Read this classic romance by USA TODAY bestselling author Carole Mortimer, now available for the first time in e-book! Nanny wanted… When brooding billionaire Rufus hired Annie as his live-in nanny, he didn’t anticipate that she’d be so stunning! Now, consumed by his attraction, he’s finding it harder and harder to stay away. But what if innocent Annie feels the same? Unable to deny their sizzling connection, Rufus will secure their relationship with a diamond ring — and a mother for his child! Originally published in 1997

Sequestered within the heart of a cosmopolitan city is an exotic world—a place where diamonds, astronomically priced, are bought and sold on the strength of a handshake, and business disputes are resolved according to ancient Jewish principles of arbitration. Yet it is also a modern industry facing the same fundamental global changes affecting all businesses today.In Diamond Stories, Renée Rose Shield leads us into the unexamined realm of wholesale diamond traders in New York. Related to several well-respected traders, she had unprecedented access to a society normally closed to outside inquiry. Here she deftly blends her personal relationship and her anthropological training to provide an insightful exploration of this tradition-bound industry, the new challenges it faces, and the ways both industry and individuals adapt to and endure change.Shield begins with a fascinating history of diamond mining, combining the story of the De Beers cartel, the role of Jews in the trade, and the part diamonds have played both in war and liberation. Throughout, she incorporates commentary by current diamond traders. Succeeding chapters explore the evolving nature of both the global trade and the New York diamond district. Shield takes a close look at the increasingly complex ethnic makeup of the district, illuminates the rarely documented work done by women, chronicles the resilient system of arbitration, and reveals the ways in which many traders work well into their eighties and nineties. Their long lives of work, cushioned by the trade's social environment, offer hints for successful aging in general.

Twin brothers Jeff and Julian Diamond were confirmed bachelors—until their matchmaking grandfather made them a bet they couldn't refuse. Which Diamond will be a daddy first? Jeff had no prospects for a bride or a family until single mom Paula Helpern returned to Diamond Mount, PA. He'd never stopped loving her—and now he wants to be a daddy to her boys. But Paula's not convinced that he doesn't want to be a bachelor. Julian had been ready to ask Moira Carson to be his wife—when she told him she was pregnant, but wouldn't marry him because of a bet. Winning wouln't be easy for Julian, but now he can't lose Moira and his baby.

Diamond's supreme properties can be realized by chemical vapor deposition (CVD) of diamond films with many applications, such as cutting tools, tweeter diaphragms, deep ultraviolet light-emitting diodes, radomes, CPU transistors, quantum computer, and MEMs. This volume provides extensive reviews on various CVD methods with examples. Meanwhile, there are other forms of carbon coatings, including diamond-like carbon, carbon nanotubes, and graphene. These carbon coatings possess properties derived from diamond. For example, graphene is actually flattened diamond’s (111) face with superb electrical and thermal conductivities. For the first time, this book reveals a catalytic method to grow single-crystal graphene, whose applications are expected in heat spreaders, battery electrodes, interconnected circuits, and 6G antennae.