This appealing gem variety does shine with a cool lunar light but it is the mineral feldspar, quite terrestrial in origin. The shimmer, which is called schiller or adularescence, is caused by the intergrowth of two different types of feldspar, with different refractive indexes. Moonstones come in a variety of colors. The body color can range from colorless to gray, brown, yellow, green, or pink. The clarity ranges from transparent to translucent. The best moonstone has a blue sheen, perfect clarity, and a colorless body color. Sometimes moonstone will have an eye as well as sheen.
Deborah Tannen is University Professor and a professor of linguistics at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. She is the author of 15 books, including You Just Donât Understand: Women and Men in Conversation (William Morrow, 1990), which introduced to the general public the idea of female and male styles of communication.
Shaun Tan is an Australian artist, writer and film maker. He won an Academy Award for The Lost Thing, a 2011 animated film adaptation of a 2000 picture book he wrote and illustrated.Beside The Lost Thing, The Red Tree and The Arrival are books he has written and illustrated.o rhetoric, no straining for effect. Never other than itself.. For his career contribution to children's and young adult literature in the broadest sense Tan won the 2011 Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award from the Swedish Arts Council, the biggest prize in children's literature.