Author: Richard Harris
Publisher: Shire
Keywords: discovering, shire, buildings, framed, timber
Number of Pages: 96
Published: 2008-03-04
List price: $18.00
ISBN-10: 0747802157
ISBN-13: 9780747802150

Half-timbered houses, cottages and barnes are a familiar feature of the landscape, but only rarely do we have an opportunity to see below the surface and understand how they were planned and constructed. Timber-framed buildings catch the imagination of those who work with them because of their beauty, their strength and the quality of the material of which they were made: English oak. Many thousands of buildings of all ages still remain to remind us the strength of the tradition. This book looks behind the commong image of ’black and white’ houses, showing how timber buildings were

Author: Robert White
Publisher: Shire
Keywords: discovering, shire, old, cameras
Number of Pages: 88
Published: 2008-03-04
List price: $13.95
ISBN-10: 0747802661
ISBN-13: 9780747802662

In 1839 the world heard that it was possible to capture the image by chemical means without the aid of the artist’s hand. This book traces the development of the camera from its origins, through the wet colodion period and the boom years for amateur photography which followed the introduction of fast dry plates in the 1880s, and into the 1890s when roll films and commercial processing made snapshots possible. The twentieth century brought smaller, even pocketable cameras which led in the 1920s and 1930s to the miniature camera using 35mm film.

Author: Margaret Baker
Publisher: Shire
Keywords: discovering, shire, monuments, statues, london
Number of Pages: 128
Published: 2008-03-04
List price: $33.00
ISBN-10: 0747804958
ISBN-13: 9780747804956

This book explains some of the reasons for London’s sculpted gallery and describes the subjects, the donors the sculptors and the results. This completely revised edition, now extended to include memorials throughout Greater London, has over six hundred entries. From the sixteenth-century statue of Queen Elizabeth I in Fleet Street to Montgomery, with his back to the Ministry of Defence, this book will provie a rich sources of fact and anecdote, a who’s who in bronze and stone in the capital city.

Author: Darrell Schweitzer
Publisher: Borgo Press
Keywords: discovering, wildside, fiction, horror, classic
Number of Pages: 200
Published: 1992-12-01
List price: $15.00
ISBN-10: 1587150026
ISBN-13: 9781587150029

Author: John Bly
Publisher: Shire
Keywords: discovering, shire, silver, english, hallmarks
Number of Pages: 72
Published: 2008-03-04
List price: $11.95
ISBN-10: 0747804508
ISBN-13: 9780747804505

This book not only tabulates the hallmarks that enable the identification of silver items but also traces the history of English silver, describing some famous makers and provides hints on spotting fakes.’ There is a helpful chapter on Sheffield plate.

Author: Robert White
Publisher: Shire
Keywords: discovering, shire, cameras
Number of Pages: 112
Published: 2008-03-04
List price: $13.95
ISBN-10: 074780298X
ISBN-13: 9780747802983

This book traces the changes in the years from 1945 to 1965 when there were considerable advances in photography and in cameras. At the start of the period most snapshot photographs were black and white contact prints made from box and folding bellows camera negatives, by the end snapshooters enjoyed the simplicity of instant loading cameras, automatic exposure control, built-in flash and colour prints.

Author: Peter Naylor
Publisher: Shire
Keywords: discovering, shire, dowsing, divining
Number of Pages: 40
Published: 2008-03-04
List price: $10.00
ISBN-10: 0852635168
ISBN-13: 9780852635162

The art of dowsing or divining - the tracing of underground water, minerals, pipes or cables - has fascinated people for centuries and today there is a renewed interest in the subject. This book is intended to help the would-be dowser to enter into the mystery of dowsing. The book sets out to prove that anyone can dowse, and it also dispels the commonly accepted myths that dowsing is a gift enjoyed by a few practitioners, that it is always associated with water and that hazel twigs are the only media.