Dictionary of Gems and Gemology
Dictionary of Gems and Gemology

Author: Robert M. Shipley

Publisher: Read Books Ltd

Published: 2011-03-23

Total Pages: 271

ISBN-13: 1446547019

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Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

No Stone Unturned
No Stone Unturned

Author: Richa Goyal Sikri

Publisher: Austin Macauley Publishers

Published: 2024-05-24

Total Pages: 414

ISBN-13: 1035867850

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Precious stones, high-value trades, death threats, bandits, hidden treasure and mineral splendour: eminent journalist and storyteller Richa Goyal Sikri takes us on a rollercoaster ride across the length and breadth of Africa with 24 short adventure stories based on true events spanning the last 60 years and starring some of the most extraordinary personalities ever to walk the face of our planet.

Dispositio: Problematic Ordering in French Renaissance Literature
Dispositio: Problematic Ordering in French Renaissance Literature

Author: Paul J. Smith

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2007-12-31

Total Pages: 260

ISBN-13: 9047431782

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Drawing on the classical concept of rhetorical dispositio, this study gives new interpretations of a number of literary texts of the French Renaissance, some of them well-known (by Rabelais, Du Bellay and Montaigne), others less-known (the Pierres précieuses by Remy Belleau and the anonymous collections of emblematic fables). All these texts are organized according to an often problematic and disruptive dispositio that dissociates itself from the prescribed and preexisting models. This study not only seeks to approach the problem of literary ordering from a historical and theoretical perspective, it also intends to frame this topic in a more general context: grotesque bodiliness in Rabelais’s novels; historiography, gender and travelogue in Montaigne’s Essays; imitation and intermediality in the case of the poets and the fabulists.