Matthew Hart plonge dans les mondes captivants des métaux et des pierres précieuses, écrivant pour de prestigieuses publications du monde entier. Son écriture explore méticuleusement l'histoire et les obsessions humaines que ces matériaux suscitent. Le travail de Hart éclaire les aspects plus sombres de la quête du luxe et de la richesse, révélant l'attrait souvent séduisant mais dangereux des richesses.
Extraterritorial spaces fall outside of national borders but enhance state power. Matthew Hart reveals extraterritoriality's centrality to twenty-first- century art and fiction and presents a new theory of literature that explains what happens when dreams of an open, connected world confront the reality of mobile, elastic, and tenacious borders.
The history of man's love affair with a completely useless gem. schovat popis
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Scotland Yard and some seasoned art detectives must contrive the perfect sting to recover stolen art by Vermeer, Goya, Rembrandt, Rubens.
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In this explosive sequel to The Russian Pink, Alex and Lily are thrust into a murderous cat-and-mouse across the Arctic diamond fields, dodging Chinese assassins while at the same time struggling with the personal betrayals that torment their passionate affair.
Alively narrative exploration of our love affair with gold, that has and continues to shape the world.
Through case studies of Scottish, English, and Black Atlantic poetries from the landmark modernist year of 1922 through the mid 1970s, Nations of Nothing But Poetry looks to answer what happens when poets combine vernacular language with the spirit of modernity.
A heart-pounding ride through the perilous world of the modern gem trade, by the acclaimed author of Diamond.
Tajemnice, mistyfikacja i śmierć. Porywający debiut. Historia cenionego znawcy diamentów, który, złapany w sieć oszustw i intryg, próbuje odkryć sekrety najdroższego diamentu na świecie Kiedy na szyi żony kandydata na prezydenta Stanów Zjednoczonych niespodziewanie pojawia się unikatowy diament zwany Rosyjskim Różem, Alex Turner z wydziału śledczego Departamentu Skarbu, były agent CIA, odkrywa, że wpadł jak mucha w pajęczą sieć. Taki diament zawsze kryje jakiś sekret, ale sieć tajemnic oplatająca Róż jest bardziej zawikłana, niż Alex mógł sobie wyobrazić. Stara się dociec, dlaczego zdradziła go tajemnicza rosyjska podwójna agentka, a diament znalazł się na drodze wiodącej do Białego Domu. Gdziekolwiek bowiem trafia Rosyjski Róż, podążają za nim tajemnice, mistyfikacja i śmierć.