This handbook includes more than 600 stunning color photographs showing rocks, minerals, and gems from all over the world. Each specimen is described in detail: its origin and structure, chemical composition, hardness, color, and other properties.
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Text: English (translation)
Original Language: German --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
Original Language: German --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
About the Author
R. Bradshaw is a contributor for Houghton Mifflin Harcourt titles including: "Handbook of Rocks, Minerals, and Gemstones".
K.A.G. Mills is a contributor for Houghton Mifflin Harcourt titles including: "Handbook of Rocks, Minerals, and Gemstones".
Walter Schumann (8 October 1913-21 August 1958) was an American composer for film, television, and the theater. His notable works include the score for The Night of the Hunter and the Dragnet theme. (The Dragnet theme was lifted, inadvertently according to Schumann, from Miklos Rozsa's score from the 1946 film The Killers.) He also wrote one opera, John Brown's Body, which premiered in Los Angeles in 1953 and subsequently ran for 65 performances on Broadway at the New Century Theatre.
K.A.G. Mills is a contributor for Houghton Mifflin Harcourt titles including: "Handbook of Rocks, Minerals, and Gemstones".
Walter Schumann (8 October 1913-21 August 1958) was an American composer for film, television, and the theater. His notable works include the score for The Night of the Hunter and the Dragnet theme. (The Dragnet theme was lifted, inadvertently according to Schumann, from Miklos Rozsa's score from the 1946 film The Killers.) He also wrote one opera, John Brown's Body, which premiered in Los Angeles in 1953 and subsequently ran for 65 performances on Broadway at the New Century Theatre.
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60 of 64 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
This book is a waste of money, it is very poor,
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This review is from: Handbook of Rocks, Minerals, and Gemstones (Paperback)
I have actually reviewed this book for publication but the journal's policy is to not use negative reviews so it never appeared. It is difficult in just 1,000 words to summarize my review but I will say that the book is loaded with technical deficiencies, flat-out errors and inconsistencies that make it a very poor reference work. Furthermore, it was translated by someone who knew nothing of minerals so the errors introduced by the translator are monumental, hundreds! There are terms devised by the translator that mean nothing to English readers and don't appear in any other mineral/gem book of any kind!A truly bad look, yet it enjoys good sales because the public is so ill-informed about mineralogy.
17 of 18 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
A reviewers are not equal,
This review is from: Handbook of Rocks, Minerals, and Gemstones (Paperback)
After reading a negative review on these pages at the advice of the reviewer I bought the Cambridge book he recommended. That was a mistake. Whereas the Cambridge book is a good reference book with lots of technical info and good photographs, it has not one photograph of rock in the field - precisely what I need. I've since purchased Schumann's Hand Book and I like it considerably more. The Cambridge book will sit on my shelf, Schuman's will get out in the field and serve me well.
17 of 18 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
Fine coffee-table book with great color photographs.,
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This review is from: Handbook of Rocks, Minerals, and Gemstones (Paperback)
Originally published in German in 1985, this paperback is full of wonderful color photographs. Many specimens are from Germany or from other parts of Europe, and anyone wanting to view such specimens, but cannot travel to a museum in Europe, is advised to get this book as it would be an easier trip.The text is non-technical, written for the layman with brief descriptions of the minerals, and is not to be used as an identification guide (as indeed some definitions are imprecise; e.g. the definition of a mineral), but is an interesting book and would make a fine coffee-table book for those interested in minerals (and in rocks, as half the book is devoted to rocks), with beautiful photographs. It might also make an introduction to the subject for friends of mineralogists who enjoy the beauty of minerals.
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A knowledge of how to use different minerals and mineral mixtures already existed in prehistoric limes. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
system monoclinic crystals, typical crystal forms, interpenetration twins, lustre silky, calcareous sinter, bismuth ochre, hypabyssal rocks, felted aggregates, orbicular granite, dark constituents, parallel texture, saline rock, medium constituents, porphyritic texture, vitreous lustre, thick tabular, frequently twinned, short columnar, richly faceted, radiating aggregates, microcrystalline variety, accessory constituent, disseminated grains, quartz group, short prismatic Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
South Africa, Sri Lanka, New Jersey, Minas Gerais, New York, New Mexico, Bayerischer Wald, New Hampshire, Franconian Jura, Upper Bavaria, Western Australia, Alston Moor, Lake District, Lower Saxony, Massif Central, Nova Scotia, Rocky Mountains, Calcareous Alps, Central Alps, Lower Austria, New Zealand, North Carolina, Western Alps, Black Forest, British Columbia New!
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A knowledge of how to use different minerals and mineral mixtures already existed in prehistoric limes. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
system monoclinic crystals, typical crystal forms, interpenetration twins, lustre silky, calcareous sinter, bismuth ochre, hypabyssal rocks, felted aggregates, orbicular granite, dark constituents, parallel texture, saline rock, medium constituents, porphyritic texture, vitreous lustre, thick tabular, frequently twinned, short columnar, richly faceted, radiating aggregates, microcrystalline variety, accessory constituent, disseminated grains, quartz group, short prismatic Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
South Africa, Sri Lanka, New Jersey, Minas Gerais, New York, New Mexico, Bayerischer Wald, New Hampshire, Franconian Jura, Upper Bavaria, Western Australia, Alston Moor, Lake District, Lower Saxony, Massif Central, Nova Scotia, Rocky Mountains, Calcareous Alps, Central Alps, Lower Austria, New Zealand, North Carolina, Western Alps, Black Forest, British Columbia New!
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- Kern County by Automobile Club of Southern California on page 66, and page 92
- The Interpretation of Igneous Rocks by K. G. Cox in Back Matter
- Petrology of the Sedimentary Rocks (Textbook of Petrology) (v. 2) by J. Greensmith in Back Matter
- Metamorphic Geology (Special topics in geology) by Cornelius Gillen in Back Matter
- Petrology of the Igneous Rocks (Binghamton Symposia in Geomorphology) (v. 1) by F. H. Hatch in Back Matter
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- Day Tripping by Teri J Brown on page 63
- A Look at Rocks (First Books--Earth & Sky Science) by Jo S. Kittinger in Back Matter
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