A complete, practical guide to collecting metal detecting finds: the collector's guide, written for beginners and for collectors who want to sharpen their skills. Learn how to use tools and settings correctly, read the ground, recover objects without damage and distinguish common, historical and sensitive finds. A clear path covering the general framework of finds, why context matters, maps and documentation, geolocation, non-invasive cleaning and cataloguing, with practical advice on buyi...

Tobacco pipes reward collectors who learn to read materials, makers, and age. This guide explains how briar grain and density affect both smoking quality and value, how meerschaum acquires its prized patina, and what hallmarks and stampings reveal about a pipe's origin and era. Readers work through grading criteria for bowl condition, stem integrity, and finish, then apply seasoning and storage principles that protect long-term collectibility. Whether you are evaluating a estate-sale find ...

A complete, practical guide to collecting posters and film bills, written for beginners and for collectors who want to sharpen their skills. Learn how to identify format, printing, paper, era and print run, assess authenticity and condition, use catalogues and collector's tools, and understand how market value is formed. A clear path covering the differences between posters, lobby cards and bills, cataloguing, buying at flea markets and auctions, rarity, fakes and preservation, with practi...

A complete, practical guide to collecting football stickers, written for beginners and for collectors who want to sharpen their skills. Learn how to identify the year, edition and series of every sticker, assess authenticity and condition, use catalogues and collector's tools, and understand how market value is formed. A clear path covering the evolution of the hobby, albums and checklists, protection and archiving, what drives value, rarity, fakes and preservation, with practical advice o...

A practical guide to collecting whisky and fine spirits with a method rather than on instinct. The book starts with how to read a bottle: what the label actually claims, bottling codes, fill level, the state of the capsule and cork, and why an original box changes the value. It explains what separates a single malt from a blend, what an age statement and its absence really mean, and how cask type, peating and cask strength affect both taste and price. It teaches how to spot fakes — reprint...

A practical guide to Chinese jade and antiques for people who want a method rather than instinct. The book starts with telling real jade apart: the difference between jadeite and nephrite, the checks you can make without instruments — heft, sound, coolness, hardness — and the ones that genuinely need a laboratory. It explains why colour alone says very little, and what actually drives value: translucency, evenness, absence of fractures, quality of the carving. It covers the treatments the ...

A complete, practical guide to collecting Chinese coins, written for beginners and for collectors who want to sharpen their skills. Learn how to identify dynasties, mints, calligraphy styles and varieties, assess authenticity and condition, use catalogues and collector's tools, and understand how market value is formed. A clear path covering a historical overview and coin types, analysis tools, advanced attribution, realistic valuation, rarity, fakes and preservation, with practical advice...

A practical guide for anyone entering the world of antique cartography and period prints with a method. The book explains how to read a sheet: the printing technique, the watermark, the quality of the paper, the plate mark, original colouring as opposed to colour added later. It teaches how to tell a first edition from a late restrike and from a modern reproduction, how to grade condition, and how much folds, restoration and trimmed margins really weigh on value. It covers rarity and how p...

Enjoy this anthology of Neo-Gothic fiction inspired by the imagination of Edgar Allan Poe.  Winner of the Paris Book Festival Award – Best anthology of the yearNominated for a Bram Stoker Award – Superior Achievement in an Anthology"Make sure your belt is done up good and tight when you read nEvermore!. It's very embarrassing to have your...

Maybe some rules are meant to be broken.JohnAs a dom at club Pulse, I know rules are important to keep a submissive safe. As a professor at Faith Union College, I know rules keep order in my classroom.I don’t sleep with submissives and I don’t get involved with students.But all my rules go out the window when I see my new sub walk into my classroom. Everyone has secrets, including me, but mine are the only thing keeping me f...

Sacramento...the hotbed of crme? With Capitol Crimes, the Best of Capitol Crimes Mystery, another fabulous collection of stories from California's Capital City, will entice and engage you to curl up with a good body...er, book. Some autor names will be recognizable in the Sacramento area, but for others, this is their first publishing credit. Every story has a local setting, including local sights and businesses. In some, the Sacramento connection is central and in some it’s peripheral, bu...

Falling in love was never on Bridget’s to-do list. Having sworn off relationships, she’s only interested in temporary flings to avoid getting hurt again. Ethan is a hopeless romantic who loves deeply and wears his heart on his sleeve. When their one-night stand leaves him wanting more, Ethan is determined to get Bridget to take a chance on him. After an unexpected surgery forces her to rely on him, he becomes part of her carefully guarded world. As Ethan pieces together Bridget’s shattered...