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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 »
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.
