Tigroney Press: Sustainable Planet Series

To celebrate Earth Day 2017 Tigroney Press is launching its new Sustainable Plant Series.  These are a series of essays on current issues facing the sustainability of our home Planet Earth.  Edited by Professor N.F. Gray,  Director of the Trinity Centre for the Environment at Trinity College Dublin, the first in the series will examine carbon foot-printing and the cost of carbon. Due at the end of 2017.

New Fiction from Tigroney Press: THE TIMEKEEPERS

New Fiction From Tigroney Press

A new novel from Nick Gray, a scientist at Trinity College Dublin.  Well known for his science writing and books such as Facing up to Global Warming, The Timekeepers is his first novel  since 1984. 

This complex thriller, based on reality, is about a crime that could change society for ever.  Thirty nanoseconds is just a third of a billionth of a single second, which is no time at all.  So when the atomic clock network is attacked and universal time is altered by 30 nanoseconds, scientists are left wondering just how and why it was done.  A specially assembled team of FBI and CIA Agents try to work out what crime can be carried out in just 30 nanoseconds, and begin to realize that everything from GPS to mobile communications could be compromised. With the help of NASA, the truth slowly emerges that modern communications technology could be on the point of melt down.  

Publication date:  June 2017. 9780995731905 (e-book)

Tigroney Short Guides: UNDER PRESSURE: A MAN'S GUIDE TO PRESSURE COOKING

Thought to have been invented in 1679 by Denis Papin, a physicist, the pressure cooker has gone through a steady evolution from mini submarine to the modern present day iconic cooking vessel.  Hated by many, loved by others, the pressure cooker can reduce cooking times by up to 90% in some cases by cooking food at increased temperatures by raising the pressure.  

Although often seen as something Grandma struggled with, resulting in rapid evacuations from the kitchen or explosions of red hot stew hitting the ceiling; the pressure cooker offers a uniquely rapid, sustainable and extremely healthy way to cook.  Every boy now aged over forty had or wanted a steam engine.  Mesmerized by the hiss of the boiler, steam gushing from joints, it is a dream that lives on for many.  So ladies, if you want to get your husband into the kitchen … get him a pressure cooker and stand back.  From pulses to soups he will quickly become obsessed releasing not only steam but the inner cook and the love of food that is in everyone.  

Under Pressure: A Man's Guide to Pressure Cooking  published by Tigroney Press in their Short Guide Series is a quick starter guide for those who are new to pressure cooking and who may still have nightmares about Grandma in the kitchen.  This is not a tradtional cookbook but a instructions manual for the most inexperienced cook. Due to be released in September 2017. For further information contact tigroneypress@gmail.com

Tigroney Short Guide: CRONEBANE HALFPENNY TOKENS: A QUICK GUIDE TO COUNTERFEIT COINS

Tigroney Short Guides are  a series of quick reference books for specialists or niche areas of interest.  The next in the series Cronebane Halfpenny Tokens is a quick identification key to all the known counterfeit tokens that were produced between 1789 and 1816.  The tokens were used by the Irish Associated Mining Company based in county Wicklow in Ireland to pay their workers during the coinage shortages during the reign of King George III.  

The Cronebane halfpenny become the most well known and most widely  circulated Condor or trade token with 1.67 million original tokens produced by Mathew Boulton at his Soho Works in Birmingham, with an estimated  3.0 to 4.5 million counterfeits tokens produced afterwards.  This new key allows the none-specialist coin collector to rapidly identify these interesting and affordable coins.

Cronebane Halfpenny Tokens: A Quick Guide to Counterfeit Coins published by Tigroney Press in their Short Guide Series is due out in June 2017.  For further information contact tigroneypress@gmail.com