icon books catalogue january - june 2012

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Icon is 20!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).

We launch a brand-new logo with this

20th anniversary catalogue and with it

our aspirations for Icon’s third decade.

As our January – June 2012 list in this

catalogue illustrates, we will continue to

publish authors who bring science vividly

to life – as Brian Clegg does brilliantly in

The Universe Inside You; popular philosophy

that bears witness to the sheer power of

thinking, such as Julian Baggini and Antonia

Macaro’s The Shrink and the Sage; books that

fizz with sport’s power to inspire, unite and

excite – like Tom Rodwell’s Third Man

in Havana, and much more – in both

physical and electronic forms.

We’re getting older but we’re not getting

out our pipe and slippers just yet. Icon

aims to inspire, inflame, amuse – and be

anything but dull for a long time to come.

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ICON BOOKS 20 Years of Independent Thinking

Icon is 20!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).

We launch a brand-new logo with this

20th anniversary catalogue and with it

our aspirations for Icon’s third decade.

As our January – June 2012 list in this

catalogue illustrates, we will continue to

publish authors who bring science vividly

to life – as Brian Clegg does brilliantly in

The Universe Inside You; popular philosophy

that bears witness to the sheer power of

thinking, such as Julian Baggini and Antonia

Macaro’s The Shrink and the Sage; books that

fizz with sport’s power to inspire, unite and

excite – like Tom Rodwell’s Third Man

in Havana, and much more – in both

physical and electronic forms.

We’re getting older but we’re not getting

out our pipe and slippers just yet. Icon

aims to inspire, inflame, amuse – and be

anything but dull for a long time to come.

HAPPy BIRTHDAy TO US


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‘An absolute gem – inspirational’ Daily Mirror

‘Brilliantly honest’ SUNDay PEoPlE

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AROLLERCOASTER yEAR IN THE LIFE

OF ONE OF ENGLISH FOOTBALL’S MOST

NOTORIOUS CLUBS

20 Years of Independent Thinking

‘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:

‘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 Mailon Sunday. he is currently chief sports writer at the Sunday Mirror.

‘An absolute gem – inspirational’ Daily Mirror

‘Brilliantly honest’ SUNDay PEoPlE


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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 Mailon Sunday. he is currently chief sports writer at the Sunday Mirror.

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 record-breaking £80m move to Real Madrid, his goal-scoring flair has continued and made his ongoing rivalry with Barcelona’s Lionel Messi even more intense.

‘He has been even better than people here thought he would be and that’s saying

something.’ SIR BOBBy CHARLTON ON RONALDO AT MANCHESTER UNITED

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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 record-breaking £80m move to Real Madrid, his goal-scoring flair has continued and made his ongoing rivalry with Barcelona’s Lionel Messi even more intense.

Luca Caioli tells the inside story of this global superstar both on and off the pitch, drawing on exclusive testimonies from coaches, team-mates, 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.

‘He has been even better than people here thought he would be and that’s saying

something.’ SIR BOBBy CHARLTON ON RONALDO AT MANCHESTER UNITED

Football

FROM THE AUTHOR OF

THE BESTSELLING TorrES AND MESSi, A REvEALING NEW

BIOGRAPHy OF REAL MADRID’S

CRISTIANO RONALDO

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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

travelled for millions of years; your ability to detect warps in space and time; the ingenious internal machine that enables food to be transformed into movement; and why meeting an attractive person can turn you into a gibbering idiot.

Brian clegg is a science journalist and writer. he runs www.popularscience.co.uk and his previous books include Inflight Science (icon, 2011) and A Brief History of Infinity (robinson Publishing, 2003). www.brianclegg.net

‘He managed to surprise me with something new on every page’

ALAIN DE BOTTON, Mail oN SUNDay, ON iNflighT SciENcE

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travelled for millions of years; your ability to detect warps in space and time; the ingenious internal machine that enables food to be transformed into movement; and why meeting an attractive person can turn you into a gibbering idiot.

Brian clegg is a science journalist and writer. he runs www.popularscience.co.uk and his previous books include Inflight Science (icon, 2011) and A Brief History of Infinity (robinson Publishing, 2003). www.brianclegg.net

‘He managed to surprise me with something new on every page’

ALAIN DE BOTTON, Mail oN SUNDay, ON iNflighT SciENcE

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Can infidelity be good for you? What does it mean to stay true to yourself? Must we fulfil our potential? Self-help 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

‘An arrestingly readable exploration of our elusive sense of self.

Read it, and you won’t be the same again’JOHN GRAy, ON JULIAN BAGGINI’S LAST BOOK

NEWTITLEPhilosophy/

Psychology

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ICON BOOKS8 20 Years of Independent Thinking

Can infidelity be good for you? What does it mean to stay true to yourself? Must we fulfil our potential? Self-help 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

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.

‘An arrestingly readable exploration of our elusive sense of self.

Read it, and you won’t be the same again’JOHN GRAy, ON JULIAN BAGGINI’S LAST BOOK

Philosophy/

Psychology

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WEEkEND COLUMN, PHILOSOPHER

JULIAN BAGGINI AND PSyCHOTHERAPIST ANTONIA MACARO OFFER INTRIGUING ANSWERS TO LIFE’S

qUESTIONS

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For six years Tom Rodwell ran cricketing programmes from Cubato 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

face of Hamas’ regular rocket attacks – to a game of ‘tapeball’ cricket with ex-Tamil Tiger child soldiers behind barbed wire in Sri Lanka, Rodwell discovers that the heart of the game is beating fast in countries more used to conflict than cricket.

ToM rodwell ran the charity cricket for change for eight years and is now a lord’s Taverners Trustee. This is his first book.

‘It’s not easy keeping your line and length under the threat of a rocket attack’

GEORGE, OPENING BOWLER FOR BEERSHEvA CRICKET CLUB, ISRAELAN UPLIFTING TALE OF CRICKET – BUT NOT AS yOU

KNOW IT – MAKING A DIFFERENCE IN FAR-FLUNG PARTS OF THE WORLD.


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face of Hamas’ regular rocket attacks – to a game of ‘tapeball’ cricket with ex-Tamil Tiger child soldiers behind barbed wire in Sri Lanka, Rodwell discovers that the heart of the game is beating fast in countries more used to conflict than cricket.

ToM rodwell ran the charity cricket for change for eight years and is now a lord’s Taverners Trustee. This is his first book.

‘It’s not easy keeping your line and length under the threat of a rocket attack’

GEORGE, OPENING BOWLER FOR BEERSHEvA CRICKET CLUB, ISRAEL

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STeven reid is a lifelong member of royal lytham & St annes golf club, which he captained in 1996, and is currently chairman of its heritage committee.

THE 50 MOST MIND-ExPANDING

MATHEMATICAL THEORIES, EACH

ExPLAINED IN HALF A MINUTE

dr. richard J. Brown is director of undergraduate Studies at the department of Mathematics, Johns hopkins university.

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How can you avoid being the only dinner guest who has no idea what Fermat proved and who thinks a Mandelbrot Set is a delicious pudding?

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.

The latest in Icon’s hugely popular and successful 30-Second … series

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STeven reid is a lifelong member of royal lytham & St annes golf club, which he captained in 1996, and is currently chairman of its heritage committee.

THE 50 MOST MIND-ExPANDING

MATHEMATICAL THEORIES, EACH

ExPLAINED IN HALF A MINUTE

THE INSPIRATIONAL

STORy OF AGOLFING LEGEND AND ONE OF THE GAME’S DEFINING

CONTESTS

dr. richard J. Brown is director of undergraduate Studies at the department of Mathematics, Johns hopkins university.

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1926. The Open Championship at Royal Lytham & St Annes Golf Club. Among the stellar field of players is a rising young amateur, the winner of the US Open and US Amateur Championship: Bobby Jones.

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.

‘Mr Bobby Jones is just a genius, and they are

not born every day.’ obSErvEr, 26 JUNE 1926


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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All books: UK £6.99 / Canada $12.50 / USA $9.95 · 168 x 118mm Paperback · 176 pages with b/w illustrations throughout


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Instant GuidesBite-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

Bicycle Maintenance 9781780500140British Birds 9781780500010British Butterflies 9781780500096British Trees 9781780500089Card Games 9781780500157English Grammar 9781780500058First Aid for Adults 9781780500027Get Fit by Swimming 9781780500195Get Fit by Walking 9781780500188GI Diet 9781780500034Great British Battles 9781780500102Greek Gods and Monsters 9781780500119How to Play Chess 9781780500164The Human Body 9781780500133Kings & Queens of England 9781780500065Magic Tricks 9781780500171Maths for Everyday Life 9781780500225Origins of the First World War 9781780500201Origins of the Second World War 9781780500218The Periodic Table 9781780500287Shakespeare 9781780500126Stargazing 9781780500041Survival Skills 9781780500072Travel Games 9781780500003

All titles: UK £2.50 · A5-size · 8 pages printed on durable, laminated card · full colour throughout

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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.

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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.

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‘With this book in hand, we have all we need to set off on our next flight with our eyes open to the sheer wonder of what is involved’ ALAIN DE BOTTON, MAIl On SUnDAY

‘[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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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 RevIeWSTi

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‘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

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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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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.

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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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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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