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Learn to study better, retain knowledge and beat procrastination with Graham ‘Productivity Ninja’ Allcott

Fed up of procrastinating? Studying hard, but not getting anywhere? Overwhelmed by everything you have to learn? Whether you’re studying for exams, trying to get essays done or simply need to improve how you absorb knowledge in your day-to-day life, it’s time to think like a Ninja!

‘It’s fun, easy to follow and practical - and may just be the kick up the bottom you need’ Closer, on How to be a Productivity Ninja

How to be a Knowledge NinjaStudy smarter. Focus better. Achieve more.

Graham Allcott

March 2015 / Rights: WorldManuscript Available January 2015

GraHam allcOtt is the author of How to be a Productivity Ninja, and founder of Think Productive, whose diverse list of clients includes eBay, the British Library and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. He is also the author of Introducing Productivity (Icon, 2014) and lives in Brighton.




Move beyond timemanagement, get your inbox to zero and learn to think like a Productivity Ninja!

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.

‘all the tips and techniques you need to stay calm, get through your tasks, make the most of your time and stop procrastinating. It’s fun, easy to follow and practical - and may just be the kick up the bottom you need!’ Closer

How to be a Productivity NinjaWorry Less, Achieve More and Love What You Do

Graham Allcott

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GraHam allcOtt is the author of How to be a Productivity Ninja, and founder of Think Productive, whose diverse list of clients includes eBay, the British Library and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. He is also the author of Introducing Productivity (Icon, 2014) and lives in Brighton.




From the ever-curious mind that brought you the bestselling Do You Think You’re Clever? comes a brand-new trip to the far reaches of the intellectual universe, courtesy of even more notoriously provocative Oxbridge interview questions.

• How would you poison someone without the police finding out? (medicine, cambridge)

• What makes a strong woman? (theology, Oxford)

• Instead of politicians, why don’t we let the managers of IKEa run the country? (Social and Political Sciences, cambridge)

• How do you organise a successful revolution? (History, Oxford)

• Why is it a disadvantage for humans to have two legs? (medicine, cambridge)

• Why are you sitting in this chair? (History, Oxford)

Do You Still Think You’re CleverEven More Oxford and Cambridge Questions

Jon Agar

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JOHN FarNdON is the author of numerous bestsellers on science, ideas and the natural environment, as well as being a playwright, composer and poet. He has been shortlisted a record five times for the Royal Society Junior Science Book Prize. Do You Think You’re Clever? was shortlisted for the Society of Authors Education Award. Canada’s Globe and Mail named his Atlas of Oceans as a 2011 top ten science book. He is currently writing The Omnipaedia for Square Peg.




When Nancy Tucker was eight years old, her class had to write about what they wanted to be when they grew up. She thought, and thought, and then, though she didn’t know why, she wrote: ‘I want to be thin.’

Over the next twelve years, she developed anorexia, was hospitalised, and finally swung the other way towards binge eating disorder. She left school, rejoined school; went in and out of therapy; ebbed in and out of life. From the bleak reality of a body breaking down to the electric mental highs of starvation, hers has been a life held in thrall by food.

told with remarkable insight, dark humour and acute intelligence, the time in Between is a profound, important window into the workings of an unquiet mind – a Wasted for the 21st century.

The Time In BetweenA Memoir of Hunger and Hope

Nancy Tucker

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NaNcy tucKEr is a 20-year old author and au pair. She suffered from both anorexia and binge eating disorder throughout her teens, but is now on the road to recovery and has gained a place at Oxford to study Experimental Psychology in 2015. She lives in London.




A cutting-edge despatchfrom human science,revealing that we are allveritable walking Noah’sArks of micro-species.

Every human body carries a secret cargo: a huge population of micro-organisms that lives in your mouth and nose, on your skin,in your guts. this is the human microbiome and it has in the last few years become biologists’ most thrilling research interest.

acclaimed science communicator and editor Jon turney presents the first booklength account of a new realm of human biology that will make you think again about this machine we call ourselves.

I, SuperorganismLearning to love your inner ecosystem

Jon Turney

February 2015 / Rights: WorldAVAILABLE NOW

JON turNEy is a science writer and former features editor of The Times Higher Education Supplement. He was popular science editor at Penguin Press and is the author, among much else, of The Rough Guide to the Future (2010) and Lovelock and Gaia (Icon, 2003) and editor of A Quark for Mister Mark: 101 Poems about Science (Faber, 2000).




A provocative exploration of ‘new ecology’ and why we’re ofren wrong about alien species.

Veteran environmental journalist Fred Pearce used to think of invasive species as evil interlopers spoiling pristine ‘natural’ ecosystems. most conservationists would agree. But what if traditional ecology is wrong, and true environmentalists should be applauding the invaders?

In The New Wild, Pearce goes on a journey to rediscover what conservation should really be about. He explores ecosystems from Pacific islands to the australian outback to the thames estuary, digs into the questionable costs of invader species, and reveals the outdated intellectual sources of our ideas about the balance of nature.

In an era of climate change and widespread ecological damage, we must find ways to help nature regenerate. Embracing the ‘new wild’ is our best chance.

The New WildWhy Invasive Species Will Be Nature’s Salvation

Fred Pearce

April 2015 / Rights: WorldManuscript Available November 2014

FrEd PEarcE is a former New Scientist news editor, and is currently its environment and development consultant. He has written fourteen previous books, including When the Rivers Run Dry and The Land Grabbers, which have been translated into many languages. He writes regularly for the Independent and Times Higher Education and is a regular broadcaster on radio and TV, with interview credits from Today to Richard and Judy to the Open University.




Science plays a fundamentalrole in all our lives – improvinghealth, increasing life expectancy,enhancing life experience. Yet itcan be difficult to get a practicalpicture of what really is best for us– a kind of science recipe book foryou and your family.

Science for life presents the best ofcurrent scientific advice, cutting throughall the vested interests and confusingcontradictory statements to give anyonea clear picture of what science is telling usright now about changing our lives for thebetter.

life is too short to always be confused bythe latest fads and misdirection from thosewho are trying to sell. the whole point ofScience for life is to make the picture clearand simple for the general reader and theirfamily, improving their life choices withoutcompromising the message of the latestscientific research.

Science for LifeBrian Clegg

January 2015 / Rights: WorldAVAILABLE NOW

BrIaN clEGG studied physics at Cambridge University and specialises in making the strangest aspects of the universe, from infinity to time travel and quantum theory, accessible to the general reader. He is editor of www.popularscience.co.uk and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. His previous books include Inflight Science, Build Your Own Time Machine, The Universe Inside You, Dice World and Introducing Infinity: A Graphic Guide.





What do your iPhone, the Large Hadron Collider and liquid helium at -272°C have in common?

the Stone, Bronze and Iron ages, and the birth of steam and electricity, saw human life transformed by new materials and technology. Now we’ve reached the Quantum age, the revolution led by our understanding of the very, very small. today technologies based on quantum physics may account for as much as 30 per cent of GdP.

atoms, electrons, photons of light are all quantum particles, acting totally unlike the objects we experience. this weird quantum behaviour lies at the heart of every electronic device and powers lasers in everything from dVds to eye correction. It is also behind quantum biology, the astonishing new realisation that biological functions, from our ability to see and photosynthesis in plants to the amazing ability of birds to navigate, rely directly on quantum effects.

The Quantum AgeHow the Physics of the Very Small

has Transformed Our Lives

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 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.

He explores how the ‘clockwork universe’ imagined by Newton, in which everything could be predicted given enough data, was disproved bit by bit, to be supplanted by chaos theory and quantum physics. clegg reveals a world in which not only is accurate forecasting often impossible but probability is the only way for us to understand the fundamental nature of things.

‘methodical, clear, entertaining and just a bit mind-boggling.’ Irish Times

Dice WorldScience and Life in a Random Universe

Brian Clegg

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Fascinating facts and mind-boggling science of the human body.

Built from the debris of exploding stars that floated through space for billions of years, 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.

In the sequel to his bestselling Inflight Science, Brian clegg explores mitochondria, in-cell powerhouses which are thought to have once been separate creatures; how your eyes are quantum traps, consuming photons of light from the night sky that have travelled for millions of years; your many senses, which include the ability to detect warps in space and time, and why meeting an attractive person can turn you into a gibbering idiot.

read the universe Inside you and you’ll never look at yourself the same way again.

The Universe Inside YouThe Extreme Science of the Human Body from Quantum Theory to the Mysteries of the Brain

Brian Clegg

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The perfect companion to any flight - a guide to the science on view from your window seat.

20,000+ copies sold

there are few times when science is as immediate as when you’re in a plane. your life is in the hands of the scientists and engineers who enable tons of metal and plastic to hurtle through the sky at hundreds of miles an hour. Inflight Science shows how you stay alive up there - but that’s only the beginning.

Brian clegg explains the ever changing view, whether it’s crop circles or clouds, mountains or river deltas, and describes simple experiments to show how a wing provides lift, or what happens if you try to open a door in mid-air (don’t!). On a plane you’ll experience the impact of relativity, the power of natural radiation and the effect of altitude on the boiling point of tea. Every moment of your journey is an opportunity to experience science in action: Inflight Science will be your guide.

Inflight ScienceA Guide to the World from your Airplane Window

Brian Clegg

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VIctOrIa WIllIamSON a is a lecturer and researcher in music psychology who holds academic posts in the UK and Switzerland. An expert in the impact of music on human behaviour, she has worked in both university and private industry research and hosts the popular educational blog musicpsychology.co.uk. A popular public speaker, she has presented her work at numerous forums including TED, the Latitude Festival, the British Science Festival and NPR.

Her writing has appeared in NME and her research has been presented across national and international 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).

‘You are the music / While the music lasts’ T.S. Eliot, The Four Quartets

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, armand Van Helden’s remix of Professional Widow or dizzle rascal’s Bonkers transport you to back to a student party?

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.

You Are the MusicHow Music Reveals What it Means to be Human

Victoria Williamson





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’s written for the Guardian, The Times Literary Supplement, the Huffington Post, the New Statesman, and the Times Higher Education Supplement

Popular philosophical polemic in the tradition of On Bullshit, James Garvey mourns the death of proper debate and reminds us of the value of rational argument.

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, infoganda, sock puppeteering, psychological pricing, viral marketing, crowd manipulation, framing, spinning, propagandising. loyalty cards, death panels, airport toilets, think tank reports, search algorithms and weapons dossiers are all symptoms of this. 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 has 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.

Easily SwayedModern Persuasion and the Lost Art of Argument

James Garvey

June 2015 / Rights: WorldManuscript available December 2014




In June 1941, Flight Sergeant Leslie Mann, a tail gunner in a British bomber, was shot down over Germany and taken into captivity.

after the war, wanting to record the experiences of the raF’s ‘Bomber Boys’, he wrote down his inner thoughts and feelings as a fictional narrative, recently brought to the attention of Imperial War museums.

Visceral, shocking and unglamorous, it transmits as rarely before the horrors of aerial warfare, the corrosive effects of fear, and the psychological torment of the young men involved. although presented as fiction, the book’s solid basis in lived experience makes it ring true – the sights, sounds, smells, and above all the emotional strain are intensely evoked with a novelist’s skill.

Providing a unique glimpse into a deadly profession and a traumatic time, And Some Fell on Stony Ground is a fascinating historical artefact in its own right. this compelling story is introduced and placed in context by historian richard Overy, author of the acclaimed book, The Bombing

And Some Fell on Stony GroundThe Final Mission of an RAF Bomber Crew

Leslie MannIntroduction by Richard Overy


lESlIE maNwas born in Penang, Malaysia in 1914. After moving to the UK, in 1938 he joined the RAF. He and his fellow crew were shot down and captured near Düsseldorf in June 1941. He died in 1989.

rIcHard OVEry is an award-winning historian. His book, The Bombing War, was described by Richard J. Evans in the Guardian as ‘the most important book published on the history of the second world war this century’.




‘Keep your mitts off my NHS’ Star of the Labour Party Conference 2014, Harry Leslie Smith’s emotional speech was front page news.

at the age of 91, Harry leslie Smith’s Guardian articles – on topics as diverse as the NHS, remembrance day poppies, immigration and internet privacy – have been shared online hundreds of thousands of times.

From the deprivation of 1930s Bradford and the terror of war to the creation of the welfare state, Harry has experienced how a great civilisation can fall and rise again. But now, with healthcare and benefits cutbacks, political corruption and food poverty, he fears how easily it is being eroded.

Harry’s last Stand is a lyrical, searing modern invective that shows what the past can teach us, and how the future is ours for the taking.

Harry’s Last StandHow the world my generation built is falling down,

and what we can do to save it

Harry Leslie Smith


Harry lESlIE SmItH is a survivor of the Great Depression, a second world war RAF veteran and, at 91, an activist for the poor and for the preservation of social democracy. His Guardian articles have been shared over 60,000 times on Facebook and have attracted huge comment and debate. He has authored numerous books about Britain during the Great Depression, the second world war and postwar austerity. He lives outside Toronto, Canada and in Yorkshire.




From BBC Antiques Roadshow specialist Marc Allum comes a new annual almanac that keeps you up-to-date with the stories, facts and often amusing idiosyncrasies of the ever-changing global art and antiques market.

allum’s almanac 2015 reveals such fascinating nuggets as:

• What lee Harvey Oswald’s wedding ring sold for

• How much the world’s most expensive printed book cost per word

• the Victorian dolls’ house which joined the soaring property market, sold by the owner with some very odd pre-conditions.

• Why someone was prepared to pay over £3 million for the miniature effigy of a dashing bodyguard.

allum’s anecdotal and irreverent style gives a unique insider’s insight into a world fuelled by history, avarice and passion. this year and in many more allum’s almanack will be a must-read for the collector in all of us.

Allum’s Antiques AlmanacAn Annual Compendium of Stories and Facts From

the World of Art and Antiques

Marc Allum


marc allum is a freelance art and antiques writer and consultant based in Wiltshire. Marc has been a miscellaneous specialist on the BBC’s Antiques Roadshow programme since 1998, he is the author of The Antiques Magpie (Icon, 2013), described by Philip Mould as a ‘delightful nest of insights from a professional who knows the game and can weave it into words’.




From the mythical artefacts of the ancient world to saucy seaside postcards, The Antiques Magpie explores the wonderful world of antiques and collectables.

With antiques roadshow regular marc allum as your guide, go in search of stolen masterpieces, explore the first museums, learn the secrets of the forgers and brush up on your auction technique.

meet the garden gnome insured for £1 million, track down Napoleon’s toothbrush, find out how to spot a corpse in a Victorian photograph – and much more.

this book is for anyone who’s ever been fascinated by what relics of the past tell us about history – and what they are worth today.

The Antiques Magpie (Miscellany)Marc Allum


marc allum is a freelance art and antiques writer and consultant based in Wiltshire. Marc has been a miscellaneous specialist on the BBC’s Antiques Roadshow programme since 1998, he is the author of The Antiques Magpie (Icon, 2013), described by Philip Mould as a ‘delightful nest of insights from a professional who knows the game and can weave it into words’.




JamES StEEN is an award-winning journalist, food writer, author and ghostwriter. He has a deep fascination for both the cook and cooking, and collaborates with great chefs. 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-but-pioneering food companies, and contributes to a wide variety of publications. James lives in London.

A feast of hundreds of food facts, mouth-watering myths and culinary curiosities to satisfy all appetites.

there are fascinating tips and expert know-how. 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.

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.

The Kitchen Magpie (Miscellany)James Steen





Simon Flynn’s bestselling selection of enthralling facts, stories, poems and more from science’s history

From the large Hadron collider rap to the sins of Isaac Newton, the Science magpie is a compelling collection of scientific curiosities.

Expand your knowledge as you view the history of the Earth on the face of a clock, tremble at the power of the richter scale and learn how to measure the speed of light in your kitchen.

Skip through time with darwin’s note on the pros and cons of marriage, take part in an 1858 cambridge exam, meet the african schoolboy with a scientific puzzle named after him and much more.

‘Simon Flynn’s cornucopia of curious facts, anecdotes and quotations ... is sure to entertain and surprise.’ New Scientist

The Science Magpie (Miscellany)Simon Flynn

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SImON FlyNN was a publisher and is now a science teacher. He has degrees in Chemistry and Philosophy.




The Nature Magpie picks the choicest morsels from history, literature, philosophy, science and more of the natural world.

a collection of anecdotes, facts, figures, folklore and literature, the Nature magpie is a veritable treasure trove of humanity’s thoughts and feelings about nature.

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.

The Nature Magpie (Miscellany)Daniel Allen


daNIEl allEN is a British author making a name for himself in the world of animal/nature writing. His first book, Otter, was published in Reaktion Books’ Animal series in September 2010. Virginia McKenna OBE described the book as ‘the most brilliant mix of facts ancient and modern about the otter species’.




The North American Soccer League – at its peak in the late 1970s – was way aheadof its time. It was football as performance, played by men with a bent for flair, hair and glamour.

more than just Pelé and the New york cosmos, it lured the biggest names of the world game like cruyff, Best, Beckenbauer and the mercurial rodney marsh to play football as it was meant to be played – without inhibition, to please the fans.

It experimented with rules and innovations that upset purists, and liberated players from the negative tactics of the muddy, hooligan-blighted grounds of Europe.

rock ’n’ roll Soccer reveals in all its glory the colour and chaos of the world’s first truly international league. How it sold itself in a continent unfamiliar with soccer, and how it crashed back down to earth like a rock star’s private jet, bankrupt but laughing all the way.

Rock’n’Roll SoccerThe Short Life and Fast Times of the North

American Soccer League

Ian PlenderleithForeword by Rodney Marsh


mIcHaEl StEEN is a US-based British football writer and journalist. He has been writing about football for the past twenty years for publications including the Guardian, The Wall Street Journal, When Saturday Comes and Soccer America. He lives just outside Washington DC.

rOdNEy marSH won nine caps for England between 1971 and 1973 and was best known, in the UK, for playing for Manchester City and Queen’s Park Rangers. In the USA he played for the Tampa Bay Rowdies between 1976 and ‘79, later coaching the club after spells coaching New York United and Carolina Lightnin’. He worked as a pundit for Sky Sports until 2005.




Sir Geoff Hurst, from his vantage point as a true national hero and international football ambassador – and still the only man ever to score a hat-trick in a World Cup Final – risks controversy as he narrows down football’s finest to a select 50 in this brilliant new book.

From unerringly consistent shot-stoppers to explosively temperamental forwards, not to mention the odd libero, false nine and wing half, the list brings together the greats of every shape, size and position. Sir Geoff brings many first-hand tales of former teammates and rivals, along with tributes of those he’s admired from the terraces. Each entry is accompanied by a photo of the player in their prime.

Is Franz Beckenbauer preferred to England’s heroic Bobby moore? Has messi managed to edge ahead of his countryman diego maradona? Have Bale or Suarez done enough to make the cut? this absorbing book from one of the great icons of the British game is a must-read for football fans everywhere - and the likely start of many forthright debates...

Geoff Hurst’s 50 Greatest Footballers of All Time

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SIr GEOFF HurSt mBE is the only man to score a hat-trick in a World Cup final – for England in their historic 4–2 victory over West Germany at Wembley in 1966.

Having shown an early flair for cricket – playing a first-class match for Essex against Lancashire in 1962 – Hurst opted for a career in football, and with West Ham United he scored 248 goals in 499 first team appearances. There he won the FA Cup in 1964 and the European Cup Winners’ Cup 1965. He was selected by Alf Ramsey to lead England’s attack between 1966 and 1972 – the longest run of any forward under Ramsey, scoring 24 goals in that time.

In recent years Hurst has travelled with the England team and lives in Cheltenham.




Former England captain and impeccably stylish batsman David Gower, himself inducted into the Cricket Hall of Fame, chooses his 50 greatest-ever cricketing heroes.

reaching right back into the early days of W.G. Grace, through the great names of the 20th century and all the way up to the current superstars in the cricketing pantheon, he uses his keen professional judgement to select the finest players in all areas of the game.

liberally sprinkled with personal anecdote and insider knowledge, this is the perfect book for the cricket enthusiast and is sure to spark impassioned debate among fans all around the world.

Published to mark the start of the new cricket season and the ashes series in the summer.

David Gower’s 50 Greatest Cricketers of All Time

May 2015 / Rights: WorldManuscript Available January 2015

daVId GOWEr was captain of the England cricket team during their victorious 1985 Ashes season, and as a left-handed batsman he scored 8,231 runs in Test matches over his career. A renowned cricketing broadcaster, he has commentated for the BBC and is now the main presenter for Sky Sports’ cricket coverage.




The ‘authoritative, up-to-date’ (Golftoday.com) Ryder Cup history.

Played every two years, originally between Great Britain and Ireland and the uSa and, since 1979, between Europe and the uSa, the ryder cup is golf’s greatest tournament.

Peter Pugh and Henry lord present the latest edition of their cup history, telling stories that include the world’s most successful golfers – Walter Hagen, Henry cotton, Gene Sarazen, Peter alliss, Sam Snead, max Faulkner, Ben Hogan, dai rees, lee trevino, tony Jacklin, Jack Nicklaus, Nick Faldo, Seve Ballesteros, tiger Woods and colin montgomerie.

With photographs including Jacklin shaking hands with Nicklaus after the american had conceded a two-and-a half-foot putt to finalise a draw in 1969, this edition is published on the eve of September 2014’s match at the beautiful Gleneagles. Europe hold the trophy after their dramatic victory at medinah country club, chicago, in 2012.

The Ryder CupA History 1927 - 2014

Peter Pugh, Henry Lord


PEtEr PuGH was educated at Oundle and Cambridge, where he was a member of the golf team. He has written many books on golf and golf clubs as well as about 50 company histories, including The Magic of a Name, a three-volume history of Rolls-Royce.

HENry lOrd is the co-author of the highly acclaimed golf course coffee-table books, all published by Icon, Creating Classics, Masters of Design and St Andrews, which includes a Foreword from the great Ryder Cup player and captain, Seve Ballesteros.




With Slavoj Zizek, Alain Badiou is one of the best-known philosophers alive today.

the works of French philosopher alain Badiou range from novels, poems, “romanopéras” and popular political treatises to elaborate philosophical arguments engaging with mathematical theory.

throughout all of his writings, there is a staunch commitment to emancipatory politics and radical change through fidelity to what he calls the “event” and its “truth”. Badiou’s famous, or infamous, philosophy of emancipation is faithful to the communist truth, the universal idea of a collective life, but he also claims that “philosophy is always a biography of the philosopher”.

Introducing alain Badiou is an elegantly written and crisply illustrated guide to an essential contemporary thinker.

Introducing Alain BadiouA Graphic Guide

Michael Kelly & Piero


mIcHaEl KElly is a historian, philosopher and Ph.D. Candidate at the University of Leeds. His research intersects contemporary thought with rigorous, historical research into early medieval existences, and he is very much engaged in the Philosophy of History and the use of the concept of History today. He is a General Editor of both the International Journal for Badiou Studies & Networks and Neighbours, coorganizer of the Philosophies of History and Lacan Read(s) Across the Disciplines seminar series at the University of Leeds.

PIErO is an illustrator, artist and graphic designer whose work has twice been included in the Royal College of Art in London. He has illustrated many Introducing titles.




An incredible illustrated tour through the cutting-edge of physics.

What really happens at the most fundamental levels of nature?

Introducing Particle Physics explores the very frontiers of our knowledge, even showing how particle physicists are now using theory and experiment to probe our very concept of what is real.

From the earliest history of the atomic theory through to supersymmetry, micro-black holes, dark matter, the Higgs boson, and the possibly mythical graviton, practising physicist and cErN contributor tom Whyntie gives us a mind-expanding tour of cutting-edge science.

Featuring brilliant illustrations from Oliver Pugh, Introducing Particle Physics is a unique tour through the most astonishing and challenging science being undertaken today.

Introducing Particle PhysicsA Graphic Guide

Tom Whyntie & Oliver Pugh

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tOm WHyNtIE is currently based at CERN working on the Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) experiment, a 12,500 tonne, cathedral-sized ‘digital camera’ one hundred metres under the ground. Tom has received awards from the Institute of Physics for his lecturing, performing in locations as varied as Cambridge, London, Portsmouth, Dublin, Enfield and Romania and has written for the Guardian.

OlIVEr PuGH’S most recent book was Introducing Infinity.




A compact Graphic Guide to a boundlessly intriguing subject.

Infinity is a profoundly counter-intuitive and brain-twisting subject that has inspired some great thinkers – and provoked and shocked others.

the ancient Greeks were so horrified by the implications of an endless number that they drowned the man who gave away the secret. and a German mathematician was driven mad by the repercussions of his discovery of transfinite numbers.

Brian clegg and Oliver Pugh’s brilliant graphic tour of infinity features a cast of characters ranging from archimedes and Pythagoras to al-Khwarizmi, Fibonacci, Galileo, Newton, leibniz, cantor, Venn, Gödel and mandelbrot, and shows how infinity has challenged the finest minds of science and mathematics. Prepare to enter a world of paradox.

Introducing InfinityA Graphic Guide

Brian Clegg & Oliver Pugh



OlIVEr PuGH is a graphic designer.




Compact Introducing guide to this commonly overlooked body of thought.

What makes philosophy on the continent of Europe so different and exciting? and why does it have such a reputation for being ‘difficult’?

continental philosophy was initiated amid the revolutionary ferment of the 18th century, philosophers such as Kant and Hegel confronting the extremism of the time with theories that challenged the very formation of individual and social consciousness.

covering the great philosophers of the modern and postmodern eras – from Nietzsche, Heidegger, derrida and deleuze right to up agamben and Žižek – and philosophical movements from German idealism to deconstruction and feminism – christopher Kul-Want and Piero brilliantly elucidate some of the most thrilling and powerful ideas ever to have been discussed.

Introducing Continental PhilosophyA Graphic Guide

Christopher Kul-Want & Piero

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cHrIStOPHEr Kul-WaNt is the course director of M.A. Fine Art at the Byam Shaw School of Art, Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, University of the Arts London.

PIErO is a graphic designer and illustrator.




Slovenian philosophy Slavoj Zizek inspires dramatic headlines. But what does he really think?

charting his meteoric rise in popularity, christopher Kul-Want and Piero explore Zizek’s timely analyses of today’s global crises concerning ecology, mounting poverty, war, civil unrest and revolution.

covering topics from philosophy and ethics, politics and ideology, religion and art, to literature, cinema, corporate marketing, quantum physics and virtual reality, Introducing Slavoj Zizek deftly explains Zizek’s virtuoso ability to transform apparently outworn ideologies – communism, marxism and psychoanalysis – into a new theory of freedom and enjoyment.

Introducing Slavoj ZizekA Graphic Guide

Christopher Kul-Want & Piero

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cHrIStOPHEr Kul-WaNt is the course director of M.A. Fine Art at the Byam Shaw School of Art, Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, University of the Arts London.

PIErO is an illustrator, artist, and graphic designer whose work has been exhibited in the Royal College of Art, London.




A holistic manual designed to improve life for the whole of you

this book is full of expert, practical advice which teaches you to use the latest scientific knowledge to achieve a healthy state of mind and body.

BEcOmE mOrE ENErGIZEd by adopting quality sleep patterns.

OPtImIZE mENtal aNd PHySIcal HEaltH by harnessing your natural ability to heal.

acHIEVE calm by learning to manage your stress levels.

dIScOVEr HaPPINESS aNd FulFIllmENt by investing in yourself and others.

Introducing Well-beingA Practical Guide

Patricia Furness-Smith


PatrIcIa FurNESS-SmItH is a psychologist and accredited practitioner with over 25 years’ experience in her field. Her work with people suffering with phobias has led her to travel around the world helping people to overcome the various fears which have blighted their lives.




A Practical Guide that will show you how to manage your personal finances.

Introducing Personal Finance, by economics expert michael taillard, teaches you everything you need to know about managing your financial life. It’s crammed full of practical advice on how to save, earn and get the most out of your money.

maKE yOur mONEy WOrK FOr yOu by matching your spending and investments to your values

cONtrOl yOur SPENdING BEHaVIOur by gathering and tracking financial information efficiently

SImPlIFy yOur FINaNcIal maNaGEmENt by learning to use the right tools effectively

rEalIZE yOur SaVINGS GOalS by understanding what you want to and can achieve

Introducing Personal FinanceA Practical Guide

Michael Taillard


mIcHaEl taIllard is a researcher and former university economics instructor. His received his PhD in Financial Economics and has degrees in International Economics and International Finance.




An Introducing Practical Guide on how to stop your fears from controlling your life.

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.

StaNd uP tO FEar and increase your self-confidence.

uNdErStaNd PaNIc attacKS so that the symptoms no longer frighten you.

cONtrOl tHE FIGHt Or FlIGHt rESPONSE and free yourself from avoidance behaviours.

Introducing Overcoming PhobiasA Practical Guide

Patricia Furness-Smith


PatrIcIa FurNESS-SmItH is a psychologist and accredited practitioner with over twenty years’ experience in her field. Her work with people suffering with phobias has led her to travel around the world helping people to overcome the various fears which have blighted their lives.




Learn to use Emotional Freedom Technique to overcome adversity and move on from the past.

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.

clEar aWay NEGatIVE EmOtIONS and find inner peace.

curB craVINGS and take back control of your life.

taP INtO yOur POtENtIal and eradicate those nagging doubts.

Introducing EFT (Emotional Freedom Technique)

A Practical Guide

Judy Byrne


Judy ByrNE ian EFT Founding Master and experienced therapist. She runs international EFT masterclasses and uses her expertise to bring well-being to as many people as she possibly can.




Learn to use Emotional Freedom Technique to overcome adversity and move on from the past.

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.

clEar aWay NEGatIVE EmOtIONS and find inner peace.

curB craVINGS and take back control of your life.

taP INtO yOur POtENtIal and eradicate those nagging doubts.

Introducing Confident SpeakingA Practical Guide

Alan Woodhouse

May 2014 / Rights: WorldAVAILABLE NOW

alaN WOOdHOuSE is a voice, acting, communication and public speaking coach. He runs a private consultancy based in London, training everyone from actors to business executives to media professionals.




An Introducing Practical Guide showing you how to decrease stress and increase efficiency.

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.

aVOId uNNEcESSary mEEtINGSto maximise your time.

StOP PrOcraStINatINGand eradicate stress.

clEar Out yOur INBOXand take back control.

ImPrOVE yOur WOrKFlOWand love your job again.

Introducing ProductivityA Practical Guide

Graham Allcott


GraHam allcOtt’S transition from charity chief executive to freelance consultant inspired him to set up Think Productive. With a mission to revolutionise stuffy time management courses, Think Productive launched in April 2009 and has earned rave reviews from the likes of British Airways, The Cabinet Office, Blackberry, eBay, University College London and Barclays Commercial Bank for its practical, at-desk coaching approach. Away from productivity, Graham’s background and other big passion is for the charity sector. He is also the author of How to Be a Productivity Ninja (Icon Books).




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