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Watch James Davies on ITV’s This Morning
Posted on 2013/05/17 in General, tagged as
James Davies appeared on ITV’s This Morning on Thursday, talking about Cracked: Why Psychiatry is Doing More Harm Than Good. James Davies discusses with Dawn Harper how natural and human responses to the difficulties of life are now being wrongly reclassified as psychiatric disorders and how it’s often easier for psychiatry to prescribe pills, which often work no better than placebo pills, than alternative treatments. Watch the discussion here at… Read more »
Brian Clegg interviewed for the Guardian’s Science Weekly
Posted on 2013/05/17 in General, tagged as
Brian Clegg’s new book, Dice World: Science and Life in a Random Universe, was published last month. This week, Brian was interviewed for the Guardian’s Science Weekly. Listen to Brian Clegg discuss Dice World, and what exactly randomness is, how we found out that it ruled the universe (rather than Newton’s Clockwork Universe) and why we can predict how likely something is, but not when it will definitely happen, here. You can read an extract fro… Read more »
Cackling Farts – a Horologicon-inspired song from the Bookshop Band!
Posted on 2013/05/14 in General, tagged as
Mark Forsyth’s brilliant The Horologicon has inspired rave reviews and much admiration, but nothing – that we’ve seen yet at least – quite matches the brilliance of this: a song composed by the outstanding Bookshop Band called Cackling Farts, inspired by Mark’s book. Here it is in performance at Stonehouse Books in Kilkenny, Ireland – enjoy:
‘[Cracked] should be read by every doctor … by everyone in politics and the media, not to mention any concerned citizen’
Posted on 2013/05/13 in General, tagged as
On Sunday, Peter Hitchens’ column in the Sunday Mail and Mail Online featured James Davies’ Cracked, which is already informing thousands about the lack of scientific diagnosis of mental illness. Peter Hitchens praised the book’s research and accessibility: ‘[Cracked is] calmly and clearly written in straightforward layman’s English … You will gasp with amazement at the sheer nerve of the medical profession, as you turn its pages’. You can read… Read more »
Two Graphic Guides added to the series in compact format
Posted on 2013/05/13 in General, tagged as
We have added two Graphic Guides to the series in compact format this month! Ponder whether the philosopher, poet and social critic, Søren Kierkegaard, is the Father of existentialism or the Eeyore of philosophy in Introducing Kierkegaard: A Graphic Guide, and learn about the causes of The Holocaust and its relevance today in The Holocaust: A Graphic Guide. Head over to introducingbooks.com to read about the series.
Is psychiatry only helping itself? Listen to James Davies on BBC Radio 4’s Today
Posted on 2013/05/10 in General, tagged as
The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) published, by the American Psychiatric Association, is the tool widely used to diagnose psychiatric disorders. Cracked: Why Psychiatry is Doing More Harm Than Good by James Davies, available now, reveals for the first time the true human cost of an industry that, in the name of helping others, has actually been helping itself. Listen to James Davies talk about Cracked and the damning… Read more »
Read an extract from Cracked and interview with James Davies in today’s Times Magazine
Posted on 2013/05/04 in General, tagged as
Cracked: Why Psychiatry is Doing More Harm Than Good, by James Davies is a controversial and powerful new book about the pseudo-science at the heart of modern psychiatry, and you can read an exclusive extract and interview with the author in today’s Times Magazine. It’s also available online here. One in four people in the UK and US will develop a mental disorder in any given year. That’s what psychiatry tells us. But many – even most – will not… Read more »
Bobby’s Open is shortlisted for the British Sports Book Awards!
Posted on 2013/04/24 in General, tagged as
Bobby’s Open We’re delighted to announce that Steven Reid’s Bobby’s Open has been shortlisted in the golf section of this year’s British Sports Book Awards. It’s a tremendous achievement and one that we think reflects not just how good a book Bobby’s Open – the wonderfully told story of the 1926 British Open, and the Tiger Woods of his day, American golfer Bobby Jones – is, but what our Corinthian sports list is all about: high-quality sports boo… Read more »
Read an extract from Dice World: Science and Life in a Random Universe
Posted on 2013/04/18 in General, tagged as
Dice World: Science and Life in a Random Universe, the exciting new book from popular science author Brian Clegg, was published earlier this month. Randomness and probability will always be alien to us. But it’s time to plunge into this fascinating, shadowy world, because randomness crops up everywhere. Probability and statistics are the only way to get a grip on nature’s workings. They may even seal the fate of free will and predict how the univ… Read more »
We’re looking for a new Digital and Export Sales & Marketing Executive
Posted on 2013/04/08 in General, tagged as
Have you got what it takes to help sell and promote these books – and many more like them – digitally, and outside the UK in physical form? Do you know your Kindle from your Nook and your EPUB from your .mobi? We’re looking for a new Digital and Export Sales & Marketing Executive, so if that sounds like you, read more about the job here and get in touch, by Thursday 18th April.
