Download or read book Buried Diamonds written by April Henry and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2003-12-08 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Past and present collide when Claire finds an engagement ring that had been missing for 50 years and her Jewish roommate is targeted by Neo-Nazis in this Agatha- and Anthony-nominated series.
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 200 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.
Download or read book Diamond Life written by Robin Liebe and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2009-09-22 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Have you ever wondered why you are here? "Diamond Life" approaches the way you look at God, yourself and others. A diamond is surfaced from deep in the earth, cut and polished. Our lives seem to have similar processes. Sometimes we're being polished and other times facets are being carefully cut, resulting in our lives shining out the brilliance God has designed us for. God has put His radiance in you. When He created you in His image, God put His stamp of approval in you. We may look around our country and our world and wonder where His radiance is. It's out there, but oftentimes it's hidden under hurt, pain, sin, loneliness, criticism and disappointment. No matter what is hiding God's radiance in you, there is one fact that will never change - You are a diamond meant to reflect God's radiance. Find out where you are in your process of living a diamond life.
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.
Download or read book Diamonds Unpolished and Polished written by John Francis Richmond and published by . This book was released on 1873 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Buried Diamonds written by Sarah Tytler and published by . This book was released on 1889 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Buried written by Lynda La Plante and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2020-04-07 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first book in a brand-new series by the Queen of Crime Drama, Lynda La Plante. Millions of stolen, untraceable bank notes lie untouched in an old Victorian cottage, the hidden legacy of the Dolly Rawlins and her widows. But the millions are not forgotten. Released from prison, Esther Freeman is determined to retrieve the money. And so too is Mike Withey, Shirley Miller's brother and Audrey's son. When a fire breaks out at the derelict cottage, with a badly charred body inside along with what looks like thousands of burnt bank notes, it attracts the attention of the police and one young detective in particular, Jack Warr. Jack's investigation into the fire, and the burnt body inside, coincide with an investigation into his own past. Adopted at birth, Jack discovers his birth father may have been none other than Harry Rawlins, a renowned criminal. As he finds out the truth about his own identity, Jack finds himself becoming increasingly aggressive, stopping at nothing to find the truth - including breaking the law himself.
Download or read book SiC Natural and Synthetic Diamond and Related Materials written by A.A. Gippius and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 1992-04-24 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume addresses the burgeoning field of wide band gap materials. The 64 contributed and invited papers will do much to stimulate the well-justified ongoing work, both theoretical and experimental, in this area. The high standard of the papers attests to the significant progress that has been made in this field, as well as reporting on the challenging problems that still remain to be solved.
Download or read book Handbook of Industrial Diamonds written by James Sung and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2021-07-22 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Diamond's supreme properties can be realized by chemical vapor deposition (CVD) of diamond films with many applications, such as cutting tools, tweeter diaphragms, deep ultraviolet light-emitting diodes, radomes, CPU transistors, quantum computer, and MEMs. This volume provides extensive reviews on various CVD methods with examples. Meanwhile, there are other forms of carbon coatings, including diamond-like carbon, carbon nanotubes, and graphene. These carbon coatings possess properties derived from diamond. For example, graphene is actually flattened diamond’s (111) face with superb electrical and thermal conductivities. For the first time, this book reveals a catalytic method to grow single-crystal graphene, whose applications are expected in heat spreaders, battery electrodes, interconnected circuits, and 6G antennae.
Download or read book Diamond for a Ruby written by Stefan Nicholson and published by Stefan Nicholson. This book was released on 2018-11-22 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ruby Peters is in great danger, fighting off double-agents entrenched in MI6 who recruit mercenaries and a psychotic madman to kill her. Roger Davis speaks from the grave, as his coded messages lead Ruby and Eric to the list that everyone is determined to obtain - at any cost. An absolutely idea packed story with fast-paced action at every step of the novel. Many of Ruby’s friends are injured and killed as a result of her involvement with Davis and as she is betrayed by her own people. Ruby graduates after completing the "CCP" final project that will have you thinking about your own life and its values.
Download or read book Diamond Lilly written by Henriette Daulton and published by The Wild Rose Press Inc. This book was released on 2019-06-24 with total page 383 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jessie Milner, a young reporter, witnesses a horrific car crash and rescues the lone survivor, a scared little girl named Lilly. Her good deed leads her down a path of missing diamonds, murder, and home-grown jihadists. She finds herself in a race to recover the missing jewels before they can be used to finance a deadly nerve gas attack on U.S. soil. Along the way she meets a handsome private investigator, Liam Donovan, who quickly becomes more than a friend. Despite the FBI's efforts to keep her out of the loop, she is determined to pursue all leads. After a startling revelation from Lilly, the threat of an attack becomes imminent. With little time left, Jessie hatches a desperate plan to stop the jihadists once and for all. After all, lives and love are on the line.
Download or read book Flight of the Diamond Smugglers A Tale of Pigeons Obsession and Greed Along Coastal South Africa written by Matthew Gavin Frank and published by Liveright Publishing. This book was released on 2021-02-23 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Unforgettable. . . . An outstanding adventure in its lyrical, utterly compelling, and heartbreaking investigations of the world of diamond smuggling.” —Aimee Nezhukumatathil For nearly eighty years, a huge portion of coastal South Africa was closed off to the public. With many of its pits now deemed “overmined” and abandoned, American journalist Matthew Gavin Frank sets out across the infamous Diamond Coast to investigate an illicit trade that supplies a global market. Immediately, he became intrigued by the ingenious methods used in facilitating smuggling particularly, the illegal act of sneaking carrier pigeons onto mine property, affixing diamonds to their feet, and sending them into the air. Entering Die Sperrgebiet (“The Forbidden Zone”) is like entering an eerie ghost town, but Frank is surprised by the number of people willing—even eager—to talk with him. Soon he meets Msizi, a young diamond digger, and his pigeon, Bartholomew, who helps him steal diamonds. It’s a deadly game: pigeons are shot on sight by mine security, and Msizi knows of smugglers who have disappeared because of their crimes. For this, Msizi blames “Mr. Lester,” an evil tall-tale figure of mythic proportions. From the mining towns of Alexander Bay and Port Nolloth, through the “halfway” desert, to Kleinzee’s shores littered with shipwrecks, Frank investigates a long overlooked story. Weaving interviews with local diamond miners who raise pigeons in secret with harrowing anecdotes from former heads of security, environmental managers, and vigilante pigeon hunters, Frank reveals how these feathered bandits became outlaws in every mining town. Interwoven throughout this obsessive quest are epic legends in which pigeons and diamonds intersect, such as that of Krishna’s famed diamond Koh-i-Noor, the Mountain of Light, and that of the Cherokee serpent Uktena. In these strange connections, where truth forever tangles with the lore of centuries past, Frank is able to contextualize the personal grief that sent him, with his wife Louisa in the passenger seat, on this enlightening journey across parched lands. Blending elements of reportage, memoir, and incantation, Flight of the Diamond Smugglers is a rare and remarkable portrait of exploitation and greed in one of the most dangerous areas of coastal South Africa. With his sovereign prose and insatiable curiosity, Matthew Gavin Frank “reminds us that the world is a place of wonder if only we look” (Toby Muse).
Download or read book Handbook of Industrial Diamonds and Diamond Films written by Mark A. Prelas and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-12-19 with total page 1175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines both mined and synthetic diamonds and diamond films. The text offers coverage on the use of diamond as an engineering material, integrating original research on the science, technology and applications of diamond. It discusses the use of chemical vapour deposition grown diamonds in electronics, cutting tools, wear resistant coatings, thermal management, optics and acoustics, as well as in new products.
Download or read book Buried Treasure written by Ted Schroder and published by Amelia Island Publishing. This book was released on 2005-03 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Tom Swift Among The Diamond Makers written by Victor Appleton and published by BoD - Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-07-22 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Tom Swift Among The Diamond Makers" by Victor Appleton is an enthralling adventure novel that follows the young inventor Tom Swift as he embarks on a daring quest to uncover a secret diamond-making operation. This exciting story takes readers on a roller-coaster ride of mystery, danger, and scientific intrigue. In this installment of the popular Tom Swift series, the ingenious young inventor, Tom, finds himself entangled in a mysterious plot involving the creation of synthetic diamonds. When a renowned scientist disappears under suspicious circumstances, Tom is determined to get to the bottom of the mystery. Driven by his insatiable curiosity and his passion for science, Tom sets out on a thrilling adventure with his loyal friends and colleagues. Armed with his inventive genius and cutting-edge inventions, he follows a series of clues that lead him to an underground network of diamond makers. As Tom delves deeper into the clandestine world of diamond production, he discovers that the stakes are higher than he initially imagined. Not only is the secret diamond-making operation illegal, but it also poses a threat to the natural diamond market and could have far-reaching consequences. Throughout the novel, Tom faces numerous challenges and dangers, including treacherous adversaries who will stop at nothing to protect their illicit operation. Yet, with his quick thinking and resourcefulness, Tom uses his scientific knowledge to outsmart his enemies and navigate the perilous situations he encounters. Along the way, Tom's friendship and camaraderie with his loyal companions are put to the test, and they prove to be invaluable allies in this thrilling escapade. Together, they embark on a race against time to unravel the mystery, expose the diamond-making scheme, and bring the culprits to justice. "Tom Swift Among The Diamond Makers" captivates readers with its blend of action, suspense, and scientific wonder. As Tom Swift showcases his brilliance and bravery, readers are taken on a whirlwind adventure that leaves them on the edge of their seats."
Download or read book Blue Mooned Diamond written by Rachelle Ayala and published by Rachelle Ayala. This book was released on 2024-03-05 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Diamond Dionne is a daring treasure hunter with a hidden agenda. When she and her sidekick, Amethyst Angelova, break into an ancient crypt, they find themselves in the clutches of Prince Renaud, a tortured soul driven by a thirst for revenge, along with his pet ferret, Fausto. In exchange for their freedom, Diamond proposes an unlikely deal—they must find the Louis XIV Sunburst Pendant, a mysterious item that can bend anyone’s will with the power to break curses. Deals with otherworldly characters are never what they seem, but that doesn’t stop Diamond and Renaud from trying to one-up each other, flinging empty promises and wagering with the only currency that matters—their hearts. The fearless foursome traverses perilous landscapes filled with dark creatures while contending with Diamond’s thieving godmother and the Demon Second Class, Philly, who requires Renaud to collect souls for him. While Diamond tries to weasel out of her deals with demigods and demons and Renaud counts the souls he’s collected and lost, a shocking turn of events forces them to embark on a daring search for Diamond’s missing mother. As their enemies close in on them, Renaud and Diamond must join forces with enemies and friends alike while their affections are tested and stretched to the hilt. Can an unapologetic treasure seeker and a prince with burdened soul open their hearts to true love and survive the secrets of the fabled Sunburst with its Faustian powers intact? --- What if legendary gods and goddesses walk among us on the streets of San Francisco? What if they drop in on you unawares, and what if you fall in love with one? Love Charmed Romances are a flirtatious frolic through world mythology where ordinary you gets tangled up with delectable demigods in a magical and otherworldly romance. #1, Black Tied: Sapphire - When ordinary you and the Son of the Kitchen God stand up to a playboy apocalypse. #2, Red Hexed: Ruby - Burn victim, Ruby Rush strives to regain her beauty by helping a Viking demigod recover his berserker sword. #3, Blue Mooned: Diamond - Treasure hunter, Diamond Dionne, trades her soul for trinkets until she meets the devil's repo man, Prince Renaud.
