Diamonds Can be Dangerous
Author | : Bob O'Keefe |
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Total Pages | : 190 |
Release | : 195? |
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Author | : Bob O'Keefe |
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Total Pages | : 190 |
Release | : 195? |
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Author | : Madeline Hunter |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 263 |
Release | : 2011-04-26 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1101513934 |
When the outrageously wealthy Duke of Castleford is bequeathed a small piece of property that houses a modest flower shop, he encounters its owner, the mysterious Daphne Joyes-a budding rose who quickly becomes the object of his seduction.
Author | : Elizabeth Levy |
Publisher | : Macmillan |
Total Pages | : 159 |
Release | : 2010-10-12 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 1596434627 |
Two beloved children's book creators join forces for an exciting new mystery series. Illustrations.
Author | : Merline Lovelace |
Publisher | : Harlequin Treasury-Silhouette Intim |
Total Pages | : 260 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780373274819 |
Jordan Colby, ex-model turned super secret agent, got her heart broken when she fell in love with a dirty cop, T.J. Scott. Now he's back on her personal radar and all the feelings she had for him are just as intense as ever. The bad thing is she's on a mission for Omega that can't wait and no one else has the credential to walk in as easily as she did.
Author | : J. H. Du Plessis |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 213 |
Release | : 1960 |
Genre | : Diamond industry and trade |
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Author | : Marie Jacks |
Publisher | : Apple |
Total Pages | : 88 |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : Clue (Game) |
ISBN | : 9780590623773 |
Despite the fact that his friends keep using all sorts of weapons to do away with him, Mr. Boddy invites everyone back to his mansion for another round.
Author | : Peter Carstens |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 110 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : True Crime |
ISBN | : 9781425741273 |
Diamonds have become one of the world's most valuable natural commodities. As gems, no other geological creation can compete with this versatile mineral. But diamonds also create individual and social problems when they are removed from their natural resting places. Some people say that diamonds are moody and disruptive, blaming them for all kinds of misfortune. Others speak of the luck diamonds bring them in their lives. The core of the book lies in the eighteen stories about IDB (Illicit Diamond Buying). These are presented as vignettes of varied lengths, introducing the reader to a variety of "cops and robbers" techniques used. Most of these IDB thefts take place in the DeBeers alluvial diamond mining areas and towns which remain fenced off from the outside world.
Author | : Jared Diamond |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 727 |
Release | : 2012-12-31 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1101606002 |
The bestselling author of Collapse and Guns, Germs and Steel surveys the history of human societies to answer the question: What can we learn from traditional societies that can make the world a better place for all of us? “As he did in his Pulitzer Prize-winning Guns, Germs, and Steel, Jared Diamond continues to make us think with his mesmerizing and absorbing new book." Bookpage Most of us take for granted the features of our modern society, from air travel and telecommunications to literacy and obesity. Yet for nearly all of its six million years of existence, human society had none of these things. While the gulf that divides us from our primitive ancestors may seem unbridgeably wide, we can glimpse much of our former lifestyle in those largely traditional societies still or recently in existence. Societies like those of the New Guinea Highlanders remind us that it was only yesterday—in evolutionary time—when everything changed and that we moderns still possess bodies and social practices often better adapted to traditional than to modern conditions.The World Until Yesterday provides a mesmerizing firsthand picture of the human past as it had been for millions of years—a past that has mostly vanished—and considers what the differences between that past and our present mean for our lives today. This is Jared Diamond’s most personal book to date, as he draws extensively from his decades of field work in the Pacific islands, as well as evidence from Inuit, Amazonian Indians, Kalahari San people, and others. Diamond doesn’t romanticize traditional societies—after all, we are shocked by some of their practices—but he finds that their solutions to universal human problems such as child rearing, elder care, dispute resolution, risk, and physical fitness have much to teach us. Provocative, enlightening, and entertaining, The World Until Yesterday is an essential and fascinating read.
Author | : Jared Diamond |
Publisher | : Penguin UK |
Total Pages | : 608 |
Release | : 2013-03-21 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0141976969 |
From the author of Guns, Germs and Steel, Jared Diamond's Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Survive is a visionary study of the mysterious downfall of past civilizations. Now in a revised edition with a new afterword, Jared Diamond's Collapse uncovers the secret behind why some societies flourish, while others founder - and what this means for our future. What happened to the people who made the forlorn long-abandoned statues of Easter Island? What happened to the architects of the crumbling Maya pyramids? Will we go the same way, our skyscrapers one day standing derelict and overgrown like the temples at Angkor Wat? Bringing together new evidence from a startling range of sources and piecing together the myriad influences, from climate to culture, that make societies self-destruct, Jared Diamond's Collapse also shows how - unlike our ancestors - we can benefit from our knowledge of the past and learn to be survivors. 'A grand sweep from a master storyteller of the human race' - Daily Mail 'Riveting, superb, terrifying' - Observer 'Gripping ... the book fulfils its huge ambition, and Diamond is the only man who could have written it' - Economis 'This book shines like all Diamond's work' - Sunday Times
Author | : Elizabeth Levy |
Publisher | : Roaring Brook Press |
Total Pages | : 93 |
Release | : 2015-12-08 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 1626726434 |
Phillipa has always loved Agatha Christie mysteries, but it's not until the new captain's son and some interesting guests come aboard the cruise ship where she lives (and her parents work), that she finally gets a chance to do some sleuthing of her own.