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In and Out of Our Right Minds

Using a race, gender and social-class context, this volume challenges the traditional notions of mental health and mental illness as they apply to African American women, focusing on the contradictions between the strengths and vulnerabilities of this population.

In and Out of Our Right Minds

Using a race, gender and social-class context, this volume challenges the traditional notions of mental health and mental illness as they apply to African American women, focusing on the contradictions between the strengths and vulnerabilities of this population.

1. M. D. Vernon

The Experimental Study of Reading

Originally published in 1931, this book presents a history of 'any experimental work … which throws some light upon the psychology of reading'. Vernon includes experiments on the subject of eye movement and visual perception, as well as investigations into the influence of typographical factors on the ease and speed of reading. This book will be of value to anyone with an interest in the psychological and physiological phenomena pertaining to reading.

1. Victor Vernon Woolf

The Wellness Manifesto

1. Frigyes , Karinthy

A Journey Round My Skull

The distinguished Hungarian author Frigyes Karinthy was sitting in a Budapest café, wondering whether to write a long-planned monograph on modern man or a new play, when he was disturbed by the roaring—so loud as to drown out all other noises—of a passing train. Soon it was gone, only to be succeeded by another. And another. Strange, Karinthy thought, it had been years since Budapest had streetcars. Only then did he realize he was suffering from an auditory hallucination of extraordinary intensity. What in fact Karinthy was suffering from was a brain tumor, not cancerous but hardly benign, though it was only much later—after spells of giddiness, fainting fits, friends remarking that his handwriting had altered, and books going blank before his eyes—that he consulted a doctor and embarked on a series of examinations that would lead to brain surgery. Karinthy’s description of his descent into illness and his observations of his symptoms, thoughts, and feelings, as well as of his friends’ and doctors’ varied responses to his predicament, are exact and engrossing and entirely free of self-pity. A Journey Round My Skull is not only an extraordinary piece of medical testimony, but a powerful work of literature—one that dances brilliantly on the edge of extinction.

1. Vernon Lee

The Beautiful