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Author: Dirk Rendel
Publisher: CreateSpace
Published: 2013-03-29
Total Pages: 146
ISBN-13: 9781482585728
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book will take the guesswork out of shopping for diamonds and explain the ins and outs of finding the right diamonds at the right price.
Author: David De Vries
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Published: 2010-04-01
Total Pages: 368
ISBN-13: 1845458001
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The mining of diamonds, their trading mechanisms, their financial institutions, and, not least, their cultural expressions as luxury items have engaged the work of historians, economists, social scientists, and international relations experts. Based on previously unexamined historical documents found in archives in Belgium, England, Israel, the Netherlands, and the United States, this book is the first in English to tell the story of the formation of one of the world’s main strongholds of diamond production and trade in Palestine during the 1930s and 1940s. The history of the diamond-cutting industry, characterized by a long-standing Jewish presence, is discussed as a social history embedded in the international political economy of its times; the genesis of the industry in Palestine is placed on a broad continuum within the geographic and economic dislocations of Dutch, Belgian, and German diamond-cutting centers. In providing a micro-historical and interdisciplinary perspective, the story of the diamond industry in Mandate Palestine proposes a more nuanced picture of the uncritical approach to the strict boundaries of ethnic-based occupational communities. This book unravels the Middle-eastern pattern of state intervention in the empowerment of private capital and recasts this craft culture’s inseparability from international politics during a period of war and transformation of empire.
Author: Sidney Dyer
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Published: 2023-10-01
Total Pages: 337
ISBN-13: 3368199013
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Reprint of the original, first published in 1873.
Author: Shirley Hailstock
Publisher: Kensington Books
Published: 2001-06-01
Total Pages: 418
ISBN-13: 9781583143148
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →White Diamonds by Shirley Hailstock released on May 25, 2001 is available now for purchase.
Author: Edward A. Pollard
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Published: 2022-10-24
Total Pages: 126
ISBN-13: 3375124740
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Reprint of the original, first published in 1859.
Author: A. L. Provost
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Published: 2013-09-06
Total Pages: 263
ISBN-13: 1483690539
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Everyone has heard the old adage twos a couple, threes a crowd. But four greedy German soldiers in 1942, all after the same elusive fortune in diamonds? Honor among thieves? Who mentioned anything about honor? Would there even be a last man standing after the smoke cleared and the international intrigue ended? And just why did these murderers flee all the way from Germany to Lenoir County, North Carolina? Just another baffling mystery waiting to be sorted out by longtime Lenoir County District Attorney Newt Wildman and his intrepid investigators. Welcome to another gripping Coastal Plains Mystery, the tenth in the series.
Author: EDWARD D. SMITH
Publisher: Trafford Publishing
Published: 2011-11-15
Total Pages: 157
ISBN-13: 1466902744
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Valley of Diamonds is a mystery/adventure story. In June 1940, a mine manager, Rory Adams, buriedsome diamonds in Guinea, West Africa. Then he was murdered. They turn up forty years later in an urn of human ashes from a crematorium in England. How did they get there and where had they been hidden?
Author: R. O. Palmer
Publisher: R.O. Palmer
Published: 2006-10
Total Pages: 281
ISBN-13: 1589399447
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Queen of Diamonds is the story of Ngoc Soan, a flamboyant Vietnamese gambler and businesswoman who has overcome gender barriers, racial discrimination and war wounds to build a thriving Philadelphia diamond company. When she discovers that wealth alone doesn't bring happiness, she pursues her dream - lowering diamond prices for the masses. With the De Beers diamond cartel in control of the world supply, Ngoc defies the cartel in her quest for a revolutionary mining discovery - a discovery that De Beers will do anything to suppress. A sinister Russian, a brilliant geologist, a rival tycoon and Ngoc's ambitious niece complicate Ngoc's risky bid to bypass the cartel. Enter Paul Weeks, master of surveillance and disguise, who sells Ngoc the secret mining specifications. In the process, he uncovers Ngoc's own painful secret, opening new possibilities for the Queen of Diamonds."
Author: Jim Reeves
Publisher: The Great Texas Line (Consignment)
Published: 2022-06-29
Total Pages: 200
ISBN-13: 1892588706
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This deep dive on the Texas Rangers by Jim Reeves, an award-winning, ex-sports columnist for the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, captures all the drama, humor, craziness and pathos. And tells how this journalist got his riveting stories. ''Few writers know baseball and people like Reeves, who has produced an intimate and entertaining recollection far removed from other grinding sports franchise histories. The Texas Rangers he portrays are humorous, heroic, and, quite often, heartbreakers. It's all here, from front office wheeling and dealing to zany clubhouse and press box moments; serious superstars to whimsical wannabes. In a word: Delightful.'' --Carlton Stowers, three-time Edgar Award winner and author of Oh Brother How They Played the Game'
Author: Robert J. Hoaglund
Publisher: iUniverse
Published: 2002-03
Total Pages: 290
ISBN-13: 0595213502
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Millions in high quality diamonds taken from Europe’s finest collections by the Nazis and stashed at the Helgsberg Villa near Berlin were confiscated by OSS operatives days before the end of WW II. Turned into OSS assets then transferred to the newly formed CIA, they were given to trusted operatives to retain secretly to finance highly sensitive intelligence operations and avoid Congressional knowledge and interference. Fifty years later, some of these diamonds began to turn up at private auctions. Asked by his FBI partner to check it out, Senior Agent Matt Clark began investigating an undocumented fifteen carat yellow marquise which had to have been cut from a famous diamond confiscated by the Nazis from a Paris museum in '42. Closing in on the truth, suddenly a sniper ambushes Matt in a New York alley. The assault wounds him and ends his field career with the FBI. When he recovers, to stay in the field he accepts a position as Chief Investigator for the Ventura County DA’s office in Southern California. Joined by former lover and frequent partner Lt. Becky Di Nardo, they race against time to find out what is going on and who is behind this effort...before the next attempt on his life...which might succeed.
