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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.
Win £100 of Icon books via our Facebook page
Posted on 2011/06/08 in General, tagged as
Fancy winning a stack of Icon titles worth £100? Simply visit our Facebook page and comment on the post about this competition. The winner will be picked at random this Friday, 8th June. And please share with your friends!
‘If you’re a frequent flyer, it’s easy to become blasé about the remarkable technology that lies at the heart of aviation. Yet, as Brian Clegg points out in this entertaining and informative book, we’ve come a very long way in just over a century’
Posted on 2011/05/31 in General, tagged as
British Airways’ Business Life magazine has Brian Clegg’s Inflight Science as Book of the Month in the latest issue. ‘He explains how Newton’s three laws of motion come into effect during take-off. He reveals that Einstein’s concept of ‘special relativity’ means that after 40 years of crossing the Atlantic every week, you would be one thousandth of a second younger than an identical twin. More prosaically, he even goes into the mechanics of the o… Read more »
