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Continental Philosophy, Empiricism and Wagner added to the Graphic Guide series!
Posted on 2013/02/27 in General, tagged as
Next month, three Graphic Guides will be added to the series in compact format, including brand new Continental Philosophy. Delve into a commonly overlooked body of thought in Continental Philosophy: A Graphic Guide, explore the idea that knowledge can only come from sensory experience in Empiricism: A Graphic Guide, and become one of the few that truly understand this classical composer in Wagner: A Graphic Guide. Published 7th March. Head over… Read more »
‘It’s very funny and witty and a little bit cheeky… it’s definitely entertaining’
Posted on 2013/02/26 in General, tagged as
The Horologicon by Mark Forsyth has been reviewed by the lovely Amanda at HeyHeyBooks!. Check out what she has to say about it 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 some fantastic #lostwords.
View Icon and Corinthian’s new July – December 2013 catalogue
Posted on 2013/02/25 in General, tagged as
Have a browse of the new Icon Books and Corinthian catalogue below, covering books published from July to December this year. We are thrilled to be publishing more history titles this year: July 1914, published on the 99th anniversary of that fatal month, is Sean McMeekin’s powerful, almost forensic history of 30 days when the world allowed a terrorist incident in Sarajevo to descend into the bloodiest, most entrenched conflict the world had yet… Read more »
Announcing The Pinnacle of Parnassus – the erudite and brilliantly funny new book from Mark Forsyth
Posted on 2013/02/25 in General, tagged as
Icon Books is extremely excited to announce the new book from Mark Forsyth, the author of The Etymologicon and The Horologicon. The Pinnacle of Parnassus: An Entirely Successful Attempt to Write Three Perfect Sentences is Mark Forsyth’s wry quest to write nothing less than the three most perfect sentences that the English language has ever seen. Readers will be treated to a guided literary clamber up Mount Parnassus, home of the Greek Muses. Alon… Read more »
A pocketful of sunshine arrives in Icon Books HQ!
Posted on 2013/02/22 in General, tagged as
If you have enormous, energy-saving pockets, that is. Project Sunshine: How science can use the sun to fuel and feed the world, by Steve McKevitt and Tony Ryan, has arrived in the office and is all packed up and ready to be sent out to press! ‘This is an important, much needed book. It shows that things can’t go on as they have done: population growth, fossil-fuel burning, greenhouse-gas pollution. But it also explains that they don’t need to. Te… Read more »
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 »
