Diese Autorin, ursprünglich als Linguistin ausgebildet, verbindet ihre Leidenschaft für Sprache meisterhaft mit der Kunst des fesselnden erzählerischen Sachbuchs. Ihre Werke tauchen tief in die faszinierende Welt der Sprache ein und enthüllen, wie sie uns helfen kann, den menschlichen Geist und vergessene Zivilisationen zu verstehen. Mit ihrem tiefen Verständnis für linguistische Prinzipien und ihrem Talent für das Erzählen von Geschichten bietet sie den Lesern eine einzigartige Perspektive auf Geschichte und die Psychologie der Kommunikation. Jedes ihrer Bücher ist eine Entdeckungsreise, die die Komplexität alter Rätsel und persönlicher Geschichten mit Präzision und Leidenschaft entschlüsselt.
Vom Aufstieg und Fall einer berühmt-berüchtigten Frau im New York der Gangs und Ganoven
Im Jahr 1850 kommt die 25-jährige Fredericka Mandelbaum aus Kassel nach New York. Von einer Hausiererin wird sie zur einflussreichen Unternehmerin der organisierten Kriminalität. Margalit Fox schildert ihren Aufstieg und Fall im Gilded Age, wo sie mit Diebstahl und Raub ein Imperium aufbaut, bevor sie verhaftet wird und nach Kanada flieht.
The decoding of Linear B is one of the world's greatest stories: from the discovery of a cache of ancient tablets recording a lost prehistoric language to the dramatic solution of the riddle nearly seventy years later, it exerts a mesmerising pull on the imagination. But this captivating story is missing a crucial piece. Two men have dominated Linear B in popular history: Arthur Evans, the intrepid Victorian archaeologist who unearthed Linear B at Knossos and Michael Ventris, the dashing young amateur who produced a solution. But there was a third figure: Alice Kober, without whose painstaking work, recorded on pieces of paper clipped from hymn-sheets and magazines and stored in cigarette boxes in her Brooklyn loft, Linear B might still remain a mystery. Drawing on Kober's own papers - only made available recently - Margalit Fox provides the final piece of the enigma, and along the way reveals how you decipher a language when you know neither its grammar nor its alphabet as well as the stories behind other ancient languages, like the dancing-man Rongorongo of Easter Island.
The astonishing true story of two First World War prisoners who pulled off one of the most ingenious escapes of all time.
How Two Prisoners of War Engineered the Most Remarkable Escape in History
Set during World War I, this gripping narrative recounts the remarkable true story of two prisoners who orchestrated a daring escape from captivity. Highlighting their ingenuity and resilience, the book delves into the challenges they faced and the elaborate plans they devised to secure their freedom. With a blend of historical detail and thrilling adventure, it captures the spirit of survival against the odds during one of history's most tumultuous periods.
"In this thrilling true-crime procedural, the creator of Sherlock Holmes uses his unparalleled detective skills to exonerate a German Jew wrongly convicted of murder. For all the scores of biographies of Arthur Conan Doyle, creator of the most famous detective in the world, there is no American book that tells this remarkable story--in which Conan Doyle becomes a real-life detective on an actual murder case. In Conan Doyle for the Defense, Margalit Fox takes us step-by-step inside Conan Doyle's investigative process and illuminates a murder mystery that is also a morality play for our time--a story of ethnic, religious, and anti-immigrant bias. In 1908, a wealthy woman was brutally murdered in her Glasgow home. The police found a convenient suspect in Oscar Slater--an immigrant Jewish cardsharp--who, despite his innocence, was tried, convicted, and consigned to life at hard labor in a brutal Scottish prison. Conan Doyle, already world famous as the creator of Sherlock Holmes, was outraged by this injustice and became obsessed with the case. Using the methods of his most famous character, he scoured trial transcripts, newspaper accounts, and eyewitness statements, meticulously noting myriad holes, inconsistencies, and outright fabrications by police and prosecutors. Finally, in 1927, his work won Slater's freedom. Margalit Fox, a celebrated longtime writer for The New York Times, has "a nose for interesting facts, the ability to construct a taut narrative arc, and a Dickens-level gift for concisely conveying personality" (Kathryn Schulz, New York). In Conan Doyle for the Defense, she immerses readers in the science of Edwardian crime detection and illuminates a watershed moment in the history of forensics, when reflexive prejudice began to be replaced by reason and the scientific method"-- Provided by publisher
"Imprisoned in a remote Turkish prison camp during World War I, having survived a two-month forced march and a terrifying shootout in the desert, two British officers, Harry Jones and Cedric Hill, join forces to bamboozle their iron-fisted captors"-- Provided by publisher
Arthur and George meets The Suspicions of Mr Whicher: how the creator of Sherlock Holmes overturned one of the great miscarriages of justice.
Arthur Conan Doyle vyšetřuje šokující vraždu Byla to jedna z těch neblaze proslulých vražd své doby. Vyvolala rozruch v celé Británii začátku dvacátého století a zanedlouho i ve světě, protože oběť patřila k vyšším kruhům, zločin byl spojen se ztrátou diamantů, pátrání vedlo za oceán a vychytralá služebná věděla daleko víc, než se rozhodla říci. Jak napsal sir Arthur Conan Doyle v roce 1912, „byl to ten nejbrutálnější a nejotrlejší zločin, jaký se kdy zapsal do oněch ponurých pramenů, jež poskytují kriminologovi látku k bádání“. Nicméně navzdory osudovému dramatu a tisícovkám slov, jež o něm Conan Doyle napsal, nebyl příběh této vraždy smyšlený. Šlo o skutečný případ, vraždu, pro kterou byl nevinný člověk stíhán, postaven před soud, usvědčen a málem oběšen.
Zaintrygowana pytaniami przyjaciół, zastanawiałam się jak określić tę publikację, bo mimo wspomnień i dygresji, wcale nie jest biografią, receptury kulinarne nie zrobiły z niej poradnika kucharskiego, nie jest też kolejnym przewodnikiem po świętach żydowskich, choć opowiadam pokrótce o tych, które zainspirowały mnie do namalowania reprodukowanych, w tym również nie albumie, obrazów. Zdecydowałam więc, że jest to po prostu moja książka autorska.