Offers photographs of eighty specimens from the collection of the Houston Museum of Natural Science, including azurite, barite, bournonite, and zoisite; discusses the history of each speciment; and explores what makes a mineral collectible.

Product Description: The companion volume to a major exhibition, this volume contains 120 spectacular objects from the Moscow-Kremlin State Armoury Museum. The pieces range from 11th-century icons to contemporay masterworks, from the buried gold of the Riazan hoard to objects created in the Kremlin's own workshops...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)