmetric synthesis of amino acids. In areas that are relatively new conceptually and less studied experimentally, an effort has been made to review the most salient works with an eye towards future development. Over 330 schemes and figures are presented with references for rapid visual retrieval of information. The book will be of great value to academic and industrial organic research chemists, especially those concerned with medicinal and agricultural chemistry, as well as to graduate and post graduate students, biochemists and biologists.

My father says that a journey should always change your life in some way. Well, when you have nothing, I suppose a journey promises everything. "Diamonds for everyone." That''s what fifteen-year-old Patson Moyo hears when his family arrives in the Marange diamond fields. Soon Patson is working in the mines along with four friends, pooling their profits for a chance at a better life. Each of them hopes to find a girazi, a priceless stone that could change their circumstances forever. But when the government''s soldiers come to Marange, Patson''s world is shattered. Set against the backdrop of Zimbabwe''s brutal recent history, Diamond Boy is the story of a young man who succumbs to greed but finds his way out through a transformative journey to South Africa in search of his missing sister, in search of freedom, and in search of himself. A high-stakes, harrowing adventure in the blood-diamond fields of southern Africa, from the critically acclaimed author of Now Is the Time for Running.

As South Africa consolidates its democracy, chieftaincy has remained a controversial and influential institution that has adapted to recent changes. J. Michael Williams examines the chieftaincy and how it has sought to assert its power since the end of apartheid. By taking local-level politics seriously and looking closely at how chiefs negotiate the new political order, Williams takes a position between those who see the chieftaincy as an indigenous democratic form deserving recognition and protection, and those who view it as incompatible with democracy. Williams describes a network of formal and informal accommodations that have influenced the ways state and local authorities interact. By focusing on local perceptions of the chieftaincy and its interactions with the state, Williams reveals an ongoing struggle for democratization at the local and national levels in South Africa.

"This book is an important chapter in the history of religious liberty in America, a study of anti-Catholicism from the time of the first Puritan settlements up to its tremendous outbreak in the presidential campaign of 1928. It is the last outbreak to which the major portion of the book is devoted. Describing first the ideals of religious freedom held by the early colonists, the author discusses the first manifestations of the anti-Catholic movement, and threats extensively of the Native American and Know Nothing parties, the A. P. A., Ku Klux Klan and similar societies, dealing with all of these as a background for an understanding of the contemporary situation. The last half of the book, which deals with the 1928 campaign, is based upon an enormous mass of documents collected by the author during this outbreak of religious passion: an outbreak unparalleled in the violence of the language employed in denunciation of the Catholic Church, and unique in that bloodshed, riot and any form of physical violence were absent from it. Mr. Williams writes as a Catholic layman, an ardent believer in the principle of religious liberty and equally firm in his conviction that despite the 1928 outburst, the traditional American principles are still predominant. His aim in the book is not denunciation of one group or defense of another, but an attempt to understand and interpret a phenomenon which the majority of intelligent persons, regardless of faith, regard as inimical to American institutions and ideals and which may recur at any time. His book is temperate, impartial in its presentation of fact, and should be of value and of interest to everyone concerned with the progress of religious liberty in the United States." --Publisher

This text tells the story of the two-cylinder tractors. It includes more than 130 colour photographs, showing restored tractors owned by enthusiasts in the United States, Britain and Canada. The photographs provide a record of the design changes which took place over more than four decades of development.