Stoned: Jewelry, Obsession, and How Desire Shapes the World

Stoned: Jewelry, Obsession, and How Desire Shapes the World

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER 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? Wha…

If you like book Stoned: Jewelry, Obsession, and How Desire Shapes the World here is the list of books you may also like

Buy this book on Amazon

Similar books (20)

The Cartiers: The Untold Story of the Family Behind the Jewelry Empire

The captivating story of the family behind the Cartier empire and the three brothers who turned their grandfather's humble Parisian jewelry store into a global luxury icon--as told by a great-granddau…
Buy this book on Amazon
Jewels: A Secret History

Throughout history, precious stones have inspired passions and poetry, quests and curses, sacred writings and unsacred actions. In this scintillating book, journalist Victoria Finlay embarks on her ow…
Buy this book on Amazon
Selling Sexy: Victoria’s Secret and the Unraveling of an American Icon

The story of how Victoria’s Secret skyrocketed from a tiny chain of boutiques to a retail phenomenon with more than $8 billion in annual sales at its peak—all while defining an impossible beauty stand…
Buy this book on Amazon
Precious: The History and Mystery of Gems Across Time

Buy this book on Amazon
It Seemed Like a Bad Idea at the Time: The Worst TV Shows in History and Other Things I Wrote

Buy this book on Amazon
Something in the Woods Loves You

An inspiring blend of nature writing and memoir that explores nature’s crucial role in our emotional and mental health. Bats can hear shapes, plants can eat light, and bees can dance maps. When his li…
Buy this book on Amazon
What You Have Heard Is True: A Memoir of Witness and Resistance

The powerful story of a young poet who becomes an activist through a trial by fire

What You Have Heard is True is a devastating, lyrical, and visionary memoir about a young woman's brave choice to enga…
Buy this book on Amazon
Heretic: The Many Lives and Deaths of Jesus Christ

From a celebrated classicist and author of The Darkening Age (“[a] ballista-bolt of a book”— New York Times Book Review ), a biography of the many, diverse variations of Jesus who thrived in early Chr…
Buy this book on Amazon
Mood Machine: The Rise of Spotify and the Costs of the Perfect Playlist

With unprecedented access and unsparing analysis, this is the definitive investigation into Spotify, weaving interviews with incisive cultural criticism, and illuminating how streaming has reshaped mu…
Buy this book on Amazon
Cod: A Biography of the Fish that Changed the World

The Cod. Wars have been fought over it, revolutions have been triggered by it, national diets have been based on it, economies and livelihoods have depended on it. To the millions it has sustained, it…
Buy this book on Amazon
Reckless: My Life as a Pretender

Buy this book on Amazon
Cromorama: Come il colore ha cambiato il nostro sguardo

Buy this book on Amazon
Space Struck

Buy this book on Amazon
Spirals in Time: The Secret Life and Curious Afterlife of Seashells (Bloomsbury Sigma)

Seashells, stretching from the deep past into the present day, are touchstones leading into fascinating realms of the natural world and cutting-edge science. Members of the phylum Mollusca are among t…
Buy this book on Amazon
The Earth Moved: On the Remarkable Achievements of Earthworms

Buy this book on Amazon
Eight Bears: Mythic Past and Imperiled Future

A New Yorker Best Book of the Year // An Economist Best Book of 2023 // A Scientific American Best Book of 2023 // SEJ Rachel Carson Environment Book Award, 2nd Place // Shortlisted for the Banff Cent…
Buy this book on Amazon
The Falcon Thief: A True Tale of Adventure, Treachery, and the Hunt for the Perfect Bird

A true-crime adventure about a rogue who trades in rare birds and their eggs—and the wildlife detective determined to stop him.

On May 3, 2010, an Irish national named Jeffrey Lendrum was apprehended a…
Buy this book on Amazon
The Greek Way

Buy this book on Amazon
Cue the Sun! The Invention of Reality TV

Who invented reality TV, the world’s most dangerous pop-culture genre, and why can’t we look away from it? In this revelatory, deeply reported account of the rise of “dirty documentary,” Emily Nussbau…
Buy this book on Amazon
The Clasp

Buy this book on Amazon