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‘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 »
Icon acquire a shrink – and a sage…
Posted on 2011/09/02 in General, tagged as
Icon Books announce the acquisition of The Shrink and the Sage by popular philosopher Julian Baggini and his psychotherapist partner Antonia Macaro. The book – with the working subtitle A Guide to Modern Dilemmas – springs from the authors’ popular Financial Times Weekend magazine column which has been running since October 2010. The book will greatly build upon the material in the columns, significantly adding to existing ‘dilemmas’ and adding m… Read more »
Introducing Philosophy – now available as an App!
Posted on 2011/09/02 in General, tagged as
We’re really excited to announce the launch today of the second Introducing app, this time on Philosophy, for iPhone / iPad, and Android devices. Ans for a limited time – until September 17th – you can buy both this app and the Ethics app at the very special price of £1.99 each ($2.99 if you pay in dollars). Here’s the link to iTunes for the iPad / iPhone version, and here to the page on the Android marketplace. If you like them, please review th… Read more »
Brian Switek podcast on Little Atoms
Posted on 2011/09/01 in General, tagged as
Brian Switek, author of Written in Stone, the first book on the hunt for evolution’s ‘missing links’, has just done a podcast for Little Atoms. You can listen download the podcast for free on Itunes, listen online here, or listen on the Little Atoms site by clicking on the box below. Written in Stone is also available for Amazon Kindle and as a PDF ebook.
Is Audrey Hepburn the key to stopping the obesity epidemic? The Daily Mail on The Epigenetics Revolution
Posted on 2011/08/30 in General, tagged as
Nessa Carey’s The Epigenetics Revolution is covered in today’s Daily Mail, with the paper explaining how the discovery that Audrey Hepburn suffered malnutrition as a child in the Nazi-occupied Netherlands has helped scientists understand the links between ‘genetic disruption’ and poor health. ‘Now Dr Carey, a British biology expert and former senior lecturer at Imperial College, London, has written a book in which she suggests Hepburn’s poor heal… Read more »
Last chance to buy Icon’s books in Kindle’s summer sale!
Posted on 2011/08/26 in General, tagged as
Manjit Kumar’s Quantum was ranked amongst Amazon’s ‘Top Reviewed Books of the Summer Sale’ in today’s final roundup. Don’t panic though, Quantum is still available to buy on Kindle for 99p until Wednesday, August 31st! Other Icon books priced currently priced at only 99p include Economyths, 50 Facts that Should Change the World and The Happiness Equation.
‘Anyone seriously interested in who we are and how we function should read this book.’
Posted on 2011/08/22 in General, tagged as
Nessa Carey’s The Epigenetics Revolution, published early next month, was reviewed in the Guardian on Saturday. Peter Forbes’ review is the first the book’s had and it’s an excellent summary as well as a ringing endorsement. The full review is here and there’s more about the book here.
Mark Forsyth – author of The Etymologicon – interviewed in the Bookseller
Posted on 2011/08/19 in General, tagged as
Mark Forsyth, whose book The Etymologicon is one of Icon’s highlights for the Christmas season this year, is interviewed in publishing trade magazine the Bookseller today. His book explores the hidden connections between words in the English language, and springs from his blog, The Inky Fool. ‘”It’s the silliness of the English language that drives me and makes me laugh,” Forsyth explains with enthusiasm. “You look up a word like ‘kiosk’ and you… Read more »
Economyths #1 in Amazon Kindle’s Economics section!
Posted on 2011/08/18 in General, tagged as
Amidst recent talk of a possible ‘double-dip recession’, disparaging headlines such as this from today’s BBC News are far from unusual: ‘Shares fall across Europe as confidences drops’. Perhaps this is part of the reason why David Orrell’s Economyths currently ranks at #1 in the Economics category of Amazon’s Kindle Store. Economyths proposes that among the many casualties of the recession has been the credibility of economics, which for decades… Read more »
