Books like Talking Hands by Margalit Fox

In a world where magic once pulsed through every stone, children of Orïsha fight to reclaim their heritage after a tyrant extinguishes their powers and their people’s hope.

Oliver Sacks examines the lives of deaf individuals, the development and social impact of sign language, and the 1988 Gallaudet University strike that highlighted challenges within deaf education.

Nicholas A. Christakis explores the science of social networks and how our connections shape health, mind, and society, from epidemics to COVID‑19, blending global research with insights into physical fitness and social change.

A groundbreaking exploration of human communication and interpersonal relations, hailed as one of the best books ever on the topic and a perennial bestseller in psychology and psychotherapy literature. The authors, Paul Watzlawick, reformulate the fundamental concepts of communication into simple axioms that reveal why many problems arise from issues of communication rather than psychological disorders. This book is a blend of humor, accessibility, and case studies that provide insights into effective communication and context-based approaches to psychotherapy.

A journey through the history and evolution of breasts, from puberty to menopause, exploring the latest scientific findings and the changing landscape of breast health.

From Kay Redfield Jamison - an international authority on manic-depressive illness, and one of the few women who are full professors of medicine at American universities - a remarkable personal testimony: the revelation of her own struggle since adolescence with manic-depression, and how it has shaped her life. Vividly, directly, with candor, wit, and simplicity, she takes us into the fascinating and dangerous territory of this form of madness - a world in which one pole can be the alluring dark land ruled by what Byron called the "melancholy star of the imagination," and the other a desert of depression and, all too frequently, death. A moving and exhilarating memoir by a woman whose furious determination to learn the enemy, to use her gifts of intellect to make a difference, led her to become, by the time she was forty, a world authority on manic-depression, and whose work has helped save countless lives.

"The unique feature of this dictionary is that it is organized by handshape rather than by alphabetical order. An American Sign Language learner can look up an unfamiliar sign by looking for the handshape rather than by looking up the word in an alphabetical English glossary. At the same time, an English speaker can look up a sign for a specific word by looking at the Index of English Glossaries located at the end of the dictionary. The introduction includes a history of sign language in the United States. Detailed instructions explain the organization of the handshape sections and the ordering of signs. The illustrations are clear and are described in terms of configuration, location, movement, orientation, and nonmanual markers".--"Outstanding Reference Sources : the 1999 Selection of New Titles", American Libraries, May 1999. Comp. by the Reference Sources Committee, RUSA, ALA.

A detailed biography of the last stand against war, examining the key figures and ideals that shaped an era.