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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 »
Does cycling have anything to do with philosophy?
Posted on 2010/08/23 in General, tagged as
Philosopher Alain de Botton muses on the popularity of philosophy in bookshops at the moment in the Independent today, and reserves a special mention for Icon’s 30-Second Philosophies, just published last month: ’30-Second Philosophies, compiled by Barry Loewer (Icon, £12.99), [is] a beautiful, graphically illustrated guide to the movers and shakers in the past two millennia of thinking.’ See more of that book here.
Quantum by Manjit Kumar – an audio review
Posted on 2010/08/20 in General, tagged as
Manjit Kumar’s Quantum – one of Icon’s biggest-selling titles which was shortlisted for the prestigious BBC Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-fiction in 2009 – is reviewed here: It’s actually the American edition pictured though – see the Icon one here and the author’s website here.
A Mind of Its Own by Cordelia Fine – free sample!
Posted on 2010/08/20 in General, tagged as
In advance of the publication of her next book, Delusions of Gender, in September, we’re offering a free e-sample of Cordelia Fine’s previous work, A Mind of Its Own. It’s the introduction and first chapter – click on the image below to get a closer look – for have a look at Cordelia’s author page for more about this and her new book. Open publication – Free publishing – More neuroscience
Bats Sing, Mice Giggle
Posted on 2010/08/20 in General, tagged as
It’s true – they do! Karen Shanor and Jagmeet Kanwal’s book is published by our American imprint, Totem Books, in the US on 1st September. It’s a unique investigation into the secret, inner lives of animals that until now we could only guess at. Did you know that bats compose their own songs and babble to each other? Or that mice giggle when they are tickled? That lizards do push-ups to seduce a mate, or that elephants mimic the sounds of passing… Read more »
Twelve new Introducing titles for spring 2011!
Posted on 2010/08/18 in General, tagged as
Our famous Introducing series – of which much more on the series’ own website – announces the titles which it will be publishing in the first half of next year. By June next year they’ll be 59 titles available in the series much-loved new compact format. There are 11 republished titles and one brand new one – Introducing Economics by David Orrell and Borin Van Loon. Check the series’ website for more information or the Facebook page. Here are 11… Read more »
