@article{310460,
      recid = {310460},
      author = {Zoellner, Tom.},
      title = {The heartless stone : a journey through the world of  diamonds, deceit, and desire /},
      publisher = {St. Martins Press,},
      address = {New York :},
      pages = {293 p. :},
      year = {2006},
      abstract = {When he proposed to his girlfriend, Tom Zoellner gave what  every American man is supposed to give at such a time, a  diamond engagement ring. But when the relationship broke  apart a few months before the wedding, he was left with a  used diamond ring that began to haunt him. Zoellner looked  harder at the stone, and the consequent fascination sent  him around the world. Across fourteen nations and six  continents, the empty mythology of the diamond drew him  into a world in which a piece of carbon is made to breathe  with the profound intimacies of our own histories.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/310460},
}