Download or read book Diamonds written by Antoinette Leonard Matlins and published by Gemstone Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Whether you are buying a diamond for an engagement ring, anniversary, to commemorate a special moment, or for personal pleasure, today it is more important than ever to understand what you are buying. There are new shapes and cuts, fancy colours, high-tech treatments, and sophisticated frauds. There are new ways to buy -- such as Internet auctions and TV shopping. Buyers need a source of expert guidance. Practical, comprehensive, and easy to understand, this book offers in depth all the information you need to buy sparkling diamonds with confidence, including: What is a diamond?; The factors affecting quality differences in diamonds; Diamond grading reports and how to interpret them; How to compare prices; How to spot differences in stones that may appear to be the same quality; How to protect yourself from misrepresentation; Questions to ask when buying any diamond; What to get in writing; How to get what you want within your budget; Important information about buying on the Internet and much more.

Download or read book Diamonds 3rd Edition written by Antoinette Matlins and published by Gemstone Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Whether buying for personal pleasure or for investment, in today's market of Internet auctions, new diamond cuts, new colours, new treatments and new frauds buyers need a source of expert guidance. This comprehensive guide, from diamond expert and best-selling author Antoinette Matlins, is the unofficial bible for all diamond buyers who want to get the most for their money.

Download or read book Diamond in the Dirt written by Carde'l and published by Richard L Jenkins-Edens. This book was released on 2018-04-06 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first book of the Diamond in the Dirt series is a coming of age story that captures the unforgettable moments of it's main character's life. Real is trapped inside of poverty and pain but still has a heart of pure gold with a mind sharp enough to cut himself through any situation. Real strives to the best of his ability to beat the odds. As time passes by the multiple screw balls life threw at him shapes and molds him into being a straight up lion in a concrete jungle. his loyalty, brain power, and gangster will be tested. Will he fall victim to the deadly vices that come with the game, or will he overcome it all and reign supreme like the street king he claims to be.

Download or read book Diamonds 4th Edition written by Antoinette Matlins, PG, FGA and published by Turner Publishing Company. This book was released on 2016-03-29 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Newly updated and expanded, Diamonds gives you all the information you need to buy, collect, sell—or simply enjoy—diamonds with confidence and knowledge. Whether you are buying a diamond for an engagement ring, anniversary, to commemorate a special moment or for personal pleasure, today it is more important than ever to understand what you are buying. There are new shapes and cuts, fancy colors, high-tech treatments and sophisticated frauds. There are new ways to buy—such as Internet auctions. Buyers need a source of expert guidance. Practical, comprehensive and easy to understand, this book offers in depth all the information you need to buy sparkling diamonds with confidence, including: What is a diamond? An in-depth look at factors affecting differences in quality and cost. Diamond grading reports—why all the information is important, and what it tells you. How to compare prices. How to spot differences in stones that may appear to be the same quality. How to protect yourself from misrepresentation. Questions to ask when buying any diamond. What to get in writing. How to get what you want within your budget. Important information about buying on the Internet ... and much more! Written by an “insider,” this easy-to-read guide is the “unofficial diamond bible” for anyone who wants to get the most for their money and enjoy what they have purchased.

Download or read book Diamonds 3rd Edition written by Antoinette Matlins, PG, FGA and published by Turner Publishing Company. This book was released on 2011-03-01 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Newly updated and expanded, Diamonds gives you all the information you need to buy, collect, sell—or simply enjoy—diamonds with confidence and knowledge. Whether you are buying a diamond for an engagement ring, anniversary, to commemorate a special moment or for personal pleasure, today it is more important than ever to understand what you are buying. There are new shapes and cuts, fancy colors, high-tech treatments and sophisticated frauds. There are new ways to buy—such as Internet auctions. Buyers need a source of expert guidance. Practical, comprehensive and easy to understand, this book offers in depth all the information you need to buy sparkling diamonds with confidence, including: What is a diamond? An in-depth look at factors affecting differences in quality and cost. Diamond grading reports—why all the information is important, and what it tells you. How to compare prices. How to spot differences in stones that may appear to be the same quality. How to protect yourself from misrepresentation. Questions to ask when buying any diamond. What to get in writing. How to get what you want within your budget. Important information about buying on the Internet ... and much more! Written by an “insider,” this easy-to-read guide is the “unofficial diamond bible” for anyone who wants to get the most for their money and enjoy what they have purchased.

Download or read book Dirty Diamond written by J. P. Cardenas and published by Booktango. This book was released on 2014-05-01 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When a little African boy finds a raw diamond, it sets a series of events showing the human spirit in each individual person it touches. The surprise here is not the diamond, which is a phenomenon in itself, but the dramatic reaction of each, bringing some to the end of their destruction and others to pick themselves up from the dark abyss that life can become.

Download or read book FROM DIRT TO DIAMONDS written by Julia James and published by Harlequin / SB Creative. This book was released on 2016-01-30 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Raised in foster homes, Kat is determined to escape the life of drugs, alcohol, and prostitution that defined the lives of her mother and her grandmother. She auditions for a job as a model, but doesn’t quite make the cut. Instead, she’s offered the chance of a lifetime by billionaire Angelos Petrakos. A dream-like dinner, a first kiss… Kat felt her life had changed, but she wasn’t yet aware of the complex mixture of love and hate that would come to define her relationship with Angelos…

Download or read book Barren Lands written by Kevin Krajick and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2016-02-02 with total page 501 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 2001, Barren Lands is the classic true story of the men who sought—and found—a great diamond mine on the last frontier of the far north. From a bloody 18th-century trek across the Canadian tundra to the daunting natural forces facing protagonists Chuck Fipke and Stewart Blusson as they struggle against the mighty DeBeers cartel, this is the definitive account of one of the world’s great mineral discoveries. Combining geology, science history, raw nature, and high intrigue, it is also a tale of supreme adventure, taking the reader into a magical—and now fast-vanishing—wild landscape. Now in a newly revised and updated edition.

Download or read book Hip Figures written by Michael Szalay and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2012-06-20 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hip Figures dramatically alters our understanding of the postwar American novel by showing how it mobilized fantasies of black style on behalf of the Democratic Party. Fascinated by jazz, rhythm and blues, and rock and roll, novelists such as Norman Mailer, Ralph Ellison, John Updike, and Joan Didion turned to hip culture to negotiate the voter realignments then reshaping national politics. Figuratively transporting white professionals and managers into the skins of African Americans, these novelists and many others insisted on their own importance to the ambitions of a party dependent on coalition-building but not fully committed to integration. Arbiters of hip for readers who weren't, they effectively branded and marketed the liberalism of their moment—and ours.

Download or read book Earth Works written by Scott Russell Sanders and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2012-02-01 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the hands of award-winning writer Scott Russell Sanders, the essay becomes an inquisitive and revelatory form of art. In 30 of his finest essays—nine never before collected—Sanders examines his Midwestern background, his father's drinking, his opposition to war, his literary inheritance, and his feeling for wildness. He also tackles such vital issues as the disruption of Earth's climate, the impact of technology, the mystique of money, the ideology of consumerism, and the meaning of sustainability. Throughout, he asks perennial questions: What is a good life? How do family and culture shape a person's character? How should we treat one another and the Earth? What is our role in the cosmos? Readers and writers alike will find wisdom and inspiration in Sanders's luminous and thought-provoking prose.

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Download or read book Late Edition written by Bob Greene and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2009-07-07 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a warm, affectionate true-life tale, "New York Times"-bestselling author Greene travels back to a place where he had the grand good luck to find himself surrounded by a brotherhood and sisterhood of wayward misfits who, on the mezzanine of a Midwestern building, put out a daily newspaper.

Download or read book The Complete Works written by Anthony Trollope and published by e-artnow. This book was released on 2020-12-17 with total page 14674 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Musaicum Books presents to you this meticulously edited collection of Anthony Trollope's complete works. Contents: Chronicles of Barsetshire: The Warden Barchester Towers Doctor Thorne Framley Parsonage The Small House at Allington The Last Chronicle of Barset Palliser Novels: Can You Forgive Her? Phineas Finn The Eustace Diamonds Phineas Redux The Prime Minister The Duke's Children Irish Novels: The Macdermots of Ballycloran The Kellys and the O'Kellys Castle Richmond An Eye for an Eye The Landleaguers Other Novels: La Vendée The Three Clerks The Bertrams Orley Farm The Struggles of Brown, Jones & Robinson Rachel Ray Miss Mackenzie The Belton Estate The Claverings Nina Balatka Linda Tressel He Knew He Was Right The Vicar of Bullhampton Sir Harry Hotspur of Humblethwaite Ralph the Heir The Golden Lion of Granpère Harry Heathcote of Gangoil Lady Anna The Way We Live Now The American Senator Is He Popenjoy? John Caldigate Cousin Henry Ayala's Angel Doctor Wortle's School The Fixed Period Kept in the Dark Marion Fay Mr. Scarborough's Family An Old Man's Love Short Stories: Tales of All Countries: La Mère Bauche The O'Conors of Castle Conor John Bull on the Guadalquivir Miss Sarah Jack, of Spanish Town, Jamaica The Courtship of Susan Bell Relics of General Chassé… Lotta Schmidt & Other Stories An Editor's Tales Why Frau Frohmann Raised Her Prices and other Stories Other Stories Plays: Did He Steal It? The Noble Jilt Travel Writings: The West Indies and the Spanish Main North America South Africa How the 'Mastiffs' Went to Iceland Sketches: Hunting Sketches Travelling Sketches Clergymen of the Church of England Studies & Essays: The Commentaries of Caesar Thackeray Life of Cicero Lord Palmerston A Walk in a Wood On Anonymous Literature On English Prose Fiction as Rational Amusement On the Higher Education of Women The Civil Service as a Profession The National Gallery Clarissa The Uncontrolled Ruffianism of London The Young Women at the London Telegraph Office An Autobiography of Anthony Trollope

Download or read book Diamonds and Gemstones written by Ron Edwards and published by Crabtree Publishing Company. This book was released on 2004 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Diamonds, rubies, and pearls are among the most precious stones found under the earth. Whether used as decoration or in modern medical technology, this new book will show readers how these stones are formed and how we use them.

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Download or read book A Fast Life and Great Times written by Harvey Riggs and published by Dog Ear Publishing. This book was released on 2011-10 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Meet Harvey, a boy born in California in the midst of the Great Depression. The historic and political events of the time helped mold the direction of his life. The autobiography shows that life doesn't just happen. Instead apparently disconnected experiences, actions and circumstances join to affect a person's growth and relationships to the world and those around him. Surviving the worldwide depression, listening and watching World War II unfold in the media and in newsreels at movie theaters - as well as rationing- and their impact on the home front left an impression on Harvey and his family. Set against the back drop of world events are stories of Harvey' s Family members and how they live, love and have fun together, as well as how they cope and survive sickness and adversity. His memoir also cites personal involvement with the rehabilitation and staffing of a service station burned during the Watts riots and some of the effects of foreign crude suppliers on the petroleum industry. Readers can follow the author's career in his company, as well as his retirement, health scares and the chance to fully embrace his interests in life. Representing "every man" Riggs' detailed telling of his story will strike a chord with anyone who has wondered what paths his own life might have taken. Harvey Wiley Riggs was born in 1934, the second of six children for his loving parents. He learned many trades as a young man served in the U.S. Marine Corps and retired from Chevron Oil Co. after nearly 37 years, working in all aspects of petroleum marketing. Riggs has been married to his sweetheart, Beverly for more than 55 years after meeting in junior college. They have two daughters and four grandchildren. The author enjoys friends and family, traveling, classic cars, volunteers for city committees, professional and private organizations and devotes many hours to training and promoting the health and wellness of Flat Coated Retrievers.

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