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Oxford Handbooks offer authoritative and up-to-date review of original research in a particular subject area. Specially commissioned chapters from leading figures in the discipline give critical examinations of the progress and direction of debates as well as a foundation for future research. Oxford Handbooks provide scholars and graduate students with compelling new perspectives upon a wide range of subjects in the hummunities. Social Sciences and Sciences

Berlin, Spring of 1995. While a group of neo-Nazis are preparing an anniversary bash of disastrous proportions, an old physics professor returns to Potsdam to atone for his sins, an Italian postdoc designs an experiment that will determine the fate of the universe, and, in a room at Le Charit?, a Holocaust survivor tells his tale to the willing ear of a young psychologist. Who is that talking cat, why do ghosts of SS soldiers roam the city, and what is Speer's favorite actress up to?

Research on the beneficial effects of mindfulness and meditation has boomed over the last decade. This volume is the first book-length review of this extensive body of research, aimed at the non-specialist reader, examining effects on brain activation, brain structure, attention, stress, and well- being, and how mindfulness works as therapy.