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‘There’s nothing natural about gender stereotyping’
Posted on 2010/09/06 in General, tagged as
Cordelia Fine’s Delusions of Gender is discussed in today’s Evening Standard. Read more about the book here.
Margareta Pagano writes on Jilted Generation in the Independent on Sunday
Posted on 2010/09/06 in General, tagged as
‘There’s a new and noisy book just out,’ Margareta Pagano writes in the Independent on Sunday ‘which you must read to discover why the young and the old are shouting at each other over the supper table in a way I’ve not heard since those great divides over drugs’n’rock’n’roll or even the Iraq invasion.’ Click here to see what all the fuss is about.
John Sutherland and John Crace at Warwick Words
Posted on 2010/09/03 in General, tagged as
Highly acclaimed literary critics and journalists John Sutherland and John Crace will be in Warwick on Monday 4th October at 7.30pm for a very special event discussing their two new books, as part of the Warwick Words festival. John Sutherland’s book, co-written with Stephen Fender, is published next month by Icon and called Love, Sex, Death and Words: Surprising Tales from a Year in Literature. It collects stories from literary history for every… Read more »
Win tickets to the Independent Alliance weekend!
Posted on 2010/09/03 in General, tagged as
The Londonist has a competition to win 5 pairs of tickets to the aforementioned Independent Alliance weekend at Foyles – find out more here.
Some tickets still available for the Independent Alliance weekend at Foyles
Posted on 2010/09/03 in General, tagged as
Starting a week tomorrow on Saturday 11th September, the Independent Alliance weekend at Foyles brings together authors from across the best of British independent publishing for a series of very special events. Three of the events involving Icon authors, all on Sunday 12th, are: 12.30pm – 1.15pm: History Girls Helen Castor and Lucy Worsley (Faber), Lisa Hilton(Atlantic), Kitty Ferguson (Icon), Rachel Hewitt(Granta) We wouldn’t dream of naming na… Read more »
Are differences between men and women hard-wired in the brain?
Posted on 2010/09/03 in General, tagged as
The New Scientist reviews Cordelia Fine’s Delusions of Gender, just published by Icon, and says: ‘Fine is fun, droll yet deeply serious. Setting a cracking pace, Delusions tackles the power of implicit association (those unconscious associations we make about men and women) and of negative stereotyping, plus the empathising/systematising theory proposed by psychologist Simon Baron-Cohen, and the messy world of brain scans and genetic research. He… Read more »
Keanu Reeves’ required reading for the Matrix
Posted on 2010/09/02 in General, tagged as
As mentioned in the previous post, we publish a new edition of Dylan Evans’ and Oscar Zarate’s Introducing Evolutionary Psychology today. As you can see below, this book was one of three Keanu Reeves was required to read before shooting began on the original Matrix film – as you can see below. So now you know…
Published today
Posted on 2010/09/02 in General, tagged as
Icon, Wizard and Corinthian between them publish twelve books today. They are: Delusions of Gender by Cordelia Fine, a vehement attack on the latest pseudo-scientific claims about the differences between the sexes. Jilted Generation by Ed Howker and Shiv Malik, in which the authors argue that, in stark contrast to their parents’ generation, millions of young Britons today face the most uncertain future since the early 1930s. The Ryder Cup: A Hist… Read more »
‘It’s [the author’s] ability to weave together threads of history, social commentary and everyday customs that make this memoir entertaining’
Posted on 2010/09/01 in General, tagged as
A Carpet Ride to Khiva by Christopher Aslan Alexander is reviewed on the Lonely Planet website. The book is a hauntingly, beautifully written tale of the author’s journey to, and life in, the desert oasis of Khiva in Uzbekistan. The review ends by saying: ‘It was a joy being transported back to Central Asia, with its dust and decay and rounds of flat bread, its corrupt officials and wonderful hospitality, the piles of plov and greasy lamb mantis,… Read more »
‘While every generation thinks it has things uniquely bad, today’s teenagers have the statistics to back it up’
Posted on 2010/09/01 in General, tagged as
Robert Colvile writes a big piece in the Telegraph today around Ed Howker and Shiv Malik’s Jilted Generation, published by Icon tomorrow. ‘Tomorrow, a provocative new book by Ed Howker and Shiv Malik, called Jilted Generation, takes things further. The two 29-year-olds show how those born after Margaret Thatcher’s arrival in Downing Street – a category into which I, too, squeeze – have things unutterably worse than their parents.’ Keep up with th… Read more »
