Icon News & Events
Join the Club and the London riots clean-up
Posted on 2011/08/15 in General, tagged as
Two of Icon’s books have become even more topical in light of recent events. The Jilted Generation of disadvantaged and disenchanted youths, which Ed Miliband warned of in May 2011, flexed its muscles in the scourge of riots which swept the country over the past week. Yet the mob mentality which fuelled the riots found its counterpoint in the collective clean-up operation which roused the country in its aftermath. Tina Rosenberg’s new book, Join… Read more »
Practical Guides in ebooks.com newsletter!
Posted on 2011/08/10 in General, tagged as
The lovely people at ebooks.com have featured Psychology of Success from Icon’s new Practical Guides series in their latest newsletter: Our new Practical Guides series are available to buy in both epub and PDf format: Introducing Psychology of Success: A Practical Guide Introducing Child Psychology: A Practical Guide Introducing CBT: A Practical Guide Introducing Sport Psychology: A Practical Guide Introducing Neurolinguistic Programming:… Read more »
New Introducing website launches!
Posted on 2011/08/04 in General, tagged as
Icon’s brand-new sister series to our famous Introducing Graphic Guides, the Introducing Practical Guides are published today! And to coincide with that happy occasion we’re excited to announce the launch of the new Introducing website which incorporates the new series. Introducingbooks.com features all of the essential details about all the books in the two branches of the series and much more. In particular, we are also launching an offer today… Read more »
Delusions of Gender shortlisted for The Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards
Posted on 2011/07/26 in General, tagged as
Cordelia Fine’s Delusions of Gender has been shortlisted in the Non-Fiction category for this prestigious Australian award. As the award website says, the Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards were inaugurated by The Hon. John Cain, Premier of Victoria in 1985, to mark the centenary of the births of Vance and Nettie Palmer and to honour and reward literary achievement by Australian writers. The full shortlist is here and the winner is announced on… Read more »
James Hannam reviews Manjit Kumar
Posted on 2011/07/22 in General, tagged as
Isn’t it nice when two of your friends become friends themselves? Well, here’s a Icon Books version of that happy tale as James Hannam, author of the Royal Society Prize-shortlisted God’s Philosophers reviews Manjit Kumar’s BBC Samuel Johnson Prize-shortlisted Quantum on his blog. They’d get on famously in real life, it seems. Quantum ‘is a difficult project triumphantly accomplished.’ James writes on his blog. ‘In popular history of science, the… Read more »
Icon success at Blackwells, Oxford
Posted on 2011/07/15 in General, tagged as
We’re very pleased to read this post from Blackwell’s flagship store on Broad Street in Oxford, where they report their bestselling books for the year so far. Icon titles occupy positions 1 and 3 on their list of non-fiction bestsellers. John Farndon’s Do You Think You’re Clever? leads the charge (‘Questions and answers from Oxbridge entrance exams that has been a real hit with students and tourists alike. It outsold all fiction titles as well la… Read more »
Tina Rosenberg’s Join the Club arrives at Icon HQ
Posted on 2011/07/11 in General, tagged as
Join the Club: How Peer Pressure Can Transform the World by Tina Rosenberg is published by Icon at the start of next month, and copies have just arrived in our office today. In the book, which Icon bought from American publisher Norton, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Tina Rosenberg explains how creative social entrepreneurs are helping people to accomplish goals from losing weight to fighting terrorism, exploiting the power of positive peer pressu… Read more »
Brian Switek on Today
Posted on 2011/07/07 in General, tagged as
Brian Switek, left, was on BBC Radio 4’s Today programme this morning discussing his new book, Written in Stone. ‘Modern techniques such as DNA profiling have been groundbreaking for our understanding of the evolution of life on earth,’ so the Today website introduces the interview. ‘Science correspondent Tom Feilden met leading paleontologist, Brian Switek, to look at some of the most “dramatic strides” in DNA research.’ Listen again to the piec… Read more »
Icon’s ebooks for 99p
Posted on 2011/07/06 in General, tagged as
You can find fifteen of Icon’s ebooks for Kindle in the Summer Reads sale on Amazon.co.uk for as little as £0.99 each. Fifty Facts That Should Change the World is the bestseller in the Politics and Current Affairs list as of this minute (beating Tony Blair’s book!), while Manjit Kumar’s Quantum tops the chart in the Scientific History and Philosophy section, keeping God’s Philosophers, Pythagoras and Science & Islam company in… Read more »
Introducing…The Practical Guides
Posted on 2011/07/05 in General, tagged as
The Introducing Graphic Guide books are Icon’s flagship series which the company was set up to publish almost 20 years ago. Next month, we launch the Graphic Guides’ sister series: Introducing Practical Guides – and they’ve just arrived from the printer. The Practical Guides, as the name suggests, take big ideas and get them working for you. The first five titles, published on 4th August, bring insights from a variety of psychological experts to… Read more »
