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‘An engaging and entertainingly written book, whose purpose is to show the extent of scientific progress in the Middle Ages, and to dispel some prevalent and persistent myths about the period.’
Posted on 2010/11/15 in General, tagged as
Another review of James Hannam’s God’s Philosophers here on a blog called Beyond Necessity, and also one here in the Guardian on Saturday. James Hannam’s debate with Charles Freeman has also been continuing at length on the New Humanist site – see more here.
Shiv Malik at #demo2010
Posted on 2010/11/10 in General, tagged as
Shiv Malik, co-author of Jilted Generation, at the student demonstration in central London today: Get the whole book for free on your phone – text JILTED to 60300
Win this year’s John Llewellyn Rhys Prize shortlist
Posted on 2010/11/09 in General, tagged as
Booktrust, who run the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize for which Cordelia Fine’s Delusions of Gender is shortlisted this year, have a competition to win all six of the books on the shortlist. Click here to see more and good luck!
Win £100 of books via the Icon Facebook page!!
Posted on 2010/11/09 in General, tagged as
We’re giving all UK residents (sorry if you’re elsewhere, we’ll run other competitions for you later, promise) the chance to win £100 worth of Icon books of your choice.* Just visit the Icon Facebook page, click ‘like’ and add a comment after this message. We’ll announce the winner a week today! * the only condition is that the books you’d like have to be in stock at our warehouse, and you need to have a UK postal address. The £100 will be calcul… Read more »
‘Top college honour for bat-sex row academic’
Posted on 2010/11/09 in General, tagged as
The Irish Independent reports today on Dylan Evans’ President’s Awards for Research on Innovative Forms of Teaching from his University in Cork. Dylan, author of Introducing Evolutionary Psychology and Introducing Evolution, has been mired in controversy this year after his university upheld a sexual harrasment charge against him, brought by a colleague to whom he showed a paper about oral sex in fruit bats. As the paper reports: ‘UCC discipline… Read more »
Manjit Kumar’s website
Posted on 2010/11/09 in General, tagged as
Manjit Kumar, author of one of Icon’s best-ever selling and most well-regarded science books, Quantum, has recently overhauled his website. Click the image below to take a look:
‘Men may be from Mars and women from Venus but if you put blokes and sheilas on each other’s planet they will work out how to manage.’
Posted on 2010/11/09 in General, tagged as
A review from Australia (where else?) of Cordelia Fine’s Delusions of Gender. ‘An excellent book that puts the old nature-or-nurture debate in the context of the new science on the way our brains work.’ Read more here.
‘It’s Sunday lunchtime in South Kensington…’
Posted on 2010/11/08 in General, tagged as
‘… and at the Battle Of Ideas – the big annual rammy of political thought staged by Claire Fox and her Institute Of Ideas – the session on “Generation Wars” is drawing to a close, when a young woman rises to ask a question. “I just want to know,” she says, “what I should be able to expect. I’m 32, and I’ve just got married. But both of us have insecure jobs. We can’t afford to buy a house or flat; and it feels as if we can’t afford to start a f… Read more »
Slaughter on a Snowy Morn – new paperback cover
Posted on 2010/11/05 in General, tagged as
We’ve just finished off today the cover for the new paperback edition of Colin Evans’ brilliant true-crime thriller Slaughter on a Snowy Morn – and here it is (click for a larger image): The book is published in January next year.
‘It’s irresistible, as compulsive as eating popcorn’
Posted on 2010/11/04 in General, tagged as
John Sutherland and Stephen Fender’s Love, Sex, Death and Words is reviewed in the Guardian. ‘I’ve had tremendous fun reading [the entries] – arguing with some, substituting others, quoting them over lunch – and pleasure is at the heart of this project. It’s irresistible, as compulsive as eating popcorn. Hawthorne and Melville meet for the first time, Petrarch catches first sight of Laura, Picasso, Joyce, Stravinsky and Diaghilev and Proust dine… Read more »
