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THE MUSICAL ANIMAL Victoria Williamson

March 2014

Manuscript available July 2013 Do babies remember music from the womb? Is music actually good for our productivity at work?

What is going on in your brain when you hear that one song that transports you back to a particular place and time?

Music is one of the great untapped sources of uplift in human life. Music can trigger growth in the brain that enhances a number of cognitive abilities including motor control, visual acuity and language learning. Musical lessons may increase IQ in children and can boost sports performance in adults by up to 15%. Music can help those who are lost in a non-verbal world to learn to communicate with us. It can provide significant comfort from both physical pain and mental anguish. It can improve recovery from illness, and support and guide transitions through life stages. Finally, it provides a personal soundtrack and memory passport for our lives.

The Musical Animal bridges the gap between the insights of music psychology and the enthusiasm of a life-long musician and fan. From the child who takes music lessons to the commuter who cannot travel to work without an iPod, Victoria Williamson explores the unique part that music plays in all of our lives.

Victoria Williamson gained an MA in the Psychology of Music at Sheffield University. In 2005 she was awarded a University of York Fellowship and went on to complete a PhD investigating the role of music in the working memory model.

She is currently a Leverhulme postdoctoral research fellow (working on the earworm project). musicpsychology.co.uk

PSYCHOLOGY

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I, SUPERORGANISM

Jon Turney

April 2014

Manuscript available December 2013 The first book-length account of a new realm of human biology.

Every human body carries a secret cargo. A huge population of microorganisms lives in your mouth and nose, on your skin, in your guts – pretty much everywhere.

New research is revealing many startling facts about our bacteria. 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.

This is leading to new medical approaches, from faecal transplants to subtler modification of our bacterial populations through diet or inoculation. As the picture comes into focus, it also shows each of us as a new kind of creature: not just an isolated human, but a superorganism.

I, Superorganism is an essential primer for the decades ahead, in which we will learn to look after our bacteria, instead of ignoring or exterminating them.

Jon Turney is an award-winning popular science author of books, including The Rough Guide to the Future (2010), shortlisted for the Winton Royal Society Science Book Prize in 2011 and The Rough Guide to Genes and Cloning (2007), selected as ‘Book of the Year’ by the Institute of Mechanical Engineers. Jon Turney has previously worked as a journalist, academic and publisher. Past lives include stints as Science Editor, then Features Editor on the Times Higher Education Supplement, head of the Department of Science and Technology Studies at University College London, and as an Editorial Director for Allen Lane, responsible for popular science.

POPULAR SCIENCE

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THE PINNACLE OF PARNASSUS:

An Entirely Successful Attempt to Write Three Perfect Sentences Mark Forsyth

November 2013

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Mark Forsyth, author of two bestselling books on words, The Etymologicon and The Horologicon, has, at last, discovered the secret of great writing.

In The Pinnacle of Parnassus Forsyth diligently studies the techniques of writers as diverse as Dante, Shakespeare, Hemingway and Prince with hints from Star Wars, advertising copy, the Bible and political soundbites, as he tries to write what must be the finest piece of prose ever committed to paper.

From King Lear’s Howl, howl, howl to Channel 4’s location location location (via Tennyson and Tony Blair).

From Crisis? What Crisis? to Bond, James Bond. And from God creating Heaven and earth to Guy Ritchie creating Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels: join Mark with the Muses on the summit of Mount Parnassus as he tinkers wildly with zeugma, merism, syllepsis and the iambic pentameter in an eccentric (and ultimately successful) attempt to write the perfect three sentences.

Mark Forsyth is a blogger and author whose books have made him one of the UK’s best-known commentators on words. His book The Etymologicon was a Sunday Times Number One bestseller and has now sold over 100,000 copies. It was followed in autumn 2012 by the similarly successful The Horologicon. Follow Mark on Twitter @inkyfool.

LITERARY STYLE

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INTRODUCING PARTICLE PHYSICS: A GRAPHIC GUIDE Tom Whyntie & Oliver Pugh

September 2013 Text available now

A compact Introducing guide to one of the most talked about areas of science.

Particle Physics began when scientists discovered that the atom – the indivisible unit of stuff of which all things are made – was, in fact, divisible. Tom Whyntie explores the history and theory behind this seismic shift of thinking, and the subsequent discoveries that have impacted our construction of the Standard Model of partical physics, right up to the discovery of the Higgs boson.

Introducing Particle Physics: A Graphic Guide explains partical physics from start to finish.

Tom Whyntie is the STFC-funded Technical Manager for the LUCID UK project, working as a researcher-inresidence with The Langton Star Centre, Queen Mary University London, GridPP and SEPnet to get as many schools in the south east of England doing physics research.

He completed his PhD, and worked as a Research Assistant, at Imperial College London‘s High Energy Physics group. He worked on the Compact Muon Solenoid experiment, one of the giant digital cameras that takes photos of what’s going on inside the Large Hadron Collider at CERN when it’s smashing stuff together.

POPULAR SCIENCE

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THE SCIENCE MAGPIE (MISCELLANY)

Simon Flynn

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NOW SOLD OVER 15,000 COPIES Fascinating lists, facts, stories, poems, drawings, diagrams - and even jokes - across the scientific disciplines and from science’s bejewelled history.

From the Large Hadron Collider rap to the sins of Isaac Newton, The Science Magpie is a compelling collection of scientific curiosities.

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

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

Simon Flynn was a publisher and is now training as science teacher. He has degrees in Chemistry and Philosophy.

'Simon Flynn's cornucopia of curious facts, anecdotes and quotations ... is sure to entertain and surprise.'

New Scientist

POPULAR SCIENCE

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THE NATURE MAGPIE (MISCELLANY) Daniel Allen

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

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

Join naturalists, novelists and poets as they explore the most isolated parts of the planet, see London Zoo through the eyes of its earliest visitors, consider the regional accents of animals, and discover which plants can be used to predict the weather.

Be amazed by the natural wonders of the world, amused by ancient explanations for earthquakes, tsunamis and volcanoes, and in awe of nature’s forms, from majestic mountains to beautiful bacteria.

Daniel Allen offers an irresistible addition to any nature lover’s book collection.

Dr Daniel Allen is a British author making a name for himself in the world of animal/nature writing. His first book, Otter, was published in Reaktion Books’ Animal series in September 2010. Virginia McKenna OBE described the book as ‘the most brilliant mix of facts ancient and modern about the otter species’. A second title, Squirrel, will be published as part of the series in 2013. Daniel is also a columnist for Small Furry Pets and Practical Reptile Keeping magazines.

‘A miscellany that keeps you turning the pages.’

Desmond Morris, author of The Naked Ape

POPULAR SCIENCE

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THE ANTIQUES MAGPIE (MISCELLANY)

Marc Allum

September 2013

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A fascinating compendium of absorbing history, stories, facts, anecdotes and puzzles from the world of antiques.

From the mythical artefacts of the ancient world to prized 80s pop memorabilia – and the dedicated collectors who revere these objects – The Antiques Magpie brings together a treasure trove of stories, anecdotes and facts from the wonderful world of antiques.

The Antiques Magpie divulges closely-guarded insider tips on how to discover fakes and forgeries; explains how boom and bust can have a devastating impact on the antiques market, and why a Chinese five-clawed dragon, rather than four, can make a porcelain vase worth millions.

Sure to delight and surprise, Marc Allum’s Magpie examines the most respected design icons throughout history, explores conundrums like who invented glass, reveals the most expensive antiques ever sold, the subtle differences between collecting and hoarding and much, much more…

Marc Allum is a freelance art and antiques writer and consultant based in Wiltshire. Marc has been a miscellaneous specialist on the BBC’s Antiques Roadshow programme since 1998.

ANTIQUES

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DICE WORLD

Brian Clegg

Available now Forget Newton’s clockwork universe. Welcome to Dice World.

For centuries scientists believed that the universe was a vast machine – with enough detail, you could predict exactly what would happen. Admittedly real life wasn’t like that. But only, they argued, because we didn’t have enough data to be certain.

Then the cracks began to appear. It proved impossible to predict exactly how three planets orbiting each other would move. Meteorologists discovered that the weather was truly chaotic – so dependent on small variations that it could never be predicted for more than a few days out. And the final nail in the coffin was quantum theory, showing that everything in the universe has probability at its heart.

That gives human beings a problem. We understand the world through patterns. Randomness and probability will always be alien to us. But it’s time to plunge into this fascinating, shadowy world, because randomness crops up everywhere. Probability and statistics are the only way to get a grip on nature’s workings. They may even seal the fate of free will and predict how the universe will end.

Brian Clegg is a science journalist and author whose numerous books include Inflight Science and The Universe Inside You, both published by Icon. He also runs popularscience.co.uk

POPULAR SCIENCE

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IMAGINE THAT...

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Michael Sells

Michael Sells’ Imagine That series – short, popular histories of how the past didn’t quite happen – is launched in June with four brilliant titles.

Just imagine that …

• Elvis gets drafted into the army before his first studio session – and African American music is forever a minority interest • Alexander Fleming doesn’t discover penicillin and World War Two is lost by the Allies, their armies crippled by illness • George Lucas fails to find a backer for Star Wars and a whole generation’s enthusiasm for science never transpires • Footballers can play only for the national team of their place of birth – and African nations consistently win the World Cup, boosting their economies by millions of sponsorship and tourist dollars Concise, carefully researched and a great pleasure to read, Imagine That will provoke hours of dinner-party debate and is the perfect light entertainment for fans both of general history and of the subject covered by each book.

September 2013

Literature, Animals, Fashion and Transport HISTORY

Michael Sells is a historian educated at the University of Chester.

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TALES FROM THE TURF:

Reflections from a Life in Horseracing Robin Oakley

November 2013

Manuscript available August 2013 Top 100 Racehorses of All Time author Robin Oakley takes us on a canter through the colourful world of horseracing.

Join him as he shares evocative personal stories of being there at racing legends’ key moments, such as Frankie Dettori riding seven winners in a day at Ascot. He debates whether jockeys are sportsmen or masochists – jump jockeys can expect a fall on average every 13 rides – and reminisces about unusual achievements, including trainer Sirrell Griffith’s Cheltenham Gold Cup win after milking his 100 cows that morning.

Tales From the Turf is an extraordinary account from the Spectator’s long-running Turf columnist, and a man for whom horseracing is a lifetime’s passion.

Robin Oakley shares 40 years’ worth of stories and anecdotes from his life as one of Britain’s best-known turf enthusiasts.

'Oakley's breadth of knowledge and easy style make this a dead cert.' The Field on Britain and Ireland’s Top 100 Racehorses of All Time.

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CONSTANT TOUCH

Jon Agar

Available now A brilliant global history of the device that is now utterly ubiquitous and yet represents an unprecedented revolution in technology.

Jon Agar takes the mobile to pieces, tracing what makes it work, and puts it together again, showing how it was shaped in different national contexts in the United States, Europe, the Far East and Africa. He tells the story from the early associations with cars and the privileged, through its immense popular success, to the rise of the smartphone.

Few scientific revolutions affect us in such a day-today way as the development of the mobile phone. Jon Agar’s deft history explains exactly how this revolution has come about - and where it may lead in the future.

‘Agar reassesses the ever-evolving nature of this multitasking machine clamped to the ears of billions ... with characteristically clear precision.’ Nature Jon Agar is currently Senior Lecturer in Science and Technology Studies at University College London and was previously director of the National Archive for the History of Computing.

HISTORY OF TECHNOLOGY

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THE UNIVERSE INSIDE YOU

Brian Clegg

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

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

Read The Universe Inside You and you’ll never look at yourself the same way again.

‘The Universe Inside You is science writer Brian Clegg’s latest attempt to catalogue a world of science that you probably should remember from school but never quite paid enough attention to.’ New Scientist Brian Clegg is a science journalist and writer. He runs popularscience.co.uk and his previous books include Dice World, Introducing Infinity, and Inflight Science.

POPULAR SCIENCE

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INFLIGHT SCIENCE

Brian Clegg

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

20,000+ COPIES SOLD There are few times when science is as immediate as when you’re in a plane. Your life is in the hands of the scientists and engineers who enable tons of metal and plastic to hurtle through the sky at hundreds of miles an hour. Inflight Science shows how you stay alive up there - but that’s only the beginning.

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

Brian Clegg is a science journalist and writer. He runs popularscience.co.uk and his previous books include Dice World, Introducing Infinity, and The Universe Inside You.

POPULAR SCIENCE

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GREAT OPERAS Michael Steen

Available now From Great Composers author Michael Steen, a unique multi-platform project offering a royal box view into one of mankind’s greatest art forms.

Michael Steen - whose The Lives and Times of the Great Composers was described as ‘hugely informative and deliciously gossipy’ by the Spectator - presents Great Operas, his accessible and entertaining user’s manual to making the best of an opera – whether at home or at a live performance, interspersing the key facts with erudite commentary from a man for whom opera is a lifetime’s passion.

Great Operas chapters have been published initially as short ebooks focusing on individual operas and will be published as a physical compendium in November, covering twenty five standout operatic masterpieces.

Great Operas covers: Mozart’s The Marriage of Figaro, Don Giovanni, Così fan tutte and The Magic Flute; Rossini’s The Barber of Seville and La Cenerentola; Verdi’s La Traviata, Rigoletto, Il Trovatore and Aïda; Donizetti’s Lucia di Lammermoor and L’Elisir d’amore; Bizet’s Carmen; Wagner’s Tannhäuser and Tristan und Isolde; Puccini’s Madame Butterfly, La Bohème, Tosca and Turandot; Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin; Mascagni’s Cavalleria Rusticana; Leoncavallo’ Pagliacci; Gounod’s Faust; Johann Strauss’s Die Fledermaus; Handel’s Giulio Cesare, Britten’s Peter Grimes.

Michael Steen studied at the Royal College of Music, was organ scholar at Oriel College, Oxford and is currently Royal College of Music Society chairman.

CLASSICAL MUSIC

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David Orrell traces the history of the idea that the economy is a rational, stable, efficient machine governed by wellunderstood laws.

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40,000+ copies sold Dazzling responses to 60 infamously perplexing Oxford and Cambridge interview questions, from philosophy to physics, literature to logarithms.

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INTRODUCING ALAIN BADIOU: A GRAPHIC GUIDE Michael Kelly (illustrator TBC)

Spring 2014

Manuscript available May 2013 Compact Introducing guide to one of the most controversial and challenging French philosophers in contemporary philosophy.

Alain Badiou an outspoken critic of both the analytic as well as the postmodern schools of thoughts. His philosophy seeks to expose and make sense of the potential of radical innovation (revolution, invention, transfiguration) in every situation. His concepts of being, truth and the subject, heavily influenced by Plato, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Jacques Lacan and Gilles Deleuze.

Notoriously difficult, Badiou’s thought is made both enjoyable and explicable by this brilliant Graphic Guide.

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

PHILOSOPHY

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INTRODUCING WAGNER: A GRAPHIC GUIDE Michael White & Kevin Scott

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A fascinating graphic novel-style introduction to the classical composer everyone has heard of and few truly understand.

Wagner’s operatic works rank with the supreme achievements of western culture. But acceptance of Wagner’s musical genius is tempered by feelings of misgiving and many believe the composer’s underlying ideas to be indefensible. A self-styled social revolutionary, Wagner thought the world could be redeemed through vegetarianism and Aryan philosophy.

Introducing Wagner: A Graphic Guide separates the composer’s art from the ideas and the arrogant destructive personal behaviour of the man.

Michael White is an opera critic for the Daily Telegraph and was voted as one of Britain’s best music critics by listeners of Classic FM. He has made documentaries about Menotti, Britten and Nielsen and once attempted to explain Wagner’s Ring Cycle on TV in half an hour.

Kevin Scott is an award-winning illustrator based in north London.

CLASSICAL MUSIC

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INTRODUCING INFINITY: A GRAPHIC GUIDE

Brian Clegg & Oliver Pugh

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A compact Introducing guide to a boundlessly intriguing topic.

The Ancient Greeks were so horrified by the implications of an endless number that they drowned the man who gave away the secret. A German mathematician was driven mad by the repercussions of his discovery of transfinite numbers. How will you fare?

Brian Clegg and Oliver Pugh’s brilliant graphic introduction to Infinity is the unique, endlessly fascinating guide...

Brian Clegg is a science journalist and writer. He runs popularscience.co.uk and his previous books include The Universe Inside You (Icon, 2012), Inflight Science (Icon, 2011), Before the Big Bang (St Martin’s Griffin, 2011), Armageddon Science (St Martin’s Press, 2010), and A Brief History of Infinity (Robinson Publishing, 2003). Oliver Pugh works in advertising.

POPULAR SCIENCE

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INTRODUCING CONTINENTAL PHILSOPHY: A GRAPHIC GUIDE Christopher Kul-Want & Piero

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Compact Introducing guide to this commonly overlooked body of thought.

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

Covering the great philosophers of the modern and postmodern eras - Nietzsche, Heidegger, Derrida, Deleuze, right to up Agamben and Zizek - and philosophical movements from German idealism to Feminism Christopher Kul-want and Piero brilliantly elucidate some of the most thrilling ideas ever to have been discussed.

Christopher Kul-want is the course director of M.A. Fine Art at the Byam Shaw School of Art, Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, University of the Arts London. Piero is a graphic designer and illustrator.

PHILOSOPHY

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INTRODUCING SLAVOJ ZIZEK: A GRAPHIC GUIDE Christopher Kul-Want & Piero

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Slavoj Zizek is one of those rare philosophers writing today whose fame exceeds academia and who is widely known publicly.

Zizek’s work and writings revolve around several interrelated areas. His earlier work is very much involved in elucidating Lacanian psychoanalysis through examples from American cinema as well as high literature and pulp novels. Besides his work on popular culture, throughout his writings from his early work as a journalist in Slovenia to his most recent books Zizek has been concerned with the twin subjects of politics and ideology.

Christopher Kul-want and Piero’s Introducing guide deftly explores this revered but often challenging thinker and succinctly shows how Zizek’s entire work can be seen as an attempt to outline a new theory of enjoyment Christopher Kul-want is the course director of M.A. Fine Art at the Byam Shaw School of Art, Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, University of the Arts London. Piero is a graphic designer and illustrator.

PHILOSOPHY

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NEW GRAPHIC GUIDE EDITIONS

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NEW INTRODUCING PRACTICAL GUIDES

THE ESSENTIAL LIST OF SELF-HELP BOOKS FOR BUSY PEOPLE Reveals the stories of the world’s greatest entrepreneurs, distilling the key points into downto-earth, realistic advice to help you turn any business opportunity into a successful venture – while avoiding the pitfalls of pursuing a pipe dream.

August 2013

Rights available: World Using a Cognitive Behavioural coaching approach, gives practical steps to increase your resilience in a way that will save you emotional energy as well as time, allowing you to become more effective and successful both personally and at work. behaviours.

March 2014 A Practical Guide to ensuring you are effective when searching and applying for the job you’ve always wanted.

November 2013

Whether you’re starting from scratch as a new leader, needing to raise your game, or aiming to do what great leaders do and aim even higher, this practical yet inspirational guide will help you to perform at your very best.

November 2013

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