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Saving the Diamonds

Author : Paul Gage
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1524552070
Total Pages : 582 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (245 download)

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Download or read book Saving the Diamonds written by Paul Gage and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2016-10-27 with total page 582 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Nazis in 1938 are making aggressive political moves to be supreme in Europe. Nazi Germanys war machine needs guns, cannons, tanks, and aircraft. Germanys industry needs industrial-grade diamonds for this explosive rearmament. But Germany lacks industrial diamonds and raw materials for its war production. The Royal Navy must now prepare for a new struggle with Germany. New ships will take years to build. Drawing on its reserves and modernizing mothballed ships, the Royal Navys preparations must be accelerated. HM Destroyer Demeter is rebuilt and commissioned in 1939 with a mixed crew of seasoned salts and new sailors from the training schools. Joining the Demeter is midshipman James Vanier, just nineteen years old and fresh from a yearlong officer training program. He is fulfilling his dream of entering the navy. The Demeter is in action from the first day of the war against Nazi Germany. Saving the Diamonds is the Demeters story of combat on the North Sea as seen by James Vanier. Challenged by convoy duty, battling Nazi destroyers, sea mines, fighting off Nazi bombers and dive bombers, James Vanier and Demeter face their sternest test when the Germans attack Holland in May 1940! The Demeter is given a special assignment. The industrial diamonds Germany needs are in Rotterdam and Antwerp. The Demeter must survive battles with the German Navy and the fanatical Luftwaffe bombers to bring the industrial diamonds back to England!

The Diamond Book

Author : Michael Freedman
Publisher : Irwin Professional Publishing
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Diamond Book written by Michael Freedman and published by Irwin Professional Publishing. This book was released on 1980 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Diamonds

Author : Renee Newman
Publisher : Firefly Books
ISBN 13 : 9780228103318
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (33 download)

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Download or read book Diamonds written by Renee Newman and published by Firefly Books. This book was released on 2021-10 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The beauty and sparkle and mystique of diamonds is unmatched by that of any other gem in the world. Since early times, diamonds have been treasured as good luck charms, remarkable tools and status symbols and have been worn, collected and presented as lavish gifts. Today, diamonds remain among the most sought-after gemstones and continue to hold their value through good times and bad. In Diamonds, author Renée Newman, a graduate gemologist and author of many trade-level handbooks on gemstones, invites the reader on a journey into the fascinating world of diamonds. This lavishly illustrated guide -- which features hundreds of photos, maps and diagrams -- covers everything from mining, cutting and evaluating diamonds to the romantic histories of some of the world's most valuable stones. Diamonds includes chapters on: What a diamond is -- its significance from antiquity to the present day and what it represents from different perspectives The process and history of mining diamonds -- the locations (both modern and historical) as well as the techniques used to mine diamonds The evolution of diamond cutting -- how a diamond is processed and what are the key cuts and shapes to know Diamond jewelry through the ages -- how diamonds have been used in jewelry from pre-Georgian times to today Evaluating and pricing diamonds -- how diamonds are priced based on their many value factors, such as color, carat weight, cut, clarity, and so on Man-made diamonds The remarkable benefits of diamonds. As beautiful as they are precious and as useful as they are decorative, diamonds continue to fascinate and allure. Diamonds will be a welcome guide for anyone who has felt the romance and power of these fascinating gems. It will also be a useful resource for professionals in the jewelry trade.

The Nature of Diamonds

Author : George E. Harlow
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521629355
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (293 download)

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Download or read book The Nature of Diamonds written by George E. Harlow and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The paragon of physical perfection and a sparkling example of Earth's forces at work, the diamond has fascinated all realms of society, from Russian tsars and Hollywood stars to scientists and brides-to-be. The Nature of Diamonds is an authoritative and richly illustrated look at nature's most coveted gem. Leading geologists, gemologists, physicists, and cultural observers cover every facet of the stone, from its formation in the depths of the Earth and its explosive ascent to the surface, to its economic, regal, social, and technological roles. The book takes the reader to cutting-edge research on the frontiers of diamond exploration and exploitation, from Arctic wastes to laboratories that create industrial diamonds for cutting tools that slice through rock. Charting the history of mining from its origins in India and Brazil, the book follows the diamond rush in South Africa to today's high-tech enterprises. It provides a glimpse into the economics of the diamond trade, and an overview of diamond cutting, from the rough uncut stones in early Indian and Roman jewelry to the multifaceted stones we see today. The cultural history of the diamond as both a revered and a social symbol is explored, from its early history as the exclusive property of royalty to today's brilliant-laden jewelry as an emblem of wealth and status. The engaging text is complemented by more than 200 lavish illustrations which span fine art, earth science, and cultural studies and capture the brilliance and beauty of this extraordinary gem.

Coal to Diamonds: A Memoir

Author : Beth Ditto
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 0385529740
Total Pages : 143 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (855 download)

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Download or read book Coal to Diamonds: A Memoir written by Beth Ditto and published by Random House. This book was released on 2012-10-09 with total page 143 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A raw and surprisingly beautiful coming-of-age memoir, Coal to Diamonds tells the story of Mary Beth Ditto, a girl from rural Arkansas who found her voice. Born and raised in Judsonia, Arkansas—a place where indoor plumbing was a luxury, squirrel was a meal, and sex ed was taught during senior year in high school (long after many girls had gotten pregnant and dropped out) Beth Ditto stood out. Beth was a fat, pro-choice, sexually confused choir nerd with a great voice, an eighties perm, and a Kool Aid dye job. Her single mother worked overtime, which meant Beth and her five siblings were often left to fend for themselves. Beth spent much of her childhood as a transient, shuttling between relatives, caring for a sickly, volatile aunt she nonetheless loved, looking after sisters, brothers, and cousins, and trying to steer clear of her mother’s bad boyfriends. Her punk education began in high school under the tutelage of a group of teens—her second family—who embraced their outsider status and introduced her to safety-pinned clothing, mail-order tapes, queer and fat-positive zines, and any shred of counterculture they could smuggle into Arkansas. With their help, Beth survived high school, a tragic family scandal, and a mental breakdown, and then she got the hell out of Judsonia. She decamped to Olympia, Washington, a late-1990s paradise for Riot Grrrls and punks, and began to cultivate her glamorous, queer, fat, femme image. On a whim—with longtime friends Nathan, a guitarist and musical savant in a polyester suit, and Kathy, a quiet intellectual turned drummer—she formed the band Gossip. She gave up trying to remake her singing voice into the ethereal wisp she thought it should be and instead embraced its full, soulful potential. Gossip gave her that chance, and the raw power of her voice won her and Gossip the attention they deserved. Marked with the frankness, humor, and defiance that have made her an international icon, Beth Ditto’s unapologetic, startlingly direct, and poetic memoir is a hypnotic and inspiring account of a woman coming into her own.

Three of Diamonds

Author : Anthony Horowitz
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101664053
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (16 download)

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Download or read book Three of Diamonds written by Anthony Horowitz and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2005-05-05 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What would Tim Diamond, the world's worst private detective, dowithout his quick-thinking brother Nick? The bumbling detective and his kid brother are at it again in these three hilarious, fast-paced mysteries. Whether it's finding out who flattened a philanthropist with a steamroller in The Blurred Man, outsmarting Parisian drug smugglers on a vacation gone miserably wrong in The French Confection, or catching the murderer behind a deadly class reunion in I Know What You Did Last Wednesday, there's never a dull moment with this crimesolving duo around. Find out if Nick can get to the bottom of these mysteries before Tim messes everything up, or worse, gets them both killed.

DIAMONDS English Edition

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Publisher : Marijan Dundek
ISBN 13 : 0953788458
Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (537 download)

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Download or read book DIAMONDS English Edition written by and published by Marijan Dundek. This book was released on with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Save the Birds

Author : A. W. Diamond
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521343671
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (436 download)

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Download or read book Save the Birds written by A. W. Diamond and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1987-07-02 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Diamonds and Curlz

Author : Andrea Williams
Publisher : Independently Published
ISBN 13 : 9781090531353
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (313 download)

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Download or read book Diamonds and Curlz written by Andrea Williams and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2019-03-17 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Diamonds and Curlz gives you a peak behind the "Purple Curtain" Fabulously told personal accounts of tour life experiences and other shared moments with Prince, Kim Berry brings this labor of Love to the masses. A captivating, heartfelt recollection of her journey alongside one of the most prolific artist in the world, the book will serve as a healing agent of peace to all who never truly received closure after the death of Prince Roger Nelson, nearly 3 years later.

Blood from a Stone

Author : Richard Hammer
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0765386038
Total Pages : 259 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (653 download)

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Download or read book Blood from a Stone written by Richard Hammer and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2015-06-23 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The search for the Life Diamonds--the subject of the compelling documentary produced by the History Channel. They were known as Life Diamonds--rough uncut diamonds of high quality bought by Jews in Eastern Europe to use as passports to safety. After 1939 and the Nazi blitzkrieg, after the extermination camps began belching black smoke into the skies and the railroad station at Auschwitz II-Birkenau became the busiest train station in the world, they became Death Diamonds. Blood from a Stone is the amazing story of forty of those diamonds, of their journey across continents and oceans, from the mines of South Africa to the diamond centers in Antwerp and Amsterdam, to the Jews of Eastern Europe, to the Death Camps. . . and to the two American soldiers who liberated them from the SS, finally, and buried them in a forest in Alsace on the border between France and Germany. It is the story of the curse believed to lie over the fabulous wealth of these stones, bringing death and disaster to all who touched them. It is the story of Yaron Svoray, who spent more than a decade in search of one small foxhole somewhere in a thousand square miles of forest...and of his unbelievable success. Blood from a Stone is a unique story, a story unlike any to come out of World War II. Blood from a Stone will more than over a dozen exclusive photos from the two-hour History Channel documentary.

Ill Winds

Author : Larry Diamond
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0525560645
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (255 download)

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Download or read book Ill Winds written by Larry Diamond and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2020-04-14 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: *Shortlisted for the 2020 Arthur Ross Book Award* From America’s leading scholar of democracy, a personal, passionate call to action against the rising authoritarianism that challenges our world order—and the very value of liberty Larry Diamond has made it his life's work to secure democracy's future by understanding its past and by advising dissidents fighting autocracy around the world. Deeply attuned to the cycles of democratic expansion and decay that determine the fates of nations, he watched with mounting unease as illiberal rulers rose in Hungary, Poland, Turkey, the Philippines, and beyond, while China and Russia grew increasingly bold and bullying. Then, with Trump's election at home, the global retreat from freedom spread from democracy's margins to its heart. Ill Winds' core argument is stark: the defense and advancement of democratic ideals relies on U.S. global leadership. If we do not reclaim our traditional place as the keystone of democracy, today's authoritarian swell could become a tsunami, providing an opening for Vladimir Putin, Xi Jinping, and their admirers to turn the twenty-first century into a dark time of despotism. We are at a hinge in history, between a new era of tyranny and an age of democratic renewal. Free governments can defend their values; free citizens can exercise their rights. We can make the internet safe for liberal democracy, exploit the soft, kleptocratic underbelly of dictatorships, and revive America's degraded democracy. Ill Winds offers concrete, deeply informed suggestions to fight polarization, reduce the influence of money in politics, and make every vote count. In 2020, freedom's last line of defense still remains "We the people."

Diamonds

Author : Michael Gershman
Publisher : Mariner Books
ISBN 13 : 9780395735244
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (352 download)

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Download or read book Diamonds written by Michael Gershman and published by Mariner Books. This book was released on 1995-03 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ballparks are repositories of family memory, unique places that link generations. Until now, no single volume has focused on the historical development of these special spaces, from the crossroads of neighboring cornfields to the intersections of state highways. In Diamonds, Michael Gershman carefully traces the often curious genesis of these cultural landmarks that mirror, in many respects, the evolution of our urban landscape. All the great parks - Wrigley Field, Fenway Park, Sportsman's Park, Ebbets Field, Shibe Park, Crosley Field, the Polo Grounds, Comiskey Park, Forbes Field, Tiger Stadium - and lesser-known gems - Baker Bowl, South End Grounds, Palace of the Fans, and Hilltop Park - are celebrated with a rich blend of meticulously researched history, illuminating anecdotes, rare photographs, and evocative illustrations. Diamonds also tells the story of more modern baseball palaces - Candlestick Park, the Astrodome, and Camden Yards - and describes parks that were proposed but ne

The World Until Yesterday

Author : Jared Diamond
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 1846148154
Total Pages : 409 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (461 download)

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Download or read book The World Until Yesterday written by Jared Diamond and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2013-01-10 with total page 409 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the author of No.1 international bestseller Collapse, a mesmerizing portrait of the human past that offers profound lessons for how we can live today Visionary, prize-winning author Jared Diamond changed the way we think about the rise and fall of human civilizations with his previous international bestsellers Guns, Germs and Steel and Collapse. Now he returns with another epic - and groundbreaking - journey into our rapidly receding past. In The World Until Yesterday, Diamond reveals how traditional societies around the world offer an extraordinary window onto how our ancestors lived for the majority of human history - until virtually yesterday, in evolutionary terms - and provide unique, often overlooked insights into human nature. Drawing extensively on his decades working in the jungles of Papua New Guinea, Diamond explores how tribal societies approach essential human problems, from childrearing to conflict resolution to health, and discovers we have much to learn from traditional ways of life. He unearths remarkable findings - from the reason why modern afflictions like diabetes, obesity and Alzheimer's are virtually non-existent in tribal societies to the surprising benefits of multilingualism. Panoramic in scope and thrillingly original, The World Until Yesterday provides an enthralling first-hand picture of the human past that also suggests profound lessons for how to live well today. Jared Diamond is the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of the seminal million-copy-bestseller Guns, Germs, and Steel, which was named one of TIME's best non-fiction books of all time, and Collapse, a #1 international bestseller. A professor of geography at UCLA and noted polymath, Diamond's work has been influential in the fields of anthropology, biology, ornithology, ecology and history, among others.

The Diamond Princess Saves the Day (Jewel Kingdom #4)

Author : Jahnna N. Malcolm
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1338565753
Total Pages : 68 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (385 download)

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Download or read book The Diamond Princess Saves the Day (Jewel Kingdom #4) written by Jahnna N. Malcolm and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 2020-05-05 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Four girls are about to become princesses! But can they keep their kingdom safe? In the Jewel Kingdom, four girls rule: Roxanne is the Ruby Princess, Sabrina is the Sapphire Princess, Emily is the Emerald Princess, and Demetra is the Diamond Princess.Some of Princess Demetra's subjects have become trapped inside a mountain. She must risk everything -- including her crown -- to rescue her subjects!

Diamonds

Author : Armin Greder
Publisher : Allen & Unwin
ISBN 13 : 1760874892
Total Pages : 43 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (68 download)

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Download or read book Diamonds written by Armin Greder and published by Allen & Unwin. This book was released on 2020-08-04 with total page 43 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A thought-provoking conversation about the diamond industry presented in words and pictures by the multi-award-winning creator of The Island and The Mediterranean. Mama, if I was to dig a hole in our garden, would I find a diamond? No, darling, there are no diamonds here. Where are diamonds, then? Oh, in other countries. In Africa for example ... A powerful parable that explores how the desire for endless riches perpetuates chains of inequality and corruption.

Diamonds for Profit

Author : Fred Cuellar
Publisher : City Desktop Productions
ISBN 13 : 9780966813111
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (131 download)

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Download or read book Diamonds for Profit written by Fred Cuellar and published by City Desktop Productions. This book was released on 2003-03 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The information in this comprehensive guide is of great value to both buyers and sellers because it offers inside information on how diamonds are professionally appraised and sold. Those who wish to dispose of the family diamonds at the best price learn how to choose a reliable appraiser and how to find legitimate buyers. Readers interested in pursuing diamond trading as an avocation will find valuable advice on how to spot good buys (and avoid scams) in classified ads, going-out-of-business sales, estate sales, pawnshops, auctions, and dealer's clubs. There is also a complete explanation of how to grade diamonds for colour and clarity, what flaws to look for, and how to estimate the carat weight of set stones.

Digging for Diamonds

Author : Sarah Machajewski
Publisher : The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
ISBN 13 : 150816441X
Total Pages : 24 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (81 download)

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Download or read book Digging for Diamonds written by Sarah Machajewski and published by The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc. This book was released on 2017-12-15 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Few objects can catch the fancy and capture the imagination quite as much as diamonds. Since their first discovery, these precious gems have inspired passion, evoked jealousy, and spurred conflict. Readers will study how diamonds are formed, extracted, and processed. Stunning sparkling photographs of the glittering gemstones add dimension to the book's comprehensive content. The book's relevant subject matter makes it a must-have for growing science enthusiasts studying elementary Earth science topics.