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Mark Forsyth explains the origins of Valentine’s Day
Posted on 2013/02/14 in General, tagged as
Mark Forsyth explains the Chaucerian origins of Valentine’s Day in the video below, and why love is literally in the air… The Horologicon is full of surprising and amusing #lostwords for every situation. Here’s a particularly appropriate one for today: The Horologicon is available now from all good bookshops. Find out more about the book here and read an extract here. Follow our Tumblr to discover more #lostwords.
Mark Forsyth interviewed on Jazz FM for Waterstones Book Hour
Posted on 2013/02/13 in General, tagged as
Mark Forsyth is the latest guest to appear on Jazz FM for Waterstones Book Hour with Rosemary Laryea. Listen to Mark Forsyth talk about #lostwords and The Horologicon below. The Horologicon is available now from all good bookshops. Find out more about the book here and read an extract here. Follow our Tumblr to discover more #lostwords.
Win an Introducing Graphic Guide of your choice!
Posted on 2013/02/08 in General, tagged as
Head over to facebook.com/introducingbooks find out how to take part in the beta version of our Introducing Graphic Guides survey and win a Graphic Guide of your choice. We’d love to hear what you thought of the survey – whether it was too long/too short, interesting, too intrusive, enjoyable, and so on – so please provide us with feedback by commenting on the Facebook post by 5pm, 15th February 2013. We will randomly pick 10 people who complete… Read more »
The Nature Magpie – exclusive sampler
Posted on 2013/02/08 in General, tagged as
Daniel Allen’s The Nature Magpie – a brilliant miscellany of the natural world – is published by Icon in May. Here’s an exclusive taster – read and enjoy and let us know what you think! See more about the book here.
Calling all popular science reviewers, booksellers and librarians – Project Sunshine is now available on NetGalley!
Posted on 2013/01/31 in General, tagged as
Project Sunshine: How science can use the sun to fuel and feed the world, by Steve McKevitt & Tony Ryan is now available to download from NetGalley. It’s astonishing that capturing all the energy in just one hour’s worth of sunlight would enable us to meet the planet’s food and energy needs for an entire year. Project Sunshine tells the story of how scientists are working to reconnect us to the ‘solar economy’, harnessing the power of the sun… Read more »
Brian Clegg’s 20 fascinating facts about the human body
Posted on 2013/01/31 in General, tagged as
Brian Clegg, popular science author of The Universe Inside You, Inflight Science and Introducing Infinity: A Graphic Guide, has written a brilliant piece for the Guardian on 20 amazing facts about the human body. You might be surprised to discover that an adult is made up of around 7,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 (7 octillion) atoms and that the atoms mostly empty space. Read Brian Clegg’s piece over on the Guardian website. Read more about… Read more »
30-Second series now available on Google Play!
Posted on 2013/01/29 in General, tagged as
The bestselling 30-Second series is now available to download in eBook format via Google Play! 30-Second books enable you to brush up on your knowledge of humanity’s most challenging theories, accompanied by lavish illustrations and concise facts. Read about the most thought-provoking, mind-expanding theories in Maths, Economics, Politics, Philosophies, Theories and Psychology in less than a minute. Download the eBooks to view on your e-reader or… Read more »
Shakespeare’s Sonnets and DNA
Posted on 2013/01/24 in General, tagged as
The Guardian posted a thought-provoking article today explaining how a device enabled Shakespeare’s sonnets to be encoded onto a strand of DNA. The experiment was conducted in order to demonstrate the storage capacity of DNA – one gram, for example, can hold as much information as a million CDs. The speck of DNA was then fed back into a gene sequencing machine and sonnets were able to be read again. Read about more the experiment here. If you fee… Read more »
Is ‘feague’ the most disturbing word in The Horologicon?
Posted on 2013/01/21 in General, tagged as
Gabriella at timelordsandwizards reviews The Horologicon by Mark Forsyth and talks about her favourite #lostwords (and the most disturbing!). The Horologicon is available now from all good bookshops. Find out more about the book here and discover more lost words on Tumblr here.
Five brand new Practical Guides added to the series!
Posted on 2013/01/18 in General, tagged as
Five Introducing Practical Guides – Body Language, CBT for Work, Emotional Intelligence, Getting the Job You Want and Assertiveness – have recently been added to our popular self-help series! These jargon-free and easy-to-read guides offer straightforward and realistic advice, helping you to stop negative thoughts before they affect your work and well-being, set the right goals by working out what you really want, understand non-verbal messages s… Read more »
