The Language of Thieves: My Family's Obsession with a Secret Code the Nazis Tried to Eliminate
By: Martin Puchner
3.89
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Tracking an underground language and the outcasts who depended on it for their survival. Centuries …
Want to Read $ 13.64"Bad logic was an early warning sign for prejudice."-Martin Puchner, The Language of Thieves: My Family's Obsession with a Secret Code the Nazis Tried to Eliminate
"Bad logic was an early warning sign for prejudice."-Martin Puchner, The Language of Thieves: My Family's Obsession with a Secret Code the Nazis Tried to Eliminate
"The theory that languages are tools used for particular purposes, sometimes for many different purposes, means that extinct languages belong neither in a museum of art nor in a museum of natural history. Tools are meant to be surpassed by better tools. Once they are, they should be preserved in a museum of technology, of human ingenuity, of the cultural past."-Martin Puchner, The Language of Thieves: My Family's Obsession with a Secret Code the Nazis Tried to Eliminate
"The theory that languages are tools used for particular purposes, sometimes for many different purposes, means that extinct languages belong neither in a museum of art nor in a museum of natural history. Tools are meant to be surpassed by better tools. Once they are, they should be preserved in a museum of technology, of human ingenuity, of the cultural past."-Martin Puchner, The Language of Thieves: My Family's Obsession with a Secret Code the Nazis Tried to Eliminate
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Format: 786 pages, Kindle Edition
Paris, 1937. Andras Lévi, a Hungarian-Jewish architecture student, arrives from Budapest with a sch… read more
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2. Tempests and Slaughter (The Numair Chronicles, #1)
By: Tamora Pierce
4.09
Format: 465 pages, Hardcover
Arram. Varice. Ozorne. In the first book in the Numair Chronicles, three student mages are bound by… read more
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"Come on, Stork Boy, aren't you excited?"-Tamora Pierce, Tempests and Slaughter (The Numair Chronicles, #1)
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"It's a Stromwing," Ozorne said. "I always wanted one."-Tamora Pierce, Tempests and Slaughter (The Numair Chronicles, #1)
3. Stuff Matters: Exploring the Marvelous Materials That Shape Our Man-Made World
By: Mark Miodownik
3.92
Format: 98 pages, Hardcover
A New York TimesBestseller An eye-opening adventure deep inside the everyday materials that surroun… read more
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4. A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century
By: Barbara W. Tuchman
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Format: 272 pages,
Barbara W. Tuchman--the acclaimed author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning classic The Guns of August--… read more
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5. Jesus, Interrupted: Revealing the Hidden Contradictions in the Bible & Why We Don't Know About Them
By: Bart D. Ehrman
3.95
Format: 315 pages, Hardcover
Picking up where Bible expert Bart Ehrman's New York Timesbestseller Misquoting Jesusleft off, Jesu… read more
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6. In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction
By: Gabor Maté
4.49
Format: 480 pages, Hardcover
He would probably dispute it, but Gabor Maté is something of a compassion machine. Diligently treat… read more
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"Passion creates, addiction consumes."-Gabor Maté, In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction
"Compassionate curiosity directed toward the self leads to the truth of things."-Gabor Maté, In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction
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4.39
Format: None pages, Paperback
An insider's tour through the construction of invented languages from the bestselling author and cr… read more
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8. The Lady Queen: The Notorious Reign of Joanna I, Queen of Naples, Jerusalem, and Sicily
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Format: 275 pages,
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In his celebrated bestsellers Agent Zigzag and Operation Mincemeat, Ben Macintyre told the dazzling… read more
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10. Eating to Extinction: The World's Rarest Foods and Why We Need to Save Them
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4.29
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Dan Saladino's Eating to Extinction is the prominent broadcaster’s pathbreaking tour of the world’s… read more
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"The science writer David Quammen puts it: 'When we disrupt ecosystems, we shake viruses loose from their natural hosts, and when they happens, they need a new host. Often, we are it. And so, they spi…"-Dan Saladino, Eating to Extinction: The World's Rarest Foods and Why We Need to Save Them
11. A Taste for Poison: Eleven Deadly Molecules and the Killers Who Used Them
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4.12
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A brilliant blend of science and crime, 'A TASTE FOR POISON' reveals how eleven notorious poisons a… read more
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"Sometimes what makes things toxic is exactly what allows them to be used for good."-Neil Bradbury, A Taste for Poison: Eleven Deadly Molecules and the Killers Who Used Them
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4.03
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The bestselling author of How to Live and At the Existentialist Café explores seven hundred years o… read more
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4.27
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4.21
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3.95
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20. The Language of Thieves: My Family's Obsession with a Secret Code the Nazis Tried to Eliminate
By: Martin Puchner
3.89
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Tracking an underground language and the outcasts who depended on it for their survival. Centuries … read more
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"Bad logic was an early warning sign for prejudice."-Martin Puchner, The Language of Thieves: My Family's Obsession with a Secret Code the Nazis Tried to Eliminate
"The theory that languages are tools used for particular purposes, sometimes for many different purposes, means that extinct languages belong neither in a museum of art nor in a museum of natural hist…"-Martin Puchner, The Language of Thieves: My Family's Obsession with a Secret Code the Nazis Tried to Eliminate
"What will endure, I hope, is the idea of Rotwelsch, the idea that marginalized groups develop special languages as tools for survival. We often think of such groups in terms of ethnic identity, but t…"-Martin Puchner, The Language of Thieves: My Family's Obsession with a Secret Code the Nazis Tried to Eliminate
21. Tonight We Bombed the U.S. Capitol: The Explosive Story of M19, America's First Female Terrorist Group
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3.39
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
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