Diamonds Deceit

Author : Leila Rasheed
Publisher : Hot Key Books
ISBN 13 : 1471402142
Total Pages : 247 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Diamonds & Deceit written by Leila Rasheed and published by Hot Key Books. This book was released on 2014-01-02 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Averley family return for more historical scandal, romance and decadence The London Season of 1913 is in full swing, and Rose has never felt more out of place. She can't help but feel like a servant dressed up in diamonds and silk. Then she meets Alexander Ross, a young Scottish duke. Rose has heard all sorts of gossip about Alexander, but he alone treats her as a friend. Rose should know better than to give her heart to a man with a reputation, but it may already be too late. Meanwhile, Ada's also feeling miserable. She should be happy - she's engaged to a handsome man who shares her political passions and has promised to support her education. So why does she feel hollow inside? She knows that without this marriage, her family will be ruined, but it seems that in matters of love, the Averleys can only follow their hearts...

Author : Jeanne Hall
Publisher : Partridge Publishing Singapore
ISBN 13 : 1543759971
Total Pages : 82 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Diamonds & Deceit written by Jeanne Hall and published by Partridge Publishing Singapore. This book was released on 2020-08-12 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A hilarious depiction of growing up with a sadistic father who is also a bit of a con artist. Life was indeed never dull with him around, but it was also not a loving, nurturing home either. Surviving the rollercoaster ride was tough but this story is told with much humor. A dark story with dark humor and my eternal optimism that shouts “things could’ve been a whole lot worse”. Funny as f...k.

Author : David De Vries
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 9781845456337
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Diamonds and War written by David De Vries and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2010-04 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on previously unexamined historical documents found in archives in Belgium, England, Israel, the Netherlands, and the United States, this book is the first in English to tell the story of the formation of one of the world's main strongholds of diamond production and trade in Palestine during the 1930s and 1940s. The history of the diamond-cutting industry, characterized by a long-standing Jewish presence, is discussed as a social history embedded in the international political economy of its times; the genesis of the industry in Palestine is placed on a broad continuum within the geographic and economic dislocations of Dutch, Belgian, and German diamond-cutting centers. In providing a micro-historical and interdisciplinary perspective, the story of the diamond industry in Mandate Palestine proposes a more nuanced picture of the uncritical approach to the strict boundaries of ethnic-based occupational communities.

Author : Carolyn Keene
Publisher : Simon Pulse
ISBN 13 : 9780671730871
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Diamond Deceit written by Carolyn Keene and published by Simon Pulse. This book was released on 1993 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nancy travels to Carmel, California to find who stole the stones from a diamond necklace and replaced them with fakes, but her client is found dead at the bottom of a cliff.

Author : Fouad Sabry
Publisher : One Billion Knowledgeable
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 435 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Synthetic Diamond written by Fouad Sabry and published by One Billion Knowledgeable. This book was released on 2022-01-17 with total page 435 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What Is Synthetic Diamond Lab-grown diamond is diamond that is produced by a manufacturing process, as contrasted with natural diamond created by geological processes and extracted by mining. How You Will Benefit (I) Insights, and validations about the following topics: Chapter 1: Synthetic diamond Chapter 2: Detonation nanodiamond Chapter 3: Crystallographic defects in diamond Chapter 4: Diamond (gemstone) Chapter 5: Diamond Chapter 6: Gemstone Chapter 7: Materials science (II) Answering the public top questions about synthetic diamond. (III) Real world examples for the usage of synthetic diamond in many fields. (IV) 17 appendices to explain, briefly, 266 emerging technologies in each industry to have 360-degree full understanding of synthetic diamond' technologies. Who This Book Is For Professionals, undergraduate and graduate students, enthusiasts, hobbyists, and those who want to go beyond basic knowledge or information for any kind of synthetic diamond.

Author : Lillian E. Forman
Publisher : ABDO Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 1617873810
Total Pages : 114 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Diamond Trade written by Lillian E. Forman and published by ABDO Publishing Company. This book was released on 2010-09-01 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title gives readers a deeper look at the diamond trade and its surrounding conflicts. Readers will learn the history of the diamond trade, including its social, political, and economic effects. Color photos and informative sidebars accompany easy-to-follow text. Features include a table of contents, timeline, facts, additional resources, web sites, a glossary, a bibliography, and an index. Essential Viewpoints is a series in Essential Library, an imprint of ABDO Publishing Company.

Author : Tom Zoellner
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
ISBN 13 : 1429910127
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Heartless Stone written by Tom Zoellner and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2007-04-01 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 2000, Tom Zoellner purchased a diamond engagement ring and proposed. His girlfriend said, "yes" and then, suddenly, walked out of his life making Tom the owner of a used engagement ring. Instead of hitting the self-help shelves of his local bookstore, he hit the road travelling to diamond mines in Africa, Canada, India, Brazil and Russia to discover the true worth of this shining gem. He travelled to Japan to understand how diamonds were linked with engagements and delved into the history of our own American romance with the diamond ring. He gained entry to DeBeers, the London diamond merchants. He visited shopping mall jewellers with starry-eyed couples. Through all of his travels, he searched for an answer to the question "How has one stone created empires, ruined lives, inspired lust and emptied wallets throughout history?" A diamond version of Susan Orleans's The Orchid Thief, Tom Zoellner's The Heartless Stone is a journey to the cold heart of the world's most unyielding gem.

Author : Wendy Doniger
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190267127
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Ring of Truth written by Wendy Doniger and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017-04-03 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why are sex and jewelry, particularly rings, so often connected? Why do rings continually appear in stories about marriage and adultery, love and betrayal, loss and recovery, identity and masquerade? What is the mythology that makes finger rings symbols of true (or, as the case may be, untrue) love? The cross-cultural distribution of the mythology of sexual rings is impressive--from ancient India and Greece through the Arab world to Shakespeare, Marie Antoinette, Wagner, nineteenth-century novels, Hollywood, and the De Beers advertising campaign that gave us the expression, "A Diamond is Forever." Each chapter of The Ring of Truth, like a charm on a charm bracelet, considers a different constellation of stories: stories about rings lost and found in fish; forgetful husbands and clever wives; treacherous royal necklaces; fake jewelry and real women; modern women's revolt against the hegemony of jewelry; and the clash between common sense and conventional narratives about rings. Herein lie signet rings, betrothal rings, and magic rings of invisibility or memory. The stories are linked by a common set of meanings, such as love symbolized by the circular and unbroken shape of the ring: infinite, constant, eternal--a meaning that the stories often prove tragically false. While most of the rings in the stories originally belonged to men, or were given to women by men, Wendy Doniger shows that it is the women who are important in these stories, as they are the ones who put the jewelry to work in the plots.

Author : Karin Hofmeester
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1316578062
Total Pages : 343 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Luxury in Global Perspective written by Karin Hofmeester and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2016-11-28 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Global history is predicated on connections and exchange: how connections between far-flung people, places, and objects are forged through a variety of exchanges. As world history has matured as a field, its practitioners have found the movement of commodities between peoples, places, and time a fruitful vehicle for research and teaching. Studies of 'bulk' items like salt, spices, coffee, and other globally-traded commodities abound, but few scholars have examined the role of luxury goods from a global perspective. This anthology charts the many different contexts in which luxury objects have been used across the globe, ranging from the social practices linked to these objects to their production, exchange, and consumption, as well as how these practices varied over time and space and how different societies attributed diverse meanings to the same objects. Using luxury goods as a conduit, Luxury in Global Perspective enriches our understanding of global history.

Author : Susan Falls
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 1479834394
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Clarity, Cut, and Culture written by Susan Falls and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2014-06-13 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Images of diamonds appear everywhere in American culture. And everyone who has a diamond has a story to tell about it. Our stories about diamonds not only reveal what we do with these tiny stones, but also suggest how we create value, meaning, and identity through our interactions with material culture in general. Things become meaningful through our interactions with them, but how do people go about making meaning? What can we learn from an ethnography about the production of identity, creation of kinship, and use of diamonds in understanding selves and social relationships? By what means do people positioned within a globalized political-economy and a compelling universe of advertising interact locally with these tiny polished rocks? This book draws on 12 months of fieldwork with diamond consumers in New York City as well as an analysis of the iconic De Beers campaign that promised romance, status, and glamour to anyone who bought a diamond to show that this thematic pool is just one resource among many that diamond owners draw upon to engage with their own stones. The volume highlights the important roles that memory, context, and circumstance also play in shaping how people interpret and then use objects in making personal worlds. It shows that besides operating as subjects in an ad-burdened universe, consumers are highly creative, idiosyncratic, and theatrical agents.