Explores methods of increasing spirituality, including meditation, redirection of negative emotions, and use of workshops and retreats.

The Complete Idiot's Guide to Awakening Your Spirituality

Religion & Spirituality

Robinson, Jonathan

New Age & Spirituality

Alpha

Here's My Story And I'm Sticking To It is introspective to meeting life's most unique opportunities and challenges. Everything from relationships, spirituality, sex, manhood, success, all encompassed both lessons of triumph and failure. This is somewhat of a biography but it is introspect into self improvement.

Here's My Story And I'm Sticking To It

Self-Help

lulu.com

On the Lord's Appearing: An Essay on Prayer and Tradition

In this book, Fr Jonathan Robinson examines the nature of the Catholic tradition and its teachings about personal prayer. He develops an understanding of tradition that integrates the call to holiness with the need for truth, and shows that a living tradition of prayer is nourished by the objective content of the faith.

On the Lord's Appearing: An Essay On Prayer and Tradition

Religious Studies

T&T Clark International

101 Happiness HacksThe Technology of Joy reveals scientific breakthroughs that deliver joy, euphoria, inner peace, and even ecstasy! Psychotherapist and bestselling author Jonathan Robinson takes you on a tour of all the best ways to feel fantastic.
Imagine… you pop the pink pill into my mouth and wait for the expected feelings of ecstasy. No, the pill wasn’t the drug XTC, but rather a legal and safe alternative. Then you put on your trans-cranial stimulation device and wait to see what happens. Wow! After about five minutes, it feels like your brain is flooded with endorphins. After a few minutes of this frenzied euphoria, you take off the device and go about your day. Having just been catapulted into sweet ecstasy, your day becomes both incredibly productive and happy.
This is not a future scenario. This is how the author likes to begin each day. Nowadays, there are new and improved ways to feel good—even ecstatic—that most people don’t know anything about. From safe drugs to “happy apps,” to high tech brain stimulation devices, a whole new world of ways to feel good is blossoming.
In this book, you'll discover 101 easy and little known ways to feel more joy. You'll learn about methods ranging from a one-dollar gadget for feeling intense pleasure, to a free app that really leads to more depth and peace in your life.
The Technology of Joy reveals and explains everything you need to know about:
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New gadgets can enhance pleasure, deepen relationships, and help you feel gratitude—all at the same time.</li>
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Specific apps that have been shown to make people happier and create more loving relationships.</li>
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Twelve little known supplements that can reliably induce euphoria, elation, and feelings of connection and peacefulness.</li>
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Simple tools that can induce advanced states of meditation in even beginning meditators.</li>
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You'll learn what these tools can do for you, and how and where to get these happiness hacks. In addition, you'll discover how to know which of these tools are most likely to be the best ones for you.
"Joy leads to self-love and great relationships. Let this book show you new and powerful ways to awaken ever more joy in your life." —Dr. John Gray, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Men are From Mars, Women are From Venus 
Get ready to experience more of the peace, pleasure, and joy hidden within you.
Just click on "Look Inside" to start reading about these new keys to fulfillment.

The Technology of Joy: The 101 Best Apps, Gadgets, Tools and Supplements for Feeling More Delight in Your Life

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Alternative Medicine

Jonathan Robinson

The Little Book of Big Questions: 200 Ways to Explore Your Spiritual Nature

Borgo Pr

This work concerns itself both with the nature of tradition in the Catholic Church and with what that tradition teaches about personal prayer. It examines how tradition functions in the church, and presents the author's reflections on personal prayer using Jacopone's Laud as a framework.

Christian Books & Bibles

Catholic Univ of Amer Pr

From Eric Allison, The Guardian I sometimes think I know all there is to know about prisons. The delusion comes from spending some 16 years, on and off, behind bars, during a criminal career that spanned over four decades. Since turning my back on crime, The Guardian newspaper has seen fit to employ me as their prisons correspondent, a post I have held for the last nine years so, although I last left prison some 12 years ago, prison has never really left me. But of course, nobody knows everything about anything. And I am frequently surprised-amazed even-at a prison story/issue that lands on my desk. And so it was when the manuscript of “In It” came my way; the tale of one man’s sojourn as a guest of Her Majesty at HMP Bedford and Hollesley Bay. Jonathan Robinson was a “first timer”; nicked for stealing from his employer and sentenced to 15 months. Given that prison sentences have become much longer since I first trod the penal path, 15 months is “short term”- hardly time for a “shit and a shave” (as us old lags used to opine when a newcomer grumbled about spending a few months with us.) Not that Robinson moans of his plight, far from it; throughout the tome, he repeatedly shows remorse for his crime and declares he deserved a longer sentence. No wallowing in self-pity for this lad, he just got on with it. Now a free man, he is on a mission to change the system that incarcerated him. Robinson landed in Bedford jail, a Victorian relic that takes the flotsam and jetsam from the courts of the county it serves. He feared the worst when the gates slammed behind him. Shades of Shawshank Redemption closed around him. Would he be assaulted, robbed, raped? No such thing of course, as Robinson quickly realised. Far from terrorising him, his fellow travellers helped him traverse the minefield of pettifogging rules and rigmaroles and his only fight was against boredom and bureaucracy. To deal with the former, he elected to start a diary and recorded his experiences with great perception - and not a little humour. Robinson surveyed that system through an eye that saw more in a few months, than many a prisoner I knew saw in many years. His account immediately drew me back to the wasted wings and landings I knew so well. Seeing them again through his fresh eyes, put me back in the early 1960s when, like Robinson, they were new and equally strange to me. When I first entered the adult prison system, I was a “star”. No kidding; all first timers wore a red astral sign on their jackets, to denote their lowly stature in the prison pecking order. Don’t ask me why; prison service orders made as little sense then as they do now. Robinson, the star prisoner, may just turn out to be a star writer. He paints a stunningly accurate picture of the chaos and confusion that exists in prisons like Bedford. These are “local” jails, where prisoners are dumped from courts, categorised and, eventually, shunted around the system. He ended up in Hollesley Bay, an open jail, where he expected to find more order. But the chaos followed him, albeit at a slightly less frenetic pace. I found the account of his travails highly readable; the narrative is colourful and goes at a good gallop. He could turn out to be the penal equivalent of Adrian Mole. Like that spotty kid, Robinson was different from his peers inside. Well educated - he was a helicopter pilot before landing inside - and, I suspect, fairly right wing in his attitude to offenders, before he became one. And though I disagree strongly with some of his views and ideas for reform, I cannot fault his passion for change, or his ability to capture the essence of doing time, in a bloated, failing prison system. Apparently, a copy of “In It” has been sent to Justice Minister Chris Grayling. It should be required reading for him as he sets about his Transforming Rehabilitation programme. Eric Allison Prisons correspondent The Guardian

IN IT

Biographies & Memoirs

True Crime

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

Eric Allison, The Guardian: “Robinson has written his second book – in a completely different style to his first – which with an alarmingly shocking gait, reveals the ‘looking the other way’ by those with power of our prison system. I don’t want to spoil for you events that ON IT describe, other than the fact that you are going to be shocked. Robinson is articulate, a fine writer, with a sharp sense of humour. I previously dubbed him a penal Adrian Mole and my view has not changed. When I reviewed IN IT, I said Robinson had surveyed the prison system with an eye that saw more in a few months than many a con I knew spied in decades. He has taken his keen sight and sharp tongue into the corridors of power. Those charged with leading the 'rehabilitation revolution' (which now incorporates the banning of books, sent from outside, by the way) ignore Robinson at their peril. He is clearly not going away.” Jonathan Aitken: “Robinson’s honest and hilarious first book IN IT – the warts and all diary he penned during his sentence – ruffled many feathers in the HMPS aviary. Now his sequel ON IT turns the author’s guns towards the failure of most prison establishments to take rehabilitation seriously. How Jonathan Robinson thumped so persistently on the doors of the great, the good and the grey of the prison bureaucracy when fighting to win support for his crusade is a cautionary tale of our times. Readers of ON IT may well be shocked, surprised, and in some cases deeply disappointed by the apathy and obstructionism Robinson encountered. I certainly was. But few will be disappointed by ON IT. This is a thumping good read.” The Prime Minister, David Cameron: “All too often prison comes bottom of politicians’ priorities.” Not Shut Up: “The author has not sugared the pill. ON IT details with brutal and bittersweet humour, the essence of the author’s journey in eye-watering exchanges with those who are responsible for prisons. A truly excellent and inspirational read… Superb and jaw-dropping.” Inside Time: “Sometimes shocking sometimes unbelievable but always entertaining – some of Robinson’s material had me rolling in the aisles – his experiences are a must read for everybody. The human interest story is well written, Jonathan can play heartstrings with his pen like no other but he manoeuvres the reader from comedy to shock-horror political exposé in a style that would stir Hitchcock. Whilst Robinson undeniably writes with his heart on his sleeve, it is a tragedy that the ‘names’ he meets throughout the pages who control what occurs in our prisons, cannot be as open and honest as the author. If you are interested in what really goes on behind the closed doors of our government departments and what they do with our money read this book. Robinson is back – with one hell of a bang.”

ON IT

Leaders & Notable People

Conducting Online Research on Amazon Mechanical Turk®&nbsp;and Beyond, written by Leib Litman and Jonathan Robinson, provides both students and experienced researchers with essential information about the online platforms most often used for social science research. This insightful and accessible text answers common questions like, "How do I maintain data quality in online studies?," "What is the best way to recruit hard-to-reach samples?" and "How can researchers navigate the ethical issues that are unique to online research?" Drawing on their experiences as the founders of CloudResearch (formerly TurkPrime), the authors provide information that guides new users planning their first online studies and engages even the most experienced researchers with detailed discussions about the challenges of online research. The book begins with an overview of Amazon's Mechanical Turk and its rapid rise within academic research. Then, the authors describe how to set up an MTurk study with screenshots that walk readers through the steps of creating an account, designing a study, collecting data, and using third-party applications to enhance MTurk's functionality. Later chapters provide readers with a detailed understanding of the MTurk environment and use data from hundreds of thousands of participants and tens of millions of completed tasks to dive into issues like participant demographics, sources of sampling bias, and the generalizability of findings from MTurk. Finally, the book explores the benefits of using other online platforms as a complement to MTurk and the ethical issues that are unique to conducting research with online participant platforms. Throughout the book, the authors share hands-on advice and best practices, such as those for conducting longitudinal studies or carrying out complex studies. Altogether the mix of data, insight, and advice make this book an essential resource for researchers who want to understand the online environment and the most effective ways to conduct research online.&nbsp;

Conducting Online Research on Amazon Mechanical Turk and Beyond (SAGE Innovations in Research Methods)

Business & Money

Litman, Leib

Marketing & Sales

Sage Publications, Inc.

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