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Author : Frank Wetzel
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780967045405
Total Pages : 114 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (454 download)
Download or read book Diamond in the Emerald City written by Frank Wetzel and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Lawrence A. Babb
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 1438445881
Total Pages : 235 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (384 download)
Download or read book Emerald City written by Lawrence A. Babb and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2013-04-29 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lawrence A. Babb's Emerald City provides an intriguing portrait of the gemstone cutting industry of the North Indian city of Jaipur. It focuses on the ownership class consisting mainly of Jains and members of northern India's traditional trading communities. Based on oral-historical investigations of family firms, along with ethnographic observations and interviews, the book describes how the industry is organized, when and how it developed its characteristic features, and its evolving relationship with its social context. Babb pays special attention to the impact of culture on the business, with particular emphasis on the role of religion, specifically Jainism. He also offers a systematic comparison between Jaipur's gemstone business and New York City's famed diamond industry. In its application of ethnographic methodology to the study of an indigenous Indian industry, Emerald City delivers a unique perspective on business life in a non-Western setting.
Author : Rajiv Chandrasekaran
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307265927
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (72 download)
Download or read book Imperial Life in the Emerald City written by Rajiv Chandrasekaran and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2006-09-19 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • National Book Award Finalist • This "eyewitness history of the first order ... should be read by anyone who wants to understand how things went so badly wrong in Iraq” (The New York Times Book Review). The Green Zone, Baghdad, Iraq, 2003: in this walled-off compound of swimming pools and luxurious amenities, Paul Bremer and his Coalition Provisional Authority set out to fashion a new, democratic Iraq. Staffed by idealistic aides chosen primarily for their views on issues such as abortion and capital punishment, the CPA spent the crucial first year of occupation pursuing goals that had little to do with the immediate needs of a postwar nation: flat taxes instead of electricity and deregulated health care instead of emergency medical supplies. In this acclaimed firsthand account, the former Baghdad bureau chief of The Washington Post gives us an intimate portrait of life inside this Oz-like bubble, which continued unaffected by the growing mayhem outside. This is a quietly devastating tale of imperial folly, and the definitive history of those early days when things went irrevocably wrong in Iraq.
Author : Lyman Frank Baum
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Emerald City of Oz written by Lyman Frank Baum and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dorothy
Author : Agnes Vivarelli
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1503505863
Total Pages : 113 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (35 download)
Download or read book Emerald City written by Agnes Vivarelli and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2015-07-15 with total page 113 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Emerald City is 31 stories of individuals that really wanted something, such as a soul mate relationship, a trip, a dream job, a specific house, a million dollars etc. These true stories give a detailed account of how each was achieved and the time frame it took to do so. Each person in this book used the Law of Attraction. Some also used the teachings of Abraham-Hicks and Neville Goddard. May you use this book as your yellow brick road.
Author : Jennifer Egan
Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 1780334648
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (83 download)
Download or read book Emerald City and Other Stories written by Jennifer Egan and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2012-01-19 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These eleven masterful stories - the first collection from acclaimed author Jennifer Egan - deal with loneliness and longing, regret and desire. Egan's characters, models and housewives, bankers and schoolgirls, are united by their search for something outside their own realm of experience. They set out from locations as exotic as China and Bora Bora, as cosmopolitan as downtown Manhattan, or as familiar as suburban Illinois to seek their own transformations. Elegant and poignant, the stories in Emerald City are seamless evocations of self-discovery.
Author : Anthony Doerr
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1476746605
Total Pages : 560 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (767 download)
Download or read book All the Light We Cannot See written by Anthony Doerr and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2014-05-06 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: *NOW A NETFLIX LIMITED SERIES—from producer and director Shawn Levy (Stranger Things) starring Mark Ruffalo, Hugh Laurie, and newcomer Aria Mia Loberti* Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award finalist, the beloved instant New York Times bestseller and New York Times Book Review Top 10 Book about a blind French girl and a German boy whose paths collide in occupied France as both try to survive the devastation of World War II. Marie-Laure lives with her father in Paris near the Museum of Natural History where he works as the master of its thousands of locks. When she is six, Marie-Laure goes blind and her father builds a perfect miniature of their neighborhood so she can memorize it by touch and navigate her way home. When she is twelve, the Nazis occupy Paris, and father and daughter flee to the walled citadel of Saint-Malo, where Marie-Laure’s reclusive great uncle lives in a tall house by the sea. With them they carry what might be the museum’s most valuable and dangerous jewel. In a mining town in Germany, the orphan Werner grows up with his younger sister, enchanted by a crude radio they find. Werner becomes an expert at building and fixing these crucial new instruments, a talent that wins him a place at a brutal academy for Hitler Youth, then a special assignment to track the Resistance. More and more aware of the human cost of his intelligence, Werner travels through the heart of the war and, finally, into Saint-Malo, where his story and Marie-Laure’s converge. Doerr’s “stunning sense of physical detail and gorgeous metaphors” (San Francisco Chronicle) are dazzling. Deftly interweaving the lives of Marie-Laure and Werner, he illuminates the ways, against all odds, people try to be good to one another. Ten years in the writing, All the Light We Cannot See is a magnificent, deeply moving novel from a writer “whose sentences never fail to thrill” (Los Angeles Times).
Author : Arnold Schildkret
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1453596054
Total Pages : 173 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (535 download)
Download or read book EMERALD CITY written by Arnold Schildkret and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2011-03-17 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Emerald City: The New Adventures of Dorothy and the Wizard of Oz by Arnold Schildkret is a new take on the Oz tales that L. Frank Baum invented. Unlike so many of Baum’s followers who have through the years written imitations of the Oz books, Schildkret invents anew the main characters and the landscape of Oz. His conception of the Deadly Desert is especially different from that in other Oz books, as are his conceptions of Dorothy, Ozma, Roquat and most of all Uncle Henry. In addition, his book tells an exciting tale of adventure and conflict, including dangerous threats to the Land of Oz and even war. -Richard Tuerk, Professor Emeritus of Literature and Languages, Texas A&M University, Commerce, Texas. Author of Oz in Perspective: Magic and Myth in the L. Frank Baum Books The New Adventures of Dorothy and the Wizard of Oz The Story – The Author’s View Emerald City is a modern sequel to the Wizard of Oz novel and film. It is an original story based on the characters of the novels of Frank Baum. Emerald City is a story of the bond of loyalty and friendship in the Land of Oz. Post 9/11/2001, we can all relate to a story of a utopian city where everyone loves each other and in which good triumphs over evil. The World of Oz has been changed by the loss of the Love Magnet. With its loss comes the immanent danger of the loss of the city, destruction of its way of life, and destruction of all of its magical creatures and inhabitants. Other events seem to conspire to ensure the Kingdom will be lost to Roquat, the evil Nome King. It is the humanity and foibles of all of the characters, even the evil ones, which will stir you and tug on your emotions. Humor and sadness, love and hate, good and evil, loss and redemption are mixed in a potpourri of fantasy and reality. Recurrent themes throughout are understanding our differences, loving each other, giving strangers the benefit of the doubt, and standing together in the face of evil. The story plays on four levels, as a fairy tale for children, as science fiction, and social and political satire for teenagers and adults.
Author : Daniel Willis
Publisher : Princeton Architectural Press
ISBN 13 : 9781568981741
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (817 download)
Download or read book The Emerald City and Other Essays on the Architectural Imagination written by Daniel Willis and published by Princeton Architectural Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Emerald City, Dan Willis takes us on a flight of imagination that paradoxically never strays far from the most tangible, even intimate subjects. His essays range from the Tower of Babel to the Wizard of Oz, from Christo to Christmas trees, from the "lightness of being" to the "weight of architecture." This ultimately optimistic book suggests that architecture is as vital as ever: "It is tempting to say that our present cultural situation...has rendered architecture nearly impossible if not unnecessary. But it is also possible to look to what our lives, at the turn of the millennium, typically lack-fulfillment, spirituality, a sense of belonging, weight-and to conclude that the ground for architecture has never been more fertile. The texts-intelligent and readable-draw equally from literary sources, architectural practice, philosophical analyses, pop culture, and everyday experiences. Willis's perspective as a writer, architect, artist, and teacher informs his work; his texts are at once reflective and proactive, as they challenge readers to rethink their participation in the built environment. Accompanying the text are the author's original illustrations, which link the forms and forces surrounding architecture at the end of the twentieth century in novel, thought-provoking ways.
Author : Natasha Allegri
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1608863387
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (88 download)
Download or read book Adventure Time: Fionna & Cake written by Natasha Allegri and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-10-15 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Fionna the Human rescues a feral flame boy from a pack of wild fire lions, it starts her on a quest she will never forget.
Author : Eric Shanower
Publisher : Courier Dover Publications
ISBN 13 : 0486798356
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (867 download)
Download or read book The Giant Garden of Oz written by Eric Shanower and published by Courier Dover Publications. This book was released on 2015-11-18 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Aunt Em and Uncle Henry's farm is suddenly overwhelmed by gigantic crops, Dorothy heads for help from the Emerald City and meets old and new friends along the way.
Author : Monica McCabe
Publisher : Lyrical Press
ISBN 13 : 1616507071
Total Pages : 362 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (165 download)
Download or read book Diamond Legacy written by Monica McCabe and published by Lyrical Press. This book was released on 2015-07-07 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Africa–where diamonds are the currency of the weapons trade, and trust is the only option between two strangers... Miranda Parrish is a world-renowned veterinarian specialist with expertise in endangered species. She’s fearless and will go anywhere an animal is in need. But when she journeys to Katanga, an animal sanctuary in the heart of Botswana, she lands in the middle of a blood diamond smuggling operation. And there’s only one man who can help her.... Special agent, Matt Bennett’s parents were murdered by a ruthless arms dealer when he was fourteen. He’s devoted his life to avenging their deaths and ending the cycle of violence threatening southern Africa. Undercover at Katanga, he clashes with Miranda. He’s never met a woman so stubborn, who’ll let nothing stand in the way of what she believes in. And he’ll let no one come between him and his vengeance. Matt and Miranda will have to work together if they want to save Katanga, and both of their lives, before it’s too late.
Author : Tony Donagher
Publisher : Authorhouse UK
ISBN 13 : 9781546288282
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (882 download)
Download or read book The Emerald Diamond written by Tony Donagher and published by Authorhouse UK. This book was released on 2018-05 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Solicitor Richard Jennings think is it is just another ordinary day when he shows up at the Criminal Courts of Justice in Dublin to cover for an associate on leave. Unfortunately, he could not be more wrong. After he settles into his seat in the court and notices a heavy security presence, a Zimbabwean man who has been accused of murdering Father Patrick OMeara two nights earlier is led into the room in handcuffs. Moments later, Stephen Moyo chooses a very surprised Jennings to represent him. What everyone is about to learn is that Moyo knows Jennings because he is one who prosecuted Father OMeara in the former Rhodesia years earlier for assisting terrorism. As the reason for the murder of the priest and the involvement of the Zimbabweans is eventually revealed, it leads to the discovery of a valuable diamond smuggled from Zimbabwe. Now it is up to Jennings and an Irish detective to determine if Moyo is guilty or innocentand, if so, who committed the heinous crime. In this legal thriller, a solicitor is propelled into the midst of a complex case after he is chosen to represent a Zimbabwean man accused of murdering a priest.
Author : L. Frank Baum
Publisher : Good Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (596 download)
Download or read book The Emerald City of Oz written by L. Frank Baum and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2023-10-27 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In L. Frank Baum's 'The Emerald City of Oz', readers are taken on a fantastical journey to the magical land of Oz. The book blends elements of fantasy and adventure, with vivid descriptions of the Emerald City and its inhabitants. Baum's descriptive and imaginative writing style creates a world that captures the reader's imagination, making it a compelling read for all ages. The book also delves into themes of friendship, loyalty, and the power of belief, adding depth to the whimsical story. 'The Emerald City of Oz' is a classic work of children's literature that continues to enchant readers to this day. L. Frank Baum, known for his prolific career as a writer, drew inspiration from his own vivid imagination and experiences to create the world of Oz. As a former actor and entrepreneur, Baum's unique perspective and storytelling skills shine through in his works, making him a revered figure in children's literature. I highly recommend 'The Emerald City of Oz' to anyone looking for a charming and captivating read that will transport them to a magical realm. Baum's timeless classic is a must-read for those who appreciate imaginative storytelling and enchanting landscapes.
Author : Sergei Sukhinov
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1878941208
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (789 download)
Download or read book The Fairy of the Emerald City written by Sergei Sukhinov and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2013-02-03 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Acclaimed Russian author Sergei Sukhinov has written a spectacular ten-part saga in which the people of Magic Land (the Russian version of L. Frank Baum's beloved Land of Oz) must contend with forces of unspeakable evil. And now this exciting series is being published for the first time in English translation. In this award-winning second installment, Ellie (Dorothy) returns to Magic Land after many years. At every step of her long and difficult journey, she is bedeviled by the sorceress Corina, who is out to avenge the death of her adoptive mother Gingema (the Wicked Witch of the East) and holds Ellie responsible.
Author : Lyman Frank Baum
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Lost Princess of Oz written by Lyman Frank Baum and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The long search for a thief and the things he stole--all the magic in Oz as well as Princess Ozma, its ruler.
Author : Vivienne Becker
Publisher : Rizzoli Publications
ISBN 13 : 0847844811
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (478 download)
Download or read book Graff written by Vivienne Becker and published by Rizzoli Publications. This book was released on 2015 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A look into the exclusive world of Graff, the British-owned luxury purveyor of unique jewels, one-of-a-kind statement pieces, and the most famous diamonds in the world. The House of Graff is synonymous with the pinnacle of luxurious, sophisticated style, the exclusive glamour and exquisite craftsmanship of its creations a singular complement to the world-famous gemstones that have passed through its master craftsmen's hands. Laurence Graff's gift of releasing the hidden beauty within gems of unprecedented size and brilliance has led to Graff being renowned as home to "the most fabulous jewels in the world." Spotlighted are famed stones such as the 603-carat Lesotho Promise, which Graff daringly cut into a necklace of 26 perfect stones; the largest square Fancy Vivid Yellow diamond in the world, the 118.08-carat Delaire Sunrise; and the largest D Flawless round diamond in the world, the Graff Constellation, at 102.79 carats. This volume showcases the best of the House of Graff--the most dramatic, the most mesmerizing, and the most exceptional jewels in the world. Included is the story of the creation of Graff, portrayed through archival photos and the words of founder Laurence Graff.
