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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 »
Jilted Generation in the Daily Mail and Herald
Posted on 2010/08/31 in General, tagged as
Ed Howker and Shiv Malik’s Jilted Generation: How Britain Has Bankrupted Its Youth, which is published this Thursday, was extracted over the weekend in the Daily Mail, and the authors wrote a big piece for the Herald in Scotland. See more about the book here and it’s own website is here.
‘Everything that a popular history book should be’
Posted on 2010/08/26 in General, tagged as
Bookgeeks reviews Greg Grandin’s Fordlandia, a fact-is-far-stranger-than-fiction tale of Henry Ford’s mad attempt to build his idea of a perfect American town slap bang in the middle of the Amazonian jungle. It’s won awards and plaudits aplenty both sides of the Atlantic, and we’re publishing the paperback in October.
‘With a cast of characters brought to life in superb style by Evans, Slaughter on a Snowy Morn cannot fail to keep you gripped until the very last page.’
Posted on 2010/08/25 in General, tagged as
Colin Evans’ utterly compulsive Slaughter on a Snowy Morn is reviewed on HistoryTimes.com
How to Run a Book Festival
Posted on 2010/08/25 in General, tagged as
David Shenk, author of the recently published The Genius in All of Us, was at the Edinburgh International Book Festival earlier this month, where he discussed his book at three, no less, sold-out events. And impressed he was too – justifiably – with the Festival’s slick management, as you can read here on his blog. His book is dazzling look at the new science of genetics and the frontiers of human potential, in which he argues that it’s not genet… Read more »
God’s Philosophers shortlisted for the Royal Society Prize for Science Books
Posted on 2010/08/24 in General, tagged as
James Hannam’s God’s Philosophers: How the Medieval World Laid the Foundations of Modern Science has been shortlisted for this year’s prestigious Royal Society Prize for Science Books. William Hill give the book the best odds of all of the shortlisted titles to win, at 3/1. The judges said of Hannam’s book: “A vibrant insight into the medieval approach to science, full of wonderful anecdotes and personalities. Dispelling common myths about the ‘d… Read more »
