The Language of Thieves

The story of the secret language of Central Europe and its legacy on the author's hidden Nazi family history, from the author of The Written World.

Reducere. Once the language of thieves and beggars, slang is an ever present part of today's culture for people across the strata. It allows us to connect to...

DescriptionIt's a shame that so many very apt words fall out of common use over time, like "blobber-lippd, " which means having lips that are very ...

"Walk thrice where thieves are hanged. Iron your own shirt." With the prisms of varied vocabularies refracting detail and language, the author illu...

Reducere. "Oliver Twist barely survives childhood in the workhouse. When he runs away to London, he is taken in by a gang of thieves. Wealthy Mr. Brownlow re...

Reducere. Language Level: A1 Ali Baba finds a thieves' treasure cave, and he is suddenly rich. Then his brother Kasim visits the cave, and things go wrong. D...

Reducere. DescriptionNine-year-old Morgan is the daughter of an explorer, and an adventurer at heart. When her father is lost on an expedition, Morgan and he...

Reducere. Legendary comrade and consort to train robbers, bootleggers, stagecoach robbers, bushwhackers, bank robbers, horse thieves, cattle thieves, and out...

For weeks, months--nay --from the very moment you were born, you've felt it calling to you. At long last you'll be united with the programming lang...

Reducere. An indispensable guide to nonfiction writing from the Columbia Journalism School professor and Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist behind the bestsel...

The first and possibly the greatest sociological study of poverty in 19th-century London, this survey by a journalist invented the genre of oral hi...

Reducere. Journey deep into the exotic locales of Hawaii's Big Island to discover its language, culture--and crime On Hawaii Island, an anonymous 911 caller ...

Reducere. Italo Calvino once remarked that in Giorgio Manganelli, "Italian literature has a writer who resembles no one else, unmistakable in each of his phr...

Reducere. In this companion guide, Michael Andre-Driussi illuminates Gene Wolfe's Book of the Long Sun and Book of the Short Sun science fiction series throu...

In this "deeply personal and lyrical book" (Publishers Weekly) from the New York Times bestselling author of The Horse, Wendy Williams explores the...

Reducere. ``1001 Arabian Nights`` is a beloved collection of folk tales and other stories. It is often known in English as ``Arabian Nights, `` from the firs...

Reducere. DescriptionThis Manzil is a protection and cure against Magic, Jinn, Shayateen, Witchcraft and other worldly troubles and calamities. The manzil Du...