Gems from the East and West
Author: Janet Zapata
Publisher:
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 120
ISBN-13: 9780972558815
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Gems in the Early Modern World
Author: Michael Bycroft
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2018-11-27
Total Pages: 369
ISBN-13: 3319963791
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis edited collection is an interdisciplinary study of gems in the early modern world. It examines the relations between the art, science, and technology of gems, and it does so against the backdrop of an expanding global trade in gems. The eleven chapters are organised into three parts. The first part sets the scene by describing how gems moved around the early modern world, how they were set in motion, and how they were pulled together in the course of their travels. The second part is about value. It asks why people valued gems, how they determined the value of a given gem, and how the value of a gem was connected to its perceived place of origin. The third part deals with the skills involved in cutting, polishing, and mounting gems, and how these skills were transmitted and articulated by artisans. The common themes of all these chapters are materials, knowledge and global trade. The contributors to this volume focus on the material properties of gems such as their weight and hardness, on the knowledge involved in exchanging them and valuing them, and on the cultural consequences of the expanding trade in gems in Eurasia and the Americas.
Engraved Gems
Author: Ben van den Bercken
Publisher:
Published: 2017
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9789088905063
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book discuss different types of engraved gems in the collection of the Rijksmuseum van Oudheden Leiden, their makers, users and re-users, combining archaeological, culture historical and geological perspectives.
Gems and Precious Stones in 1913
Author: Douglass Bovard Sterrett
Publisher:
Published: 1914
Total Pages: 72
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Healing Power of Gemstones
Author: Harish Johari
Publisher: Inner Traditions / Bear & Co
Published: 1996-09
Total Pages: 244
ISBN-13: 9780892816088
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe author describes how to use the power of gemstones, using ancient Hindu disciplines, to heal and increase a sense of well-being.
Mineral Resources of the United States
Author: United States. Bureau of Mines
Publisher:
Published: 1913
Total Pages: 1250
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKGuns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
Author: Jared Diamond
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 1999-04-17
Total Pages: 532
ISBN-13: 0393069222
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Fascinating.... Lays a foundation for understanding human history."—Bill Gates In this "artful, informative, and delightful" (William H. McNeill, New York Review of Books) book, Jared Diamond convincingly argues that geographical and environmental factors shaped the modern world. Societies that had had a head start in food production advanced beyond the hunter-gatherer stage, and then developed religion --as well as nasty germs and potent weapons of war --and adventured on sea and land to conquer and decimate preliterate cultures. A major advance in our understanding of human societies, Guns, Germs, and Steel chronicles the way that the modern world came to be and stunningly dismantles racially based theories of human history. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, the Phi Beta Kappa Award in Science, the Rhone-Poulenc Prize, and the Commonwealth club of California's Gold Medal.
'Gems of Heaven'
Author: Christopher Entwistle
Publisher: British Museum Press
Published: 2011
Total Pages: 286
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume collects together many diverse papers, interdisciplinary in nature, addressing issues such as typology and sourcing of gemstones.
A Mountain of Gems - Fairy-Tales of the Peoples of the Soviet Land - Illustrated by V. Minayev
Author: Irina Zheleznova
Publisher: Read Books Ltd
Published: 2013-04-16
Total Pages: 320
ISBN-13: 1473391881
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOpen the book, and you will find yourselves in a world of magic. None of your old friends will be there -neither Jack the Giant Killer, nor Little Red Riding Hood, nor Cinderella or any of the others. Instead, together with Ivan the Peasant’s Son you will cross swords with Chudo-Yudo, the fire-breathing monster; follow Pokati-Goroshek the Rolling Pea into the underground kingdom and return from there on the back of an eagle; marvel at the cleverness of Zarniyar who outwitted the sly and cruel Shah; be filled with admiration at Boroldoi-Mergen, the brave hunter of the Altai Mountains who risked the life of his own son in order to save his people; delight in the resourcefulness of a simple weaver who surpassed in wisdom the wisest councillors of the tsar. A Mountain of Gems – Fairy-Tales of the Peoples of the Soviet Land – Illustrated by Vladimir Minayev is a collection of many fairy tales rendered into English from Russia, The Ukraine, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia and Chukchi. The Soviet Union was a huge country, the largest in the world. Its neighbors were Alaska in the East and Scandinavia in the West. In the south it stretched as far as the Caucasus and Pamir mountain ranges, and in the North reached out into the Arctic Ocean. And each of the peoples of the former Soviet Union has its own fairytales. Pook Press celebrates the great 'Golden Age of Illustration' in children's classics and fairy tales - a period of unparalleled excellence in book illustration. We publish rare and vintage Golden Age illustrated books, in high-quality colour editions, so that the masterful artwork and story-telling can continue to delight both young and old.
