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Item Information       Summary     More Content     More by this author     Bergstein, Rachelle, author.     Subjects     Diamonds -- Social aspects.     Diamonds -- History.     Diamond industry and trade -- History.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Bergstein, Rachelle, author.       by title:      Brilliance and fire ...         MARC Display

Brilliance and fire [electronic resource] : a biography of diamonds / Rachelle Bergstein. by Bergstein, Rachelle, author. New York, NY : Harper, c2016. Subjects Diamonds -- Social aspects.   Diamonds -- History.   Diamond industry and trade -- History. Electronic Resource http://hawaii.lib.overdrive.com/ContentDetails.htm?ID=F3E01A3A-3CDC-4F15-AA48-0EB92D579E20 This title is available online; click here to access Electronic Resource http://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=f3e01a3a-3cdc-4f15-aa48-0eb92d579e20&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Electronic Resource http://images.contentreserve.com/ImageType-100/0293-1/{F3E01A3A-3CDC-4F15-AA48-0EB92D579E20}Img100.jpg ISBN:  9780062323798 (electronic bk.) 0062323792 (electronic bk.) 0062323776 9780062323774 Description:  1 online resource (375 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations (chiefly color). Edition:  First edition. Contents:  The buyers: how the American rich came to love diamonds -- The seekers: how one sickly Englishman took over the diamond industry -- The lovers: how young women came to expect diamond rings, part I -- The show-offs: how a single stone bewitched its owners, and captivated America -- The optimists: how the industry survived two World Wars and the Great Depression -- The sellers: how young women came to expect diamond rings, part II -- The queens: how Wallis Simpson earned her diamonds -- The stars: how an advertising agency got diamonds ready for their close-up -- The winners: how Elizabeth Taylor learned to speak Italian -- The meddlers: how little stones got big -- The inventors: how to make a diamond (and provoke De Beers) -- The illusionists: how the magicians protected their tricks -- The masters: how the Australians democratized diamonds -- The stunners: how tough guys started wearing diamonds -- The critics: how a global crisis changed the meaning of 'forever' -- The innovators: how to sell diamonds in a (more) enlightened world. Requests:  0 Summary:  "Sheds new light on the enticing, often surprising, story of our society?s enduring obsession with the hardest gemstone, offering a fascinating history of its origins and revealing its greatest champions and most colorful enthusiasts. 25,000 first printing,"--NoveList.   Copy/Holding information No Item Information

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