(Read now) Stoned: Jewelry, Obsession, and How Desire Shapes the World
❀ Aja Raden ❀
| #318021 in Books | Aja Raden | 2016-11-29 | 2016-11-29 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 8.00 x.84 x5.31l,.0 | File Name: 0062334700 | 368 pages | Stoned Jewelry Obsession and How Desire Shapes the World
||33 of 34 people found the following review helpful.| Gems that changed the world.|By YDM|I picked up Aja Raden's Stoned expecting a history of jewelry and was pleasantly surprised to find an in-depth social history of how human perceptions of value, desire and innovation have shaped the modern world. She starts with the beads that bought Manhattan (and in doing so makes a compelling case that it might not have been quite the c|.com ||An Best Book of December 2015: Most of us have probably heard the expression “diamonds are a girl’s best friend” — but have we ever asked ourselves why? Yes, they are sparkly and beautiful, but so is cubic zirco
As entertaining as it is incisive, Stoned is a raucous journey through the history of human desire for what is rare, and therefore precious.
What makes a stone a jewel? What makes a jewel priceless? And why do we covet beautiful things? In this brilliant account of how eight jewels shaped the course of history, jeweler and scientist Aja Raden tells an original and often startling story about our unshakeable addiction to beauty and the darker side of hu...
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