Icon News & Events
Read an extract from Luca Caioli’s biography on Ballon d’Or winner Cristiano Ronaldo!
Posted on 2014/01/20 in Free Extracts, tagged as luca caioli
Cristiano Ronaldo was last week crowned the 2013 Fifa Ballon d’Or winner. Check out this free extract from Luca Caioli’s bestselling biography! When a young Portuguese player with sublime abilities arrived at Manchester United in 2003, Alex Ferguson put the no. 7 shirt – once worn by Best, Cantona and Beckham – on his back without hesitation. The expectation was clear, and Cristiano Ronaldo didn’t disappoint. Ronaldo won the FIFA World Footballer… Read more »
A Letter from Harry by Second World War RAF veteran Harry Leslie Smith, to be published June 2014
Posted on 2014/01/15 in New Books, News, tagged as harry leslie smith
We are excited to announce that we will be publishing A Letter from Harry: Why the world we built is falling down, and what we can do to save it, by Second World War RAF veteran Harry Leslie Smith, in June. Harry Leslie Smith was born in 1923 in Barnsley. King George V was on the throne. Stanley Baldwin was Prime Minister. Eliot’s The Waste Land was picking up mixed reviews. There was no NHS, no welfare state. Those who could afford to took care… Read more »
ISIS Excursion – a trip to a particle accelerator
Posted on 2014/01/14 in Competitions, News, tagged as introducing, oliver pugh, particle physics, tom whyntie
In September last year, to celebrate the publication of Tom Whyntie and Oliver Pugh’s Introducing Particle Physics, we ran a competition, in association with Blackwells and the Rutherford-Appleton Laboratory, to win a rare visit to the ISIS particle accelerator at the laboratory near Didcot in Oxfordshire. Dan Tucker, from Brighton, won the competition and on Sunday came along with friend Bryony to see for themselves exactly what Britain’s answer… Read more »
Productivity Tips from the Icon Books Ninjas
Posted on 2014/01/04 in New Books, tagged as graham allcott
Graham Allcott’s How to Be a Productivity Ninja was published this week and to celebrate, we thought we’d share our own productivity tips with you! We’re getting in the New Year, New Ninja mood… Kate (Commissioning Editor) I ‘go dark’, to use the terminology in Graham Allcott’s How to be a Productivity Ninja. This means when I really need to focus I turn off my email and put my voicemail on for a few hours, so I can work uninterrupted. Stacey (… Read more »
How to Be a Productivity Ninja is published today!
Posted on 2014/01/02 in New Books, tagged as graham allcott
Move beyond time management, get your inbox to zero and learn to think like a Productivity Ninja! Get your hands on a copy of How to Be a Productivity Ninja by Graham Allcott, published today. It’s finally January, so it’s time for New Year, New Ninja! In this age of information overload, traditional time-management techniques simply aren’t able to deal with overflowing inboxes, ever-expanding to-do lists and endless, pointless meetings that leav… Read more »
Books We Read in 2013 (Part 3)
Posted on 2013/12/18 in General, tagged as 30-Second, James Davies
2014 is nearly upon us! This week, the Icon Books team will be sharing with you two books that we’ve each enjoyed reading in 2013, including one book of our own. Let us know which books you’ve enjoyed this year in the comments or @iconbooks! Michael (Sales Executive) Far from a natural choice for me as someone who is still haunted by GCSE chemistry, 30-Second Elements, edited by Eric Scerri, made a previously intolerable subject appear interestin… Read more »
Books We Read in 2013 (Part 2)
Posted on 2013/12/17 in General, tagged as introducing, mark forsyth
2014 is nearly upon us! This week, the Icon Books team will be sharing with you two books that we’ve each enjoyed reading in 2013, including one book of our own. Let us know which books you’ve enjoyed this year in the comments or @iconbooks! Kate (Commissioning Editor) I joined Icon earlier this year, and one not insubstantial factor in that decision was how much I’d enjoyed Mark Forsyth’s previous books, The Etymologicon and The Horologicon. So… Read more »
Books We Read in 2013 (Part 1)
Posted on 2013/12/16 in General, tagged as Simon Flynn
2014 is nearly upon us! This week, the Icon Books team will be sharing with you two books that we’ve each enjoyed reading in 2013, including one book of our own. Let us know which books you’ve enjoyed this year in the comments or @iconbooks! Stacey (Sales and Marketing Executive) The Science Magpie by Simon Flynn was one of the first lead titles I got to work on here at Icon Books and it has been one of the most fun, from gifting our sales reps w… Read more »
A vehement attack on the latest claims about the differences between the sexes
Posted on 2013/12/03 in News, tagged as press
You will read a lot in the press today about the ‘hard-wired’ differences between male and female brains, so perhaps it’s time to check out Cordelia Fine’s Delusions of Gender: The Real Science Behind Sex Differences. Gender inequalities are increasingly defended by citing hard-wired differences between the male and female brain. That’s why, we’re told, there are so few women in science, so few men in the laundry room – different brains are just… Read more »
Mark Forsyth on Tour
Posted on 2013/11/22 in Events, tagged as mark forsyth
The Elements of Eloquence: How to Turn the Perfect English Phrase is out in the world and Mark Forsyth is going on tour! Mark Forsyth will be visiting the following bookshops through November and December so come along and see him talk about the figures of rhetoric and get your book signed. Barter Books in Alnwick on 25th of November The Edinburgh Bookshop on 26th of November Rossiter Books in Ross-on-Wye on the 27th of November Booka Bookshop in… Read more »
