The dark history of a precious gemstone, this book looks back to the historic ravages that jadeite created in the wake of its discovery. Found in only one earthly spot--Burma--this gem has held the rapacious appetites of people such as Kublai Khan. Today, jadeite is mined in horrific conditions, with heroin as the main commodity and AIDS rampant ...
This revelatory and startling book solves a 60-year mystery about the eighth wonder of the world--an ambitious and valuable work of art that was stolen by the Nazis from the palace in St. Petersburg, Russia in 1942.
The startling story of America's role, over three decades and five administrations, in aiding and abetting a new age of nuclear terror. In a masterful investigation, Adrian Levy and Catherine Scott-Clark reveal the disastrous ideological shortsightedness that has informed American policy toward Pakistan over the last thirty years, and how decades ...
One of mankind's greatest treasures, the Amber Room stood as a symbol of Russian glory for over 200 years. But after the Nazi invasion, it was never seen again. Now, in a masterpiece of detection, two investigative journalists reveal what happened to the most valuable lost treasure in the world--and why the truth has been withheld for so long. ...
Diamonds, sapphires and rubies are commonly thought to be the world's most valuable gemstones but there is another that is even more precious. It is Imperial Green Jade, or jadeite. The stone's prestige derives from its intense beauty and extraordinary scarcity. Almost all of the world's jadeite comes from one place: a valley in the shadow of the ...
In March of 1980, just a month before Sartre's death, "Le Nouvel Observateur" published a series of interviews between the blind and debilitated philosopher and his young assistant, Benny Levy. Readers were scandalized and denounced the interviews as distorted, inauthentic and even fraudulent. They seemed to portray a Sartre who had abandoned his ...
"Deception" reveals how Pakistan built a nuclear arsenal with US aid money and sold the technology to countries hostile to the West, while giving shelter to the resurgent Taliban and al-Qaeda. It also reveals the much larger deception: how every American administration from Jimmy Carter to George W. Bush has actively condoned Pakistan's nuclear ...
The history of art has produced few works as ambitious and as valuable as the Amber Room. Famous throughout Europe as the 'eighth wonder of the world', its vast and intricately worked amber panels were sent in 1717 by Frederick I of Prussia as a gift to Peter the Great of Russia, and soon became a symbol of Russia's imperial might. For over two ...
"Deception" exposes the terrifying truth about the proliferation of nuclear weapons amongst the rogue states and terrorist organizations which now threaten to destabilize the entire world. This book is essential reading for fans of Seymour Hersh, Richard Preston, Mark Bowden, and Jason Burke. On 15 December 1975, A. Q. Khan - a young Pakistani ...
This volume provides an overview of issues related to comedy in the Middle Ages. In particular, it explores unusual, unexpected or unacknowledged elements of humour in medieval literature and art. This collection of 20 essays by internationally renowned scholars celebrates the work of Brian J. Levy in the realm of humour in the Middle Ages. ...
La historia del arte ha producido pocas obras tan ambiciosas y valiosas como la Camara de Cmbar, conocida en toda Europa como "la octava maravilla del mundo." Sus enormes paneles profusamente ornamentados fueron enviados por Federico I de Prusia como regalo a Pedro el Grande de Rusia en 1717, y no tardaron en convertirse en el simbolo del ...
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