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‘High Performance Anthropologist’ and bestselling Danish author Rasmus Ankersen brings his first-hand study of success to a mass audience.
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Rasmus Ankersen, a 26 year-old ex-professional footballer and performance specialist, quit his job, spent his last pennies booking flight tickets and for six intense months travelled the world to train and live with the world’s best athletes in an attempt to answer this very question. Rasmus Ankersen – born in 1983 – is a bestselling author in Denmark, a motivational speaker on performance development and a trusted advisor for businesses around the world.
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Why have the world’s best middle distance runners grown up in the same Ethiopian village? Why are 137 of the world’s 500 best female golfers from South Korea? How did one athletic club in Kingston, Jamaica, succeed to produce most of the world’s best sprinters? What is the secret behind Brazil’s mass production of football superstars? In The Gold Mine Effect Ankersen presents his surprising conclusions in seven lessons on how anyone – or any business, organisation or team – can defy the many misconceptions of high performance and learn to build their own gold mine of real talent. 3
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‘Will provoke lively debate and is a must-read for anyone with an interest in Stalin and his times.’ BBC History Magazine on Roberts’ Stalin’s Wars. 4
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Marshal Georgy Zhukov is one of military history’s legendary names. He played a decisive role in the battles of Moscow, Stalingrad, and Kursk that brought down the Nazi regime. He was the first of the Allied generals to enter Berlin and took the German surrender. He led the huge victory parade through Red Square, riding a white horse and dangerously provoking Stalin’s envy.
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Zhukov had an equally eventful post-war career, sacked and banished twice, and wrongfully accused of treason. Since his death in 1974 Zhukov has increasingly been seen as the indispensable military leader of WWII, surpassing Eisenhower, Patton, Monty, and MacArthur in his military brilliance and ferocity. Drawing on rich new sources from the recently-opened Soviet archives, Geoffrey Roberts has fashioned the definitive, first full-scale biography of this seminal 20th-century figure.
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Imagine how different your life would be if you knew when someone was lying or telling you the truth. Whether hiring a new employee, investing money, knowing when your boss is being completely up-front, finding out whether your child is being totally honest, or even dating someone new, having the ability to unmask a lie can have far-reaching and even life-altering consequences. As former CIA agents, Philip Houston, Mike Floyd and Susan Carnicero are among the world’s best at recognizing deceptive behaviour. Through thrilling anecdotes from their careers in counter-intelligence, they chronicle the fascinating 6
story of how they worked to detect deception in counter-terrorism and criminal investigation, and how these techniques can be applied in our daily lives. Much more than just a self-help book to tell when someone is lying, it’s a truly fun read that may make you see those around you in a whole new light...
Philip Houston worked for 25 years with the CIA as an investigator and polygraph examiner, along with agents Mike Floyd and Susan Carnicero.
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Fighting Fantasy co-creator Ian LIVINGSTONE brings the world’s original gamebook series – 30 years old this month – to the world of the zombie… NEW TITLE
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YOU are kidnapped and wake up in chains in an underground cell of a castle in a remote part of Romania. You discover the castle is owned by a megalomaniac who is running a secret scientific programme – injecting hundreds of prisoners with Zombie blood! You are next in line and don’t have much time to escape. Armed with a machete and a machine gun, only YOU stand between a Zombie army and the end of the world. Can you kill all the Zombies or will you become one of them too? Narrative-driven, and with simplified combat and gameplay, this is a Fighting Fantasy gamebook for the 21st century. 8
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Corinthian 9781906850449 September £18.99 Royal hardback · 288pp · 8-page colour photo section TERRITORY: World US RIGHTS: Icon Books / Consortium TRANSLATION RIGHTS: Acer Literary Agency 9781906850456 (eBook)
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When Roberto Mancini was appointed to Manchester City in late 2009, he came from his native Italy with an almost peerless cupwinning pedigree at both Lazio and Inter Milan. In his first full season at City, Mancini guided the club to Champions League football and the FA Cup, shaping the squad into one of the most successful teams in the Premier League. Luca Caioli gives Mancini’s inside story – from his early days as an international player to his emergence as a charismatic, if controversial, pitch-side leader. The book contains exclusive personal interviews with Roberto himself, alongside recollections 10
from star players and colleagues like Javier Zannetti, Sergio Aguero and Arrigo Sacchi, unveiling the life of one of the modern game’s great managers. Also available:
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In this ‘precise and eloquent work’ – as described in its Pulitzer Prize citation – Douglas A. Blackmon brings to light one of the most shameful chapters in American history – an ‘Age of Neo-slavery’ that thrived in the aftermath of the Civil War through the dawn of World War II. Using a vast record of original documents and personal narratives, and by turns moving, sobering and shocking, this unprecedented account reveals these stories, the companies that profited the most from neoslavery, and the insidious legacy of racism that reverberates today.
Douglas Blackmon was the Atlanta Bureau Chief of the Wall Street Journal until 2009 and then became the Journal’s Senior National Correspondent. slaverybyanothername.com
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‘Urgent, definitive, powerful. The most important work of history published in a very long time.’ Bill Cosby
A Pulitzer Prizewinning history of the mistreatment of black Americans – published as Black History Month begins.
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Manjit Kumar’s superlative history of science’s most fundamental revolution – in a BRILLIANT, NEW illustrated EDITION edition Science
In this striking and sumptuous two-colour edition, Manjit Kumar’s BBC Samuel Johnson Prize-shortlisted Quantum is wonderfully enriched by over 200 photos, artwork, maps and diagrams.
Manjit Kumar is a science journalist and author who has written and reviewed for most major British newspapers. He lives in north London.
It includes photos, some intimate and often little-seen before, of all the key protagonists; reproductions of key documents such as revealing letters and correspondence; detailed diagrams explaining the science and bringing to life classic thought experiments; and evocative portraits of the period, particularly of Cambridge, Copenhagen and Germany of the 1920s and 30s.
‘A super-collider of a book … probably the most lucid and detailed intellectual history [of this subject] ever written.’ INDEPENDENT
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Robin Oakley is the author of numerous books on horseracing and has been the Spectator’s turf correspondent for almost 20 years. This book is the product of a lifetime’s passion following the sport. In it, Oakley takes on the daunting task of assessing the truly great horses to have run in Britain and Ireland in both National Hunt and on the Flat. Based on his huge knowledge of the sport, he elegantly makes his case for which animals stand out as the best there have ever been. The book is sure to create debate among racing fans everywhere. 14
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‘A highly readable history’ Independent on Sunday
‘A very good read … full of memories which have made the Cheltenham Festival uniquely special’ Scotland on Sunday
Robin Oakley OBE is European Political Editor at CNN International and was BBC Political Editor. His most recent book was The Cheltenham Festival: A Centenary History (Aurum, 2011).
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The An uplifting characteristically tale of cricket – witty, erudite and but not as you much-anticipated know it sequel – making brilliant to a difference in – The Etymologicon far-flung the Sunday parts Times of the world. Number One
Icon 9781848314153 November £12.99 / £10.99 (Export) B-format hardback · 256 pages TERRITORY: UK & Commonwealth ex. Canada US RIGHTS: Icon Books / Carol Mann Agency TRANSLATION RIGHTS: Icon Books / Marsh Agency 9781848314306 (eBook)
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The Horologicon is a day in the life of unusual, beautiful and forgotten English words. From the moment you wake to the second your head hits the pillow, there’s a cornucopia of hidden words ready for every aspect of your day. Do you tend to lie in bed before dawn worrying? Then you have the Old English ailment of uhtceare. Uhtceare can lead on to dysania (inability to get out of bed) and other zwoddery problems, which many have suffered but few can name. From encounters with office ultracrepidarians, lunchtime scamblers and six o’clock sturmovschinas to the post-work 16
joys of thelyphthoric grinagogs and nimtopsical nympholepsy, Mark Forsyth, author of the bestselling The Etymologicon, unearths words that you didn’t even know you needed. From antejentacular to bedward by way of nuncheon, at last you can say, with utter accuracy, exactly what you mean.
Publication of The Etymologicon in late 2011 shot Mark Forsyth to huge acclaim, appearing on Channel 4, BBC 2 and countless Christmas bestseller lists. Follow Mark @inkyfool
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Fascinating lists, facts, stories, poems, drawings, diagrams – and even jokes – across scientific disciplines and from science’s bejewelled NEW history TITLE Science
Science, humankind’s greatest intellectual achievement, is capable equally of delight and amusement as much as learning and the advancement of knowledge. The Science Magpie brings together a hugely diverse collection of classic, common and unusual titbits from across science and its history. Read in full Galileo’s infamous recantation of his view of a heliocentric solar system;
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Simon Flynn was a publisher and is now training as a science teacher. He has degrees in Chemistry and Philosophy and lives near Alexandra Palace, north London.
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Corinthian 9781906850432 November £16.99 Demy hardback · 352 p with a 16-page colour photo section TERRITORY: World US RIGHTS: Icon Books / Carol Man TRANSLATION RIGHTS Icon Books / Marsh Age 9781906850487 (eBook
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For 34 years from 1973 Peter Baxter was BBC producer of the hugely popular Test Match Special, and during that time he reported on Test matches from around the world.
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This funny and revealing book takes us behind the scenes as Baxter and his much-loved TMS colleagues do battle with local conditions and sometimes bizarre red tape to bring back home the latest news of England’s progress (or otherwise) on the field. Peter Baxter first worked on Test Match Special in 1966, and was the producer of the programme from 1973–2007.
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From An uplifting Great Composers tale of cricket author Michael– but not you Steen – a as unique know it – making multi-platform project offering a royala difference in box view into one far-flung parts ofthe mankind’s of world. greatest art NEW TITLE forms.
Icon 9781848314573 November £20.00 Royal hardback · 480 pages with frequent b/w illustrations in text TERRITORY: UK & Commonwealth ex. Canada US RIGHTS: Icon Books / Carol Mann Agency TRANSLATION RIGHTS: Icon Books / Marsh Agency
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From the soaring heights of Wagner’s epic Ring cycle to the tear-jerking emotion of Mozart’s breathtakingly beautiful Don Giovanni, opera is one of the most powerful artistic forms mankind has ever created. It should also be the most enjoyable! Michael Steen – whose The Lives and Times of the Great Composers was described as ‘hugely informative and deliciously gossipy’ by the Spectator – presents Great Operas, his accessible and entertaining user’s manual to making the best of an opera – whether at home or at a live performance, interspersing the key facts with erudite commentary from a man for whom opera is a lifetime’s passion. 22
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Great Operas will be published initially as short ebooks focusing on individual operas and then published as a physical compendium in November, covering twenty five stand-out operatic masterpieces. Steen gives everything the opera goers needs to know and look out for, making these masterpieces at last accessible to everyone.
Michael Steen studied at the Royal College of Music, was organ scholar at Oriel College, Oxford and is currently Royal College of Music Society chairman.
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£8.99 · 9781906850180 The 200-mph autobiography of eighties F1 driver Tommy Byrne, which won the William Hill Irish Sports Book of the Year.
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Greg Grandin’s National Book Award-winning (and Pulitzer shortlisted) history of Henry Ford’s most hubristic misadventure, at the heart of the Brazilian rainforest.
Described as ‘a rollickin by the New Scientist and by the Observer, Patricia book is also ‘a delectable scientific and imperial h (BBC History Magazine)
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Jim Baggott’s superlative history of the atomic bomb – from the discovery of nuclear fission in 1939 to the test of Joe-1 (the first Soviet nuclear weapon) ten years later.
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To toast 2012, our birthday year, we re-present paperback editions of twelve of Icon’s very best books – our anniversary list of Iconic non-fiction – as well as some brilliant box sets of the Introducing series that started it all.
Published in Introducing the ideal gift Shortlisted for the Royal Society Prize for Science Books, James Hannam’s myth-busting history of the genesis of science in the socalled Dark Ages.
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Michael Steen’s magisterial survey of 350 years of musical genius is the authoritative work in its area. It’s also ‘hugely informative and deliciously gossipy’, according to the Spectator.
Two literary critics’ labour of love – 365 stories from the history of writing by John Sutherland and Stephen Fender.
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Described as ‘a rollicking read’ by the New Scientist and ‘enticing’ by the Observer, Patricia Fara’s book is also ‘a delectable morsel of scientific and imperial history.’ (BBC History Magazine)
The brilliantly-realised story of Victorian workhouse boy Robert Blincoe: ‘A compelling history of the lives of workhouse children in the industrial revolution.’ Guardian
£10.99 · 9781848310353 Manjit Kumar’s ‘super-collider of a book’ (Independent) was shortlisted for the BBC Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction and is now one of the key books on the quantum’s incredible story
The incredible true story of a wild dancing epidemic that brought death and fear to a 16th-century city. ‘A startling, chilling and utterly compelling account.’ Good Book Guide
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Grandin’s National Book -winning (and Pulitzer sted) history of Henry Ford’s hubristic misadventure, at the of the Brazilian rainforest.
How did our brains first learn to read? ‘A beautifully balanced piece of popular-science writing.’ Boyd Tonkin, Independent
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