FRONT COVER
ICON BOOKS
January – June 2014
CONTENTS Welcome to Icon’s brand new list for spring 2014.
In these six months we bring you a stellar cast of titles that represent, we think, one of Icon’s most impressive spring seasons yet. 4 How to be a Productivity Ninja is Graham Allcott’s brilliant guide to getting stuff done. 6 In You Are the Music, Victoria Williamson explores how music shows just what it means to be us. 8 In Lucky Planet, physicist David Waltham argues that the wonders of life on Earth are here – incredibly – by chance.
14 Thalma Lobel’s SENSATION shows how susceptible we all are to external stimuli – such as how CVs on a heavy clipboard seem more impressive.
10 – 12 Bestselling biographer Luca Caioli presents the first-ever book on Brazilian striker Neymar, and MESSI, NEYMAR, RONALDO, his razor-sharp analysis of these three young giants of world football. 16 Walk the lesser-trodden paths of north London with cartoonist and nature writer Tim Bradford in his A London Country Diary.
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18 We’ve lost the art of rational argument, says philosopher James Garvey in EASILY SWAYED, his manifesto for proper debate.
34 Michael Sells’ IMAGINE THAT list of short speculative histories explores the world of fashion, literature, animals and transport.
20 Why did John Wayne keep his cow at a hotel? And who invented the fork? Find out with THE KITCHEN MAGPIE.
36 The 30-SECOND series sees the arrival of a beautifully illustrated book on the brain. 22 In THE QUANTUM AGE, Brian Clegg brings his trademark clear, concise and thrilling writing to the world of the very, very small.
40 onwards Titles new in paperback.
26-32 Our famous Introducing Graphic Guide series welcomes French philosopher Alain Badiou into its ranks of subjects, and the Practical Guides sister series expands with books from Emotional Freedom Technique to Confident Speaking.
50 – 52 An easy-to-use full stocklist covering a wide range of backlist titles. We hope you like what’s here and we love to hear from you – please see our contact details on the inside back cover and say hello! 1
NEW TITLES
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Move beyond time management, get your inbox to zero and learn to think like a Productivity Ninja!
How to be a Productivity Ninja
Worry Less, Achieve More and Love What You Do
Graham Allcott January
In this age of information overload, traditional time-management techniques simply aren’t able to deal with overloaded inboxes, ever-expanding to-do lists and endless, pointless meetings that leave us all feeling panicked and overworked. The solution? Think like a Ninja! With techniques from ruthlessness to stealth to mindfulness, you can get your inbox down to zero, make the most of your attention, avoid procrastination and learn to work smarter, not harder. Fun, accessible and practical, How to be a Productivity Ninja teaches you how to stay calm, cool and collected, get more done, and enjoy your work again.
Graham Allcott is a productivity trainer and social entrepreneur. He is the founder of Think Productive, a company that runs productivity workshops and training throughout the UK and Canada, whose clients include the British Library, British Airways, The Cabinet Office, Blackberry, and eBay. He lives in Brighton.
Business / Self-Help 9781848316836 £12.99 CAN $22.99 USA $22.95 9781848316843 (eBook) £9.99 (eBook) Demy paperback with flaps 304 pages TERRITORY: World US RIGHTS: Icon Books TRANSLATION RIGHTS: Icon Books / Marsh Agency
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A deft, unique exploration of how music makes us who we are, throughout our lives.
You Are the Music
How Music Reveals What it Means to be Human
Victoria Williamson March
Do babies remember music from the womb? Can classical music increase your child’s IQ? Is music good for productivity? What is going on in your brain when Ultravox’s Vienna, Schoenberg’s Verklärte Nacht or Dizzee Rascal’s Bonkers transport you back to student life? In this brilliant new exploration of the place of music in all our lives – whether we’re a professional musician or just often find ourselves humming The Archers theme tune – music psychologist Victoria Williamson asks: from the womb to old age, why is music SO important to so many of us? From the child who takes music lessons to the commuter who cannot travel to work without an iPod, this upbeat, eye-opening book reveals for the first time the extent of the universal language of music that lives deep inside us all.
Victoria Williamson is a lecturer in and an expert on the impact of music on human behaviour. She has spoken at TED, the Latitude Festival, and the British Science Festival. Her writing has appeared in NME and been presented across media including BBC, ITV, Channel 4 and Sky (UK), CNN and MSNBC (USA), CBC (Canada), Radio New Zealand National, and 2SER and the Big Issue (Australia).
Music / Psychology 9781848316539 £14.99 CAN $27.99 9781848316874 (eBook) £9.99 (eBook) Demy paperback with flaps 224 pages TERRITORY: World US RIGHTS: Icon Books / Carol Mann Agency TRANSLATION RIGHTS: Icon Books / Marsh Agency
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In this pop-science masterpiece David Waltham argues that life on Earth is, amazingly, a cosmic fluke.
Lucky Planet
Why Earth is Exceptional – and What That Means for Life in the Universe
David Waltham March
Science tells us that life elsewhere in the Universe is increasingly likely to be discovered. But in fact the Earth is a very unusual planet – perhaps the only one like it in the entire visible Universe. In Lucky Planet David Waltham asks why, and comes up with some surprising and unconventional answers. Recent geological, biological, and astronomical discoveries are bringing us closer to understanding whether we might be alone in the Universe. The current consensus is that Earth-like planets have reasonably stable climates and that the forces of natural selection are sufficiently powerful to allow life to adapt to any fluctuations. This book questions that conventional wisdom and suggests, instead, that the Earth may have had ‘four billion years of good weather’ purely by chance. So before you prepare to meet the aliens, consider that we are probably alone …
David Waltham obtained a first-class degree and a PhD in Physics before moving into the oil industry in the early 1980s. This industrial experience led to his appointment, in 1986, as a lecturer at Royal Holloway, University of London, where he became Head of Earth Sciences from 2008–2012.
Popular Science 9781848316560 £14.99 9781848316881 (eBook) £9.99 (eBook) Demy hardback • 224 pages with 4-page colour photo section TERRITORY: UK & Commonwealth ex. Canada US RIGHTS: Basic Books TRANSLATION RIGHTS: Felicity Bryan Associates
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The first-ever biography of the new Brazilian football wünderkind, set to be the star of the next World Cup.
Neymar
The Making of the World’s Greatest New Number 10
Luca Caioli April
Neymar da Silva Santos Junior is the new global football superstar, already acclaimed as ‘the next Pelé’. He is the player everyone wants to watch in the 2014 World Cup in Brazil, his home country. With Santos, the team where Pelé played, he has reached three national Championships and has twice been elected as the best player of South America. With Barcelona, which signed him for 57 million euros, he will flourish alongside Leo Messi to become one of the most lethal partnerships in football’s history.
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Luca Caioli is the bestselling author of Messi, Ronaldo and Torres. A renowned Italian sports journalist, he lives in Spain corresponding for SKY Italia and Corriere della Sera.
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Luca Caioli, author of bestselling biographies of Messi and Ronaldo, reconstructs the life and career of this world footballing icon, tracing his career through the words of his friends, his family, his coaches, his teammates, his advisors, his fans.
Football / Biography 9781848316812 £8.99 CAN $15.95 USA $14.95 9781848316829 (eBook) £7.99 (eBook) B format paperback • 240 pages with an 8-page colour photo section TERRITORY: World TRANSLATION RIGHTS: Acer Literary Agency
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Luca Caioli analyses three outstanding footballers as they prepare for 2014’s World Cup in Brazil.
Neymar, Ronaldo & Messi Luca Caioli April
Three supremely skilful individuals, Lionel Messi, Cristiano Ronaldo and Neymar, have each risen from humble beginnings to rank among the most exciting talents football has ever seen. As biographer of all three players, sports journalist Luca Caioli has researched these superstars extensively, gaining exclusive insights from their friends, families, teammates and managers – including some of the biggest names in football – to put together a revealing picture of their greatly differing characters and their unique contributions to the game. He now brings their stories together in an attempt to understand exactly what makes them great and how such different characters have each harnessed their potential to reach the very top of the game.
Luca Caioli is the bestselling author of Messi, Ronaldo and Torres. A renowned Italian sports journalist, he lives in Spain corresponding for SKY Italia and Corriere della Sera.
Football / Biography 9781906850708 £8.99 CAN $15.95 USA $14.95 9781906850715 (eBook) £7.99 (eBook) B format paperback • 176 pages with an 8-page colour photo section TERRITORY: World TRANSLATION RIGHTS: Acer Literary Agency
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The first-ever popular book on ‘embodied cognition’ – or, how to make people do what you want.
Sensation
The New Science of Physical Intelligence
Thalma Lobel April
Warm temperatures make us friendlier. The colour red causes us to perform poorly on tests. Heavy clipboards make the CVs clipped to them seem more impressive. Clean smells promote moral behaviour. Sports teams in black jerseys are given more penalties than teams in other colours. From the world’s leading expert on the new psychology of physical intelligence, or ‘embodied cognition’, here is the true story of how the body profoundly affects our thoughts and emotions, decisions and choices about everything from the people we like to the ways we work. While bestsellers like Predictably Irrational and Thinking Fast and Slow explain the ways we make predictable, systematic cognitive errors, this truly original, thrilling new book is the first to show how vulnerable we are to the unconscious influence of our senses over our minds.
Thalma Lobel is an internationally recognised psychologist, a member of the Executive Board of Tel Aviv University and director of the child development centre there. She has also been a visiting scholar at Harvard, Tufts, UC San Diego, and NYU. She appears frequently on television and radio.
Business / Psychology 9781848316591 £12.99 9781848316942 (eBook) £9.99 (eBook) Demy paperback with flaps 288 pages TERRITORY: UK, Eire, South Africa US RIGHTS: Free Press / Simon & Schuster TRANSLATION RIGHTS: Free Press / Simon & Schuster
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Illustrator and daydreamer Tim Bradford takes a meander through London’s unknown alleyways.
A London Country Diary
Mundane Happenings from the Secret Streets of the Capital
Tim Bradford April
Roam through the side streets of London and, if you look hard enough, you’ll find an unexpected world – one of eccentric characters, hidden history, and secret nature. For thirteen years, Tim Bradford has meandered round the quiet streets of his north London home, seeking out the ordinary and the extraordinary, the sublime and the ridiculous. In these vignettes from his wanderings he attempts to rescue a deer in Clissold Park, talks to old people in Holloway, breaks up a fight in King’s Cross and has issues with foxes in Stoke Newington. And that’s just the beginning. All of life is in these pages. Well, some. OK, just a little bit. But with its idiosyncratic wit and charming illustrations, A London Country Diary is a timely reminder that you can find beauty, humour and life, wherever you call home.
Tim Bradford is an illustrator, artist and writer. He is the author of The Groundwater Diaries (Flamingo, 2004) and Small Town England (Ebury, 2010), described as a ‘warm, kaleidoscopic romp of a reminiscence’ by Stuart Maconie. He frequently publishes illustrations in When Saturday Comes and the Guardian.
Travel 9781848317055 £9.99 9781848317062 (eBook) £7.99 (eBook) B format paperback 192 pages with frequent b/w illustrations TERRITORY: World US RIGHTS: Icon Books / Carol Mann Agency TRANSLATION RIGHTS: Icon Books /Marsh Agency
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Popular philosopher James Garvey mourns the death of debate and reminds us of the value of rational argument.
Easily Swayed
Modern Persuasion and the Lost Art of Argument
James Garvey June
In almost every hour of every day, people will try to change your mind – but none of it consists in giving you good reasons. Instead, you’ll experience product placement, spinning, propagandising. Loyalty cards, death panels, airport toilets, think tank reports, search algorithms and weapons dossiers are all symptoms of the same malaise. You are nudged, anchored, and incentivized. It’s a profound shift in the way human beings interact with one another. Philosopher James Garvey – described by the Guardian as having ‘a delicious style, often very funny, and a trick of ushering the reader right inside his thought experiments’ – writes clearly and entertainingly about the dangers we face when we lose our grip on persuasion by rational means. But Easily Swayed isn’t just a requiem for rationality. It’s a call to think again about the way we think now.
James Garvey works for the Royal Institute of Philosophy and edits The Philosophers’ Magazine. He is author of a number of books, including The Story of Philosophy (with Jeremy Stangroom) and The Ethics of Climate Change. He has written for the Guardian, the Times Literary Supplement, the Huffington Post, the New Statesman, and the Times Higher Education Supplement, does voluntary work for Thames Reach and Crisis, teaches jiu jitsu, and is an enthusiastic cyclist.
Popular Philosophy 9781848316607 £12.99 CAN $30.99 9781848316980 (eBook) £9.99 (eBook) Demy paperback with flaps 288 pages TERRITORY: World ex. USA US RIGHTS: Icon Books / Carol Mann Agency TRANSLATION RIGHTS: Icon Books / Marsh Agency
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A feast of hundreds of food facts, mouthwatering myths and culinary curiosities to satisfy all appetites.
The Kitchen Magpie
A Delicious Melange of Culinary Curiosities, Fascinating Facts, Amazing Anecdotes and Expert Tips for the Food-Lover
James Steen May
How do you make the perfect pork crackling, the finest fried egg, or roast beef in an oven that’s not even switched on? How do you tell a ripe melon? Why is the belly of salmon better than the tail? The answers are here, the science explained. The book also delves into the history of food through the ages and reveals who ate what, why, when and where. There’s the tale of swan (and horse) in the British diet, as well as that of crane in the Japanese diet – the bird’s blood was mixed with sake and then swigged by samurai warriors. Along the way we find out why on earth John Wayne kept his cow at a hotel, and who invented the fork.
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James Steen is an awardwinning journalist, food writer, author and ghostwriter. He ghosted the autobiographies of Marco Pierre White (The Devil in the Kitchen), Raymond Blanc (A Taste of My Life) and Keith Floyd (Stirred But Not Shaken). His other books include Marco Made Easy and Kitchen Secrets. He is a consultant to small-butpioneering food companies, and contributes to a wide variety of publications. James lives in London.
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Also featuring exclusive cooking tips from the celebrity chefs of today, The Kitchen Magpie is a book unlike any other; a must-read for curious cooks and food-lovers everywhere.
Food / History 9781848316638 £12.99 CAN $22.99 US $22.95 9781848316959 (eBook) £9.99 (eBook) B format hardback 228 pages TERRITORY: World TRANSLATION RIGHTS: Icon Books / Marsh Agency
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New from acclaimed popular science author Brian Clegg: how the quantum has revolutionised our world.
The Quantum Age
How the Physics of the Very Small has Transformed Our Lives
Brian Clegg June
The Stone, Bronze and Iron Ages, and the birth of steam and electricity, saw human life transformed. Now we’ve reached the Quantum Age, the revolution led by our understanding of the very, very small, and technologies based on quantum physics now account for around 30 per cent of US GDP. Weird quantum behaviour lies at the heart of every electronic device. And quantum biology explains how our ability to see, photosynthesis in plants, and birds’ ability to navigate, rely directly on quantum effects. Quantum physics also explains the strange world of the supercool, where fluids can climb out of containers, and the superconducting magnets that lie behind MRI scanners and the Large Hadron Collider. It may even make Star Trek-like transporters a reality. Brian Clegg brings his trademark clarity and enthusiasm to a book that will give the world around you a new sense of wonder.
Brian Clegg is a science journalist and author whose numerous books include Inflight Science, The Universe Inside You, Introducing Infinity: A Graphic Guide and Dice World, all published by Icon. He also runs popularscience.co.uk.
Popular Science 9781848316645 £14.99 CAN $30.00 US $27.95 9781848316997 (eBook) £9.99 (eBook) Demy hardback • 288 pages with frequent b/w illustrations in text TERRITORY: World TRANSLATION RIGHTS: Icon Books / Marsh Agency
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Icon’s Introducing Graphic Guide series explains humankind’s biggest ideas using graphic novel-style illustration and authoritative text. They are a ‘miracle of contemporary publishing’ according to poet Don Paterson in the Guardian. With more than 80 titles available on subjects from Philosophy and Psychology to Derrida, Quantum Theory and Infinity, there are Graphic Guides for anything that’s ever tested intellects. Retailers – our brilliant 60-copy spinner units are increasingly fixtures in shops from California to Cairo and from Sydney to Southampton. Speak to your Icon rep or agent about getting yourself one of the floor- or counter-standing units free with an order to fill it. See the spinner in action at bit.ly/ introspinner.
See much more and get involved at introducingbooks.com or follow the series @introducingbook
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ˇ ˇ With Slavoj Zizek, Alain Badiou is one of the best-known philosophers alive today.
June
The works of French philosopher Alain Badiou range from novels, poems, “romanopéras” and popular political treatises to elaborate philosophical arguments engaging with mathematical theory. Introducing Alain Badiou is an elegantly written and crisply illustrated guide to an essential contemporary thinker.
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Practical Guides are smart self-help books on life-changing practices, full of realworld case studies, useful tips and practical exercises, written by experts in their field. Pocket-sized and perfect for your daily commute, they also fit into our spinner units alongside the Graphic Guide series. January
Introducing Resilience: A Practical Guide will save you emotional energy as well as time, allowing you to become more effective and successful both personally and at work. Gladeana McMahon, one of the UK’s Top Ten Coaches according to the Independent on Sunday and the Observer, teaches you how to deal with stress, self-defeating thoughts and resiliencedraining emotions, and how to develop resilient behaviours. 9781848315129 / 9781848315303 (eBook) 30
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Whether you suffer from panic attacks or feelings of crippling dread, Introducing Overcoming Phobias offers proven techniques to help you break down your fears into manageable parts. Psychologist Patricia Furness-Smith teaches the reader to understand their phobias and remove the anxiety surrounding them. 9781848316508 / 9781848316904 (eBook)
May EFT Founding Master Judy Byrne gives you practical advice on how to use Emotional Freedom Technique to improve your emotional well-being and change your life. In Introducing EFT, through the proven method of ‘tapping’ you will learn how to remove negative feelings, let go of the past, improve willpower and aim for a positive future. 9781848316621 / 9781848316966 (eBook)
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Introducing Confident Speaking, by voice, acting, communication and public speaking coach Alan Woodhouse, teaches you to express yourself more clearly, persuasively and confidently. Whether you want to ask your boss for a pay rise, chair meetings better, or deliver a faultless best-man speech, this book will teach you how to plan what to say, manage your anxieties and project your best self on the big day. 9781848316799 / 9781848316805 (eBook) May
Introducing Productivity – by Graham Allcott of Think Productive, and the author of How to be a Productivity Ninja – reveals, using simple tips, advice and real-life examples, how to get more done and manage your time effectively. Whether you are overwhelmed by your to-do list or just get stressed looking at your full inbox, it will help you to think – and act – more productively. 9781848316492 / 9781848316973 (eBook) 31
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Michael Sells’ Imagine That series – launched last year – looks at history going just that little bit differently...
All titles 168 x 118mm paperbacks 192 pages with frequent b/w illustrations in text £6.99 UK CAN $12.50 USA £9.95 £4.99 (eBook)
February . . . Imagine That – The History of Literature Rewritten How would society and communication have altered if the Gutenberg press had never been invented? Did George Eliot and the Brontë sisters do more harm than good for female writers? Are translators to blame for almost every war in modern history? 9781848316317 / 9781848316324 (eBook) Imagine That – The History of Animals Rewritten Could greater publicity for Dolly the Sheep’s unheralded predecessors, Molly and Morag, have kick-started an era of dangerous cloning? How might a differing itinerary for Darwin’s travels have altered, halted or even further advanced our understanding of the animal kingdom? And were two monkeys really the difference between peace and the deaths of 250,000 Greeks? 9781848316331 / 9781848316348 (eBook) Imagine That – The History of Fashion Rewritten Would centuries of judicial rulings have reached different conclusions if wigs and robes had never been introduced to the courtroom? Could a different office dress code have removed the ‘glass-ceiling’ in business? Did the fashion industry fuel the football violence epidemic of the 1980s? 9781848316355 / 9781848316362 (eBook) Imagine That – The History of Travel Rewritten Would a developing nation have emerged as an economic powerhouse if Teddy Roosevelt hadn’t reignited the Panama Canal project? How close did the railroads come to eliminating the bison and what would it have meant for trade? Could a successful maiden voyage for the Titanic have cost more lives than its failure? 9781848316379 / 9781848316386 (eBook) 34
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30-Second Brain
The 50 most mind-blowing ideas in neuroscience, each explained in half a minute
Anil Seth March Are we all at the mercy of our brain chemistry? What can an MRI scan tell us? Could you explain to dinner-party guests why we don’t giggle when we tickle ourselves?
A beautifully illustrated guide aimed at getting your grey matter thinking about ‌ your grey matter.
Anil Seth is Professor of Cognitive and Computational Neuroscience and founding co-director of the Sackler Centre for Consciousness Science at the University of Sussex. His research has been covered in a wide range of media, including the Guardian and New Scientist.
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Using no more than two pages, 300 words and a single picture for each topic, 30-Second Brain is the quickest way to understand the wiring and function of the most complex and intricate mechanism in the human body. Discover how the networks of 90 billion nerve cells work together to produce perception, action, cognition and emotion, explore how your brain defines your personality, and what it gets up to while you are asleep.
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‘Brilliantly explained, painstakingly researched and rather fascinating’ Closer
The First 20 Minutes
The Surprising Science of How We Can Exercise Better, Train Smarter and Live Longer
Gretchen Reynolds January
The bestselling guide to getting fit, quickly and smartly, now in paperback. Discover the amazing restorative powers of chocolate milk on tired muscles, how running can actually be good for your knees and how even just 20 minutes of regular exercise can transform your health and well-being. Right now, modern science is revolutionising the traditional workout. More is known about exercise, health and fitness than ever before, from how (and how much) we should be exercising, to the pros and cons of barefoot running and the effect music can have on a workout. In The First 20 Minutes, New York Times columnist Gretchen Reynolds has turned the key findings of cutting-edge research into practical, user-friendly advice to help you improve the way you exercise.
GretchenReynolds writes the popular Phys Ed column for the New York Times. She also contributes to periodicals such as the New York Times Magazine, O: The Oprah Magazine, Men’s Journal and Popular Science. She has had two nominations for the prestigious National Magazine Awards.
Health & Exercise 9781848316515 £8.99 9781848315204 (eBook) £7.99 (eBook) B format paperback • 288 pages TERRITORY: UK & Commonwealth ex. Canada US RIGHTS: Hudson Street Press TRANSLATION RIGHTS: Penguin Books USA
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Dice World
Science and Life in a Random Universe
Brian Clegg February
As troubling as we pattern-seeking humans may find it, modern science has repeatedly shown us that randomness is the underlying heartbeat of nature.
‘Methodical, clear, entertaining and just a bit mind-boggling.’ Irish Times
Brian Clegg is a science journalist and author whose numerous books include Inflight Science, The Universe Inside You and Introducing Infinity: A Graphic Guide, all published by Icon. His latest book, The Quantum Age, is on page 20. He also runs popularscience.co.uk.
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In Dice World, acclaimed science writer Brian Clegg takes readers on an incredible trip around our random universe, uncovering the truths and lies behind probability and statistics, explaining how chaotic intervention is behind every great success in business, and demonstrating the possibilities quantum mechanics has given us for creating unbreakable ciphers and undergoing teleportation. Forget the clockwork universe. Welcome to Dice World, a unique portrait of a startlingly complex cosmos, from the bizarre microscopic world of the quantum to the unfathomable mechanics of planetary movements, where very little is as it seems...
Science 9781848316522 £8.99 CAN $17.99 US $15.95 9781848315648 (eBook) £7.99 (eBook) B format paperback • 288 pages TERRITORY: World US RIGHTS: Icon Books / Carol Mann Agency TRANSLATION RIGHTS: Icon Books / Marsh Agency
Cracked
Why Psychiatry is Doing More Harm Than Good
James Davies March
‘A potent polemic’ Bryan Appleyard, Sunday Times ‘Set to become a heretical text’ The Times Magazine ‘Chilling reading’ Will Self, Guardian Psychological therapist James Davies uses his insider knowledge to illustrate how psychiatry has put riches and medical status above patients’ well-being. The charge sheet in Cracked – which caused huge debate upon original publication – is damning: negative drug trials buried; antidepressants that are no better than placebos; manipulated research; doctors, seduced by huge pharmaceutical rewards, creating more disorders and prescribing more pills; and scientific flaws unscrupulously concealed by massmarketing. Cracked reveals the true human cost of an industry that, in the name of helping others, has actually been helping itself.
Psychiatry 9781848316546 £8.99 9781848315570 (eBook) £7.99 (eBook) B format paperback • 320 pages TERRITORY: UK & Commonwealth ex. Canada US RIGHTS: Pegasus Books TRANSLATION RIGHTS: Andrew Lownie Agency
‘Should be read by every doctor ... by everyone in politics and the media, not to mention any concerned citizen.’ Peter Hitchens, Mail on Sunday
James Davies is a qualified psychotherapist, and a senior lecturer in social anthropology and psychology at the University of Roehampton.
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Tales from the Turf
Reflections from a Life in Horseracing
Robin Oakley March
Tales from the Turf is a collection of Robin Oakley’s highly personal writings derived from a lifetime’s involvement in horseracing. He shares his memories of historic moments such as Frankie Dettori’s seven winners in a day at Ascot, and recalls unusual achievements such as Sirrell Griffiths winning the Gold Cup as trainer after milking his herd of 100 cows that morning.
Robin Oakley shares 40 years’ worth of opinion and anecdotes from his life as one of Britain’s best-known turf enthusiasts.
Robin Oakley OBE is European Political Editor at CNN. He was for several years the Financial Times’ racing correspondent and is now the Spectator’s Turf columnist. His most recent book was The Top 100 Racehorses of All Time, published by Icon. He was awarded the OBE in 2001.
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Tackling all of the contentious issues surrounding the sport, he writes about gambling and about horse ownership, about Grand National safety and the use of the whip, about the treatment of women riders and why the less good jockeys seem to make the better trainers.
Horseracing 9781906850685 £8.99 CAN $17.99 9781906850678 (eBook) £7.99 (eBook) B format paperback • 288 pages TERRITORY: World US RIGHTS: Icon Books / Carol Mann Agency TRANSLATION RIGHTS: Icon Books / Marsh Agency
July 1914
Countdown to War
Sean McMeekin April
‘A work of meticulous scholarship ... McMeekin’s description of the details of life in the European capitals – small events that influenced great decisions – makes July 1914 irresistible.’ Roy Hattersley, The Times ‘Sean McMeekin’s splendid July 1914 unravels all the shenanigans, bluffs and bunglings by which Europe’s leaders and diplomats turned a minor murder in a Balkans backwater into total war ... There are scenes in July 1914 that linger long after the cover is closed.’ Sunday Express Published in paperback as the centenary of the outbreak of the First World War approaches, Sean McMeekin’s dramatic, tense and almost forensically observed book retells the story of that cataclysmic month.
History 9781848316577 £8.99 9781848316096 (eBook) £7.99 (eBook) B format paperback • 480 pages TERRITORY: UK & Commonwealth ex. Canada US RIGHTS: Basic Books TRANSLATION RIGHTS: Andrew Lownie
‘A shocking history, told with edgy, angry authority.’ Saga magazine
Sean McMeekin‘s books include The Berlin-Baghdad Express: The Ottoman Empire and Germany’s Bid for World Power (Penguin/Allen Lane) and The Russian Origins of the First World War (Harvard University Press). He lives in Istanbul with his wife, Nesrin, and their daughter, Ayla.
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The Nature Magpie
A Cornucopia of Facts, Anecdotes, Folklore and Literature from the Natural World
Daniel Allen April ‘This delightful little hardback is difficult to resist. For anyone interested in the natural world there are myriad facts and figures that will fascinate and surprise.’ The Field The Nature Magpie picks the choicest morsels from the history, literature, philosophy, science and culture of the natural world.
‘A miscellany that keeps you turning the pages’ Desmond Morris, author of The Naked Ape
Daniel Allen is an author making a name for himself in the world of animal/ nature writing. His first books, Otter and Squirrel, were published in Reaktion Books’ Animal series. Daniel is also a columnist for Small Furry Pets and Practical Reptile Keeping magazines.
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With acclaimed nature writer Daniel Allen as your guide, join naturalists, novelists and poets as they explore the most isolated parts of the planet, choose your side – pineapple or durian – in the great ‘king of fruits’ debate and discover which plants can be used to predict the weather. Meet the roadkill connoisseurs, learn to dance the Hippopotamus Polka, find out the likelihood of sharing your name with a hurricane – and much more.
Nature 9781848316584 £8.99 CAN $17.99 US $17.95 9781848315341 (eBook) £7.99 B format paperback • 224 pages TERRITORY: World US RIGHTS: Icon Books / Carol Mann Agency TRANSLATION RIGHTS: Icon Books / Marsh Agency
Hess, Hitler and Churchill
The Real Turning Point of the Second World War – A Secret History
Peter Padfield May When Hitler’s deputy Rudolf Hess set off for Britain on a peace mission in May 1941, he launched one of the great mysteries of the Second World War. Had he really acted alone, without Hitler’s knowledge? Who had he come to see? Was British intelligence involved? Expertly woven into a compelling narrative that touches on Lord (Victor) Rothschild and the Cambridge spy ring, possible British foreknowledge of Operation Barbarossa and the ‘final solution’, MI6’s use of Hess to prevent the bombing of London, and the mysterious circumstances of his death in Spandau prison – including the previously unseen witness accounts from that day – Hess, Hitler and Churchill is among the most important history books of recent years.
History 9781848316614 £9.99 CAN $19.99 9781848316188 (eBook) £7.99 (eBook) B format paperback • 480 pages with 8 pages of b/w photos TERRITORY: World ex. USA US RIGHTS: Andrew Lownie Agency TRANSLATION RIGHTS: Andrew Lownie Agency
A startling revelatory history of Hitler’s right-hand man Rudolf Hess and his 1941 flight to Scotland.
Peter PadfielD is an award-winning naval and Nazi-period historian whose most recent books were the Maritime Supremacy trilogy (John Murray), awarded the Mountbatten Maritime Prize.
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