Icon Books Jan-June 2015

ICON BOOKS January – June 2015

WELCOME to Icon’s catalogue for the first half of 2015.

This season sees the return in force of popular science to our list, an area we’ve long loved to publish, alongside many titles in new areas: parenting, lifestyle and – with the incredible, lyrical The Time In Between – memoir.

We have cutting-edge biology in Nessa Carey’s Junk DNA and Jon Turney’s I, Superorganism; Brian Clegg’s Science for Life, which every scientifically-literate household should own; and Fred Pearce’s The New Wild. We’re also thrilled to announce a landmark book on Einstein’s 1915 – the year of his ‘incomparably beautiful’ General Theory of Relativity – from John Gribbin.

We also have sequels to bestsellers such as How to be a Productivity Ninja and Spy the Lie, a film tie-in which is to chess what Slumdog Millionaire was to game shows – A King in Hiding – alongside Things I Wish I’d Known, possibly Icon’s most commercial title ever, and much more.

STOP PRESS We added a number of exciting titles to our schedule for the second half of 2014 that didn’t make it into our previous catalogue – so here’s a recap if there’s anything you’ve missed!

England’s 1966 hat-trick hero Sir Geoff Hurst risks controversy as he narrows down football’s finest to a select 50 in this brilliant new book. Sure to fire hearty debate among football fans everywhere.

We also added to the schedule for 2014 a number of new editions – and one brand new book – from prolific and bestselling football biographer Luca Caioli, including this on Barcelona’s new gold-plated strikeforce. See more on Caioli’s books in detail on pages 46 & 47.

November 2014 / £9.99 B-format hardback / 9781906850791

December 2014 / £7.99 B-format paperback / 9781906850869

Written by students of Camden School for Girls, Sciku is a brilliant science stocking-filler of haiku on the wonder of physics, chemistry and biology – and a book that gives the lie to the idea that young people, and girls especially, don’t care about science.

November 2014 / £7.99 B-format paperback / 9781848317949

Roger Lane-Smith’s book details his incredible career building up the world’s largest law firm, DLA Piper, from a Manchester side street in 30 years. A treasure trove of information and gossip for anyone in law, it will appeal equally to readers keen to see how a successful business can be built through hard work and astute risk-taking.

John Timpson CBE is one of the UK’s most successful businessmen. He is Chairman of the eponymous high street chain which has a turnover of £180m. His ‘Ask John’ column in the Daily Telegraph has been dispensing no-nonsense business advice for more than five years and this book collects and expands those columns for the first time.

October 2014 / £16.99 Demy hardback / 9781848317970

November 2014 / £12.99 Demy paperback with flaps / 9781848317895

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Denmark is officially the happiest nation on Earth. What is their secret?

The Year of Living Danishly

Uncovering the Secrets of the World’s Happiest Country

Helen Russell January

When she was suddenly given the opportunity of a new life in rural Jutland, journalist and archetypal Londoner Helen Russell discovered a startling statistic: the happiest place on earth isn’t Disneyland, but Denmark, a land often thought of by foreigners as consisting entirely of long dark winters, cured herring, Lego and pastries.

What is the secret to their success? Are happy Danes born, or made? Helen decides there is only one way to find out: she will give herself a year, trying to uncover the formula for Danish happiness.

From childcare, education, food and interior design to SAD, taxes, sexism and an unfortunate predilection for burning witches, The Year of Living Danishly is a funny, poignant record of a journey that shows us where the Danes get it right, where they get it wrong, and how we might just benefit from living a little more Danishly ourselves.

HELEN RUSSELL is a journalist and former editor of MarieClaire.co.uk. She now lives in rural Jutland and works as a Scandinavia correspondent for the Guardian and the Independent, as well as writing a column on Denmark for the Daily Telegraph.

Society / Travel 9781848318120 £12.99 US $22.95 9781848318137 (eBook) £9.99 (eBook) Demy PBK with flaps 352 pages TERRITORY: World English TRANSLATION RIGHTS: Johnson and Alcock

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A reference tool for informed modern living that separates scientific truth from media myth.

Science for Life

A Manual for Better Living

Brian Clegg January

In Science for Life acclaimed science writer Brian Clegg cuts through the vested interests and confusing contradictory statements that litter the media and the internet, to give a clear picture of what science is telling us right now about changing our lives for the better.

Discover the much-advertised antioxidants that aren’t good for you, the truth about fat and sugar and why one of the healthiest foods contains carcinogens and 21 E-numbers. Find out what does and what doesn’t enhance brainpower – from the failure of playing Mozart to babies to the surprising abilities of caffeine and nicotine. Understand the tools that advertisers use to persuade us and how to turn the psychological pressure back on them.

From the shortcomings of the five second rule to the truth about phone masts and nuclear power, kept up-to-date on a partnering website, Science for Life is your guide to surviving and thriving in the modern world.

Light Years The Extraordinary Story of Mankind’s Fascination with Light Brian Clegg January A new edition of one of Brian Clegg’s bestloved books – the story of light and the people who were determined to unlock the secrets of one of the greatest puzzles of the Universe.

Popular science/9781848318144/£8.99 US $15.95 9781848318151 (eBook)/£7.99 (eBook) B-format, paperback/288 pages TERRITORY: World

Popular science / health 9781848318182 £16.99 US $29.95 9781848318199 (eBook) £9.99 (eBook) Demy hardback 400 pages TERRITORY: World TRANSLATION RIGHTS: Icon Books / Marsh Agency

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Brian Clegg has established himself as one of the best popularisers of complex scientific ideas writing today.

Icon have now published – or have in production – six books from Brian, and to celebrate the publication of his latest, Science for Life and Light Years (see the previous spread), we have commissioned a new look for his backlist:

‘An eye-spy book for adults … [its great strength] is its ability to pull out from the mundane experiences of modern air travel – the contrails and cumulonimbus, the security scanners and salted snacks – to explain a wider technical point.’ Times 9781848313057

‘Explains the inner workings of your body in order to explore the outermost workings of the universe.

I’m completely gripped.’ Top Sante 9781848315044 6

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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 popularscience.co.uk and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. His previous books include Inflight Science, The Universe Inside You, Dice World, The Quantum Age and Introducing Infinity: A Graphic Guide, all published by Icon.

‘Methodical, clear, entertaining and just a bit mind-boggling.’ Irish Times Longlisted for the Royal Society Winton Prize for Science Books 9781848316522

All B-format paperbacks • £8.99

‘Brian Clegg does a superb job of explaining complicated scientific concepts in easily understood language. The Quantum Age is his best book yet.’ John Gribbin 9781848318465

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A practical, topical guide on how to stop our daughters growing up too fast

Girls Uninterrupted

How to raise strong girls in the age of everyday sexism

Tanith Carey February

From the moment they’re born, our daughters face a barrage of unhealthy messages about what it means to be female.

Whether they are praised for being pretty, not smart, or accused of being bossy, rather than strong, teaching girls how to be comfortable being themselves has never been a bigger challenge. And in the age of social media trolls, internet pornography and overly sexualised children’s clothes, our daughters are finding it harder than ever to stay young, carefree and happy.

The solution, however, is not avoidance, but equipping our daughters to navigate this world without losing their innocence.

From combatting the Lolita effect, to teaching girls how to accept their bodies, Girls Uninterrupted is packed with expert advice and up-to-date research that will show you how your daughter can grow up to be a strong, confident woman.

TANITH CAREY is the author of six books, ranging from biography to social history and parenting. She writes opinion and features for a wide range of publications all over the world including the Guardian, Independent, Independent on Sunday, Daily Mail, Grazia, Woman and Woman’s Own and the New York Daily News.

Parenting / Society 9781848318205 £7.99 9781848318212 (eBook) £7.99 (eBook) B-format paperback TERRITORY: UK & Commonwealth ex. Canada US RIGHTS: Rupert Crew Ltd TRANSLATION RIGHTS: Rupert Crew Ltd

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A cutting-edge despatch from human science, revealing that we are all veritable walking Noah’s Arks of micro-species.

I, Superorganism

Learning to love your inner ecosystem

Jon Turney February

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.

Vastly outnumbering human cells, our invisible passengers are vital to life.

They help us digest food, make essential nutrients, and combat disease.

They help regulate allergies and inflammation, via the immune system. They influence bowel disease, heart disease and cancer. They may even have a role in developing behaviour. We are not just isolated humans, but superorganisms.

And that calls into question our obsession with disinfection and sterilisation, and our antibiotic addiction, which is like managing a complex ecosystem with napalm.

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.

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). jonturney.co.uk

Popular science 9781848318229 £12.99 US $25.95 9781848318236 (eBook) £9.99 (eBook) Demy PBK with flaps 304 pages TERRITORY: World TRANSLATION RIGHTS: Icon Books / Marsh Agency

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The groundbreaking science of solutions that turns problems – and how we solve them – upside down.

It’s Not About the Shark

How to Solve Unsolvable Problems

David Niven February

When we have a problem, most of us zero in, take it apart, and focus until we have it solved. Steven Spielberg tried that when the scenes with his expensive prosthetic shark just weren’t scary.

Psychologist, social scientist and million-selling author David Niven shows us that focusing on the problem is exactly the wrong way to find an answer. And Jaws built its famous menace precisely because the shark hardly ever appears in shot.

Putting problems at the centre of our thoughts shuts down our creative abilities, depletes stamina, and feeds insecurities. Niven shows how working harder, and having absolute confidence in finding a solution, actually hides answers.

It’s Not About the Shark shows how to transform your daily life with a simple but rock-solid principle: If you start by thinking about your problems, you’ll never make it to a solution. If you start by thinking about a solution, you’ll never worry about your problems again.

DAVID NIVEN’s The 100 Simple Secrets of Happy People – and seven other titles in the series – have sold more than 1 million copies in the US, and have been translated in 30 languages around the globe. His work has been featured in USA TODAY, US Weekly, The Washington Post, Reader’s Digest, Redbook, Cosmopolitan, Glamour, and Health.

Psychology / Business 9781848318243 £12.99 9781848318250 (eBook) £9.99 (eBook) Demy PBK with flaps 288 pages TERRITORY: UK & Commonwealth ex. Canada US RIGHTS: St Martin’s Press TRANSLATION RIGHTS: St. Martin’s Press

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The incredible account – recounted by the protagonist’s son – of a secret POW rescue mission.

Beyond the Call

The Incredible True Story of One Man’s Life-or-Death Mission on the Eastern Front in World War II

Lee Trimble with Jeremy Dronfield February

As the Red Army advanced across Poland in 1945, thousands of freed Allied POWs – viewed by the Soviets as cowards or potential spies – were abandoned to wander the war-torn Eastern Front.

In total secrecy, the OSS – wartime forerunner to the CIA – conceived an undercover mission to rescue them. The man they picked to lead it was veteran 8th Air Force bomber pilot Captain Robert Trimble.

With little covert training, Trimble survived by wit, courage, and a determination to do some good in a terrible war. Alone, he faced up to the terrifying Soviet secret police and saved hundreds of lives, fighting his own battle against the trauma of war while finding his way home to his wife and child.

Based on hours of testimony from his father, Beyond the Call is written by Trimble’s son and by British historian Jeremy Dronfield. It is a filmic, inspiring story of a hitherto unknown true hero.

LEE TRIMBLE was born in 1950, the son of Captain Robert M. Trimble.

JEREMY DRONFIELD – ‘A gifted, original writer’ (Sunday Telegraph) – is a writer, biographer, and novelist, with a special interest in WWII aviation. Among his many books is the critically acclaimed The Alchemist’s Apprentice (Headline, 2001), described as a ‘captivating metaphysical mystery and an otherworldly love story’ by the Sunday Times.

History 9781848318519 £20 9781848318533 (eBook) £15 (eBook) Royal HBK 352 pages with 16 pages of b/w photos TERRITORY: UK & Comm ex. Canada US RIGHTS: Penguin / Berkley TRANSLATION RIGHTS: Andrew Lownie Literary Agency

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How to be a Knowledge Ninja Learn to study better, Study smarter. Focus better. Achieve more. retain knowledge and Graham Allcott March beat procrastination with Graham ‘Productivity Ninja’ Allcott

Fed up with 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!

Let bestselling author and productivity expert Graham Allcott show you how to: -

HARNESS NINJA TECHNIQUES FROM AGILITY TO ZEN CUT OUT PROCRASTINATION WORK SMARTER, NOT HARDER CONTROL EXAM NERVES LOVE LEARNING AGAIN

‘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

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GRAHAM ALLCOTT is 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.

Self-help / Learning 9781848318168 £12.99 US $25.95 9781848318175 (eBook) £9.99 (eBook) Demy PBK with flaps 288 pages with occasional b/w illustration TERRITORY: World TRANSLATION RIGHTS: Icon Books / Marsh Agency

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The sequel to the New York Times bestseller Spy the Lie – the CIA insider techniques to find the truth

Get the Truth

Former CIA Officers Teach You How to Persuade Anyone to Tell All

Philip Houston Michael Floyd Susan Carnicero March

Former CIA agents and the bestselling authors of Spy the Lie, Philip Houston, Mike Floyd and Susan Carnicero are among the world’s best at recognising deceptive behaviour and drawing out the truth from even the most accomplished liars.

Using techniques developed in real-life counterterrorism and criminal investigations, in Get the Truth they present a step-by-step guide that empowers readers to elicit the truth from others – whether that’s in the boardroom, the classroom, or our own homes.

Using thrilling anecdotes from their careers in counterintelligence, and easy-to-follow instructions, the authors provide a foolproof means of getting absolutely anybody to give an honest answer.

Get the Truth is the easy and effective way to learn how to get to the truth every time.

PHILIP HOUSTON‘s 25-year career with the CIA included thousands of interviews and interrogations for the CIA and other federal agencies, both as an investigator and as a polygraph examiner. Houston is also the author of the bestselling Spy the Lie.

Also available: Psychology / Business 9781848316676 £12.99 9781848318496 (eBook) £9.99 (eBook) Demy PBK with flaps 304 pages TERRITORY: UK & Commonwealth ex. Canada US RIGHTS: St. Martin’s Press TRANSLATION RIGHTS: St. Martin’s Press

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Published for Mother’s Day, a stellar cast of writers reveal the truth about being a mother.

Things I Wish I’d Known

Women tell the truth about motherhood

Victoria Young Foreword by Justine Roberts March

Look at the front cover of any parenting book and what do you see?

Glowing mothers-to-be, or pristine, beautifully-behaved children. But the reality is, your pregnancy might be a sweaty, moody rollercoaster, and your children will almost certainly spend the first few years of their lives covered in both food and bodily fluids. And the experience is no less magical for it.

In this no-holds-barred collection of essays, prominent women authors, journalists and TV personalities explore the truth about becoming mothers.

Covering topics from labour to the breastapo, twins to IVF, weaning to postbirth sex, and with writers including Cathy Kelly, Adele Parks, Kathy Lette and Lucy Porter (and many more), Things I Wish I’d Known is a reassuring, moving and often hilarious collection that will speak to mothers everywhere.

The full list of contributors: Jenny Colgan, Tiffanie Darke, Emma Freud, Daisy Garnett, Nicci Gerard, Bryony Gordon, Shobna Gulati, Christina Hopkinson, Rachel Johnson, Cathy Kelly, Asfaneh Knight, Kathy Lette, Anna Moore, Adele Parks, Lucy Porter, Justine Roberts, Anne Marie Scanlon, Clover Stroud, Alix Walker, Esther Walker and Victoria Young.

VICTORIA YOUNG is a journalist and magazine editor. She worked at the New York Times for three years, then returned to London to work at YOU magazine, Red and the Evening Standard. She’s written for the Guardian, Independent, Grazia and Marie Claire. Most recently she was assistant editor of Woman & Home magazine. Tory lives with her husband and son in London

Parenting 9781848318366 £10 9781848318373 (eBook) £7.99 (eBook) B-format, hardback 240 pages TERRITORY: UK & Commonwealth ex. Canada US RIGHTS: Johnson & Alcock TRANSLATION RIGHTS: Johnson & Alcock

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From the author of the The Epigenetics Revolution comes another eye-opening exploration of the secrets of DNA.

Junk DNA

A Journey Through the Dark Matter of the Genome

Nessa Carey March

For decades after the structure of DNA was identified, scientists focused purely on genes. Other regions – 98% of the human genome – were dismissed as ‘junk’.

But in recent years researchers have discovered that variations in this ‘junk’ DNA underlie many previously intractable diseases, and they can now generate new approaches to tackling them.

Nessa Carey explores, for the first time for a general audience, the incredible story behind a controversy that has generated unusually vituperative public exchanges between scientists. She shows how junk DNA plays an important role in areas as diverse as genetic diseases, viral infections, sex determination in mammals, human biological complexity, disease treatments, even evolution itself – and reveals how we are only now truly unlocking its secrets, more than half a century after Crick and Watson won their Nobel prize for the discovery of the structure of DNA in 1962.

Watch Nessa Carey talk about Junk DNA at bit.ly/NessaCarey NESSA CAREY has a PhD in virology from the University of Edinburgh and worked in the biotech and pharma industry for thirteen years. She is a Visiting Professor at Imperial College, London. Her previous book, The Epigenetics Revolution, was published by Icon Books in 2011, and was described as a ‘book that would have had Darwin swooning – anyone seriously interested in who we are and how we function should read this.’

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Popular science / biology 9781848318267 £18.99 9781848318274 (eBook) £12.99 (eBook) Royal hardback 288 pages TERRITORY: UK & Commonwealth ex. Canada US RIGHTS: Columbia University Press TRANSLATION RIGHTS: Andrew Lownie Agency

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A very modern fairytale; a Slumdog Millionaire for chess – coming to cinemas in late 2015

A King in Hiding

How a child refugee became a world chess champion Fahim Mohammad, with Sophie Le Callennec and Xavier Parmentier. Translated from the French by Barbara Mellor

March

Forced to flee his native Bangladesh, eight year-old chess prodigy Fahim Mohammad arrived in Paris with his father.

Refused asylum, as illegal immigrants they spiralled downwards into homelessness and desperation.

By a stroke of luck, Fahim was introduced to one of France’s top chess coaches, Xavier Parmentier, who tutored him and gave him a sense of purpose, his struggles on the chessboard mirroring both his victories and his crushing defeats in his battle for a normal life.

Rising through local and national tournaments to be crowned France’s Under-12 Chess Champion in 2012, Fahim became a national sensation.

In 2013 he went on to win the World Under-13 Student Championship.

Told through the clear eyes of a child, Fahim’s tale is not only a moving account of the grim realities that underlie a supposedly caring society, but also a heartwarming testimony to a father’s determination, the kindness of strangers, and one small boy’s courageous will to succeed.

FAHIM MOHAMMAD lives with his father on the outskirts of Paris.

SOPHIE LE CALLENNEC is an expert in East African geography and has written numerous school textbooks.

XAVIER PARMENTIER is a chess grandmaster. BARBARA MELLOR has thirty years’ experience as a translator and editor, Résistance by Agnès Humbert (Bloomsbury, 2009) being a recent highlight.

Biography 9781848318281 £8.99 US $15.95 9781848318298 (eBook) £7.99 (eBook) B-format paperback 208 pages TERRITORY: World ex. Bangladesh and India

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A remarkable memoir charting the teenage years of a girl with anorexia

The Time In Between A Memoir of Hunger and Hope

Nancy Tucker

April

A remarkable memoir charting the teenage years of a girl with anorexia nervosa.

When Nancy Tucker was eight years old, her class had to write about what they wanted in life. 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 nervosa, was hospitalised, and finally swung the other way towards bulimia nervosa. 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 hunger.

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.

NANCY TUCKER is a 20-year-old author and nanny. She suffered from both anorexia and bulimia nervosa 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.

Memoir / Health 9781848318304 £12.99 US $26.95 9781848318311 (eBook) £7.99 (eBook) Demy PBK 320 pages TERRITORY: World TRANSLATION RIGHTS: Icon Books / Marsh Agency

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

The New Wild

Why Invasive Species Will Be Nature’s Salvation

Fred Pearce April

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.

Keeping out alien species looks increasingly flawed. The new ecologists looking afresh at how species interact in the wild believe we should celebrate the dynamism of alien species and the novel ecosystems they create.

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.

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.

9781848318342 £16.99 9781848318359 (eBook) £10.99 (eBook) Demy Hardback 288 pages TERRITORY: UK & Comm, ex Canada TRANSLATION RIGHTS: Marsh Agency

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In the tradition of On Bullshit, James Garvey’s popular philosophical polemic mourns the death of proper debate and reminds us of the value of rational argument.

Easily Swayed

Modern Persuasion and the Lost Art of Argument

James Garvey April

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 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 has written for the Guardian, The Times Literary Supplement, the Huffington Post, the New Statesman, and Times Higher Education, does voluntary work for Thames Reach and Crisis, teaches jiu jitsu, and is an enthusiastic cyclist.

Popular philosophy 9781848316607 £12.99 9781848316980 (eBook) £7.99 (eBook) Demy PBK with flaps 288 pages TERRITORY: World TRANSLATION RIGHTS: Icon Books / Marsh Agency

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The iconic batsman and Sky Sports commentator courts controversy by choosing his 50 best-ever cricketers.

David Gower’s 50 Greatest Cricketers of all Time

May

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.

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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.

Cricket 9781906850883 £12.99 9781906850890 (eBook) £7.99 (eBook) B-format hardback 240 pages 50 b&w illustrations TERRITORY: World TRANSLATION RIGHTS: Icon Books / Marsh Agency

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‘The master of popular science writing’ (Sunday Times) on an incredible year for modern physics – 1915

Einstein’s Masterwork

1915 and the General Theory of Relativity

John Gribbin May

In 1915, Albert Einstein presented his masterwork to the Prussian Academy of Sciences – a theory of gravity, matter, space and time: the General Theory of Relativity. Einstein himself said it was ‘the most valuable theory of my life’, and ‘of incomparable beauty’. It describes the evolution of the Universe, black holes, the behaviour of orbiting neutron stars, gravitational lensing, and why clocks run slower on the surface of the Earth than in space. It even suggests the possibility of time travel.

And yet we think instead of 1905, the year of Einstein’s Special Theory of Relativity and his equation E=mc2, as his annus mirabilis, even though the Special Theory is less far-reaching. Today the General Theory is overshadowed by these achievements, regarded as ‘too difficult’ for ordinary mortals to comprehend.

In Einstein’s Masterwork, John Gribbin puts Einstein’s astonishing breakthrough in the context of his life and work, and makes it clear why his greatest year was indeed 1915.

JOHN GRIBBIN is one of the world’s best-known and bestselling popular science authors, described as ‘one of the finest and most prolific writers of popular science around’ by the Spectator.

His numerous books include In Search of Schrödinger’s Cat (Bantam, 1984), Science: A History (Penguin, 2010), Erwin Schrödinger and the Quantum Revolution (Wiley, 2013) and many more. He lives with his wife Mary in Sussex.

Popular science 9781848318526 £10.99 US $21.95 9781848318540 (eBook) £9.99 (eBook) B-format hardback 240 pages with 8 b/w photos TERRITORY: UK & Comm ex. Canada TRANSLATION RIGHTS: David Higham US RIGHTS: David Higham

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A smart look at how older women can enjoy life in a world that pretends they don’t exist

The Invisible Woman

How to Navigate The Vintage Years

Helen Walmsley-Johnson June

Sixty is the new forty, we’re constantly told. Or is it that seventy is the new fifty?

Yet fashionable clothes shops cater for little but elfin twenty-year-olds; magazines carry little but articles about appearing younger. Heaven forbid you try to apply for a job…

Older women are permitted to be either part of the slippers and cardigans brigade, or to cling desperately to their youth and insist on being ‘young at heart’.

Can’t there be a third way? A way to age with grace, security, beauty and adventure, and a way to keep your identity against a growing tide of voices telling you how you’d be happier if only you looked ten years younger.

Covering topics from family, finances and work to cosmetics, fashion and sex, The Invisible Woman – which is also Helen’s Guardian column nom de plume – is a new sort of book about ageing; one that teaches us not how to avoid it, but how to enjoy it, grow with it, and thrive.

HELEN WALMSLEY-JOHNSON is the author of the Guardian’s ‘The Vintage Years’ column, which has 65,000 regular readers and been viewed more than two million times. Now 58, Helen relocated to London aged 45 and worked for Cameron Mackintosh and the Telegraph, before joining the Guardian as Alan Rusbridger’s PA for seven years. She lives in Rutland and has three daughters.

Lifestyle / Society 9781848318441 £10 9781848318458 (eBook) £8.99 (eBook) B-format hardback 288 pages TERRITORY: UK & Commonwealth ex. Canada US RIGHTS: Blake Friedmann TRANSLATION RIGHTS: Blake Friedmann

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Graphic Guides are the internationally-famous graphic novel-style guides to big ideas, now published by Icon for 23 years.

Whatever your intellectual interest, there’s a Graphic Guide for you.

Introducing Jung: A Graphic Guide Maggie Hyde & Michael McGuinness May A brand-new, fully updated edition of Maggie Hyde and Michael McGuinness’s classic Graphic Guide on Freud’s onetime protégé and then apostate Carl Jung, originally described as ‘clever and witty’

by Susie Orbach in the Guardian.

Maggie Hyde is a writer, lecturer and journalist and consultant astrologer. Michael McGuinness is an artist, designer and former art director who has had numerous exhibitions of his work throughout the world.

9781848318557 / £6.99 9781848318564 (eBook) / £4.99

28 Graphic Guides were published in ebook for the first time in 2014, with more to follow very shortly, available from all major ebook retailers.

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Great Theories of Science 9781848314559 Relativity, Quantum Theory, Chaos Think for Yourself 9781848314566 Ethics, Logic, Philosophy Know Thyself 9781848314542 Consciousness, Psychology, Psychoanalysis

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Introducing Practical Guides are self-improvement books that equip you with the tools to change your life.

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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 FULFILMENT by investing in yourself and others.

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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

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With expert advice, practical exercises and a real-world focus, these guides will help you achieve your goals – whether improving your business skills, tackling bad habits or understanding yourself and others.

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30-Second Evolution Nicholas Battey & Mark Fellowes May

30-Second Twentieth Century Jonathan T. Reynolds May

30-Second Evolution unlocks the laboratory of life, dissecting it into the 50 most significant topics that provide the missing links to understand the natural world’s four-billion-year ancestry and the process of natural selection in which species either adapt in myriad ways – mutation, ingenuity, and intelligence – to meet the challenges of a changing environment, or die.

30-Second Twentieth Century condenses 100 years of innovation and art, politics and conflict, triumph and disaster, into 50 graphic snapshots that offer an instant appreciation of the way the world revolves and evolves. It invites the reader to consider which events define a period of history and why. From the Red Army to Black Monday, from Woodstock to the World Wide Web, this is the fastest way to travel through time.

9781848318403 UK £14.99 9781848318410 (eBook) £7.99 (eBook)

NICHOLAS BATTEY is Head of Environmental Biology and MARK FELLOWES is Head of the School of Biological Sciences at the University of Reading.

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Luca Caioli’s football biographies have now sold many tens of thousands of copies throughout the world. Each of his books uses exclusive, in-depth interviews and painstaking original research to pull together the stories of how the players have risen from typically humble origins to the very greatest of world stages.

As well as continuing to publish new titles from Luca, we are committed to keeping his existing biographies up to date. New editions will tend to be published toward the start of the football season each year.

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The Gold Mine Effect

Crack the Secrets of High Performance

Rasmus Ankersen January

Why have the best middle distance runners grown up in the same Ethiopian village? Why are the leading female golfers from South Korea?

How has one athletic club in Kingston, Jamaica, produced so many world-class sprinters?

Performance specialist Rasmus Ankersen quit his job and for six intense months lived with the world’s best athletes in an attempt to find out.

‘A great read and a fascinating insight into performance.’

Sir Clive Woodward

Ankersen presents his surprising conclusions in seven lessons on how anyone – or any business, organisation or team – can defy the misconceptions of high performance and learn to build their own gold mine of real talent.

‘A left-field take on high performance, with much food for thought. It’s wacky, but it works.’ Management Today

RASMUS ANKERSEN published his first book, DNA of a Winner, in Denmark at 22 years old.

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Business / Sport 9781848317109 £8.99 US $17.95 9781848314238 (eBook) £7.99 (eBook) B format paperback TERRITORY: World TRANSLATION RIGHTS: Rasmus Ankersen

Lucky Planet

Why Earth is Exceptional – and What that Means for Life in the Universe

David Waltham March In this pop-science masterpiece David Waltham, a Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society, argues that life on Earth is, amazingly, a cosmic fluke.

Science tells us that life elsewhere in the Universe is increasingly likely to be discovered. But in fact the Earth may be 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.

‘A lively and well argued antidote to a widespread view that advanced life could arise frequently and in many places in the known Universe.’ Richard Fortey

Popular science 9781848318328 £9.99 9781848316881 (eBook) £7.99 (eBook) B format paperback 224 pages TERRITORY: World ex. US and Canada TRANSLATION RIGHTS: Felicity Bryan

‘A delight to read …

[Waltham’s] arguments are compelling.’

Independent

DAVID WALTHAM obtained a first-class degree and a PhD in Physics and since 1986 has worked at Royal Holloway, University of London, where he became Head of Earth Sciences from 2008–2012.

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Rock ‘n’ Roll Soccer

The Short Life and Fast Times of the North American Soccer League

Ian Plenderleith April The North American Soccer League – at its peak in the late 1970s – 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.

Superstars, hype, cheerleaders, razzmatazz – the North American Soccer League was the Premier League and the Champions League rolled into one.

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.

Watch more at bit.ly/rocknrollsoccer

IAN PLENDERLEITH is a US-based British football writer and journalist who writes for the Guardian, the Wall Street Journal, When Saturday Comes and Soccer America.

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.

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Football (Soccer, Association football) 9781906850852 £8.99 US $18.00 9781906850722 (eBook) £7.99 (eBook) B format paperback 448 pages with 16 illustrations TERRITORY: World TRANSLATION RIGHTS: Icon Books / Marsh Agency

Zero Night

The Untold Story of World War Two’s Most Daring Great Escape

Mark Felton June In this first ‘Great Escape’, instead of tunnelling, the escapers boldly went over the huge perimeter fences using wooden scaling contraptions.

Telling this remarkable story for the first time, historian Mark Felton brilliantly evokes the suspense of the escape itself and the adventures of those who eluded the Germans, as well as the courage of the civilians who risked their lives to help them in enemy territory.

Fantastically intimate and told with a novelist’s eye for drama and detail, this is a rip-roaring adventure story, all the more thrilling for being true.

History 9781848318472 £8.99 9781848317321 (eBook) £7.99 (eBook) B format paperback 320 pages with 8 pages of b/w illustrations TERRITORY: World ex. USA and Canada US RIGHTS:: Andrew Lownie Agency TRANSLATION RIGHTS: Andrew Lownie Agency

Oflag VI-B, Warburg, Germany, 30 August 1942 – ‘Zero Night’. 40 officers from Britain, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa stage the most audacious mass escape of the Second World War.

MARK FELTON has written over a dozen books on prisoners of war and Japanese and Nazi war crimes, and writes regularly for magazines such as Military History Monthly and World War II. He lives in Colchester.

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And Some Fell on Stony Ground A Day in the Life of an RAF Bomber Pilot

Leslie Mann, Richard Overy (Introduction) June 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 he wrote down his inner thoughts and feelings as a fictional narrative, recently brought to the attention of Imperial War Museums.

A visceral, affecting, fictionalised report of a bombing mission, from a former tail gunner shot down over Germany

Visceral, shocking and unglamorous, And Some Fell on Stony Ground transmits as rarely before the horrors of aerial warfare, the corrosive effects of fear, and the psychological torment of the young men involved. 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, the book is introduced and placed in context by acclaimed historian Richard Overy.

LESLIE MANN was a rear gunner with 51 Squadron at RAF Dishforth, Yorkshire and was shot down on a raid over Düsseldorf on 20 June 1941.

He died in 1989.

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RICHARD OVERY’s 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’.

Fiction / History 9781848318380 £7.99 US $16.00 9781848317543 (eBook) £7.99 (eBook) B format paperback 280 pages TERRITORY: World TRANSLATION RIGHTS: IMW

The Quantum Age

How the Physics of the Very Small has Transformed Our Lives

Brian Clegg June Acclaimed popular science author Brian Clegg demonstrates how quantum physics underpins everyday life.

‘If you are looking for an enjoyable read into all things quantum physics and how it is applied to everyday life, look no further.’

BBC Focus ‘What sets this book apart is the way it focuses on the applications of quantum physics – the things that have changed our lives and brought us to what Clegg calls the “quantum age”. Truly fascinating.’ Times Higher Education

Popular science 9781848318465 £8.99 9781848316997 (eBook) £7.99 (eBook) B format paperback 228 pages TERRITORY: World TRANSLATION RIGHTS: Icon Books / Marsh Agency

‘Brian Clegg does a superb job of explaining complicated scientific concepts in easily understood language.

The Quantum Age is his best book yet’ John Gribbin

BRIAN CLEGG‘s many previous books include Inflight Science, The Universe Inside You, Dice World and Introducing Infinity: A Graphic Guide, all published

by Icon.

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Mark Follows and Nicholas Battey Jonathan T. Reynolds W.B. & Carrick & Bruce Marsh W.B. & Carrick & Bruce Marsh John Farndon Gerard Cheshire & John Farndon Jessica Williams Stephen Fender Malcolm Burgess Kieron O’Hara Alec Stewart Marc Allum Ziauddin Sardar & Merryl Wyn Davies And Some Fell on Stony Ground Leslie Mann and Richard Overy The Antiques Magpie Marc Allum The Armchair Naturalist Johnson P. Johnson Atlas of History’s Greatest Military Victories Jeremy Harwood Atom Piers Bizony and Jim Al Khalil Atomic Jim Baggott The Autobiography of Charles Darwin Charles Darwin Ball of Confusion Johnny Ball Barnes Wallis Peter Pugh Bats Sing, Mice Giggle Karen Shanor & Jagmeet Kanwal Best of Enemies Richard Milton Best of Times, Worst of Times Gerard Cheshire Best Served Cold Malcolm Walker The Best Views from the Boundary Peter Baxter Between You and I James Cochrane Beyond Coincidence Martin Plimmer & Brian King Big Numbers John Gribbin & Mary Gribbin Bob Wilson’s Ultimate Collection Bob Wilson of Peculiar Sporting Lingo Bobby’s Open Steven Reid The Book of Potentially Catastrophic Sean Connolly Science Britain and Ireland’s Top 100 Racehorses Robin Oakley of All Time The Burglar Caught by a Skeleton Jeremy Clay Can Anyone Hear Me? Peter Baxter Can You Trust the Media?

Adrian Monck & Mike Hanley The Captain’s Challenge Bruce Critchley Carpet Ride to Khiva Christopher Aslan Alexander The Cause of Mosquitoes’ Sorrow Surendra Verma A Charm of Magpies (Science, Antiques & Simon Flynn, Marc Allum & Nature) Daniel Allen The Child’s History of England Charles Dickens The Chilling Stars Henrik Svensmark & Nigel Calder China: Friend or Foe? Hugo de Burgh Cinemas of the Mind Nicolas Tredell The Classics Magpie Jane Hood The Comet Sweeper Claire Brock Constant Touch Jon Agar Cowgirls, Cockroaches and Celebrity Michelle Lovric Lingerie Cracked James Davies Crashed and Byrned Tommy Byrne and Mark Hughes Creating Classics Peter Pugh & Bruce Critchley Crunch Time Mike Hanley & Adrian Monck Darkness Visible Nicholas Tucker Dawkins vs. Gould Kim Sterelny The Dead Hand David E. Hoffman Delusions of Gender Cordelia Fine The Devil’s Children Loretta Loach Diagnosis Lisa Sanders Dice World Brian Clegg The Dickens Dictionary John Sutherland The Discovery of the Germ John Waller

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Dissent Over Descent Do Animals Have Rights?

Do You Think You’re Clever?

Do You Still Think You’re Clever?

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Hives and the Merlin Hope for Animals and Their World The Horologicon How Big is Your Brain?

How Far is Up? How I Caused the Credit Crunch How to be a Productivity Ninja How to be a Knowledge Ninja How to Remember (Almost) Everything, Ever!

Human Being to Human Bomb Improve Your Memory Today In Harm’s Way In Search of Superstrings I, Superorganism In the Red Inflight Science The Invisible Woman It’s Not About the Shark The Intellectual

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Iran Isabel’s World Issigonis Jilted Generation Join the Club July 1914 Junk A King in Hiding

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The Kitchen Magpie James Steen Knowledge is Power John Henry Kuhn vs Popper Steve Fuller Latitude Stephen Pumfrey Lewis Hamilton Mark Hughes Life and Death Kate Agnew and Philip Pullman Life in the Beautiful Game Bob Wilson Light Years Brian Clegg The Lives and Times of the Great Composers Michael Steen A London Country Diary Tim Bradford and Stewart Lee Losing It Kate Monro Love and Longing Jacqueline Wilson and Kate Agnew Love at First Site Marc Zakian & Susan Broom Love, Sex, Death and Words Stephen Fender & John Sutherland Lovelock and Gaia Jon Turney The Lucky Bugger’s Casebook Daniel Smith Lucky Planet David Waltham The Lying Ape Brian King Mafia Son Sandra Harmon The Magic of a Name - Part 1 Peter Pugh The Magic of a Name - Part 2 Peter Pugh The Magic of a Name - Part 3 Peter Pugh Making Time Steve Taylor The Man Who Ate Bluebottles Catherine Caufield The Man Who Ran the Moon Piers Bizony The Manhattan Project Jeff Hughes Mark Forsyth’s Gemel Edition (2 Books) Mark Forsyth Masters of Design Peter Pugh & Henry Lord The Men Who Measured the Universe John Gribbin & Mary Gribbin Messi Luca Caioli Messi, Neymar, Ronaldo Luca Caioli Michael Faraday and the Electrical Century Iwan Morus A Mind of Its Own Cordelia Fine Moving Heaven and Earth John Henry The Nature Magpie Daniel Allen Nervous System Jan Lars Jensen A New Science of Life Rupert Sheldrake The New Wild Fred Pearce Neymar Luca Caioli Nobel Lectures John Sutherland Not Fade Away John Gribbin Number Freaking Gary Rimmer Pandaemonium 1660–1886 Humphrey Jennings The Pendulum Years Bernard Levin Perfect Copy Nicholas Agar Perfect Rigour Masha Gessen Possessing Genius Carolyn Abraham Postmodernism and Big Science Richard Appignanesi The Presence of the Past Rupert Sheldrake Project Sunshine Steve McKevitt & Tony Ryan Proust and the Squid Maryanne Wolf The Psychic Tourist William Little Pythagoras Kitty Ferguson Quantum Manjit Kumar The Quantum Age Brian Clegg The Real Oliver Twist John Waller The Red Bodyguard Ron Levin & Gerald Cheshire Roberto Mancini Luca Caioli Rock ‘n’ Roll Soccer Ian Plenderleith

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