Icon Books January - June 2009 catalogue

ICON AND W I ZA RD B OOKS COR INT H IAN B OOKS January – june 2009

Welcome to Icon Books’ Pa ge 4 – Ja nuary

A new biography celebrating the life that ended 50 years ago

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Controversial science from an author very used to it

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Life with a Boat Race crew, in paperback for this year’s race

Not Fade Away

A New Science of Life

Last Amateurs

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Richard Dawkins – not quite the scientist he’s supposed to be

The Selfish Genius

A trip into the curious world of predicting the future

The Psychic Tourist

England’s most capped cricketer’s unique look at the game

Alec Stewart’s Cricket Companion

catalogue for the first half of 2009.

Icon has a reputation for popular science

This catalogue also celebrates the birth

that turns heads. Recent highlights have

of a new imprint, Corinthian, which will

included Piers Bizony’s Atom,

principally publish commercial, sport-

The Chilling Stars by Henrik Svensmark

led non-fiction, often with star names

and Nigel Calder, Manjit Kumar’s

attached. In the year the Ashes come

magisterial Quantum and Proust and the

back to England, the thwack of leather

Squid by Maryanne Wolf. And science

on willow rings out from Corinthian with

is in full view this season, with Science

Christopher Martin-Jenkins’ Top 100

and Islam by Ehsan Masood (like Atom, a

Cricketers of All Time alongside Alec

BBC TV tie-in), a biting critique of Richard

Stewart’s Cricket Companion – a first-

Dawkins’ science, The Selfish Genius,

class opening innings that builds on Icon’s

and The First War of Physics, the first

sporting success with Bob Wilson and

fully realised science history of the race to

Mark Hughes’ Lewis Hamilton.

build the atom bomb, made possible only now with the recent declassification of archives especially from the former Soviet Union.

Journalist William Little tours the challenging world of future-predicting in his brilliant, popular investigation The Psychic Tourist; Daniel Blythe fights

Popular science legend John Gribbin has

apathy and aids the perplexed in his

a new book with Icon, too – but for the

user’s guide to practical politics, X Marks

first time ever, it’s not science. Not Fade

the Box, and we publish two brand-

Away, published 50 years after

new Introducing titles, Capitalism and

Buddy Holly’s tragic death, is a passionate

Statistics.

fan’s new biography of a man whose influence rings through pop’s history.

We hope you enjoy what’s here – do please let us know what you think.

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An official BBC TV tie-in, Science and Islam tells the virtually unknown story of the extraordinary Islamic scientific revolution between 700 and 1250 AD. Janua ry Science / History

Science and Islam A History

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New Title Science and Islam – the official tie-in with the BBC TV series of the same name – tells the amazing story of one of history’s most misunderstood yet rich and fertile periods in science. An enlightening, enthralling and in-depth exploration, it charts a religious empire’s scientific heyday, its intellectual demise and

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the numerous debates that now surround it.

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Between the 8th and 14th centuries, scholars and researchers

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working in Islamic territories from Samarkand in modern-day

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Uzbekistan to Cordoba in Spain advanced our knowledge of astronomy, chemistry, engineering, mathematics, medicine and philosophy to new heights. They developed clocks and invented cameras, discovered how blood circulates, created algebra, and even found time to debate the origins of life.

Science journalist Ehsan Masood describes the circumstances

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which created this revolution in scientific discovery, the places

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where they occurred, as well as the scientists themselves and

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their awe-inspiring achievements. He unpacks the debates

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between scientists, philosophers and theologians on the nature

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of physical reality and the limits of human reason, and explores

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the many reasons for the eventual decline of advanced science and learning in the Arabic-speaking world.

Ehsan Masood is Acting Chief Commissioning Editor at Nature. Formerly Opinion Editor at the New Scientist, he writes for Prospect and OpenDemocracy.Net and is a regular panellist on BBC radio’s Home Planet.

Ziauddin Sardar is a columnist, author, TV presenter and much more besides. His latest books are Balti Britain (Granta, 2008) and, with Merryl Wyn Davies, Will America Change? (Icon, 2008).

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A popular, thrilling narrative history on a subject even many science devotees know little about, and a hugely exciting TV tie-in that follows in the footsteps of Icon’s bestselling Atom.

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A new, popular biography of Buddy Holly, published for the 50th anniversary of his death – and pop science legend John Gribbin’s first ever non-science book. janua ry Biography / Music

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Not Fade Away

Buddy Holly was killed at 22 when the plane he was travelling

The Life and Music of Buddy Holly

years after Holly’s first hit record, Don McLean described this

in crashed on 3 February 1959. Although this was less than two as ‘the day the music died.’ But Sonny Curtis, Holly’s friend and musical colleague, told us that the music didn’t die, because

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‘Buddy Holly lives every time you play rock’n’roll.’

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Fifty years after Holly’s death, his lasting influence is clear; a

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musical based on his life seems set to run for longer than his

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lifetime and artists as diverse as Blink 182 and Bob Dylan call him an inspiration. The Beatles chose That’ll Be the Day by Buddy’s group The Crickets as their first attempt at recording, as well as taking the idea for their name. Clearly, the music didn’t die!

John Gribbin, an ardent fan since he was twelve, presents this

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labour of love written in the spirit of Sonny Curtis’s lyric, as a

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celebration of Holly’s all too brief life, and as an introduction,

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for all those not around in 1959, to the man and his astonishing

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musical legacy. Not Fade Away also includes – uniquely – a full

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and detailed account of every Holly recording session, which any

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Buddy fan will devour.

John Gribbin trained as an astrophysicist at Cambridge before becoming a full-time science writer and is the ‘master of popular science writing’ according to the Sunday Times. He has worked for Nature and the New Scientist, and has contributed to The Times and the Independent. His numerous books include In Search of Schrödinger’s Cat and Science: A History. Not Fade Away is his first ever non-science title.

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Bringing the same scrupulous attention to detail and rigorous regard for facts that characterises his science books, John Gribbin’s labour of love will be treasured by any long-term Buddy fan, and introduce many who don’t know him to rock‘n’roll’s original tragic icon.

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The heartbreaking and awe-inspiring true story of novelist Alice Peterson’s journey with rheumatoid arthritis. janua ry Autobiography / Health

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Another Alice

Love, lust, boys and coursework – the main worries of a teenage

An inspiring true story of a young woman’s battle to overcome rheumatoid arthritis

of her youth and an extremely promising tennis career, was

girl? Not for eighteen-year-old Alice Peterson, who, at the height diagnosed with rheumatoid arthritis. In the midst of shock and denial, and the enduring question, ‘Isn’t it old people who get

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arthritis?’, Alice had to learn to live with what quickly turned from the odd ache and pain to a very aggressive form of the illness, and rediscover a new path in life.

Another Alice is at times utterly heart-breaking, and at others laugh-out-loud. Here is her story of how, armed with humour and

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courage, she left behind a world she loved to overcome the pain

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Told with wit, charm and frankness, Another Alice is also a story

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of a degenerative illness.

of friendship, family, growing up and the desire to be ‘normal’.

But, above all, it celebrates the power of the human spirit.

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Alice Peterson is the author of the novels Look The World In The Eye (Black Swan, 2005) and You, Me and Him (Black Swan, 2007), which Red called ‘a witty and moving account of sibling rivalry’. She now works closely with the National Rheumatoid Arthritis Society (NRAS) to raise awareness of the condition, and to highlight particularly how it affects the lives of young sufferers. She lives in West London.

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‘I have just finished reading your wonderful book and wanted to write to say how truly amazing and brave and beautiful it is.’ Bear Grylls

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The bestselling diary of shopaholic Alexis Hall now in compact paperback and including a brand-new introduction, bringing her story right up-to-date. janua ry Lifestyle

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In the Red

‘Thirty-one thousand, six hundred and thirty-seven pounds and

The Diary of a Recovering Shopaholic

the display on the calculator. I try turning it upside down to see if

eighty-four pence. That’s how much I owe. I feel sick looking at that helps. It looks like “hOLEgIE”, which probably means “loser” in some long forgotten language.’

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When your debt is more than your share of the mortgage and

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your partner’s threatening not only to leave, but to tell your

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mother how out of control your spending is, then it’s time to take

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drastic action. But for Alexis Hall, a self-confessed shopaholic, just making it through your lunch hour without buying the latest accessory becomes a life-altering act ...

Join Alexis on her year-long quest to reclaim her life from what’s

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become a retail rollercoaster. Twelve long months and just three short rules: no new clothes, necessity purchases only, and pay off as much debt as possible.

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Can she transform herself from a spending junkie to a

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scrupulous saver? And what will she discover about herself along the way?

Alexis Hall is a media relations officer and former broadcast journalist. She lives in Glasgow with her partner, their four-legged, furry child Alexis Hall © Allan Bovill

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and her large collection of shoes. In the Red is her first book.

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‘A witty take on our consumer culture through the eyes of one former addict … compulsive reading for shopaholics everywhere.’ My Weekly

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A unique true crime history – from medieval society to Jamie Bulger – of children who kill and how adults have tried to make sense of them. febr ua ry History / Crime

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The Devil’s Children

The extraordinary and horrifying crime of murder by children of

A History of Childhood and Murder

this always been so?

other children commands widespread public interest, but has

Focusing on the earliest recorded cases, up to and including the

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tragic killing of James Bulger, this fascinating investigation goes beyond the notoriety of the crimes to explore the real-life stories

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of the children who committed them and the adult world in

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which they took place.

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punishment of these children, and in how they have been viewed

As well as asking what has changed in the treatment and by the Church, the courts and the medical profession, it also reveals how these unusual crimes were as pivotal then as they

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are now in wider deliberations about childhood, morality and the troubling boundaries between innocence and experience.

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The intriguing story of these crimes is deftly woven together

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with the keen insights of social history and a groundbreaking

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depiction of how the legal and medical cultures used such cases to rethink human agency and responsibility.

Loretta Loach has an extensive background in television documentaries in history, politics and current affairs, as well as a PhD in History.

The most recent historical drama documentary she has worked on was Queen Victoria’s Empire for Channel Four. She has appeared on Radio 4’s All In the Mind and has written for the Guardian, the Observer and the New Statesman.

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An incisive, calm and objective history of children who kill and the way society has treated them.

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A new edition of the first book, a controversial science classic, from the bestselling author of Dogs That Know When Their Owners Are Coming Home. febr ua ry Science

A New Science of Life

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New Paperback Edition After chemists crystallised a new chemical for the first time, it became easier and easier to crystallise in laboratories all over the world. After rats at Harvard first escaped from a new kind of water maze, successive generations learned quicker and quicker.

Then rats in Melbourne, Australia learned yet faster. Rats with no

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trained ancestors shared in this improvement.

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Rupert Sheldrake sees these processes as examples of morphic

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resonance. Past forms and activities of organisms, he argues,

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upon and contribute to the collective memory of their species.

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regularities of nature as being more like habits than immutable

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laws.

influence organisms in the present through direct connections across time and space. Individual plants and animals both draw

Sheldrake, now Director of the Perrott-Warwick Project supported by Trinity College, Cambridge, reinterprets the

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Described as ‘the best candidate for burning there has been for

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many years’ by Nature on first publication, this updated edition

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will raise hackles and inspire curiosity in equal measure.

Dr Rupert Sheldrake is a biologist and author of more than 80 scientific papers and ten books, including the bestselling Dogs That Know When Their Owners Are Coming Home. He was a Fellow of Clare College, Cambridge and a Research Fellow of the Royal Society. He has written for numerous newspapers including the Guardian, where he had a regular monthly column, and for a variety of magazines, including New Scientist and the Spectator.

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Praise for previous editions:

‘The implications are fascinating and far-reaching, and would turn upside down a lot of orthodox science.’ Observer ‘An immensely challenging and stimulating hypothesis’ Arthur Koestler

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In the vein of The Suspicions of Mr Whicher, Colin Evans explores how Sir Bernard Spilsbury solved a catalogue of gruesome, unexplained murders in 1920s Britain. febr ua ry History / True Crime

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The Father of Forensics How Sir Bernard Spilsbury Invented Modern CSI

New in Paperback Before there was CSI, there was one man who saw beyond the crime – and into the future of forensic science.

His name was Sir Bernard Spilsbury, and through his use of cutting-edge science, he single-handedly brought criminal

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investigations into the modern age.

As a young, charismatic physician in the early 20th century, Spilsbury hit the English justice system like a cannonball, garnering a reputation as a real-life Sherlock Holmes. He uncovered evidence others missed, stood above his peers

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in crime reconstruction, exposed discrepancies between

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to drop through the hangman’s trapdoor. Fleet Street adored

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him. ‘Horrible murder – Spilsbury called in’ became a favourite

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headline guaranteed to boost circulation.

witness testimony and factual evidence, and, most importantly, convicted dozens of murderers with hard-nosed, scientific proof. Killers who would have previously escaped justice began

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In telling Spilsbury’s fascinating story, Colin Evans also tells those

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of infamous criminals such as Dr Crippen and Louis Voisin, the ‘Butcher of Soho’, and explores in some depth gruesome cases which Spilsbury helped solve, such as the notorious ‘Brides in the Bath’ murders. He also traces the beginnings of the astonishing science of criminal investigation in our own time – for which we have Sir Bernard Spilsbury to thank.

Colin Evans is a veteran writer specialising in forensics. His books include The Casebook of Forensic Detection: How Science Solved 100 of the World’s Most Baffling Crimes, and A Question of Evidence: The Casebook of Great Forensic Controversies from Napoleon to O.J. He lives in Wiltshire.

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‘Excellent. Evans is a vivid and compelling narrator with – excuse the phrase – a forensic eye for detail. The accounts of the murders Spilsbury investigated are fascinating meditations on man’s inhumanity to man or, more often than not, woman.’ P.D. Smith, Guardian

Icon’s graphic guides to big ideas have been enjoying a radical makeover, with brand-new covers, a cheaper price and a more pocket-friendly size. This season begins with two hugely influential theories – Relativity and Marxism. febr ua ry Science

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Introducing Relativity A Graphic Guide

Paperback Original It is now more than a century since Einstein’s theories of Special and General Relativity began to revolutionise our view of the universe.

Beginning near the speed of light and proceeding to explorations

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of space-time and curved spaces, Introducing Relativity plots a visually accessible course through the thought experiments

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that have given shape to contemporary physics. Scientists from

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Newton to Hawking add their unique contributions to this story,

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as we encounter Einstein’s astounding vision of gravity as the curvature of space-time and arrive at the breathtakingly beautiful field equations.

Einstein’s legacy is reviewed in the most advanced frontiers of physics today – black holes, gravitational waves, the accelerating universe and string theory.

A superlative, fascinating graphic account of Einstein’s strange world and how his legacy has been built upon since.

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Bruce Bassett is a cosmologist and lecturer at the University of Cape Town and the South African Astronomical Observatory.

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Ralph Edney trained as a mathematician, and has worked as a teacher,

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journalist, illustrator and political cartoonist. He has illustrated a

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number of Introducing titles.

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To see two brand new Introducing books, alongside further titles republished in the compact format, please take a look at pages 30 and 46, and the full list is on page 52.

Keep up to date with the series at www.introducingbooks.com

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The authoritative, secret history of the atom bomb, packed with new revelations from previously hidden archive material.

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The First War of Physics

Rich in personality, action, confrontation and deception, The First

The Secret History of the Atomic Bomb

to build humankind’s most destructive weapon.

War of Physics is the first fully realised popular account of the race

The book draws on declassified material, such as MI6’s Farm

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Hall transcripts, coded Soviet messages cracked by American cryptographers in the Venona project, and interpretations by

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Russian scholars of documents from the Soviet archives. Jim

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Baggott weaves these threads into a monumental book that spans

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test.

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head start, did Hitler’s physicists fail?

ten historic years, from the discovery of nuclear fission in 1939 to the aftermath of ‘Joe-1’, August 1949’s first Soviet atomic bomb

Why did physicists persist in developing the atomic bomb, despite the devastation that it could bring? Why, despite having a clear

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Could the Soviets have developed the bomb without spies like

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Klaus Fuchs or Donald Maclean? Did the Allies really plot to

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assassinate a key member of the German bomb programme? Did

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the physicists knowingly inspire the arms race?

The First War of Physics is an epic story of science and technology at the very limits of human understanding; a tale barely believable as fiction, which just happens to be historical fact.

Jim Baggott is an award-winning science writer. A former academic chemist, he runs an independent management consultancy practice but maintains a broad interest in science, philosophy and history and continues to write on these subjects in his spare time, for, among other publications, New Scientist magazine. His previous books have been widely acclaimed and include A Beginner’s Guide to Reality (Penguin, 2005) and Beyond Measure: Modern Physics,

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Philosophy and the Meaning of Quantum Theory (OUP, 2004).

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‘In some sort of crude sense which no vulgarity, no humour, no overstatement can quite extinguish, the physicists have known sin; and this is a knowledge which they cannot lose.’ Robert Oppenheimer, technical director of The Manhattan Project

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Mark de Rond’s brilliant, acclaimed year in the life of the Cambridge Boat Race crew, published in paperback to coincide with 2009’s race.

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The Last Amateurs

Founded in 1828, the Cambridge University Boat Club has one

To Hell and Back with the Cambridge Boat Race Crew

is one of sharp contrasts: a private match between two of

objective: to beat Oxford in the Boat Race. This annual affair the world’s oldest universities, it is still followed by millions worldwide; an occasion marked by tribal rivalry, it also harbours

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deep mutual respect; quintessentially British, it is contested by amateurs who are nevertheless world-class sportsmen, and watched by 120 million people worldwide; it is all about taking part and yet the pain of losing is unimaginable.

Mark de Rond spent a year living the blood, sweat and tears of the 39 students risking all for a chance to race Oxford, seeing in them everything he is not. This intense and deeply personal account reinforces the great traditions of Oxbridge, yet gives them a human face. For despite their brilliance, these individuals are flawed too.

So what does it take to row in the coveted Blue Boat?

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In this thrilling book De Rond delves into the depths of what it

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means to be a man and the primeval desire to compete. Told chronologically and driven by the pursuit of the final victory, the result is truly compelling – and a sports book like no other.

Mark de Rond, described by the Financial Times as ‘Cambridge’s secret weapon for the Boat Race’, is an Oxford-educated Cambridge don in his thirties. His work has featured in Time, the Economist, The Times, The Week, and on BBC Radio 4.

Sir Steve Redgrave CBE is widely considered to be Britain’s greatest Olympian, having won a gold medal in rowing at five consecutive Olympic Games from 1984 to 2000, as well as an additional bronze medal in 1988.

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‘Don’t underestimate what an achievement this work is. The intensity of the boat race process is experienced on every page yet never exaggerated. This sporting institution lasts not 17 minutes but 7 months; there is much more angst than glory, gallons more sweat than champagne, at least as much self doubt as bravado ... all of that and the tantrums and testosterone, the fall-outs and the heartbreaks are chronicled here as they never have been before. This is how it really is. Required reading for boat race cynics and aficionados alike.’ Peter Drury, ITV commentator

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Former US Secretary of Labour Robert Reich’s hugely lauded, powerful and timely treatise on the ills of the supercharged, web-powered, 21st century turbo capitalism.

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Supercapitalism

As Secretary of Labour under Bill Clinton, Robert Reich won huge

The Battle for Democracy in an Age of Big Business

sweatshops and eliminate child labour around the world. Now a

plaudits for his efforts to increase the minimum wage, close highly acclaimed author, in Supercapitalism he argues that capitalism should be made to serve democracy – and not the other way around.

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Supercapitalism – turbocharged, Web-based, able to find and make

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anything, anywhere – is working wonderfully well to create wealth.

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But democracy, charged with caring for all citizens, is failing under

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Robert Reich explains how widening inequalities, heightened job

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its influence.

insecurity and global warming are supercapitalism’s logical outcomes.

He shows that companies, fighting harder than ever to be competitive, have become more deeply involved in politics, and how the tools used to temper society’s problems – taxation, education, trade unions – have withered.

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‘A rounded and explicit discussion of how capitalist structures have

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stretched into the realm of democracy and eroded it.’ New Statesman

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Robert Reich is Professor of Public Policy at the University of California, Berkeley.

Formerly Secretary of Labour under President Bill Clinton, he is a prolific writer who has contributed to the New Yorker, the New York Times, the Washington Post and in the UK, most recently the Sunday Times.

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Now in paperback, the hilarious, and just a little naughty, sequel to the bestselling Wholly Irresponsible Experiments.

new in paperback ‘Am I seeing things? Did that bottle just disappear into orbit?’

Well, let me start at the beginning … Sean Connolly, author of Wholly Irresponsible Experiments, returns with another

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Wholly Irresponsible Exploits 65 Ways to Muck About with Science

assemblage of bizarre and outlandish activities – all in the name of science. Connolly’s witty, informative text takes readers on a journey of discovery, but the best thing is that the journey needn’t go very far from the kitchen cupboard, the oddsand-ends drawer or the garden shed. Along the way, budding experimenters will learn how to make a submarine, create their own ‘Red Sky at Night’, and manage a crystal harvest. And that bottle that just kissed the Earth goodbye? Why, it’s part of the magic of science, and Wholly Irresponsible Exploits lets readers in on the secrets of the rocket fuel.

Wholly irresponsible? Well, you could say so. Wholly enthralling, exciting and entertaining? Undoubtedly! And (whisper it) maybe even that other ‘e’ word – educational.

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Sean Connolly will be familiar to listeners of BBC Radio Five Live and Radio Wales.

Among his more than 50 books aimed at children and adults are

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In Time of Need: Storms and Earthquakes and Witness to History: The Industrial Revolution. He’s also written for the Kingfisher Science Encyclopedia. His three children are either collaborators or guinea pigs, depending on the project.

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Updated paperback edition of Alan Henry’s controversial chart of the best drivers from the history of Formula One, published as the new season gets going.

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The Top 100 F1 Drivers of all Time

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new in paperback ‘A small but perfectly formed volume by the doyen of his trade’ Guardian ‘Alan Henry’s judgement in these matters is pretty much at Supreme Court level’ Autocar

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‘Enormous fun, backed up with great knowledge and personal

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experience … a great, fun book’ Daily Telegraph ‘Irresistible’ Motor Sport Magazine

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‘Already guaranteed to be the most contentious motorsport book of

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Who are the greatest Formula One drivers ever? Legendary F1

the year’ Autosport

journalist Alan Henry’s book excited huge interest on hardback publication, and this updated edition – with a foreword from true F1

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legend Sir Jackie Stewart – is set to do so once more.

Alan Henry is editor of Autocourse, editor-at-large for F1 Racing and Grand Prix correspondent for Autocar, and has been motor racing correspondent for the Guardian since 1987. He is one of the most respected motorsport journalists in the world.

Sir Jackie Stewart OBE is a triple Formula One World Champion and motor sport legend.

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‘An amazing, enlightening read’ Waterstones Books Quarterly ‘A powerful memoir of his family’s experience … it is impossible not to be moved.’ The Times new in paperback When Roy Richard Grinker’s daughter Isabel was diagnosed with autism in 1994, he knew nothing about it. It was considered rare, occurring in about 3 in every 10,000 births. Within ten

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Isabel’s World Autism and the Making of a Modern Epidemic

years, however, most Westerners would be familiar with autism.

Scientists have now reported rates as high as 1 in 150, and autism has been called an epidemic.

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Driven to learn more about this dramatic increase – both as

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an anthropologist and a father – Grinker set forth on a journey

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around the world, talking to mothers and fathers, physicians and teachers, advocates and scientists, and made a surprising and controversial discovery about the so-called autism epidemic that would change both his understanding of the disorder and his relationship with his daughter.

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Filled with moving stories, and informed by the latest science and Grinker’s own experience, Isabel’s World is a powerful testament to a father’s quest for the truth, and is urgently relevant to anyone whose life is touched by one of history’s most

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puzzling disorders.

Roy Richard Grinker is Professor of Anthropology and the Human Sciences at the George Washington University in Washington, DC. He is the author of four other books and lectures widely about autism.

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How has a student debating society at Cambridge University thrived for nearly two centuries, and commanded such attention from the outside world?

A PRIL history

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Arena of Ambition

Older than fourteen colleges and the Boat Race, the Cambridge

The History of the Cambridge Union

since its foundation in 1815. Ex-Presidents have included John

Union has been an important part of university life at Cambridge Maynard Keynes, Robert Harris, Arianna Huffington and Douglas Hurd – as well as an Olympic medallist, an Oscar nominee,

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and two winners of the Nobel Peace Prize. Generations of undergraduates have flocked to its celebrated debating chamber and spoken as equals with its distinguished guests − Prime Ministers like Baldwin and Churchill, Presidents like Roosevelt and Reagan, and controversial figures like Oswald Mosley and Enoch Powell.

Stephen Parkinson, an ex-President of the Union, charts the history of the Union from its nineteenth-century origins, focusing particularly on the turbulent Second World War and post-war years − during which the Union building was hit by a German bomb and commandeered by the army, future Cabinet ministers fell out over bitterly contested elections, and controversies raged about the admission of women and the place of such an antiquated club in a modern university.

It is the thrilling story of a student society like no other.

Stephen Parkinson graduated from Cambridge in 2004, and was President of the Union in Lent Term that year. He spent two years in the Conservative Research Department before becoming Director of Research at the Centre for Policy Studies. In late 2007 he returned to Conservative Central Office, where he works on the party’s target seats campaign.

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From India’s first prime minister, Nehru, to Kim Cattrall, from Stephen Hawking to Michael Moore, from former South African premier F.W. de Klerk to chief UN weapons inspector Hans Blix, the Union list of speakers and associates is hard to top. Its recent history, told for the first time in this book, is that of the big ideas of the last 60 years.

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Richard Dawkins held a chair in the Public Understanding of Science. Yet, as a scientist, he’s behind the times, argues this undoubtedly controversial book. apr il science

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Richard Dawkins is one of the world’s most recognisable living

How Richard Dawkins Rewrote Darwin’s Legacy

often seems as if Dawkins has become more associated with

scientists. In the public perception of evolutionary theory, it Darwinism than Charles Darwin himself. However, in recent years he has been left behind by changes in the way science thinks

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about evolutionary processes.

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Dawkins was not actually a professor of biology but a professor

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for the public understanding of science. The very first line of

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The Extended Phenotype reads, ‘this is a work of unabashed advocacy’ – not the rational argument of a scientist. Dawkins himself acknowledges that this would not be accepted in a scientific journal. So why is it for a popular science book?

He has used his position to publicly attack ‘unreason’, in the

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form of organised religion, pseudo-science, or new age folly. This

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polarised representation of science is potentially fuelling the

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feud between Darwinism and Creationism.

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Fern Elsdon-Baker, a rational pro-science atheist and specialist

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in the history and communication of evolutionary theory, finds Dawkins’ influence distinctly worrying. She argues that Dawkins is publicly misrepresenting science as a whole and asks – is Dawkins really acting to popularise science or to popularise Richard Dawkins?

Fern Elsdon-Baker originally studied Environmental Sciences and now also has a PhD on the history and philosophy of evolutionary theory.

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Is the author of The Selfish Gene, The Blind Watchmaker, or indeed The God Delusion quite the scientist he appears to be?

Brand-new for Icon’s graphic guide series to big ideas – the history, philosophy and politics of the biggest, most successful but most controversial idea ever: Capitalism. apr il politics

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Paperback Original Capitalism now dominates the globe, both in economics and ideology, shapes every aspect of our world and influences everything from laws, wars and government to interpersonal relationships.

Introducing Capitalism tells the story of its remarkable and often

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ruthless rise, evolving through strife and struggle as much as innovation and enterprise.

Tracing capitalism from its beginning to the present day, Dan Cryan and Sharron Shatil, alongside Piero’s brilliant graphics, look at its practical and theoretical impact. They cover the major economic, social and political developments that shaped the world we live in,

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such as the rise of banking, the founding of America and the Opium

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historical context.

Wars. The book explores the leading views for and against, including thinkers like Adam Smith, Karl Marx, Theodor Adorno and Milton Friedman, together with the connections between them and their

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Capitalism has influenced everything in the 21st-century world. For

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anyone who wants to gain a broad understanding of this fascinating subject, this book cuts across narrow academic lines to analyse an all-encompassing feature of modern life.

Dan Cryan has degrees in Philosophy from UCL and now works as a market analyst in London.

Sharron Shatil is a Philosophy lecturer at the Open University in Israel.

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Piero is an illustrator, artist and graphic designer whose work has twice been

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included in the Royal College of Art exhibition in London. Previous

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Introducing titles include Aesthetics, Shakespeare and Nietzsche.

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To see another brand-new Introducing book, and further titles republished in the compact format, please take a look at pages 16 and 46, and the full list is on page 52. Keep up to date with the series at www.introducingbooks.com

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Manjit Kumar’s epic history of the band of young men and their challenging theories which changed the way we see the very building blocks of our world. apr il Science / History

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For most people, quantum theory is a byword for mysterious,

Einstein, Bohr and the Great Debate About the Nature of Reality

baffling for scientists themselves. Manjit Kumar gives a dramatic

impenetrable science. And yet for many years it was equally and superbly-written history of this fundamental scientific revolution, and the ferocious, divisive debate at its heart.

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For 60 years most physicists believed that quantum theory

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denied the very existence of reality itself. Yet Kumar shows how

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the golden age of physics ignited the greatest intellectual debate

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While Quantum sets the science in the context of the great

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into believing that the problem had been solved’, lamented the

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Nobel Prize-winning physicist Murray Gell-Mann. But in Quantum,

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Kumar brings Einstein back to the centre of the quantum debate.

of the twentieth century.

upheavals of the modern age, Kumar’s centrepiece is the conflict between Einstein and Bohr over the nature of reality and the soul of science. ‘Bohr brainwashed a whole generation of physicists

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The essential read for anyone fascinated by this complex and

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thrilling story and by the band of young men at its heart.

Manjit Kumar was the founding editor of Prometheus, a journal that covered the arts, sciences and humanities, and has written for various publications including the Guardian, the TES and the Irish Times.

He is the co-author of Science and the Retreat from Reason, an adapted chapter of which Michael Frayn described as ‘the clearest account I’ve read yet of the development of quantum mechanics.’ He lives in north London with his wife and two sons.

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Praise for Manjit Kumar’s previous work:

‘I would greatly have benefited from Science and the Retreat from Reason if only I could have seen it before I edited the Faber Book of Science.’

John Carey

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A very personal look at ‘the beautiful game’ and its greats by one of football’s most respected ambassadors. apr il sport

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met pretty much every great name the game of football has ever produced.

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Needless to say, he has picked up some pretty good stories

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From Busby to Beckham, Greaves to Gazza, Cruyff to Charlton,

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Discover why the great Bill Shankly once locked him in a room

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at the Liverpool training ground and wouldn’t let him out, why

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the legendary Brian Clough once insisted on getting him drunk

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before an interview, and what really happened in that infamous

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Arsenal and Man Utd tunnel punch-up between Vieira and Keane.

along the way.

no one escapes Wilson’s entertaining dissection of the game.

Icon Books / Marsh Agency It’s clearly a sport he loves, and there is no question that reading his book will leave you remembering why football acquired the moniker ‘The Beautiful Game’.

Bob Wilson was awarded an OBE in 2007 for services to football and to his charity, the Willow Foundation, which he founded in memory of his daughter, Anna, who died of cancer aged 31, and which Bob Wilson © Robert J. Wilson

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‘A great insight into a great game from a great man’ ArsÈne Wenger

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In the vein of Jon Ronson or Louis Theroux, sceptical journalist William Little travels into the world of the psychic, and discovers more than he’d ever imagined. may popular psychology

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Can people really see into the future? Can someone’s life be

A voyage into the curious world of predicting the future

time machine? And why does a Nobel prize-winning scientist

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predicted? Are physicists on the verge of discovering the first believe that humans are capable of sensing the future?

Following a prediction of his sister’s death, William Little sets out to find the truth about the power of fortune telling and prophecy.

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On a journey that takes him to a witches’ coven in a haunted

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wood, on the hunt for murderers with psychic detectives and

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to the doorsteps of the world’s most powerful and revered psychics, William Little goes on a desperate quest to find out whether people can see into the future – or if the many millions who consult horoscopes, watch TV psychics, or who read Nostradamus are simply being sold a lie.

Through a rollercoaster ride of mystics, mishaps and mayhem, he discovers uncomfortable facts that make him reassess his beliefs. In a book that answers the unanswerable about what

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science, psychics and crystal balls can reveal about tomorrow,

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William Little lifts the lid on the most sought-after destination of them all – the future.

William Little is a freelance journalist for the Saturday Telegraph magazine, the Daily Mail, Guardian, The Times, and Financial Times. He has also worked for Arena, Esquire and Cosmopolitan, and contributed articles to the Independent, the Daily Express and the Big Issue, among many others. www.williamlittle.co.uk

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Including interviews with Richard Dawkins, Channel Five’s Psychic Challenge winner Diane Lazarus, experts such as Professor Brian Josephson and Dr Richard Wiseman, Allison Dubois, whose life was the basis for the NBC and BBC programme Medium, and Derren Brown.

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What is politics? And why does it matter? Self-confessed ‘born-again voter’ Daniel Blythe presents a popular, forceful argument designed to shake up anyone’s apathy. may Politics

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X Marks the Box

Politics sets the agenda. Climate change, education, crime,

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still a turn-off.

housing – these are political issues, but for many, party politics is

Daniel Blythe negotiates the political maze from the citizen’s

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point of view. Why should we vote? What do politicians do and why does it make a difference? Are you a Diehard, a Bloody-

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Noser or a Tactical? What can your MP do for you? And just why

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do they avoid answering direct questions?

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the under-rated politicians; the sauciest scandals and the bizarre

Along the way, we examine the most fun general elections and sexiest MP polls; the biggest political victories, the U-turns and betrayals; the issues on the street, the part played by your

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choice of newspaper and what manifestos really mean; how to make your vote count, how to protest, and why you should care about by-elections.

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Whether you are disenchanted or a ballot-box regular, an activist

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or a floating voter, this is a book to amuse, inform and entertain.

Irreverent, topical, sceptical and packed with useful facts and trivia, X Marks The Box takes you on a journey through apathy to activism – and everything in between.

Daniel Blythe is a graduate of St John’s College, Oxford. He is the author of several other books including the novels The Cut and This is the Day – as well as the acclaimed Encyclopedia of Classic 80s Pop. As well as writing, he leads creative writing workshops for adults, young people and children.

Martin Bell OBE became in 1997 the first Independent MP to be elected to Parliament since 1950. His most recent book is The Truth that Sticks (Icon, 2008).

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Praise for Daniel Blythe’s previous work:

‘A sharp, observant, energetic writer with a nimble sense of language …

A joy to read’ The Times ‘Remarkable style and efficacy’ Maxim ‘Thrilling’ Herald ‘Intense and addictive’ The Face

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Following in the success of The Top 100 F1 Drivers of All Time, this is a rigorous assessment of cricketing legends from one of the game’s foremost commentators. may sport

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The Top 100 Cricketers of All Time

New Title With every cricket season that passes the roll-call of great players gets longer. Batsmen, bowlers, fielders, wicket-keepers, captains, characters. Every year more international cricket is played by more countries, making the task of ranking the best of them harder than it has ever been. And how do you compare a dazzling Twenty20

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specialist of the modern era with a champion of the age before Test cricket officially started in 1877?

Some years after the last of his highly regarded books was published, Christopher Martin-Jenkins has accepted the challenge of selecting the 100 best players of all time, one that he has called ‘impossible but irresistible’. Placing them in order of precedence, he has analysed each of them, assessing their characters, the cricketing elements that made them so outstanding and the special qualities that enabled them to be pre-eminent in their time.

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Whether Sachin Tendulkar, Ricky Ponting, Kevin Pietersen, Brett

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Lee, Muttiah Muralitharan and Jacques Kallis, heroes of the

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contemporary game, will make a list that includes immortal

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cricketers such as W.G. Grace, Don Bradman and Gary Sobers, will

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be as fascinating as where they may be rated in the pantheon.

Having written and commentated on international cricket for 40 years, Martin-Jenkins is almost uniquely qualified to act as judge and jury.

Christopher Martin-Jenkins has commentated for BBC Radio 4’s Test Match Special since 1973. During that time he has also been editor of The Cricketer, chief cricket correspondent for BBC Television, the Telegraph and The Times, and perennial winner of The Wisden Cricketer best cricket writer poll. He has written a number of acclaimed books, including Men for All Seasons, An Australian Summer, and the Christopher Martin-Jenkins © PA Photos

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bestselling Complete Who’s Who of Test Cricketers.

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‘Christopher Martin-Jenkins brings his unrivalled experience and passion for the game to bear in the corridors of power, the Test-match arena and county grounds’ The Times

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‘An enjoyable polemic against pretty much everything really ... manages to highlight a lot of the basic philosophical premises that we have opted into without giving them real consideration in the first place.’ Publishing News July MAY History Philosophy

Don’t Get Fooled Again The Sceptic’s Guide to Life

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Why is it that, time and again, intelligent, educated people end up falling for ideas that turn out on closer examination to be nonsense?

We live in a supposedly rational age, yet crazy notions seem increasingly mainstream. New Age peddlers claim to cure Aids with

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vitamin tablets. Media gatekeepers stoke panic and regurgitate corporate press releases in the name of ‘balance’. Wild-eyed men in sandwich boards blame it all on the CIA. But while it may be easier than ever for nonsense to spread, it’s never been simpler to fight back ...

Don’t Get Fooled Again offers practical tools for cutting through the claptrap and unravelling the spin – tackling propaganda, the psychology of deception, pseudo-news, bogus science, the weird cult of ‘Aids reappraisal’, numerous conspiracy theories, and much more.

Richard Wilson’s book is user-friendly, enjoyable, shot through with

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polemic – and argues forcefully for a positive solution. Don’t be a

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cynic – be a sceptic!

Richard Wilson read Philosophy at University College London. His first book, Titanic Express, recounts his search for the truth about the death of his sister Charlotte, who was killed in Burundi in 2000. He now works for a human rights organisation and lives in London with his wife, Heleen.

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The story of a wild dancing epidemic that brought death and fear to a 16thcentury city, and the supernatural beliefs from which it arose.

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In July 1518 a terrifying and mysterious plague struck the

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medieval city of Strasbourg. Hundreds of men and women danced wildly, day after day, in the punishing summer heat.

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The Extraordinary Story of the Dancing Plague of 1518

Their feet blistered and bled, and their limbs ached with fatigue, but they simply could not stop.

By the time the epidemic subsided, heat and exhaustion had claimed an untold number of lives, leaving thousands bewildered and bereaved, and an enduring enigma for future generations.

This book explains why Strasbourg’s dancing plague took place. In doing so it leads us into a largely vanished world, evoking the sights, sounds, aromas, diseases and hardships, the fervent supernaturalism and the desperate hedonism of the late medieval world.

Not only a fascinating historical detective story, A Time to Dance, A Time to Die is also an exploration into the strangest capabilities of the human mind and the extremes to which fear and irrationality can lead us.

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John Waller

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is an historian of medicine at Michigan State University. Educated at the universities of Oxford and London, he is the author of several other books, including The Real Oliver Twist (Icon, 2005), The Discovery of the Germ (Icon, 2002) and Fabulous Science (OUP, 2002). He lives with his wife and daughter in Michigan.

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A straight-talking analysis of the game of cricket and the illustrious career of England’s most capped player of all time. june Sport

Alec Stewart’s Cricket Companion

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New Title When Alec Stewart scored a century in his 100th Test, the sheer length of the standing ovation from a packed Old Trafford crowd confirmed that he had already become a national institution. He went on to represent England more times than Botham, Boycott, Gooch, Gower and every other great that the game has ever

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produced.

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Having recently decided to bring his playing days to an end,

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Alec Stewart’s Cricket Companion now provides him with the

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also explores the state of world cricket today, before assessing

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number of players past and present, and it’s not just cricket that

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makes it into the firing line. We learn his assessment of modern-

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day sport as a whole, not least football and his beloved Chelsea

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FC. This book isn’t just for followers of cricket, it’s for anyone

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wanting to absorb the professional opinion of one of the greatest

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sportsmen England has ever known.

opportunity to take a wider look at the game as a whole. Full of engaging anecdotes from life in a sport he clearly loves, the book how the sport should evolve and embrace the future.

Stewart is characteristically honest and uncompromising about a

Alec Stewart OBE played cricket at the highest level for over twenty years – captaining his country, becoming the most capped English cricketer of all time in both Test matches and One Day Internationals, Wisden Cricketer of the Year, and registering the highest score by an England wicketkeeper in the history of the game. He now writes for a number of national newspapers, commentates on BBC Radio 4’s Test Match Special and is a Alec Stewart © PA Photos

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cricket analyst for Sky and BBC Radio 5 Live.

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No facet of cricket – on or off the pitch – escapes the forthright approach of one of the most dogged battlers the game has ever seen.

Another brand new Introducing title, on a sometimes baffling but crucial subject, straddling science, philosophy and everyday life. june Science

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Introducing Statistics A Graphic Guide

Paperback Original From the medicine we take, the treatments we receive, the aptitude and psychometric tests given by employers, the cars we drive, the clothes we wear to even the beer we drink, statistics have given shape to the world we inhabit. For the media, statistics are routinely ‘damning’, ‘horrifying’, or, occasionally, ‘encouraging’.

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Yet, for all their ubiquity, most of us really don’t know what to

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make of statistics.

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Exploring the history, mathematics, philosophy and practical use of statistics, Eileen Magnello – accompanied by Bill Mayblin’s

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intelligent graphic illustration – traces the rise of statistics from

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in particular, William Farr, and the mathematical statistics of

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Karl Pearson and R.A. Fisher. She even tells how knowledge of

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statistics can prolong one’s life, as it did for evolutionary biologist

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Stephen Jay Gould, given eight months to live after a cancer

the ancient Babylonians, Egyptians and Chinese, to the censuses of Romans and the Greeks, and the modern emergence of the term itself in Europe. She explores the ‘vital statistics’ of,

diagnoses in 1982 – and he lived until 2002.

An enjoyable, surprise-filled tour through a subject that is both fascinating and crucial to understanding our world.

Eileen Magnello trained and worked as a statistician before doing her doctorate in the history of science at St Antony’s College, Oxford. She has published extensively on the life and statistical innovations of the

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Victorian statistician Karl Pearson and is a Research Associate at

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University College London

Published on the 25th anniversary of his death

Bill Mayblin

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has illustrated a number of Introducing titles including Derrida

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To see another brand-new Introducing book, and further titles republished in the compact format, please take a look at pages 16 and 30, and the full list on page 52. Keep up to date with the series at www.introducingbooks.com

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Meet the generation of men who are happy they didn’t die before they got old in Nick Baker’s original, humorous and acutely observed Groovy Old Men – now in paperback for Father’s day.

July june History / Culture Humour

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Groovy Old Men

‘They are cool, soigné, well groomed, well dressed’ says the

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Independent. Groovy Old Men is ‘an urban phenomenon that’s been making its presence apparent since the turn of the millennium’.

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Nick Baker brilliantly argues in this unique, and sometimes touching book that these stylish older men are part of a new and growing breed.

It’s packed full of interviews with experts and archetypes like designer Sir Paul Smith, radical Tariq Ali and Glastonbury cofounder Andrew Kerr, as well as sceptics like Richard Ingrams, and lots of Groovy Old Men who might be your father, granddad, neighbour, husband or lover.

The complete guide to Groovy Old Men for everybody who has one, or wants one, in their life.

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Nick Baker

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was born in 1952 and lives in London with his partner and two teenage sons. He has been a teacher, journalist, writer for teenagers, award-winning radio reporter and producer. He runs Testbed, a long-established independent radio and audio production company. www.groovyoldmen.com

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In the words of Judi Dench, this is a ‘brilliantly enjoyable look at Shakespeare which dispels the myths and makes him accessible to all’ and it’s now in paperback.

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Who’s afraid of William Shakespeare? Just about everyone. He wrote too much and what he did write is inaccessible and elitist.

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Shakespeare on Toast Getting a Taste for the Bard

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Wrong. Shakespeare on Toast knocks the stuffing from the staid old myth of Shakespeare, revealing the man and his plays for what they really are: modern, thrilling and uplifting drama.

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Actor and author Ben Crystal brings the bright words and colourful characters of the world’s greatest hack writer brilliantly to life, handing over the key to Shakespeare’s plays, unlocking the socalled difficult bits and, astonishingly, finding Shakespeare’s own voice amid the poetry. Told in five fascinating Acts, Shakespeare on Toast sweeps the cobwebs from the Bard – from his language, his life, his time – revealing both the man and his work to be relevant, accessible and full of beans. www.shakespeareontoast.com

Ben Crystal

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is an actor and writer. He has worked in TV, film and theatre, including the reconstructed Shakespeare’s Globe, London, and is a narrator for RNIB Talking Books, Channel 4 and the BBC. He co-wrote Shakespeare’s Words (Penguin 2002) and The Shakespeare Miscellany (Penguin 2005) with David Crystal, and regularly gives talks and workshops on Shakespeare.

He lives in London, and online at www.bencrystal.com

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An indispensable guide to the UK’s most absurd, bizarre and even foolhardy ‘sports’ ...

‘A highly hen-tertaining, mustread book for any wannabe world champion ... an excellent guide.’

Rick Allen, World Hen Racing Champion

July june History / travel Humour

Wacky Nation 50 Unbelievable Days Out at Britain’s Craziest Contests

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From Worm Charming to Bog Snorkelling, Nettle Eating to Shin Kicking, there’s a great British tradition of holding very strange contests in which getting filthy, feeling sick, risking life and limb – and above all, looking ridiculous – are not mere side-effects, but positively celebrated. Welcome to the Wacky Nation.

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James Bamber and Sally Raynes – creators of wackynation.com – present 50 of the oddest contests, races and traditions you’d never imagined existed. Think you’ve got what it takes to become the World Coal Carrying Champion, or maybe the Greatest Liar? Perhaps

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your forté lies in Gurning? Look no further.

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the intrepid authors’ own experiences (with the scars to prove it) and

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With ratings for Spectator Fun, Pain Factor and Wackiness for each event, there’s a strong get-involved-if-you-dare streak, backed up by tips from winners.

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Each entry will astound and amuse, enticing you to become a world

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champion or simply a laughing stock. With Wacky Nation, you’ve no

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excuse for a dull weekend ever again.

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James Bamber and Sally Raynes are the creators of www.wackynation.com. Between them, they hold the World Russian Egg Roulette title, and won silver in 2006’s World Snail Racing Championships. In the same year, Sally claimed second place for World Nettle Eating (women’s event), having devoured 30 feet of nettles. They live in Tiverton, Devon.

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soon-to-be-published – icon books

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Compact backlist

The reimagining of Icon’s flagship Introducing series continues apace this season, with four existing titles published in the smaller, pocket-sized format alongside two brand new titles, Introducing Capitalism and Introducing Statistics. Further details on these two titles can be seen on pages 30 and 46 respectively.

The full list of compact Introducing titles available by June 2009 is below. Watch out for six more titles and a host of promotional activity in September 2009.

Buddha

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Capitalism (April)

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Chaos

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Critical Theory (April) 978-184831-059-9 Ethics

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Foucault (June)

978-184831-060-5

Freud

978-184046-851-9

Jung

978-184831-010-0

Logic

978-184831-012-4

Marxism (Feb)

978-184831-058-2

Mind and Brain

978-184046-854-0

Nietzsche

978-184831-009-4

Philosophy

978-184046-853-3

Postmodernism

978-184046-849-6

Psychology

978-184046-852-6

Quantum Theory

978-184046-850-2

Relativity (Feb)

978-184831-057-5

Statistics (June)

978-184831-056-8

Keep up to date with Introducing at www.introducingbooks.com – enter competitions, read, listen and watch author interviews or grab our unique Introducing widget.

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All Introducing compact edition titles: UK £6.99 Canada $10.99 US $9.95 A format paperback, 176 pages with b/w illustrations throughout.

TERRITORY World FOREIGN RIGHTS Icon Books / Marsh Agency

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black-look backlist Introducing retains the stylish black look and larger format familiar to fans for the vast majority of its backlist. See the website – introducingbooks.com – for more details on individual titles.

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Aesthetics

978-1840467-90-1

Anthropology

978-1840466-63-8

Aristotle

978-1840467-59-8

Artificial Intelligence

978-1840468-41-0

Barthes

978-1840467-16-1

Buddha

978-1840466-33-1

Camus

978-1840468-47-2

Chaos

978-1840465-81-5

Chomsky

978-1840465-89-1

Consciousness

978-1840466-65-2

Critical Theory

978-1840465-88-4

Cultural Studies

978-1840465-87-7

Darwin

978-1840467-15-4

Derrida

978-1840466-66-9

Descartes

978-1840467-19-2

Eastern Philosophy

978-1840467-86-4

Einstein

978-1840466-67-6

Empiricism

978-1840465-45-7

Ethics

978-1840465-80-8

Evolution

978-1840466-34-8

Evolutionary Psychology

978-1840466-68-3

Existentialism

978-1840467-17-8

Feminism

978-1840466-49-2

Foucault

978-1840465-91-4

Fractal Geometry

978-1840467-13-0

Freud

978-1840465-78-5

Genetics

978-1840466-36-2

Hegel

978-1840467-85-7

Heidegger

978-1840467-12-3

Hinduism

978-1840466-26-3

Islam

978-1840465-82-2

Jung

978-1840465-79-2

Kafka

978-1840467-87-1

Kant

978-1840466-64-5

Kierkegaard

978-1840467-58-1

Lacan

978-1840466-69-0

Linguistics

978-1840466-35-5

Logic

978-1840465-85-3

Machiavelli

978-1840468-44-1

Marx

978-1840467-14-7

Marxism

978-1840464-62-7

Mathematics

978-1840466-37-9

Media Studies

978-1840467-18-5

Melanie Klein

978-1840467-11-6

Mind and Brain

978-1840466-38-6

Modernism

978-1840465-93-8

Newton

978-1840468-42-7

Nietzsche

978-1840466-27-0

Philosophy

978-1840465-76-1

Plato

978-1840466-60-7

Political Philosophy

978-1840467-60-4

Postmodernism

978-1840465-75-4

Psychoanalysis

978-1840467-56-7

Psychology

978-1840465-86-0

Psychotherapy

978-1840467-88-8

Quantum Theory

978-1840465-77-8

Relativity

978-1840467-57-4

Romanticism

978-1840466-71-3

Rousseau

978-1840467-89-5

Sartre

978-1840466-72-0

Semiotics

978-1840465-84-6

Sociology

978-1840465-83-9

Stephen Hawking

978-1840466-39-3

The Enlightenment

978-1840467-09-3

The Universe

978-1840467-61-1

Time

978-1840465-92-1

Wittgenstein

978-1840466-41-6

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The original, interactive gamebook series. Get involved at fightingfantasy.com & myspace.com/fightingfantasy

FF1 ISBN: 3-87-3

FF2 ISBN: 3-89-7

FF3 ISBN: 3-88-0

FF4 ISBN: 3-91-0

FF5 ISBN: 3-97-2

FF7 ISBN: 4-17-7

FF8 ISBN: 4-29-0

FF9 ISBN: 4-30-6

FF21 ISBN: 6-42-3

FF24 ISBN: 5-66-2

FF25 ISBN: 7-32-1

FF26 ISBN: 7-65-9

FF27 ISBN: 8-02-1

FF28 ISBN: 8-07-6

FF29 ISBN: 8-38-0

Illustrated here are just a selection of titles – see our stocklist on page 64 for the full list.

ISBN prefix: 978-184046 All Fighting Fantasy titles: UK £4.99 (Sorcery! £5.99, Warlock special edition £8.99) Canada $10.00 A format paperback – various extents with frequent illustrations TERRITORY World ex. USA US RIGHTS Icon Books / Carol Mann Agency FOREIGN RIGHTS Icon Books / Marsh Agency

FF1 25th Anniversary Edition ISBN 8-37-3

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Icon and wizard Books Stocklist new titles in bold GENERAL NON-FICTION Another Alice

£7.99 978-184831 0-41-4

Googlies, Nutmegs and Bogeys

£9.99 978-184046 7-74-1

Lewis Hamilton

£7.99 978-184046 9-41-7

Cowgirls, Cockroaches and Celebrity Lingerie £9.99 978-184046 8-33-5

Rucks, Pucks and Sliders

£9.99 978-184046 8-25-0

Do Animals Have Rights?

The Captain’s Challenge

£12.99 978-184831 0-26-1

Not Fade Away Don’t Get Fooled Again Great Composers How Big Is Your Brain?

£7.99 978-184046 6-23-2 £12.99 978-184831 0-34-6 £8.99 978-184831 0-52-0

The Grand Prix Companion

£9.99 978-184046 7-96-3

The Last Amateurs

£8.99 978-184831 0-45-2

£16.99 978-184046 6-79-9 £5.99 978-184046 8-61-8

HUMOUR Between You and I

£6.99 978-184046 6-74-4

It’s Only Money

£6.99 978-184046 7-38-3

Forty-fied

£7.99 978-184046 8-80-9

Making Time

£8.99 978-184831 0-01-8

Groovy Old Men

£8.99 978-184831 0-39-1

Match Wits with the Kids

£8.99 978-184831 0-00-1

I Hate The Office

£7.99 978-184046 8-24-3

Issigonis / Official Biography

£12.99 978-184046 7-78-9

Nervous System

£12.99 978-184046 7-93-2

Man Who Ate Bluebottles

£7.99 978-184046 7-77-2

Nobel Lectures

£12.99 978-184046 8-34-2

New World Order

£7.99 978-184046 8-74-8

Shakespeare on Toast

£7.99 978-184831 0-54-4

Number Freaking

£7.99 978-184046 7-51-2

Stealing the Scream

£8.99 978-184046 8-64-9

Places to Hide

£7.99 978-184046 8-08-3

The Armchair Naturalist

£7.99 978-184046 8-82-3

The Z to Z of Great Britain

£7.99 978-184046 7-54-3

The Intellectual

£6.99 978-184046 7-21-5

Wacky Nation

£9.99 978-184831 0-62-9

The Lying Ape

£7.99 978-184046 7-99-4

Walking in on Mum and Dad

£7.99 978-184046 8-05-2

What is Myrrh Anyway?

£6.99 978-184831 0-27-8

The Psychic Tourist

£14.99 978-184831 0-50-6

The Rich

£16.99 978-184046 7-66-6

Isabel’s World

£8.99 978-184831 0-48-3

POLITICS 101 Facts / Food 50 Facts / Change the World

HISTORY Best of Times, Worst of Times

£17.99 978-184831 0-17-9

50 Facts: USA

£6.99 978-184046 7-67-3 £8.99 978-184046 8-46-5 £10.99 978-184046 8-84-7

365: Great Stories from History

£9.99 978-184046 6-75-1

American Dream Global Nightmare

366: More Great Stories from History

£9.99 978-184831 0-05-6

Can You Trust the Media?

£8.99 978-184831 0-53-7

China: Friend or Foe?

£7.99 978-184046 7-33-8

Crunch Time

£9.99 978-184046 8-01-4

A Time to Dance, A Time to Die Arena of Ambition Best of Enemies Enchantress of Nations

£20.00 978-184831 0-61-2 £8.99 978-184831 0-03-2 £20.00 978-184046 8-43-4

£7.99 978-184046 5-72-3 £12.99 978-184046 8-72-4

Did David Hasselhoff End the Cold War? £7.99 978-184046 7-94-9 Human Being to Human Bomb

£12.99 978-184046 8-62-5

History of Britain Revealed

£7.99 978-184046 8-35-9

Supercapitalism

History of England - Austen / Dickens

£9.99 978-184046 7-83-3

Surveillance Unlimited

£10.99 978-184046 8-77-9

Man Who Ran the Moon

£8.99 978-184046 8-36-6

The New Rome

£14.99 978-184046 8-87-8

Real Oliver Twist

£8.99 978-184046 7-27-7

The Truth that Sticks

£8.99 978-184046 8-78-6

Torture Taxi

£9.99 978-184046 8-30-4

Why Blame Israel?

£8.99 978-184046 6-24-9

Will America Change?

£8.99 978-184046 8-79-3

X Marks the Box

£8.99 978-184831 0-51-3

The Devil’s Children The Father of Forensics The Great Books

£14.99 978-184831 0-19-3 £8.99 978-184831 0-43-8 £10.99 978-184831 0-06-3

£8.99 978-184831 0-46-9

SPORT Creating Classics Bob Wilson’s Ultimate Collection Crashed and Byrned

£40.00 978-184831 0-25-4 £8.99 978-184831 0-02-5 £10.99 978-184831 0-28-5

Football Freaking

£6.99 978-184046 7-53-6

Foul Play

£8.99 978-184046 8-90-8

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Icon and wizard Books Stocklist new titles in bold POPULAR SCIENCE

INTRODUCING (compact format) All titles £6.99 PBK

A Mind of Its Own

£8.99 978-184046 7-98-7

Buddha

978-184831 0-11-7

A New Science of Life

£8.99 978-184831 0-42-1

Capitalism

978-184831 0-55-1

An Entertainment for Angels

£6.99 978-184046 4-59-7

Chaos

978-184831 0-13-1

Atom

£8.99 978-184046 8-73-1

Critical Theory

978-184831 0-59-9

Beyond Coincidence

£7.99 978-184046 6-18-8

Ethics

978-184831 0-08-7

Constant Touch

£6.99 978-184046 5-41-9

Foucault

978-184831 0-60-5

Dawkins vs. Gould

£7.99 978-184046 7-80-2

Freud

978-184046 8-51-9

Discovery of the Germ

£6.99 978-184046 5-02-0

Jung

978-184831 0-10-0

Dissent over Descent

£12.99 978-184046 8-04-5

Logic

978-184831 0-12-4

Einstein’s Heroes

£12.99 978-184046 6-10-2

Marxism

978-184831 0-58-2

Eureka!

£6.99 978-184046 3-74-3

Mind & Brain

978-184046 8-54-0

Faraday / Electrical Century

£9.99 978-184046 5-40-2

Nietzsche

978-184831 0-09-4

Fatal Attraction

£9.99 978-184046 6-32-4

Philosophy

978-184046 8-53-3

Frank Whittle / Jet Engine

£6.99 978-184046 6-62-1

Postmodernism

978-184046 8-49-6

From Atoms to Infinity

£6.99 978-184046 7-35-2

Psychology

978-184046 8-52-6

£10.99 978-184831 0-04-9

Quantum Theory

978-184046 8-50-2

In Search of Superstrings

£7.99 978-184046 8-32-8

Relativity

978-184831 0-57-5

Knowledge is Power

£6.99 978-184046 4-73-3

Statistics

978-184831 0-56-8

Latitude

£6.99 978-184046 4-86-3

Lovelock and Gaia

£9.99 978-184046 4-58-0

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Men Who Measured the Universe

£6.99 978-184046 5-36-5

Philosophy

Mystery of the Tunguska Fireball

£7.99 978-184046 7-28-4

Aesthetics

7-90-1

Perfect Copy / Cloning

£7.99 978-184046 3-80-4

Aristotle

7-59-8

Possessing Genius

£8.99 978-184046 6-25-6

Bertrand Russell

3-82-8

Proust and the Squid

£8.99 978-184831 0-30-8

Critical Theory

5-88-4

Quantum

£8.99 978-184831 0-35-3

Derrida

6-66-9

£14.99 978-184831 0-40-7

Descartes

7-19-2

Science of Doctor Who

£8.99 978-184046 7-91-8

Eastern Philosophy

7-86-4

The Cause of Mosquitoes Sorrow

£7.99 978-184046 8-31-1

Empiricism

5-45-7

The Chilling Stars

£7.99 978-184046 8-66-3

The Enlightenment

7-09-3

The Comet Sweeper

£9.99 978-184046 7-20-8

Ethics

5-80-8

£20.00 978-184831 0-44-5

Existentialism

7-17-8

The Red Bodyguard

£5.99 978-184046 8-85-4

Foucault

5-91-4

The Selfish Genius

£12.99 978-184831 0-49-0

Hegel

7-85-7

Watt’s Perfect Engine

£6.99 978-184046 5-46-4

Heidegger

7-12-3

Wholly Irresponsible Experiments

£7.99 978-184046 8-76-2

Kant

6-64-5

Why Aren’t They Here?

£7.99 978-184046 8-65-6

Kierkegaard

7-58-1

Logic

5-85-3

Marquis de Sade

0-71-1

£7.99 978-184831 0-23-0

Marx

7-14-7

£12.99 978-184046 8-59-5

Marxism

4-62-7

Modernism

5-93-8

Nietzsche

6-27-0

Future Proof

Science and Islam

The First War of Physics

LIFESTYLE In the Red Lisa B Lifestyle Essentials

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Icon and wizard Books Stocklist new titles in bold Philosophy

5-76-1

Relativity

7-57-4

Plato

6-60-7

Science

3-58-3

Postmodernism

5-75-4

Stephen Hawking

6-39-3

Romanticism

6-71-3

Time

5-92-1

Rousseau

7-89-5

The Universe

7-61-1

Sartre

6-72-0

Walter Benjamin

1-65-7

Other areas

Wittgenstein

6-41-6

Anthropology

6-63-8

Barthes

7-16-1

Baudrillard

0-87-2

Politics American Politics

0-98-8

Buddha

6-33-1

Fascism and Nazism

1-54-1

Camus

8-47-2

The Holocaust

1-21-3

Chomsky

5-89-1

Lenin/Russian Revolution

1-56-5

Cultural Studies

5-87-7

Machiavelli

8-44-1

Feminism

6-49-2

Political Philosophy

7-60-4

Hinduism

6-26-3

Trotsky and Marxism

1-55-8

Islam

5-82-2

Joyce

1-19-0

Kafka

7-87-1

Psychology Freud

5-78-5

Keynesian Economics

1-57-2

The Freud Wars

3-81-1

Lévi-Strauss

1-47-3

Jung

5-79-2

Linguistics

6-35-5

Lacan

6-69-0

Media Studies

7-18-5

Melanie Klein

7-11-6

Postfeminism

0-10-0

Psychiatry

5-37-2

Semiotics

5-84-6

Psychoanalysis

7-56-7

Shakespeare

2-62-3

Psychology

5-86-0

Sociology

5-83-9

Psychotherapy

7-88-8 CORINTHIAN BOOKS Alec Stewart’s Cricket Companion £16.99 978-190685 0-00-5

Science Artificial Intelligence

8-41-0

Bob Wilson’s Life in the Beautiful Game £8.99 978-190685 0-03-6

Chaos

5-81-5

The Top 100 Cricketers of All Time £14.99 978-190685 0-04-3

Consciousness

6-65-2

The Top 100 Formula One Drivers

£8.99 978-190685 0-02-9

Darwin

7-15-4

Wholly Irresponsible Exploits

£7.99 978-190685 0-01-2

Einstein

6-67-6

Environmental Politics

1-59-6

Evolution

6-34-8

Evolutionary Psychology

6-68-3

Fractal Geometry

7-13-0

Genetics

6-36-2

Mathematics

6-37-9

Mind and Brain

6-38-6

Newton

8-42-7

Quantum Theory

5-77-8

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Icon and wizard Books Stocklist new titles in bold FIGHTING FANTASY

FICTION

FF 1: Warlock of Firetop

Joshua Cross

£4.99 978-184046 4-66-5

Mountain (25th ann.)

£8.99 978-184046 8-37-3

Joshua Cross: Queen’s Conjuror

£4.99 978-184046 6-19-5

FF 1: Warlock of Firetop Mountain

£5.99 978-184046 3-87-3

The Toxic Toadburger Conspiracy

£5.99 978-184046 5-64-8

FF 2: Citadel of Chaos

£4.99 978-184046 3-89-7

FF 3: Deathtrap Dungeon

£4.99 978-184046 3-88-0

NON-FICTION

FF 4: Creature of Havoc

£4.99 978-184046 3-91-0

Big Numbers

£4.99 978-184046 6-61-4

FF 5: City of Thieves

£4.99 978-184046 3-97-2

Big Questions

£6.99 978-184046 6-70-6

FF 6: Crypt of the Sorcerer

£4.99 978-184046 3-96-5

A Child’s History of England

£9.99 978-184831 0-24-7

FF 7: House of Hell

£4.99 978-184046 4-17-7

Darkness Visible

£6.99 978-184046 8-48-9

FF 8: Forest of Doom

£4.99 978-184046 4-29-0

How to Remember (Almost)

FF 10: Caverns of the Snow Witch

£4.99 978-184046 4-32-0

Everything, Ever!

£5.99 978-184046 7-97-0

FF 12: Trial of Champions

£4.99 978-184046 4-34-4

Master of the Rings

£5.99 978-184046 4-23-8

FF 14: Armies of Death

£4.99 978-184046 4-36-8

Mind Your Own Business

£4.99 978-184046 7-63-5

FF 16: Return to Firetop Mountain

£4.99 978-184046 4-81-8

Scientists Anonymous

£4.99 978-184046 8-40-3

FF 17: Island of the Lizard King

£5.99 978-184046 4-91-7

The Sex Book

£7.99 978-184046 4-72-6

FF 18: Appointment with F.E.A.R.

£4.99 978-184046 5-27-3

Go Go Crazy for Those Bones

£3.99 978-184831 0-63-6

FF 19: Temple of Terror

£4.99 978-184046 5-28-0

FF 20: Legend of Zagor

£5.99 978-184046 5-51-8

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FF 21: Eye of the Dragon

£5.99 978-184046 6-42-3

Fear and Trembling

£5.99 978-184046 5-26-6

FF 22: Starship Traveller

£4.99 978-184046 5-52-5

Life and Death

£5.99 978-184046 5-67-9

FF 23: Freeway Fighter

£4.99 978-184046 5-65-5

Love and Longing

£5.99 978-184046 5-23-5

FF 24: Talisman of Death

£4.99 978-184046 5-66-2

War and Peace

£5.99 978-184046 5-70-9

FF 25: Sword of the Samurai

£4.99 978-184046 7-32-1

FF 26: Bloodbones

£4.99 978-184046 7-65-9

QUIZ BOOKS

FF 27: Curse of the Mummy

£4.99 978-184046 8-02-1

Kidoku

£4.99 978-184046 7-50-5

FF 28: Spellbreaker

£4.99 978-184046 8-07-6

Junior Su Doku Christmas

£3.99 978-184046 7-34-5

FF 29: Howl of the Werewolf

£5.99 978-184046 8-38-0 OTHER GAMEBOOKS

FIGHTING FANTASY: SORCERY!

The Forgotten Spell

£5.99 978-184046 7-31-4

The Golem of Brick Lane

£5.99 978-184046 6-98-0

FF 9/S! 1: The Shamutanti Hills

£5.99 978-184046 4-30-6

FF 11/S! 2: Kharé: Cityport of Traps

£5.99 978-184046 4-33-7

FF 13/S! 3: The Seven Serpents

£5.99 978-184046 4-35-1

FOOTBALL FANTASY

FF 15/S! 4: Crown of Kings

£5.99 978-184046 4-38-2

Avon United

£5.99 978-184046 6-22-5

Bridgewater FC

£5.99 978-184046 6-09-6

Clyde Rovers

£5.99 978-184046 6-21-8

THE F.E.A.R. ADVENTURES The Crime Lord

£4.99 978-184046 6-93-5

Medway United

£5.99 978-184046 5-99-0

The Emerald Pirate

£4.99 978-184046 6-90-4

Mersey City

£5.99 978-184046 5-97-6

The Space Plague

£4.99 978-184046 6-94-2

Thames United

£5.99 978-184046 5-98-3

The Spy Master

£4.99 978-184046 6-92-8

Trent Albion

£5.99 978-184046 5-90-7

The F.E.A.R. Agency Special edition

£1.99 978-184046 7-26-0

Tyne Athletic

£5.99 978-184046 5-96-9

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