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TWO Icon titles on shortlist for 2010 Educational Writers Award!
Posted on 2010/11/19 in General, tagged as
Both Ben Crystal’s Shakespeare on Toast, and Do You Think You’re Clever? by John Farndon, have made this year’s 2010 Educational Writers Award Shortlist – and there are only two other titles on the list. The Authors’ Licensing & Collecting Society and the Society of Authors created this award in 2008 to ‘celebrate educational writing that inspires creativity and encourages students to read widely and build up their understanding of a subject… Read more »
‘Dr Fine is a brilliant tour guide – making light, fun and engaging work of the research. By debunking the rubbish, this book opens up possibilities for a (slightly) clearer vision of the future. Not to be missed.’
Posted on 2010/11/17 in General, tagged as
More praise for Cordelia Fine’s Delusions of Gender, this time from Fat Quarter, ‘a magazine for, about and by intelligent, savvy, creative, crafty women (and men too).’ The whole piece is here.
‘I can’t help thinking that Love, Sex, Death and Words would make a much appreciated Christmas present for any avid reader’
Posted on 2010/11/16 in General, tagged as
John Sutherland and Stephen Fender’s Love, Sex, Death and Words is well-recieved by books blogger A Common Reader. ‘I have been looking forward to reading this book for some time, having enjoyed John Sutherland’s earlier books … This time John Sutherland is joined by Stephen Fender in assembling this huge anthology of essays about writers and books, 365 in fact, one for every day of the year, although few readers will be unable to resist readin… Read more »
‘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.
