Icon News & Events
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 »
Get three 30-Second… books for only £24 at the Guardian Bookshop
Posted on 2011/07/01 in General, tagged as
The Guardian Bookshop are currently offering a set of our 30-Second books at the bargain price of £24 – it’s the Bookshop’s second-highest selling item currently. The RRP for all three together is £38.97 so you’re saving almost £15. The set includes 30-Second Theories, 30-Second Philosophies and the brand-new 30-Second Psychology. Click here for more info and to place your order.
Johnny Ball – Icon’s newest author!
Posted on 2011/06/24 in General, tagged as
We’re extremely excited to announce today the acquisition of a new book by TV maths legend Johnny Ball. Entitled Ball of Confusion, the book springs from Johnny’s slot of the same name on his daughter Zoe’s Saturday morning BBC Radio 2 show, and will be published in early October. It’s a maths puzzle book which sets (and then of course answers!) brain-twisting problems and posers, interspersed with Johnny’s trademark wit and dazzling knowledge of… Read more »
‘I also like the fact that author Brian Clegg is a regular bearded British bloke living in Wiltshire. Top Dad points!’
Posted on 2011/06/16 in General, tagged as
Books blogger Mark Thornton includes Inflight Science as one of his recommendations for your ideal Father’s Day gift this year. ‘This marvellous little book tells you all about the sights, sounds and experiences (not to mention rock-hard engineering) going on from your vantage point in your aircraft seat’ he says. ‘Packed with facts, figures and head-scratching information it sets out to restore some of that childlike excitement that you used to… Read more »
Icon’s ebooks get a slot in the Overdrive newsletter
Posted on 2011/06/16 in General, tagged as
The lovely people at Overdrive have given Icon’s ebooks a slot in their newsletter, Contentwire. Click here to bring up a list of Icon’s ebooks on Overdrive’s website and where you can buy (and borrow) them all around the world. If you want to know more about our ebooks, what formats they’re available in, or where to buy them, take a look at Icon’s ebooks FAQ, under the ‘Our Books/EBOOKS’ tab above.
Rupert Sheldrake New Scientist controversey
Posted on 2011/06/15 in General, tagged as
Our new edition of Rupert Sheldrake’s The Presence of the Past isn’t published until early next month and yet it is already raising hackles, as you can see from this post on the New Scientist’s CultureLab site. We included on the front cover of the book a quote from the New Scientist about the original edition – ‘Engaging, provocative … a tour de force’ – which was taken from a review of the book in the magazine from July 1988. Seeing our new e… Read more »
Written in Stone and The Presence of the Past arrive at Icon HQ
Posted on 2011/06/10 in General, tagged as
Two key books published in July have arrived at Icon House today. Brian Switek’s Written in Stone is the first book on the hunt for evolution’s ‘missing links’ over the last three decades – and what palaeontologists’ findings mean for our place on earth. Rupert Sheldrake’s The Presence of the Past was originally published in 1988 and has since become a science classic. This revised and updated edition sees Sheldrake propose that all self-organizi… Read more »
A video review of Masha Gessen’s Perfect Rigour
Posted on 2011/06/10 in General, tagged as
See more about the book here.
Introducing at the Saatchi Gallery
Posted on 2011/06/10 in General, tagged as
If you happen to visit the bookshop of the Saatchi Gallery in London from now on, you’ll see a highly limited edition of our Introducing spinner unit in white, proudly displaying books in that series – and selling them at two for £10. See more about Introducing – including the first iPhone and iPad app version of one of the titles – on the series’ website.
