Icon News & Events
Announcing Icon’s spring 2012 catalogue – and our new logo!
Posted on 2011/09/28 in General, tagged as
It’s with great excitement here at 1, Icon Avenue that we announce today not only our new catalogue for the first half of next year, but a birthday – our 20th – and to go with it a new logo! The new logo, which can now been seen above, will be rolled out onto all books, stationery, social media pages and much else besides over the coming months. We very much hope you like it. And here is the catalogue – a selection of books on a year with a lowe… Read more »
Introducing Apps – now available on Android tablets
Posted on 2011/09/27 in General, tagged as
As of today, our Introducing Ethics and Philosophy apps – which are already available for iPhone, iPad and Android phones – are now available on Android tablets. Also available on all these formats very shortly will be Introducing Capitalism and Introducing Postmodernism – watch this space for more news. The Introducing App transforms each book in its entirety into an interactive format enjoyable on mobile devices and tablets alike. Much more tha… Read more »
Kate Monro’s blog made into a play and nominated for Cosmopolitan Blog Awards 2011
Posted on 2011/09/26 in General, tagged as
Icon author Kate Monro has been nominated for a Cosmopolitan Blog Award for her blog, The Virginity Project, which forms the basis for her book The First Time (True Tales of Viriginity Lost and Found). To vote in the awards, go to the Cosmopolitan website here. The Virginity Project, a play based on Kate’s book, will also be showing at the Tristan Bates theatre in Covent Garden between the 6th – 22nd October. The show will also be streamed live.… Read more »
Love Your Indie – a new loyalty scheme for independent booksellers
Posted on 2011/09/23 in General, tagged as
The Independent Alliance, of which Icon Books is a member, announces today a loyalty card scheme for independent booksellers called Love Your Indie. The scheme, which is run in association with the Guardian and Observer, will launch in the paper on Saturday 1st October. More than half a million blank cards, which also give their bearers 20% in all participating bookshops until mid-November, will be attached to the Guardian that day. Readers get a… Read more »
Ball of Confusion arrives!
Posted on 2011/09/21 in General, tagged as
Copies of Johnny Ball’s Ball of Confusion arrived at Icon Towers today – and very nice it looks too. Ball of Confusion features puzzles and problems from the Johnny’s slot of the same name of his daughter Zoe’s BBC Radio 2 show, as well as many more, designed to twist your brain into enjoyable knots of empuzzlement and designed for every level of difficulty. It’s published at the start of October and you can read more about it here.
Martin Bell at Icon HQ
Posted on 2011/09/15 in General, tagged as
Martin Bell – veteran BBC war correspondent, Britain’s first Independent MP in 50 years and ‘the man in the white suit’ – was in the Icon office today to sign copies of his new book. For Whom the Bell Tolls is a collection of ‘light and dark verse’ which is by turns amusing, autobiographical, touching and timely. The earliest poem in the book was written when Martin was 19, doing his National Service. The most recent cover the Arab Spring and the… Read more »
Buy all five Introducing Practical Guides for only £23.95 with the Guardian Bookshop
Posted on 2011/09/13 in General, tagged as
The Guardian Bookshop launch an exclusive offer today to buy all five of the Introducing Practical Guides at less than £24. Click here to see the offer in full and here to read more about this series which brings big ideas to help real life situations. The Guardian also have an offer for five Psychology-themed Graphic Guides too, for only £22. Click here to see more on that.
Buy The Epigenetics Revolution at the Guardian Bookshop for only £14.39
Posted on 2011/09/08 in General, tagged as
The bookshop at the Guardian are offering Nessa Carey’s groundbreaking investigation of the cutting-edge of modern biology, currently their bestselling Human Sciences title, for£14.39 for a limited period. That very newspaper called The Epigenetics Revolution ‘a book that would have had Darwin swooning’ in their review published a few weeks ago. Click here to see the Guardian’s offer in full and here for more about the book.
‘A lively and worrying work which argues that the scientific community has often sabotaged the fight for gender equality’
Posted on 2011/09/06 in General, tagged as
Cordelia Fine’s Delusions of Gender is reviewed on Irish politics website Politico.ie by Ed O’Hare. ‘Fine’s case is a damning one,’ he says. ‘For decades it has been assumed that our gender is determined by our biology and that the brain is literally hardwired from birth to be male or female. Fine argues that today this almost universally held theory rests on the same amount of hard fact that has always supported it: none at all. However, the acc… Read more »
‘It’s hard not to be seduced by Join the Club … Whether writing about healthcare in India or study habits in American universities, Rosenberg expresses herself with admirable clarity and concision’
Posted on 2011/09/04 in General, tagged as
Tina Rosenberg’s Join the Club is reviewed in Saturday’s Guardian by Thomas Hodgkinson. ‘Our ideas of what constitutes good and bad behaviour remain defined by the behaviour of those around us,’ Hodgkinson says. ‘In other words, we are susceptible to peer pressure – and this, Tina Rosenberg argues in her thought-provoking new book, is something we should be making every effort to exploit in order to cure social ills. What if peer pressure were ha… Read more »
