The second edition of the well-known title Achiever's Handbook is a workbook designed to bridge the gap between school and post-school educational institutions, with the aim to help students attain academic readiness and language fluency. Only a receptive and finely disciplined mind can effectively comprehend, formulate and communicate ideas. Therefore, academic and entrepreneurial success relies largely on reading, thinking and writing skills.

The workbook can be used equally for self-study and classroom purposes, and will be of particular benefit to students for whom English is a second language.

"If all the ladies should know about spectroscopes and cathode rays, who will attend to the buttons and breakfasts?" "Asked of Wellesley astronomy professor Sarah Whiting by a male colleague in the 1880s."

"I agreed to read this manuscript as a favor. It was another chore in a week already overburdened by professional and personal duties. But I was riveted by the stories, the emotions, the glimpses into women's lives. Women like me and unlike me, with stories I identified with, and those I didn't. I read it in one afternoon, like fiction.Ifind that I know each of these women, most of whom I've never met. And hell, I'm proud of them."
--Jo-Anne Richards, University of the Witswatersrand

The Wits WonderWoman are a group of academics at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. "Buttons and Breakfasts" is a collection of their writings and reflections on growing up in a man's world, and working in an environment peopled by male professors. There are journeys here from dusty township to dental school, from dropout to doctorate. There are testimonies of careers kept aloft through sexual harassment cases, pregnancies, cancer, marital breakup, and personal despair.

In these pages, the secret lives of women academics come to light the sacrifices they've made in their passionate commitment to their chosen discipline and to their students. Sometimes profoundly solitary, sometimes bolstered by the sisterhood, sometimes warrior-like and sometimes weeping, they've crossed borders and boundaries of the academic and the personal unknown. From moving tales of grandmothers and mothers to irreverent satires of university life, the pieces in this book offer an explicit counter-narrative.

The collection is eclectic and quirky, it is a book to dip into and savor in fragments. It will offer resonance for other academic women, cautionary and inspirational tales for young women planning a career, and some startling insights for men who wonder what women "really" are thinking. The collection includes a number of illustrations (including an academic board game) and a photo-essay capturing the mysterious and unseen spaces of university life.

"Margaret Orr" and "Mary Rorich" are professors at the University of the Witwatersrand (South Africa). "Finuala Dowling" is a published poet and author of the novel "What Poets Need."

People from ethnic minorities are over represented in secure psychiatric care, and have been reported to receive differential treatment by staff. It has been suggested that these people (especially Afro-Caribbean groups) suffer from prejudicial legal, criminal justice and psychiatric systems. This topical and controversial collection questions whether Western and white-oriented practice and systems of belief can -- or should -- be applied to service users from other cultural, racial, ethical or spiritual backgrounds.

The contributors are experts from a range of psychiatric, criminal justice, legal and ethical backgrounds, and, uniquely, include patients who recount their own experience of forensic care settings. They examine and explore the central theoretic issues, such as culture, power, difference and participation, and relate them to examples of current practice, and to the improvement of future service provision. They identify techniques and approaches which will make care and treatment more sensitive and equitable.

Race, Culture and Ethnicity in Psychiatric Practice: Working with Difference provides essential and often controversial information and analysis which exposes society's view of minorities and the influence these views may have on care professionals working in psychiatric and criminal justice systems. It details practical steps for improvement to ensure a more equitable and culturally sensitive service provision.