Download or read book Glitter Greed written by Janine Farrell-Robert and published by Red Wheel Weiser. This book was released on 2007-04-01 with total page 929 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rare, romantic, and forever: The diamond industry depends on these myths to reap billions of dollars of profit. This sensational investigation explodes such fallacies and reveals how multimillion-dollar advertising campaigns create the impression of rarity and romance. It reveals a very secret and unromantic world, one that is dominated and controlled by a handful of mighty corporations. With Leonardo DiCaprio’s movie The Blood Diamond making more people than ever aware of the seamy side of the diamond trade, Janine Roberts’ explosive exposé, taking us through seven decades of intrigue and manipulation, is the right book at the right time.
Download or read book Glitter Is My Diamond written by A. Z. Designs and published by . This book was released on 2019-08-02 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Do you seek a glittery vibes?When you see glitter, does it make you smile?Do you like to sprinkle it on a project?Do you sprinkle edible glitter on food?Do you sprinkle it on almost everything?Well you might be a glitter connoisseur, because you know adding glitter makes everything better.Why use an ordinary notebook, when you can use this 6x9 100 pages glitter background notebook in various ways. You can use it to record purchases, plan projects, and write notes or ideas. Product Description:6x9100 Lined PagesBlack and White InteriorGlossy CoverSuggestions On How To Use This Notebook:Glitter Connoisseur GiftAntiques and Collectibles BuyerCraft and Hobbies IdeasArtist PresentFashionista Fashion RecorderGlam Beauty Book GiftInspirational Journal
Download or read book The Diamond written by Julie Baumgold and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2005-11-01 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Diamond is a brilliant, dazzling historical novel about a famous diamond—one of the biggest in the world—that passed from the hands of William Pitt’s grandfather to the French kings and Napoleon, linking many of the most famous personalities of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, and serving as the centerpiece for a novel in every way as fascinating as Susan Sontag's The Volcano Lover or Umberto Eco's The Name of the Rose. Rich with historical detail, characters, and nonstop drama, the story centers on the famous Regent diamond—once the largest and most beautiful diamond in the world—which was discovered in India in the late seventeenth century and bought by the governor of the East India Company, a cunning nabob, trader, and ex-pirate named Thomas Pitt. His son brought it to London, where a Jewish diamond-cutter of genius took two years to fashion it into one of the world's greatest gems. A glittering cast of characters parades through The Diamond: a mesmerizing Napoleon and the devoted Las Cases, stuck on Saint Helena with their memories; Louis XIV and his brother, the dissolute Monsieur; Madame, the German princess who married Monsieur; the Scottish financier John Law and Saint-Simon, who sold Pitt's diamond to Madame's depraved son; the depressed Louis XV; and Madame de Pompadour. Here too are the families, the Pitts in England and the Bonapartes in France; the men of Saint Helena; nobles and thieves; Indian diamond merchants and financiers—nearly everyone of interest and importance from the late seventeenth through the early nineteenth century. Written with enormous verve and ambition, The Diamond is a treat, a plum pudding of a novel filled with one delicious, funny, disgraceful episode after another. It is grand history and even grander fiction—a towering work of imagination, research, and narrative skill.
Download or read book Glitter in the Blood written by Mindy Nettifee and published by SCB Distributors. This book was released on 2013-07-06 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The definitive guidebook and rebel yell for poets seeking radical growth. You want to write great poems: poems that challenge, inspire and awe; poems that forever alter your audience and yourself. Those poems take imagination, skill and some serious guts. This is not an easy step-by-step up a how-to staircase. This collection of essays, prompts and exercises is the safecracker�s toolbox you need to tap in to your creative source, find what�s sparkling in the dark, and get its life-blood and electricity flowing into your writing.
Download or read book Oh My Godmother The Glitter Trap written by Barbara Brauner and published by Little, Brown Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2013-05-28 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Middle school is far from a fairytale for adorkable misfit Lacey Unger-Ware. When Lacey ends up with popular girl Paige Harrington's smart-mouthed fairy godmother, Katarina, trapped in her hair, life gets more magical—just not in a 'prince charming' kind of way. Katarina's wings are too damaged to continue her fairy duties, and Lacey must take over as Paige's fairy godmother. Distracted by her new responsibilities, Lacey's in danger of losing her best friend, Sunny. Can Lacey get the hang of magic, make Paige's dreams come true, and survive middle school? Barbara Brauner and James Iver Mattson's debut novel is full of heart and charm. Get ready for the Oh My Godmother series to cast a spell on tween girls!
Download or read book The Sparkle Factory written by Tarina Tarantino and published by Running Press Adult. This book was released on 2013-07-09 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tarina Tarantino's love affair with fashion jewelry and accessories began when she was just a little girl. Tarina now owns and operates her famous global jewelry, accessories, and cosmetics brand, TARINA TARANTINO, out of her international headquarters in downtown Los Angeles, The Sparkle Factory. In her first book, Tarina invites you into her world to learn how to make and wear beautiful and inspirational fashion jewelry. Fashionistas, aspiring jewelry designers, and DIY lovers will learn how to make 20 of Tarina's most essential pieces including statement earrings, cocktail rings, hair jewelry, stretch cuff bracelets, embellished spectacles, and more. Fans of Tarina will also learn about her brand history, getting inspired, creating themes and stories, sourcing materials, essential tools and techniques, how to wear and style your jewelry wardrobe, and more. The text is complemented by tips and hundreds of full-color photos throughout.
Download or read book The Glitter Box written by Pat Tito and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2000-09-13 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Her lifelong friend lying in a coffin, Annie O’Neil snatches Cissy Raven’s topaz brooch before the lid is shut. Julia Devlin, another friend, is shocked at Annie’s action. Later, Annie recalls the dream they had in their teens when they planned to become cat burglars. Hesitant at first, Julia finally joins forces in the planned ventures after a hellish ten days of babysitting.Velvel Chavivi is cursed by a personal devil. Disaster has followed him from his earliest years when he accidentally shattered a ten carat diamond he was about to cleave. He follows the women home after their first successful major theft and gains their sympathy after an accident. Both women are drawn to the pitiful man with no friends.The second heist involves Sukie Mae Fremont’s rubies in Dallas, then Claudia Fanchon’s sapphires in New Orleans. They insist on emeralds for their collection and snatch Sam Cunigdorio’s emeralds in New York but Sam is a high ranking Mafia figure. The women learn the hard way that their luck can only last so long.
Download or read book The New Monthly Magazine and Humorist written by and published by . This book was released on 1837 with total page 604 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Heat of Passion written by Harold Robbins and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2004-09-01 with total page 447 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Win Liberte has it all. He prides himself on never having worked a day in his life. He has everything he wants - fast cars, beautiful women, a racing yacht, a penthouse in Manhattan. Orphaned at eleven, Win inherited an international diamond business that is managed by his uncle. Then Win loses it all when his uncle commits suicide after investing all of Win's money in a scheme that fails. His single remaining asset is a bankrupt diamond mine in Angola, a steaming, war-ravaged country in equatorial Africa. In the blood and muck of central Africa, Win experiences the "Diamond Curse" first hand. Battles over Angola's vast wealth in gems occur daily, and fights for control of the diamond industry have wiped out generations. Thriving on the challenge, Win founds an international diamond business that challenges a powerful cartel's stranglehold on the market. Loved by two women - a movie goddess who sears men's souls and a dedicated UN worker who risks her life in Africa - Win doesn't find anything worth living for until he loses love. From the tunnels of the diamond mine to the stage at the Academy Awards, from the beds of beautiful women to a battle with warlords, Win has to fight to get back everything he ever wanted. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Download or read book A Farm Philosopher written by Ada Harriet Kepley and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Duty Desire written by Penny Jordan and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2012-12-01 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Royal House of Niroli—always passionate, always proud! THE FUTURE KING'S PREGNANT MISTRESS Emily Woodford loves Marco Fierezza, but has no idea he's a royal prince! When she discovers the truth, she's devastated to realize that Marco sees her only as his mistress—not marriage material for a future king. But what will this king-in-waiting do when he discovers his mistress is pregnant? A ROYAL BRIDE AT THE SHEIKH'S COMMAND As ruler of an eastern kingdom, Sheikh Kadir lives a life full of every imaginable luxury, with his every word obeyed. But, born after a torrid love affair, he is also heir to the Niroli throne. Now Kadir must leave his desert people and seek welcome from his new subjects…and find himself a queen!
Download or read book Gender Sexuality and Material Objects in English Renaissance Verse written by Pamela S. Hammons and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2010 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "...an exceptionally strong study of seventeenth-century British poetry and its important---even crucial---relationship to a still larger, richer discourse of subjects and objects, gifts and debts, owners and renters, sovereigns and petitioners, which informed the early modern worlds of economies and politics, organized an emerging print culture, and shaped many ideas about sexuality and gender."---Elizabeth Mazzola, The City College of New York, author of Women's Wealth and Women's Writing in Early Modern England An important contribution to recent critical discussions about gender, sexuality, and material culture in Renaissance England. this study analyzes female and male-authored lyrics to illuminate how gender and sexuality inflected sixteenth- and seventeenth-century poets' conceptualization of relations among people and things, human and non-human subjects and objects. Pamela S. Hammons examines lyrics from both manuscript and print collections including the verse of authors ranging from Robert Herrick, John Donne, and Ben Jonson to Margaret Cavendish, Lucy Hutchinson, and Acmilia Lanyer---and situates them in relation to legal theories, autobiographies, biographies, plays, and epics. Her approach fills a crucial gap in the conversation, which has focused upon drama and male-authored works, by foregrounding the significance of the lyric and women's writing. Hammons exposes the poetic strategies sixteenth- and seventeenth-century English women used to assert themselves as subjects of property and economic agents---in relation to material items ranging from personal property to real estate---despite the dominant patriarchal ideology insisting they were ideally temporary, passive vehicles for men's wealth. The study details how women imagined their multiple, complex interactions with the material world: the author shows that how a woman poet represents herself in relation to material objects is a flexible fiction she can mobilize for diverse purposes. Because this book analyzes men's and women's poems together, it isolates important gendered differences in how the poets envision human subjects' use, control, possession, and ownership of things and the influences, effects, and power of things over humans. It also adds to the increasing evidence for the pervasiveness of patriarchal anxieties associated with female economic agency in a culture in which women were often treated as objects. The eighteenth-century practitioners of anatomy saw their own period as `the perfection of anatomy'. This book looks at the investigation of anatomy in the `long' eighteenth century in disciplinary terms. This means looking in a novel way not only at the practical aspects of anatomizing but also at questions of how one became an anatomist, where and how the discipline was practised, what the point was of its practice, what counted as sub-disciplines of anatomy, and the nature of arguments over anatomical facts and priority of discovery. In particular pathology, generation and birth, and comparative anatomy are shown to have been linked together as sub-disciplines of anatomy. At first sight anatomy seems the most long-lived and stable of medical disciplines, from Galen and Vesalius to the present. But Cunningham argues that anatomy was, like so many other areas of knowledge, changed irrevocably around the end of the eighteenth century, with the creation of new disciplines, new forms of knowledge and new ways of investigation. The `long' eighteenth century, therefore, was not only the highpoint of anatomy but also the endpoint of old anatomy.
Download or read book Soul Feathers written by Carol Ann Duffy and published by Indigo Dreams Publishing. This book was released on 2011 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Glitter written by Adams Media and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2018-11-20 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Indulge your shiny side and embrace your glitter obsession with this collection of all things sparkly—featuring history, trivia, quotes, and tips on how to use glitter safely and responsibly to decorate your clothes, your home, and your body! Once confined to the craft aisle and the hands of children between the ages of three and nine, glitter has migrated to adults of all ages and incomes—who enthusiastically decorate their hair, faces, and bodies with it, bathe in it, and, of course, craft with it. But glitter is more than something you use or look at, it’s a lifestyle—a state of mind for people who want to sparkle and shine inside and out. Glitter! is the perfect gift for those who are dedicated to adding sparkle to every aspect of their lives. Filled with tons of fun ideas for glittery craft projects—including glitter lip balm and eye shadow, glitter shoes, glitter bath bombs, glitter slime, glitter drinking glasses, and more!—as well as everything else you’ve ever wanted to know about glitter. Glitter! also includes four pull-out glitter-quote cards to frame and hang!
Download or read book Finger My Brain written by Alexis J. Johnson and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2011-03-03 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Brilliant Effects written by Marcia R. Pointon and published by Paul Mellon Centre. This book was released on 2009 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pointon examines how small-scale and valuable artefacts have figured in systems of belief and in political and social practice in Europe since the Renaissance.
