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In March 1992 Icon Books published its first books – …for Beginners guides to Freud, Einstein, Darwin and Ecology – and set the tone for a company that is now one of the best-regarded independent publishers of non-fiction in the UK. Here at Icon we love big ideas – cutting-edge science, fiery polemic, groundbreaking new history – but we like a good read too. The Introducing series – which … for Beginners has since become – proves we’re not the only ones, with sales beyond 3 million books and editions in more than 30 foreign languages. Now a member of the innovative Independent Alliance, Icon’s reach extends to everywhere in the UK that sells books, and across the world. That tone of our first titles now rings through our publishing, from bestsellers like Why Do People Hate America? and the BBC Samuel Johnson Prize-shortlisted Quantum to the critically acclaimed Delusions of Gender by Cordelia Fine or James Hannam’s God’s Philosophers (shortlisted for the 2010 Royal Society Prize for Science Books).
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A rollercoaster year in the life of one of English football’s most notorious clubs ‘No one likes us, we don’t care’ A self-published bestseller and British Sports Books Awards 2011 nominee, Michael Calvin’s Family provides a unique glimpse into the soul of a real football club. Award-winning sports writer Calvin follows Millwall through an emotional promotion season. There for the first day of training, he was on the substitutes’ bench at Wembley, 333 days later. He vividly portrays players and management as family men, close to their roots. In captain Paul Robinson’s words: 2
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‘We’re playing for the people who hate their jobs, who’d love our lives.’ Forget the glitz of the Premier League – this is the beautiful game in all its raucous glory. Intimate and compelling, Calvin’s unforgettable picture of lower-league English football is essential reading for anyone for whom football is far more than just a game.
Michael Calvin was chief sports writer at the Daily Telegraph for 12 years and has also worked for The Times and Mail on Sunday. He is currently chief sports writer at the Sunday Mirror.
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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 of the Year in 2008, the first Premier League player ever to do so. Since his recordbreaking £80m move to Real Madrid, his goal-scoring flair has continued and made his ongoing rivalry with Barcelona’s Lionel Messi even more intense. 20 Years of Independent Thinking
Luca Caioli tells the inside story of this global superstar both on and off the pitch, drawing on exclusive testimonies from coaches, teammates, girlfriends and the man himself. Ronaldo unveils the life of one of modern football’s great players as never before.
Luca Caioli is a renowned Italian sports journalist who is now a correspondent for SKY Italia and writes for Il Corriere della Sera. His previous books on Torres and Messi are also published by Corinthian. 5
Brian Clegg’s Inflight Science meets Innerspace – truly popular science bursting at the seams with eye-popping facts and the latest mind-bending theories
Built from the debris of exploding stars, home to a zoo of tiny aliens, and controlled by a brain with more possible connections than there are atoms in the universe, the human body is the most incredible thing in existence. Brian Clegg offers a spectacular tour through the walking science factory that looks back at us in the mirror each morning. He explores mitochondria, in-cell powerhouses that are thought to have once been separate creatures; he reveals how your eyes are quantum traps, consuming photons of light from the night sky that have 6
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From their Financial Times Weekend column, philosopher Julian Baggini and psychotherapist Antonia Macaro offer intriguing answers to life’s questions
Can infidelity be good for you? What does it mean to stay true to yourself? Must we fulfil our potential? Selfhelp with a distinctly cerebral edge, the shrink and the sage – aka Julian Baggini and Antonia Macaro – have been dispensing advice through their FT column since October 2010. Combining practical advice on personal dilemmas with meditations on the meaning of concepts like free will, spirituality and independence, this book – their first together – expands on these columns and adds much more. Through questions of existential unease, metaphysical trauma 20 Years of Independent Thinking
and – for instance – how much we should care about our appearance, intellectual agony uncle and aunt team Baggini and Macaro begin to piece together the answer that we’d all like to hear: what is the good life, and how can we live it?
Julian Baggini is one the UK’s best-known philosophers. Previous books include The Pig That Wants to Be Eaten and The Ego Trick. Antonia Macaro, his partner, has over twenty years’ experience as an existential psychotherapist and is the author of Reason, Virtue and Psychotherapy. 9
An uplifting tale of cricket – but not as you know it – making a difference in far-flung parts of the world.
For six years Tom Rodwell ran cricketing programmes from Cuba to Zimbabwe, attempting to soothe the world’s ills with the curiously English balm known as cricket. Touching, amusing and imbued with a deep love of the game, Third Man in Havana documents the characters and experiences Rodwell encountered, such as Guantánamo Cricket Club’s opening bowler, Stalin, who perhaps unsurprisingly didn’t take kindly to his LBW appeal being rejected in Cuba’s first-ever match against an England X1. From Beersheva Cricket Club pavilion in Israel – a converted nuclear bomb shelter, useful in the 10
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Using for each idea a mere two pages, 300 words, and one picture, 30-Second Maths covers ideas about numbers from Pythagoras to Game Theory, and will both rekindle interest for those who paid attention in school and light a spark in the minds of those who found that maths froze their brains. 12
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Jones has yet to win a British Major. As the competition boils down to the penultimate hole on the final day, Bobby must pull off a miracle shot that will fire his reputation – and that of the course – around the world. Steven Reid blends social history with deft biography to portray the most famous sportsman of his time, examining why Jones was so adored – and the cruel price he ultimately paid for his genius.
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‘Mr Bobby Jones is just a genius, and they are not born every day.’ Observer, 26 June 1926
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PRACTICAL GUIDES – which take big ideas from experts in their field, and get them working for you – were launched in August 2011 with five titles. Eight further books are added this season, dramatically expanding the range of this new list of self-help books for busy people.
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As Icon is 20 years old in 2012, so is the Introducing . . . Graphic Guides series, the books that started it all. But the series has never been in better health. This season four classic titles appear in the compact format, joining the 67 already available – see over the page for the full list. Various Introducing . . . Graphic Guide titles are now also available as apps – for your iPhone, iPad or Android device. See more at apps.introducingbooks.com
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Instant Guides
Brian Clegg is a science journalist and writer. He runs www.popularscience.co.uk and is also the author of The Universe Inside You – see page 6
Bite-sized information booklets at a pocket-friendly price
Ideal for holidays, to keep in the car, as a quick revision guide or a handy reference for the garden, Instant Guides give you all the information you need on specific topics – and none you don’t need. And they’ll never run out of batteries. 24 titles are available now, with many more published during 2012 and beyond. See the Instant Guides website for the latest news – www.instantguides.net
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A brand-new edition of the bestselling biography, updated for Torres’ Chelsea fans This is the story of one of the Premier League’s most talented players who has also been at the heart of international football, scoring the winning goal in Euro 2008 and celebrating victory with Spain at the 2010 World Cup. Luca Caioli has interviewed pivotal figures in Torres’s life, including Andrés Iniesta, Kenny Dalglish, Carlo Ancelotti and even Torres himself to create a memorable portrait of this uniquely mesmerising player. 20 Years of Independent Thinking
‘[Fits] into that publishing niche somewhere between hard science and Schott’s Miscellany that was so successfully exploited by books such as The Cloudspotter’s Guide’ The Times
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A thrilling narrative account of the hunt to find the ‘missing link’ fossils that finally prove Darwin right
Written in Stone is a hugely compelling scientific history by an up-and-coming star of popular science. ‘Magisterial ... part historical account, part scientific detective story. Switek’s elegant prose and thoughtful scholarship will change the way you see life on our planet. This book marks the debut of an important new voice.’ Neil Shubin, author of Your Inner Fish Icon 9781848313439 February £9.99 B fmt PBK – 416 pages
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In the style of Nudge or The Spirit Level, a groundbreaking book that will change the way you look at the world From Pulitzer Prize-winning author Tina Rosenberg, this is the story of a new kind of social revolution that has transformed the lives of millions – the positive power of peer pressure. ‘An optimistic view of the ways in which the human desire to be respected by one’s peers can bring about revolutions, topple dictatorships and perhaps produce a safer world.’ Kirkus Reviews
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‘Without doubt the best book I’ve read this year, and probably one of the most important books I’ve ever read’
Nessa Carey has a virology PhD from the University of Edinburgh and is a former Senior Lecturer in Molecular Biology at Imperial College, London.
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‘Anyone seriously interested in who we are and how we function should read this book.’ Guardian How is it that, despite each cell in your body carrying exactly the same DNA, you don’t have teeth growing out of your eyeballs or toenails on your liver? It turns out that cells read the genetic code in DNA more like a script to be interpreted than a mould that replicates the same result each time. This is epigenetics and it’s the fastestmoving field in biology today, with amazing potential for improving life on earth. 25
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TV maths star Johnny Ball presents brainteasers from his regular slot on his daughter Zoe’s Radio 2 show
Ball of Confusion is designed to twist your brain into enjoyable knots of empuzzlement – from puzzles solved in a twinkling of an eye to some that will knit your brow for hours. From how to cheat in a coin toss to why it is that some parts of a high-speed train travelling at 125mph are actually going backwards, Ball of Confusion will bend your mind in places it’s never been bent before. 26
Drawing from private archives, exclusive interviews and thousands of hours of research, Raphaël Taylor both tells the story of the man’s life and searches for the inspiration behind his work.
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