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Precious The History and Mystery of Gems Across Time


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English | September 17, 2024 | ISBN: 0593500881 | 272 pages | PDF | 17 Mb
A renowned jewelry expert recounts her career working with nature’s most extraordinary treasures-gemstones-and traces these rare jewels from ancient Egyptian records through the high-stakes auctions of today.

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All My Precious Madness


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English | 26 Sept. 2024 | ISBN: 1913111563 | True EPUB | 276 pages | 0.7 MB
Henry Nash has hauled his way from a working class childhood in Bradford, through an undergraduate degree at Oxford, and into adulthood and an academic elite. But still, he can’t escape his anger. As the world – and men in particular – continue to disappoint him, so does his rage grow in momentum until it becomes almost rapturous. And lethal.

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Precious The History and Mystery of Gems Across Time


Free Download Precious: The History and Mystery of Gems Across Time by Helen Molesworth
English | September 17th, 2024 | ISBN: 0593500881 | 272 pages | True EPUB | 15.35 MB
A renowned jewelry expert recounts her career working with nature’s most extraordinary treasures-gemstones-and traces these rare jewels from ancient Egyptian records through the high-stakes auctions of today.

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Precious Precarity A Spirituality of Borders


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English | ISBN: 1506489575 | 2024 | 254 pages | PDF | 36 MB
Borders are places of collision. People and politics, compassion and cruelty, law and lawlessness, hope and despair, idealism and ideology, life and death-all collide at the border. But these collisions have human faces. North and south, rich and poor, nuns and nones, desperation and courage-a spirit draws all these poles together and a spirituality animates their encounter.

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The Precious Treasury of Pith Instructions (Man-ngak Dzöd)


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2006 | 282 Pages | ISBN: 188184742X | PDF | 6 MB
Man-ngak Dzöd or The Precious Treasury of Pith Instructions is the shortest of the seven texts and the only one composed entirely in verse. Writing as a spiritual mentor giving advice to his students, Longchenpa distills the principles underlying the entire range of Buddhist practice in more than 400 stanzas, each consisting of six instructions or pieces of advice. Although the later stanzas place greater emphasis on the Dzogchen approach, introductory teachings and advice are interspersed throughout the book with profound instructions on the nature of being itself and the ultimate level of truth. Longchenpa’s uncompromising tone reflects his commitment to the highest realization and to the welfare of those inspired by his message.

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All That Glittered Britain’s Most Precious Metal from Adam Smith to the Gold Rush


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English | September 17, 2019 | ISBN: 0190603518 | 276 pages | PDF | 8.90 Mb
During the century after 1750, Great Britain absorbed much of the world’s supply of gold into its pockets, cupboards, and coffers when it became the only major country to adopt the gold standard as the sole basis of its currency. Over the same period, the nation’s emergence was marked by a powerful combination of Protestantism, commerce, and military might, alongside preservation of its older social hierarchy.

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