AHP readers could also be taken with a current e book on the historical past of phrenology and physiognomy: Magnificence and the Mind: The Science of Human Nature in Early America. The e book is described as follows:

Analyzing the historical past of phrenology and physiognomy, Magnificence and the Mind proposes a daring new method of understanding the connection between science, politics, and common tradition in early America.
 
Between the 1770s and the 1860s, individuals all throughout the globe relied on physiognomy and phrenology to guage human value. These once-popular however now discredited disciplines had been primarily based on a deceptively easy premise: that facial options or cranium form might reveal an individual’s intelligence, character, and character. In the USA, these had been culturally ubiquitous sciences that each elite thinkers and odd individuals used to grasp human nature.
 
Whereas the fashionable world dismisses phrenology and physiognomy as foolish and debunked disciplines, Magnificence and the Mind reveals why they have to be taken significantly: they had been the mental instruments {that a} numerous group of People used to debate questions of race, gender, and social justice. Whereas outstanding intellectuals and political thinkers invoked these sciences to justify hierarchy, marginalized individuals and progressive activists deployed them for their very own political goals, creatively deciphering human minds and our bodies as they fought for racial justice and gender equality. Finally, although, physiognomy and phrenology had been as harmful as they had been common. Along with validating the concept that exterior magnificence was an indication of inside value, these disciplines usually appealed to the very individuals who had been broken by their prejudicial doctrines. In taking physiognomy and phrenology significantly, Magnificence and the Mind recovers a vibrant—if largely forgotten—cultural and mental universe, displaying how common sciences formed a few of the biggest political debates of the American previous.