Hitler's Gold The Nazi Loot And How it Was Laundered And Lost

In which the Scarecrow goes to search for his family roots and discovers that he is the Long Lost Emperor of the Silver Island – and how he was rescued and brought back to Oz by Dorothy and the Cowardly Lion. Really! In another life, the Scarecrow was the Long Lost Emperor of the Silver Island. . . . Maybe he was. Who knows?

Just as European Jews were being emancipated and ghettos in their original form―compulsory, enclosed spaces designed to segregate―were being dismantled, use of the word ghetto surged in Europe and spread around the globe. Tracing the curious path of this loaded word from its first use in sixteenth-century Venice to the present turns out to be more than an adventure in linguistics.

Imagine if you could travel back in time and walk the streets of the past. Where would you go first?

An astounding new work by the author of The Mind Tree that offers a rare insight into the autistic mind and how it thinks, sees, and reacts to the world. When he was three years old, Tito was diagnosed as severely autistic, but his remarkable mother, Soma, determined that he would overcome the “problem” by teaching him to read and write.