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‘A valuable and inspiring read’
Posted on 2010/10/14 in General, tagged as
Pythagoras is reviewed by Ziauddin Sardar in the the Independent , who concludes by saying: ‘Pythagoras does two things exceptionally well. It provides a magnificent grand tour of the history of mathematics and how it has shaped our understanding of the universe. And it provides deep insight into how the West has manufactured and maintains its Greek roots. This makes it a valuable and inspiring read.’ Read the whole review here.
See Kitty Ferguson, author of Pythagoras, for free in Cambridge
Posted on 2010/10/14 in General, tagged as
Wednesday 27th October sees Kitty Ferguson, author of the recently published Pythagoras, talk about her book in Heffers bookshop in Cambridge. Tickets are entirely FREE and are available from the cash desk on the ground floor of the fantastic Heffers shop on Trinity St. Here’s what they say: ‘Kitty Ferguson brilliantly evokes Pythagoras’ ancient world, showing how ideas spread in antiquity, and chronicles the incredible influence he and his follo… Read more »
Win the Royal Society Prize shortlist with the Guardian
Posted on 2010/10/14 in General, tagged as
The Guardian are running a competition to win all 6 books on this year’s shortlist for the Royal Society Prize for Science Books, which includes of course Icon’s very own God’s Philosophers by James Hannam. Read more and enter the competition here.
The ‘Two Johnnies’ at Kings College London
Posted on 2010/10/13 in General, tagged as
John Sutherland, co-author of Love, Sex, Death and Words, and John Crace will be at Kings College London on Tuesday 26 October in a discussion called On the Nature of Criticism. The two authors were last heard together at a fabulously enjoyable event in Warwick so this London discussion will be one not to miss! Here’s some more details below and there’s more here. It’s free but you need to complete a booking form ‘The Guardian’s master satirist a… Read more »
‘This book … should bring delight to many, sell tons and keep as many ex-wives as any of us could wish for in scones and jam.’
Posted on 2010/10/11 in General, tagged as
John Sutherland and Stephen Fender’s Love, Sex, Death and Words is reviewed in the Spectator. ‘It’s a smart idea, well executed.’ says reviewer Sam Leith. ‘Its prime virtue is the dense agglomeration of trivia around even well-known events. Yukio Mishima’s suicide (25 November 1970) is an obvious enough date to include — but how funny to record Private Eye’s response, which was to publish a picture of Kingsley Amis under the headline ‘Famous Brit… Read more »
‘A love of cricket masks many flaws and the brilliance of the View from the Boundary idea – the regular Test Match Special Saturday lunchtime interview spot – is that it allows the audience to tolerate and even warm to characters they would normally turn off to avoid.’
Posted on 2010/10/11 in General, tagged as
Peter Baxter’s The Best Views from the Boundary is reviewed in The Observer.
The Ryder Cup: A History of Golf’s Greatest Match
Posted on 2010/10/01 in General, tagged as
As the Ryder Cup tees off today at Celtic Manor in Wales, what better 19th hole companion than the just-published above book, by Peter Pugh and Henry Lord, with a Foreword by golfling broadcaster Bruce Critchley. Here’s a brief extract from that Foreword to whet your appetite: ‘But these last 30 years! What a change and what a shock to the Americans that golf, when close and partisan, can be a pulsating and terrifying experience. It has taken the… Read more »
Did the Earth Move for Galileo?
Posted on 2010/10/01 in General, tagged as
James Hannam, author of the Royal Society Prize for Science Books 2010-shortlisted God’s Philosophers, writes today in Standpoint magazine on how less opposed Galileo and the Catholic church really were, contrary to what we might think. Read the full piece here.
‘With Delusions of Gender, we welcome a brilliant feminist critic of the neurosciences’
Posted on 2010/09/30 in General, tagged as
Visiting professor of sociology at the London School of Economics Hilary Rose reviews Cordelia Fine’s Delusions of Gender in the Times Higher Education Supplement. ‘In a book that sparkles with wit,’ she says ‘which is easy to read but underpinned by substantial scholarship and a formidable 100-page bibliography, she attacks the ready generalisations on sexual differences made by neuroscientists and their media exegetes.’ Read the full piece here… Read more »
Why Ed Miliband should own the big society
Posted on 2010/09/29 in General, tagged as
Shiv Malik, co-author of Jilted Generation, published by Icon earlier this month, writes on the Prospect website about how the new Labour leader needs to reclaim the natural ideological territory of the left. Read Shiv’s full piece here.
