Talking Hands

Talking Hands

By
Margalit Fox
Margalit Fox
2007 • 354 pages

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38 books

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Morphology of the Folktale
The Language Instinct: The New Science of Language and Mind
The Power of Babel

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Go Ask Alice
The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time
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The Code Book: The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography
The Art of Possibility
Autobiography of a Face

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23 books

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Accidents of Nature
Too Late to Die Young: Nearly True Tales from a Life
Truth & Beauty
As Seen on TV: Provocations
Far from the Tree

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The Riddle of the Labyrinth
Speaking American: How Y'all, Youse, and You Guys Talk: A Visual Guide
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The Professor & the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity & the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary
Word by Word: The Secret Life of Dictionaries
Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language
A World Without "Whom"

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32 books

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Spoken Here
Born free, a lioness of two worlds
Ambassador to the Penguins: A Naturalist's Year Aboard a Yankee Whaleship
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A Natural History of the Senses