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Why do some students make the most of college, while others struggle and look back on years of missed deadlines and missed opportunities? What choices can students make, and what can teachers and university leaders do, to improve more students’ experiences and help them achieve the most from their time and money? Most important, how is the increasing diversity on campus—cultural, racial, and religious—affecting education? What can students and faculty do to benefit from differences, and even learn from the inevitable moments of misunderstanding and awkwardness? From his ten years of interviews with Harvard seniors, Richard Light distills encouraging—and surprisingly practical—answe...
Richard Ranashinghe de Vulpian is a brilliant and enigmatic British jewelry appraiser. Seigi Nakata is a young college student. Their worlds are as different as can be, but when a chance encounter leads Seigi to hire Richard to appraise a family heirloom, it sparks a partnership that goes well beyond that one job. Together, the duo investigate jewelry-related cases and solve mysteries, finding the secret messages hidden in the hearts of precious stones--and the hearts of those who possess them.
One month after arriving in the mountain city of Kandy to begin his studies as a jeweler, Seigi receives a strange e-mail from "Jeffrey," with the subject line "Help Richard." Within is an itinerary for a luxury cruise...that leaves in three days. What has the beautiful jeweler got himself into now?! And can Seigi come to his rescue yet again?
Richard suddenly closes Jewelry etranger and vanishes, leaving Seigi stunned and alone. Acting on information from Saul, Seigi makes his way to England in pursuit of his wayward boss. When the beautiful jeweler's tortured past comes back to haunt him, what's his knight in shining armor to do?!
A declaration of martial law in Sri Lanka sends Seigi temporarily back to Japan--until a strange message has him flying to Hong Kong to meet with one Vincent Lai, the man who seems as determined to betray Richard as he is to keep helping Seigi. What does Vincent truly want from them? And what will Seigi do once he reunites with Richard?
Seigi's eye for cut, carat and clarity grows sharper by the day as he works under the beautiful and talented Richard. He'll need that keen eye for their next case involving a "cursed" emerald necklace that once belonged to a dead ballerina. Tasked by a famous ballet company to investigate the necklace, Richard and Seigi must, once again, plumb the multi-faceted depths of the human heart.
The reappearance of a complicated figure turns Seigi's life upside down--his birth father, Hisashi Shimeno. The man he wants nothing to do with will not leave him be, and Seigi would rather quit Jewelry Étranger for good than risk bringing trouble to Richard's door. That is, if Richard will let him go...
'Into The Light' is a gripping insight into how children damaged by violent crime and abusive childhoods can heal and triumph.
Written during and after the disintegration of Yugoslavia, this book presents a complex vision of the Balkans that flinches from neither brutality nor beauty but honours dignity and courage. The book starts with a tour-de-force, the long poem ‘Do vidjenje Danitsé’ (‘Goodbye Balkan Belle’), and continues with a series of memorial tablets for victims of Jasenovac concentration camp. The book includes a sequence in memory of the Serbian, Yugoslav and Mediterranean poet, Ivan V. Lalic.Under Balkan Light forms the final part of Richard Berengarten’s Balkan Trilogy and is published together with the first two parts, The Blue Butterfly and In a Time of Drought. It is also the fifth volume in the Salt series of his Selected Writings.Richard Berengarten used to be known as Richard Burns. With the publication of this book, he now repossesses the family name of his father, the cellist and saxophonist Alexander Berengarten.
Back from England, Seigi must deal with the start of his third year of college--and with all his classmates starting to job hunt in earnest! Meanwhile, a familiar customer returns to Jewelry Étranger with a pale pink cameo he once received from an unrequited love, challenging Seigi and Richard to solve the mystery attached to the gift.