Icon Books: 345 books
Rolls-Royce: The Magic of a Name
The First Forty Years of Britain’s Most Prestigious Company, 1904-1944
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2015
The Magic of a Name tells the story of the first forty years of Britain’s most prestigious manufacturer – Rolls-Royce. Beginning with the historic meeting in 1904 of Henry Royce and C.S. Rolls, and the birth in 1906 of the legendary Silver Ghost, Peter Pugh tells a story of genius, skill and dedication...
by Michael Steen
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2011
**'A glorious plum-pudding of a book, to be consulted, with pleasure and profit, over and over again' Sir Jeremy Isaacs **
Michael Steen's 'Great Composers' was originally published in 2003. A lifetime's work and almost 1000 pages long, it has since become 'the' reference point and key read...
Mozart's The Magic Flute
A Short Guide to a Great Opera
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2013
Even Salieri, the notorious villain of Peter Shaffer’s drama Amadeus, admired Mozart’s comic opera Die Zauberflöte (The Magic Flute), which was premièred in Vienna a few weeks before Mozart’s death in December 1791. Though sometimes enjoyed as a children’s opera, this is not a pantomime:...
You Are the Music
How Music Reveals What it Means to be Human
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2014
'You are the music / While the music lasts' T.S. Eliot, The Four Quartets Do babies remember music from the womb? Can classical music increase your child’s IQ? Is music good for productivity? Can it aid recovery from illness and injury? And what is going on in your brain when Ultravox’s ‘Vienna’,...
A London Country Diary
Mundane Happenings from the Secret Streets of the Capital
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2014
For fifteen years, Tim Bradford has meandered round the quiet streets of his North London home, seeking out the ordinary and the extraordinary, the sublime and the ridiculous. A London Country Diary documents his wanderings – he attempts to rescue a deer in Clissold Park, talks to a magical old...
How to be a Productivity Ninja - FREE SAMPLER
Worry Less, Achieve More and Love What You Do
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2014
THIS IS A FREE EBOOK SAMPLER. IT INCLUDES THE FIRST 42 PAGES OF THE FULL BOOK. If you would like to purchase Graham Allcott's How to be a Productivity Ninja in full, you can do so with all good ebook retailers. In the age of information overload, traditional time management techniques simply don’t...
The Psychic Tourist
A Voyage into the Curious World of Predicting the Future
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2010
Can someone's life be predicted? Are physicists on the verge of discovering the first time machine? And why does a Nobel prize-winning scientist believe that humans are capable of sensing danger before it happens? Following a prediction of his sister's death, William Little sets out to find the truth...
In Harm's Way
Bosnia: A War Reporter's Story
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2012
Martin Bell's was BBC TV's principal correspondent during the war in Bosnia from 1992 to 1995. The original version of this passionate and personal account of the conflict was written while the war was still going on, some of it late at night in the Holiday Inn in Sarajevo. In Harm's Way is not only...
Love Among the Ruins
A memoir of life and love in Hamburg, 1945
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2015
At 22, the war is over for RAF serviceman Harry Leslie Smith – the now 92-year-old activist and author of the acclaimed Harry’s Last Stand – but the battle for love and hope rages on. Stationed in occupied Hamburg, a city physically and emotionally ripped apart by Allied bombing, and determined...
The Nature Magpie
A Cornucopia of Facts, Anecdotes, Folklore and Literature from the Natural World
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2013
A collection of anecdotes, facts, figures, folklore and literature, The Nature Magpie is a veritable treasure trove of humanity’s thoughts and feelings about nature. With acclaimed nature writer Daniel Allen as your guide, join naturalists, novelists and poets as they explore the most isolated parts...
The Smell of Fresh Rain
The Unexpected Pleasures of our Most Elusive Sense
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2017
Smell is the most emotional and evocative of our senses: it can bring back memories faster and with more immediacy than a photograph – so why is it so little understood?
Armed with a hungry curiosity and a willingness to self-experiment, author Barney Shaw goes in search of the hidden meanings...
Introducing Derrida
A Graphic Guide
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2014
Brilliant illustrated guide to the best-known and most controversial continental philosopher of the latter 20th century. Jacques Derrida is the most famous philosopher of the late 20th century. Yet Derrida has undermined the rules of philosophy, rejected its methods, broken its procedures and contaminated...
Quantum
Einstein, Bohr and the Great Debate About the Nature of Reality
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2008
'This is about gob-smacking science at the far end of reason … Take it nice and easy and savour the experience of your mind being blown without recourse to hallucinogens' Nicholas Lezard, Guardian
For most people, quantum theory is a byword for mysterious, impenetrable...
Under the Lights and In the Dark
Untold Stories of Women’s Soccer
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2017
Under the Lights and in the Dark: Untold Stories of Women's Soccer takes an unprecedented look inside the lives of professional football players around the world – from precarious positions in underfunded teams and leagues, to sold-out stadiums and bright lights. Award-winning filmmaker and journalist...