Experts > Karen Attiah
Karen Attiah's Top Book Recommendations
Want to know what books Karen Attiah recommends on their reading list? We've researched interviews, social media posts, podcasts, and articles to build a comprehensive list of Karen Attiah's favorite book recommendations of all time.
1
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? What makes a jewel priceless? And why do we covet beautiful things? In this brilliant account of how eight jewels shaped the course of history, jeweler and scientist Aja Raden tells an original and often startling story about our unshakeable addiction to beauty and the darker side of human desire.
What moves the world is what moves each of us: desire. Jewelry—which has long served as a stand-in... more
What makes a stone a jewel? What makes a jewel priceless? And why do we covet beautiful things? In this brilliant account of how eight jewels shaped the course of history, jeweler and scientist Aja Raden tells an original and often startling story about our unshakeable addiction to beauty and the darker side of human desire.
What moves the world is what moves each of us: desire. Jewelry—which has long served as a stand-in... more
Recommended by Karen Attiah, and 1 others. Karen Attiah.@AjaRaden’s book “Stoned” goes into this in length. De Beers pulled off a marketing heist of epic proportions by convincing us diamonds were rare, but necessary to demonstrate love. https://t.co/BS6AADlNxa (Source)
Don't have time to read Karen Attiah's favorite books? Read Shortform summaries.
Shortform summaries help you learn 10x faster by:
- Being comprehensive: you learn the most important points in the book
- Cutting out the fluff: you focus your time on what's important to know
- Interactive exercises: apply the book's ideas to your own life with our educators' guidance.