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Author : Louis Kornitzer
Publisher : New York : Sheridan house
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Gem Trader written by Louis Kornitzer and published by New York : Sheridan house. This book was released on 1939 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Michael Bycroft
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319963791
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (199 download)
Download or read book Gems in the Early Modern World written by Michael Bycroft and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-11-27 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edited collection is an interdisciplinary study of gems in the early modern world. It examines the relations between the art, science, and technology of gems, and it does so against the backdrop of an expanding global trade in gems. The eleven chapters are organised into three parts. The first part sets the scene by describing how gems moved around the early modern world, how they were set in motion, and how they were pulled together in the course of their travels. The second part is about value. It asks why people valued gems, how they determined the value of a given gem, and how the value of a gem was connected to its perceived place of origin. The third part deals with the skills involved in cutting, polishing, and mounting gems, and how these skills were transmitted and articulated by artisans. The common themes of all these chapters are materials, knowledge and global trade. The contributors to this volume focus on the material properties of gems such as their weight and hardness, on the knowledge involved in exchanging them and valuing them, and on the cultural consequences of the expanding trade in gems in Eurasia and the Americas.
Author : Gardner Dozois
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
ISBN 13 : 1466859504
Total Pages : 674 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (668 download)
Download or read book The Good Old Stuff written by Gardner Dozois and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2013-12-10 with total page 674 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nineteen-ninety-nine looms near and yet the stars are still far away . . . but this anthology brings them closer with more than a dozen of the best SF adventure stories ever written. Among the gems collected here are "The New Prime," by Jack Vance, " Fritz Leiber's "Moon Duel," and "The Sky People," by Poul Anderson, along with masterpieces by less-familiar names such as Murray Leinster and James H. Schmitz. With more than a dozen stories (written between 1940 and 1970) from greats such as Brian W. Aldiss, Leigh Brackett, L. Sprague de Camp, and A. E. van Vogt, this anthology ranges throughout our galaxy and into the stars. Whether you're revisiting past adventures or discovering these stories for the first time, you're sure to thrill to these wonderful adventures across the vast expanse of space.
Author : Julian Robov
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1462841759
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (628 download)
Download or read book Gemsicuted! written by Julian Robov and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2002-04-09 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The novel is a rough gem. It does have a characteristic skin with iron stains. Like most rough gems, the novel isnt free from inclusions or blemishes. The novel portrays a slice of gem trade replete with black humor and raunchy dialogue, along with a cast of 90s impresarios, bozos, lust-driven wives, gangsters and plain Joe Does. All are swept up in this tornado of a plot.
Author : Diane Morgan
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 031334406X
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (133 download)
Download or read book Gemlore written by Diane Morgan and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2008-06-30 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Every culture has developed its own lore of rocks. From the stones of Aaron's breastplate to the foundational rocks of the New Jerusalem, from the creation tales of South America to the blood stones of Burma, gems have taken their place in the mythology and magic of the human race. This book details the lore attached to particular gems. Each chapter covers a particular stone and discusses the gem's geological, historical, mythical, and legendary qualities. A valuable resource for anyone researching symbols, myth, history, or literature, this book also helps science students understand the humanistic context of gemstones and offers social studies students a fascinating view of gems in world cultures. Each chapter covers a particular gemstone, such as diamonds, rubies, sapphires, and emeralds. It also covers organic gems, such as pearl, coral, and amber. The chapters discuss the natural history of the stone, including where the gem is found, its value, and its use; the role the gem has played in history, especially for certain famous stones such as the Hope Diamond; and the myths, powers, and legends that have attached to the stone over the centuries. Science students will appreciate the humanistic context the book offers for gemstones, while social studies students will appreciate its consideration of gems across times and places. Students of literature and the arts will welcome the book's attention to gems as symbols, and general readers will find it a fascinating guide to the lore and legend of precious stones.
Author : Adrienne Young
Publisher : Wednesday Books
ISBN 13 : 125025437X
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (52 download)
Download or read book Fable written by Adrienne Young and published by Wednesday Books. This book was released on 2020-09-01 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING SERIES A REESE WITHERSPOON x HELLO SUNSHINE BOOK CLUB YA PICK Filled with all of the action, emotion, and lyrical writing that brought readers to Sky in the Deep, New York Times bestselling author Adrienne Young returns with Fable, the first book in this new captivating duology. Welcome to a world made dangerous by the sea and by those who wish to profit from it. Where a young girl must find her place and her family while trying to survive in a world built for men. As the daughter of the most powerful trader in the Narrows, the sea is the only home seventeen-year-old Fable has ever known. It’s been four years since the night she watched her mother drown during an unforgiving storm. The next day her father abandoned her on a legendary island filled with thieves and little food. To survive she must keep to herself, learn to trust no one and rely on the unique skills her mother taught her. The only thing that keeps her going is the goal of getting off the island, finding her father and demanding her rightful place beside him and his crew. To do so Fable enlists the help of a young trader named West to get her off the island and across the Narrows to her father. But her father’s rivalries and the dangers of his trading enterprise have only multiplied since she last saw him and Fable soon finds that West isn't who he seems. Together, they will have to survive more than the treacherous storms that haunt the Narrows if they're going to stay alive. Fable takes you on a spectacular journey filled with romance, intrigue and adventure.
Author : Nora Aphismai Phayackaporn
Publisher : Bluetoffee
ISBN 13 : 9810559380
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (15 download)
Download or read book Gemstones written by Nora Aphismai Phayackaporn and published by Bluetoffee. This book was released on 2006 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gemstones: A Thai Love Story presents an essential reference guide to the world of Thai gems, for every level of interest. In four beautifully illustrated sections, the book furnishes buyers with all they need to know about buying gems in Thailand, in an easy-to-read format, set in a context of Thai history and culture. The buyer's guide is designed to cut through the complex process of gem identification and authentication. Each gem is described precisely, highlighting its distinguishing characteristics and variations, as well as its man-made imitators. The guide also acquaints readers with the history and origin of each gem and provides useful tips on how to make a good purchase, and look after the gem subsequent to purchase. An introduction to the Thai gem manufacturing process and key markets gives the layman some insight into the gem industry in Thailand, and the intricacies of gem trading, equipping the reader with the knowledge he requires when he visits one of the most exciting gem markets of the world. Finally, a concise glossary gives understanding of the technical terms used within the book.
Author : John Clegg
Publisher : Grosvenor House Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1803814780
Total Pages : 379 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (38 download)
Download or read book The Teller written by John Clegg and published by Grosvenor House Publishing. This book was released on 2023-07-06 with total page 379 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The year is 401 BC, a new art form is burgeoning, what we now call La Tene, or Celtic, spreading north from the alpine regions. Three years earlier Athens had finally been defeated by Sparta and her allies; Rome is but a fledgling city state; the Etruscan confederation is in decline; hordes of Gallic warriors are rampaging south over the Alps and through all this, two from the far northern Tin Islands, blithely wander. It is a tale related by a contemporary storyteller, thankfully unconstrained by words and phrases that had been off limits to the Teller when entertaining his Iron Age audience. Notwithstanding, the style of delivery remains concise, avoiding hyperbole and melodrama, with the narrator hoping, as the Teller had done, to paint pictures in people's minds. The dialogue is again fairly contemporary, minus anything too modern, such as current phrases, slang, or anything pandering to recent trends. Underlying all, is the tension felt by the Teller, bound by his pact with the all-powerful spirit world, those who had bestowed the gift to entertain by his words, on condition he never immersed himself in their world. To actually alter the course of a life, he felt certain, would at the very least, bring loss of the ability he'd been granted and at worst, he could not even begin to imagine the scale of retribution exacted. Breaking that pact, invited tragedy, but when would it strike? The not knowing was worse than the certainty it would.
Author : Mark Douglas
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 9780735201446
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (14 download)
Download or read book Trading in the Zone written by Mark Douglas and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2001-01-01 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Trading in the Zone introduces a whole new mental dimension to getting an edge on the market. Use it to leverage the power of the “zone” for unprecedented profit. Mark Douglas uncovers the underlying reasons for lack of consistency and helps traders overcome the ingrained mental habits that cost them money. He takes on the myths of the market and exposes them one by one teaching traders to look beyond random outcomes, to understand the true realities of risk, and to be comfortable with the "probabilities" of market movement that governs all market speculation.
Author : Gary W. Bowersox
Publisher : GeoVision, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 9780974732312
Total Pages : 544 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (323 download)
Download or read book The Gem Hunter written by Gary W. Bowersox and published by GeoVision, Inc.. This book was released on 2004 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the story of one man's endeavor to discover precious gems and to lead a life filled with loyal friends and extraordinary adventures. He finds it all in the Hindu Kush region of Afghanistan but not without risking his life. In this book Gary W. Bowersox spins his tales of thirty two years of discovery both introspective and worldwide. Along the way he encounters danger and intrigue as he builds lasting friendships. He has traded gems and stories with Afghan miners, ethnic peoples, freedom fighters, government officials, scientist, and on a few occasions, international spies.
Author : Renée Rose Shield
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501718193
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (17 download)
Download or read book Diamond Stories written by Renée Rose Shield and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2018-07-05 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sequestered within the heart of a cosmopolitan city is an exotic world—a place where diamonds, astronomically priced, are bought and sold on the strength of a handshake, and business disputes are resolved according to ancient Jewish principles of arbitration. Yet it is also a modern industry facing the same fundamental global changes affecting all businesses today.In Diamond Stories, Renée Rose Shield leads us into the unexamined realm of wholesale diamond traders in New York. Related to several well-respected traders, she had unprecedented access to a society normally closed to outside inquiry. Here she deftly blends her personal relationship and her anthropological training to provide an insightful exploration of this tradition-bound industry, the new challenges it faces, and the ways both industry and individuals adapt to and endure change.Shield begins with a fascinating history of diamond mining, combining the story of the De Beers cartel, the role of Jews in the trade, and the part diamonds have played both in war and liberation. Throughout, she incorporates commentary by current diamond traders. Succeeding chapters explore the evolving nature of both the global trade and the New York diamond district. Shield takes a close look at the increasingly complex ethnic makeup of the district, illuminates the rarely documented work done by women, chronicles the resilient system of arbitration, and reveals the ways in which many traders work well into their eighties and nineties. Their long lives of work, cushioned by the trade's social environment, offer hints for successful aging in general.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 822 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Hunter-trader-trapper written by and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 822 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Paul Gray
Publisher : Rough Guides
ISBN 13 : 9781858285719
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (857 download)
Download or read book The Rough Guide to Bangkok written by Paul Gray and published by Rough Guides. This book was released on 2001 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essential pocket guide to this vibrant city, the Rough Guide features informed accounts of every attraction from the royal island of Ratanakosin, to the fascinating weekend market at Chatuchak. Up-to-the-minute reviews of where to stay, eat, drink and shop, plus full details of the city's transport systems are also included. Excursions to the historic temples of Ayutthaya, the river Kwai and the floating markets at Damnoen Saduak are all covered as well.
Author : Josie Townsend
Publisher : Josie Townsend
ISBN 13 : 0975627368
Total Pages : 620 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (756 download)
Download or read book Shadow Bear written by Josie Townsend and published by Josie Townsend. This book was released on 2024-08-06 with total page 620 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Orphaned at just six, Kane was raised in the remote reaches of a Japanese monastery perched high in the Alps. From the start, his imposing frame marked him as different, attracting relentless scorn from those around him. The monastery's high priest monks, masters of ninjitsu, enforced brutal training regimens that forged Kane into a martial arts prodigy. But a tragic twist in a sparring match—a rival’s untimely death—propels Kane into a desperate flight. Hunted by a relentless mob of ninjas, Kane is forced to abandon the only home he’s ever known. As he evades capture, Kane undergoes a harrowing transformation into the demonic Shadow Bear.Struggling to control the dark power within him, he races against time to master his monstrous alter ego before it consumes him. The legend of the Shadow Bear is about to be written in blood and shadow.
Author : Adam Bradley
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1326819852
Total Pages : 171 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (268 download)
Download or read book Morpheus Tales: The Best Weird Fiction Volume 6 written by Adam Bradley and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2016-10-17 with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collected together for the first time, the best weird fiction from Morpheus Tales, the UK's most controversial weird fiction magazine! Only the very best weird fiction has been hand-picked from the Morpheus Tales archives to create the sixth collected volume of the magazine Christopher Fowler calls "edgy and dark". Featuring fiction by Richard Wolkomir, Stuart Hughes, Ty Schwamberger, Paul Johnson-Jovanovic, Matthew Acheson, K. Scott Forman, Charles D. Romans, Craig Saunders, Matt Leyshon, Michael Lejeune, Michelle Ann King, Bruce L. Priddy, Douglas J. Ogurek, Harley Carnell, Stephen McQuiggan, Joe Mynhardt, David McGuire, Richard Farren Barber, Lee Clark Zumpe, Todd Outcalt, Kevin G. Bufton, Charles Austin Muir, Michael W. Clark, Anthony Baynton, Stephen Hernandez, Holly Day, Craig W. Steele, A.A. Garrison, David Barber, John S. Barker, David Buchan. Established horror best-sellers rub shoulders with rising stars and newcomers in this diverse collection of short weird fiction.
Author : Julia Justiss
Publisher : Harlequin
ISBN 13 : 1426864663
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (268 download)
Download or read book The Smuggler and the Society Bride written by Julia Justiss and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2010-08-01 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lady Honoria Carlow, leading Diamond of the Ton, is in disgrace. Her spirited nature has led her too far this time and she is, in reputation at least, ruined. Indifferent to polite London society, Captain Gabriel Hawksworth is a gentleman in bandit's clothing. On the storm-tossed coast of Cornwall, this smuggler is reckless, sexy and sinfully tempting…. Gabriel is luring Honoria right back to what she's escaping—trouble! Only this time her impropriety won't be quite so innocent…
Author : Kris E. Lane
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 030016470X
Total Pages : 299 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (1 download)
Download or read book Colour of Paradise written by Kris E. Lane and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2010-03-30 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Among the magnificent gems and jewels left behind by the great Islamic empires, emeralds stand out for their size and prominence. For the Mughals, Ottomans, and Safavids green was—as it remains for all Muslims—the color of Paradise, reserved for the Prophet Muhammad and his descendants. Tapping a wide range of sources, Kris Lane traces the complex web of global trading networks that funneled emeralds from backland South America to populous Asian capitals between the sixteenth and the eighteenth centuries. Lane reveals the bloody conquest wars and forced labor regimes that accompanied their production. It is a story of trade, but also of transformations—how members of profoundly different societies at opposite ends of the globe assigned value to a few thousand pounds of imperfectly shiny green rocks.
