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Celebrating International Women’s Day: 10 Non-Fiction Books by Women
Posted on 2014/03/08 in General, tagged as cordelia fine, gretchen reynolds, introducing, kitty ferguson, maryanne wolf, nessa carey, thalma lobel, tona rosenberg, victoria williamson
As it’s International Women’s Day, we wanted to celebrate by featuring some of our female authors. Women are often underrepresented as non-fiction authors and opinion-influences, but some of our most successful, exciting and innovative books are written by women, so here’s ten of our non-fiction books by women! The Epigenetics Revolution: How Modern Biology is Rewriting Our Understanding of Genetics, Disease and Inheritance by Nessa Carey – ‘a bo… Read more »
New Books Published in March: You Are the Music, Cracked, Introducing Walter Benjamin & 30-Second Brain
Posted on 2014/03/06 in New Books, tagged as 30-Second, James Davies, anil seth, introducing, victoria williamson
It’s publication day for Icon Books and this month we have four smart-thinking books to share with you! Do babies remember music from the womb? Can classical music increase your child’s IQ? Is music good for productivity? You Are the Music is a brilliant new work from music psychologist Victoria Williamson that will delight music lovers of every persuasion. Enter to win one of 15 signed copies over at Caboodle, listen to Victoria speak on BBC Rad… Read more »
Win copies of You Are the Music by Victoria Williamson, out next month
Posted on 2014/02/19 in Competitions, New Books, tagged as victoria williamson
Victoria Williamson’s You Are the Music is published on 6th March and to celebrate, there are copies available to win via Caboodle (National Book Tokens) and Goodreads. Do babies remember music from the womb? Can classical music increase your child’s IQ? Is music good for productivity? Can it aid recovery from illness and injury? And what is going on in your brain when Ultravox’s ‘Vienna’, Schoenberg’s Verklärte Nacht or Dizzee Rascal’s ‘Bonkers’… Read more »
New Books Published in February: Dice World, July 1914 & The Nature Magpie, now available in paperback
Posted on 2014/02/07 in New Books, tagged as brian clegg, daniel allen, sean mcmeekin
We published three brilliant paperbacks this week! Take a look below to read more about them. Dice World: Science and Life in a Random Universe, Brian Clegg As troubling as we pattern-seeking humans may find it, modern science has repeatedly shown us that randomness is the underlying heartbeat of nature. In Dice World, acclaimed science writer Brian Clegg takes readers on an incredible trip around our random universe, uncovering the truths and li… Read more »
Under Fire, Allum’s Almanac 2015 and Rock ‘N’ Roll Soccer to be published this year!
Posted on 2014/02/06 in News, tagged as fred burton, ian plenderleith, marc allum, samuel katz
We are excited to announce that Icon Books has acquired three new books, to be published later this year! Rock ‘n’ Rock Soccer: The Short Life and Fast Times of the North American Soccer League, to be published in September and written by acclaimed football writer and journalist Ian Plenderleith, reveals in all its glory the colour and chaos of the world’s first truly international league. Superstars, hype, cheerleaders, razzmatazz. The North Ame… Read more »
Read an extract from Luca Caioli’s biography on Ballon d’Or winner Cristiano Ronaldo!
Posted on 2014/01/20 in Free Extracts, tagged as luca caioli
Cristiano Ronaldo was last week crowned the 2013 Fifa Ballon d’Or winner. Check out this free extract from Luca Caioli’s bestselling biography! When a young Portuguese player with sublime abilities arrived at Manchester United in 2003, Alex Ferguson put the no. 7 shirt – once worn by Best, Cantona and Beckham – on his back without hesitation. The expectation was clear, and Cristiano Ronaldo didn’t disappoint. Ronaldo won the FIFA World Footballer… Read more »
A Letter from Harry by Second World War RAF veteran Harry Leslie Smith, to be published June 2014
Posted on 2014/01/15 in New Books, News, tagged as harry leslie smith
We are excited to announce that we will be publishing A Letter from Harry: Why the world we built is falling down, and what we can do to save it, by Second World War RAF veteran Harry Leslie Smith, in June. Harry Leslie Smith was born in 1923 in Barnsley. King George V was on the throne. Stanley Baldwin was Prime Minister. Eliot’s The Waste Land was picking up mixed reviews. There was no NHS, no welfare state. Those who could afford to took care… Read more »
ISIS Excursion – a trip to a particle accelerator
Posted on 2014/01/14 in Competitions, News, tagged as introducing, oliver pugh, particle physics, tom whyntie
In September last year, to celebrate the publication of Tom Whyntie and Oliver Pugh’s Introducing Particle Physics, we ran a competition, in association with Blackwells and the Rutherford-Appleton Laboratory, to win a rare visit to the ISIS particle accelerator at the laboratory near Didcot in Oxfordshire. Dan Tucker, from Brighton, won the competition and on Sunday came along with friend Bryony to see for themselves exactly what Britain’s answer… Read more »
Productivity Tips from the Icon Books Ninjas
Posted on 2014/01/04 in New Books, tagged as graham allcott
Graham Allcott’s How to Be a Productivity Ninja was published this week and to celebrate, we thought we’d share our own productivity tips with you! We’re getting in the New Year, New Ninja mood… Kate (Commissioning Editor) I ‘go dark’, to use the terminology in Graham Allcott’s How to be a Productivity Ninja. This means when I really need to focus I turn off my email and put my voicemail on for a few hours, so I can work uninterrupted. Stacey (… Read more »
How to Be a Productivity Ninja is published today!
Posted on 2014/01/02 in New Books, tagged as graham allcott
Move beyond time management, get your inbox to zero and learn to think like a Productivity Ninja! Get your hands on a copy of How to Be a Productivity Ninja by Graham Allcott, published today. It’s finally January, so it’s time for New Year, New Ninja! In this age of information overload, traditional time-management techniques simply aren’t able to deal with overflowing inboxes, ever-expanding to-do lists and endless, pointless meetings that leav… Read more »
