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Download or read book Womb of Diamonds written by Ezra Choueke and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the 1930's Jewish Community of Aleppo, Syria, thirteen-year-old Lucie lives and works beside Muslims, Armenian Christians, and the French military. She fondly relates how chickpeas were used instead of wedding invitations, where their pistachios were dried, indiscreet tales of the bathhouse, the magical properties of the souk, and the tests for her marriage value involving goats and other barometers. When she gets forced into an engagement with a 29 year-old man, she has to decide between family duty and continued poverty. But this true story is not about a victim.Upon her move to Japan in 1936, Lucie is immersed in a new culture and a dynamic international trading business. With the arrival of World War Two, everything she has built is threatened by American bombs, clever spies, Nazi sympathizers, food shortages, and snakes. Lucie finally puts the funny, dramatic stories that she has shared with millions of Japanese people in writing, so we can all benefit from her life experience and learn a little business along the way.
Download or read book Womb of Diamonds written by Ezra Choueke and published by . This book was released on 2021-12 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the 1930's Jewish Community of Aleppo, Syria, thirteen-year-old Lucie lives and works beside Muslims, Armenian Christians, and the French military. She fondly relates how chickpeas were used instead of wedding invitations, where their pistachios were dried, indiscreet tales of the bathhouse, the magical properties of the souk, and the tests for her marriage value involving goats and other barometers. When she gets forced into an engagement with a 29 year-old man, she has to decide between family duty and continued poverty. But this true story is not about a victim. Upon her move to Japan in 1936, Lucie is immersed in a new culture and a dynamic international trading business. With the arrival of World War Two, everything she has built is threatened by American bombs, clever spies, Nazi sympathizers, food shortages, and snakes. Lucie finally puts the funny, dramatic stories that she has shared with millions of Japanese people in writing, so we can all benefit from her life experience and learn a little business along the way. In these pages discover... How to efficiently remove the bugs from rationed rice. How "roasting a chicken in its own fat" can help in property management. Why pregnant women with food cravings shouldn't scratch an itch. How to run a profitable black market enterprise. How only a woman can really appreciate an 8 millimeter pearl. How expats honorably left their cheating spouses or untangled friends from difficult relationships. The real reason many young bachelors were sent to Japan to "learn the business."
Book Synopsis Diamonds Across Time by : Usha R Balakrishnan
Download or read book Diamonds Across Time written by Usha R Balakrishnan and published by World Diamond Museum Limited. This book was released on 2020 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: - Diamonds Across Time features ten essays by scholars in love with the stone - They present new discoveries, explore historic collections, investigate the trade in diamonds, explain the spectrum of colors, and, most important, discuss the human stories that underpin the adoration for diamonds - The book is illustrated with incredible photographs of rarely seen gems and jewels from closely held collections and reconstructions of historical diamonds, done with the help of state-of-the-art computer technology Diamonds tell stories that are captivating and timeless. On the one hand, they are just stones, pieces of pure carbon with optical properties that make them glitter and sparkle like stars. On the other, they are mystical entities hypnotically drawing the viewer into a time machine as it were, wherein a cinematic montage of their journey unfolds. Diamonds Across Time presents a sweeping overview of diamonds across time and space, featuring ten essays by world-renowned scholars in love the stone. Here, these authors present new discoveries; explore extraordinary collections; investigate histories, science, and trade; the nature of diamonds; legendary gems, jewelry collections, and great designers. Above all, they tell the human stories that underpin the adoration of diamonds. Diamonds Across Time is a richly illustrated publication with high-quality images of gems and jewels, archival documents, rare drawings, and fabulous photographs. The volume places diamonds in the context of the time in which they were discovered, and on the political, social, and cultural stage on which their histories were etched. In a rapidly changing world, diamonds are eternal. They were created by nature and grew in the womb of the earth. They tell stories, and they record history. With this book, diamonds will finally have their own storytellers. The book was compiled and edited by the World Diamond Museum's chief curator and world-renowned jewelry expert Dr. Usha R Balakrishnan. She and nine other distinguished authors wrote ten monographs written in the order in appearance: Introduction; The Nizam Diamond: Bala Koh-i-Noor, in the Sacred Trust of the Nizam of Hyderabad - Usha R. Balakrishnan; Diamonds of the French Crown Jewels: Between East and West - François Farges; A Concise History of Diamonds from Borneo - Derek J. Content; Indian Diamonds and the Portuguese Duriing the Rise of the Mughal Empire - Hugo Miguel Crespo; Two Large Diamonds from India - Jack Ogden; The Romanov Diamonds: History of Splendour - Stefano Papi; The Londonderry Jewels, 1819-1959 - Diana Scarisbrick; Dress to Impress in Southeast Asia - René Brus; Powerful Women, Important Diamonds - Ruth Peltason; One in Ten Thousand: The Unique World of Coloured Diamonds - John M. King.
Book Synopsis Sexual Fluidity by : Lisa M. Diamond
Download or read book Sexual Fluidity written by Lisa M. Diamond and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is love “blind” when it comes to gender? For women, it just might be. This unsettling and original book offers a radical new understanding of the context-dependent nature of female sexuality. Lisa M. Diamond argues that for some women, love and desire are not rigidly heterosexual or homosexual but fluid, changing as women move through the stages of life, various social groups, and, most important, different love relationships.This perspective clashes with traditional views of sexual orientation as a stable and fixed trait. But that view is based on research conducted almost entirely on men. Diamond is the first to study a large group of women over time. She has tracked one hundred women for more than ten years as they have emerged from adolescence into adulthood. She summarizes their experiences and reviews research ranging from the psychology of love to the biology of sex differences. Sexual Fluidity offers moving first-person accounts of women falling in and out of love with men or women at different times in their lives. For some, gender becomes irrelevant: “I fall in love with the person, not the gender,” say some respondents.Sexual Fluidity offers a new understanding of women’s sexuality—and of the central importance of love.
Book Synopsis Unsung Lullabies by : Martha Diamond
Download or read book Unsung Lullabies written by Martha Diamond and published by St. Martin's Griffin. This book was released on 2005-06-01 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For people experiencing infertility, wanting a baby is a craving unlike any other. The intensity of their longing is matched only by the complexity of the emotional maze they must navigate. With insight and compassion, Drs. Janet Jaffe, Martha Diamond, and David Diamond-specialists in the field of Reproductive Psychology who have each experienced their own struggle with infertility-give couples the tools to: *Reduce their sense of helplessness and isolation *Identify their mates' coping styles to erase unfair expectations *Listen to their "unsung lullabies"--their conscious and unconscious dreams about having a family--to mourn the losses of infertility and move on. Ground-breaking, wise, and compassionate, Unsung Lullabies is a necessary companion for anyone coping with infertility.
Book Synopsis Body and Face in Chinese Visual Culture by : Hung Wu
Download or read book Body and Face in Chinese Visual Culture written by Hung Wu and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-03-17 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traditionally the "Chinese body" was approached as a totality and explained by sweeping comparisons of the differences that distinguished Chinese examples from their Western counterparts. Recently, scholars have argued that we must look at particular examples of Chinese images of the body and explore their intrinsic conceptual complexity and historical specificity. The twelve contributors to this volume adopt a middle position. They agree that Chinese images are conditioned by indigenous traditions and dynamics of social interaction, but they seek to explain a general Chinese body and face by charting multiple, specific bodies and faces. All of the chapters are historical case studies and investigate particular images, such as Han dynasty tomb figurines; Buddhist texts and illustrations; pictures of deprivation, illness, deformity, and ghosts; clothing; formal portraiture; and modern photographs and films. From the diversity of art forms and historical periods studied, there emerges a more complex picture of ways that the visual culture of the body and face in China has served to depict the living, memorialize the dead, and present the unrepresentable in art.
Download or read book Gracias written by Alma Luz Villanueva and published by Wings Press. This book was released on 2015-03-01 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A journey into the heart of Mexico and a coming home to the spirit of the author's beloved grandmother, this poetry collection documents travels throughout Mexico as well as Costa Rica, France, and the poet's country of birth, the United States. The titular poem, "Gracias," describes the three-day drive from Santa Fe, New Mexico, to San Miguel de Allende, Mexico, taken by 60-something Alma Luz Villanueva, leaving behind all of her material possessions. These poems travel from the center of el corazon to fellow humans experiencing war and danger, the planet, and places of joy and beauty. As a whole, they tell a spiritual trajectory.
Book Synopsis Valley of the Vapours by : Janet Dailey
Download or read book Valley of the Vapours written by Janet Dailey and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2014-04-01 with total page 133 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the rugged country of Arkansas, a young woman fights for freedom, passion, and love in this Americana romance from the New York Times–bestselling author. Discover romance across America with Janet Dailey’s classic series featuring a love story set in each of the fifty states. Ever since her mother’s death, Tisha Caldwell’s father has treated her like a prisoner. Although she’s twenty years old, he expects her to be as chaste as a child, flying into rages whenever she comes home late from a date, or when he suspects she’s been kissing some boy. When he sees her arms wrapped around the suave Roarke Madison, Tisha’s father decrees they must be wed. And Roarke is no help at all when he presents her with the most beautiful diamond solitaire engagement ring she’s ever seen. Now, in the rough country of the great state of Arkansas, Tisha must balance her need for liberation with the love beginning to grow in her heart.
Book Synopsis The Americana Series Volume Two by : Janet Dailey
Download or read book The Americana Series Volume Two written by Janet Dailey and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2018-04-03 with total page 413 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Three love stories set against great American landscapes in an acclaimed series by a New York Times–bestselling author and “romance legend” (Publishers Weekly). With more than three hundred million books sold, Janet Dailey is an icon of American fiction. In a romantic tour of the United States, the first lady of romance wrote fifty novels, one set in each state. The three enchanting installments of the Americana Series included in this collection tell heart-soaring tales of love and desire in Arkansas, California, and Colorado. Valley of the Vapours: One kiss was all it took for Tisha’s father to jump to the wrong conclusions and demand that Roarke Madison do the right thing by his daughter. Surely Roarke would put a stop to this ridiculous talk of marriage. Instead he presents her with the most beautiful diamond solitaire engagement ring . . . Fire and Ice: Some women marry for love. Alisa Franklin has to marry to satisfy conditions in her domineering mother’s will and gain custody of her sister, Christine. It’s not easy for her to accept Zachary Stuart’s proposition—or to live with him without letting down her defenses . . . After the Storm: Rad MacLeod was the best-looking, nicest guy in Denver, Colorado—the only man his wife, Lainie, ever truly loved. When he went away, her heart was shattered. But now he’s back. They’re both a little older, a whole lot wiser . . . could their connection be hotter than ever?
Book Synopsis The After Party by : Anton DiSclafani
Download or read book The After Party written by Anton DiSclafani and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2017-05-16 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A vintage version of 'Gossip Girl' meets bigger hair." —The Skimm "DiSclafani’s story sparkles like the jumbo diamonds her characters wear to one-up each other. Historical fiction lovers will linger over every lush detail." —People From the bestselling author of The Yonahlossee Riding Camp for Girls comes a story of lifelong female friendship – in all its intimate agony and joy – set within a world of wealth, beauty, and expectation. Joan Fortier is the epitome of Texas glamour and the center of the 1950s Houston social scene. Tall, blonde, beautiful, and strong, she dominates the room and the gossip columns. Every man wants her; every woman wants to be her. Devoted to Joan since childhood, Cece Buchanan is either her chaperone or her partner in crime, depending on whom you ask. But when Joan’s radical behavior escalates the summer they are twenty-five, Cece considers it her responsibility to bring her back to the fold, ultimately forcing one provocative choice to appear the only one there is. A thrilling glimpse into the sphere of the rich and beautiful at a memorable moment in history, The After Party unfurls a story of friendship as obsessive, euphoric, consuming, and complicated as any romance.
Book Synopsis The Diamond by : Wallis Richard Cattelle
Download or read book The Diamond written by Wallis Richard Cattelle and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Diamonds and Mildew by : Marli Sieburger
Download or read book Diamonds and Mildew written by Marli Sieburger and published by Diamonds & Mildew. This book was released on 2008-01-01 with total page 565 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Storyteller written by Evan Turk and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2016-06-28 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a time of drought in the Kingdom of Morocco, a storyteller and a boy weave a tale to thwart a Djinn and his sandstorm from destroying their city.
Book Synopsis The Flaming Womb by : Barbara Watson Andaya
Download or read book The Flaming Womb written by Barbara Watson Andaya and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2006-01-01 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Princess of the Flaming Womb, the Javanese legend that introduces this pioneering study, symbolizes the many ambiguities attached to femaleness in Southeast Asian societies. Yet, despite these ambiguities, the relatively egalitarian nature of male-female relations in Southeast Asia is central to arguments claiming a coherent identity for the region. This challenging work by senior scholar Barbara Watson Andaya considers such contradictions while offering a thought-provoking view of Southeast Asian history that focuses on women's roles and perceptions. Andaya explores the broad themes of the early modern era (1500-1800) - the introduction of new religions, major economic shifts, changing patterns of state control, the impact of elite lifestyles and behaviors - drawing on an extraordinary range of sources and citing numerous examples from Thai, Vietnamese, Burmese, Philippine, and Malay societies.
Book Synopsis Empty Womb, Aching Heart by : Marlo Schalesky
Download or read book Empty Womb, Aching Heart written by Marlo Schalesky and published by Bethany House. This book was released on 2001-05-01 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hope and Help For Those Struggling With Infertility When the professional advice isn't enough, and you've had your fill of well-meaning comments from those who haven't experienced infertility, Marlo Schalesky wants you to know you are not alone. The true stories she tells of couples who share your hopes, fears, frustrations, and the comfort only God can bring will encourage your heart. Infertility strikes at the core of what it means to be a woman or man, tests marriages, and shakes faith. The honest, open, and emotionally resonant first-person stories in Empty Womb, Aching Heart will touch your life--as you "cry in the diaper aisle," wonder if you "are less of a woman," ask "How far should we go?" or whisper to God, "It's not fair."
Book Synopsis The Spirituality of Happiness by : Denny JA
Download or read book The Spirituality of Happiness written by Denny JA and published by Cerah Budaya Indonesia. This book was released on 2020-08-01 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This compact book encapsulates the essence of my own 40-year spiritual and intellectual journey. Since my years as a young college student in the 1980s, I have been a spiritual voyager. I have studied the doctrines of various major religions, such as Islam, Christianity, Hinduism, and Buddhism. In addition, I have studied the religious concepts of Theosophy, Krishnamurti, Perennial Philosophy, Swami Vivekanada, Osho, Subud, and Ki Ageng Surya Mentaram. Since the 2000s, I have been focusing mainly on the research findings of positive psychology. I have meditated on findings from many research studies regarding how to lead a happy and meaningful life. Ultimately, the United Nations began compiling the World Happiness Index as an annual measure of each country's progress in that effort. Thus, a country is only considered to be an advanced society if it succeeds in providing the basic systems for making its citizens happy. I have also immersed myself in the meeting of two oceans: the Sea of Spirituality and the Sea of Scientific Inquiry. I have both contemplated the essence of these two oceans and encapsulated these key ideas in my guide to leading a happy and meaningful life.
Book Synopsis In the Realm of the Diamond Queen by : Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing
Download or read book In the Realm of the Diamond Queen written by Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2021-04-13 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this highly original and much-anticipated ethnography, Anna Tsing challenges not only anthropologists and feminists but all those who study culture to reconsider some of their dearest assumptions. By choosing to locate her study among Meratus Dayaks, a marginal and marginalized group in the deep rainforest of South Kalimantan, Indonesia, Tsing deliberately sets into motion the familiar and stubborn urban fantasies of self and other. Unusual encounters with her remarkably creative and unconventional Meratus friends and teachers, however, provide the opportunity to rethink notions of tradition, community, culture, power, and gender--and the doing of anthropology. Tsing's masterful weaving of ethnography and theory, as well as her humor and lucidity, allow for an extraordinary reading experience for students, scholars, and anyone interested in the complexities of culture. Engaging Meratus in wider conversations involving Indonesian bureaucrats, family planners, experts in international development, Javanese soldiers, American and French feminists, Asian-Americans, right-to-life advocates, and Western intellectuals, Tsing looks not for consensus and coherence in Meratus culture but rather allows individual Meratus men and women to return our gaze. Bearing the fruit from the lively contemporary conversations between anthropology and cultural studies, In the Realm of the Diamond Queen will prove to be a model for thinking and writing about gender, power, and the politics of identity.
