Icon Books: 345 books
Neymar – 2017 Updated Edition
The Unstoppable Rise of Barcelona's Brazilian Superstar
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2016
From a young age, Neymar was identified as a future great of world soccer. Since his move to Barcelona in 2013 he has progressed at an unstoppable rate, not simply coping but thriving under the pressure of expectation. Having established himself as a vital prong alongside Messi and Suarez in Barcelona's...
Neymar – 2016 Updated Edition
The Unstoppable Rise of Barcelona's Brazilian Superstar
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2015
From a young age, Neymar Junior was identified as a future great of world football. Since then there have been both highs and lows, with triumphs at Santos sometimes overshadowed by the controversies and disappointments of his early days at Barcelona and at the Brazil World Cup. But his pivotal role...
Neymar
The Making of the World’s Greatest New Number 10
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2014
Neymar da Silva Santos Junior is the new global football superstar, already acclaimed as ‘the next Pelé’. He is the player everyone wants to watch in the 2014 World Cup in Brazil, his home country. With Santos, the team where Pelé played, he has reached three national Championships and has twice...
From Bags to Blenders
The Journey of a Yorkshire Businessman
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2016
**This is a book about success and how to achieve it. **
While there are many books about eminent retailers, From Bags to Blenders tells the story from a different angle – from the point of view of a supplier.
Gordon Black’s career at Peter Black spanned over 40 years. He led...
by Cathia Jenainati, J.P. McEvoy, Oscar Zarate
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2014
Introducing Graphic Guides is the bestselling series which explores big ideas from Quantum Theory to Psychoanalysis using concise, authoritative text and graphic novel-style illustrations. For the very first time 28 titles are now available in ebook format for all e-reading devices. This free ebook...
Introducing Psychoanalysis
A Graphic Guide
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2014
INTRODUCING guide to the history and theory of the still controversial 'speaking cure'. The ideas of psychoanalysis have permeated Western culture. It is the dominant paradigm through which we understand our emotional lives, and Freud still finds himself an iconic figure. Yet despite the constant...
Mozart's Marriage of Figaro
A Short Guide to a Great Opera
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2012
Although the story of Figaro’s success in preventing the Count of Almaviva’s seduction of his fiancée Susanna was politically explosive, it was tolerated in the court of the relatively enlightened Habsburg Emperor Joseph II. Mozart’s opera, Le Nozze di Figaro, uses a libretto by Lorenzo...
Mozart’s Don Giovanni
A Short Guide to a Great Opera
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2012
With a wealth of famous tunes and meticulous characterisation, Don Giovanni is an undisputed masterpiece created by Mozart out of a thread-bare fairground gig. The Don – for whom both sexes have a sneaking admiration – gatecrashes proceedings, serenading and seducing as he goes. As wily as he...
Rossini’s La Cenerentola
A Short Guide to a Great Opera
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2012
Rossini’s La Cenerentola (or Cinderella) is one of the most popular comic operas in the classical repertoire – the timeless fairy tale about the triumph of virtue over snobbery. Its first performance at Rome’s Teatro Valle in January 1817 – when the composer was not yet 25 – was the customary...
Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor
A Short Guide to a Great Opera
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2012
Sir Walter Scott’s story of a Scottish girl forced by her family into an arranged marriage still resonates today, two centuries after it was published. Donizetti’s opera, which premièred in Naples in 1835, is famous particularly for the Mad Scene when Lucia, after leaving for her nuptials, reappears...
Puccini’s La Bohème
A Short Guide to a Great Opera
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2012
Puccini’s obsession with detail ensured the success of La Bohème, his opera about the impoverished ‘artistes’ in Paris in the 1830s. Soon after its première, people started calling their baby daughters Mimi. The story of this seamstress, her hectic but fraught love affair with the poet Rodolfo...
Mozart's Così Fan Tutte
A Short Guide to a Great Opera
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2012
A couple of smooth army officers in metropolitan Naples become increasingly horrified as they find that they are losing their bet with a misogynist philosopher. The wager? That their fiancées will be faithful. Their disguise as Albanians in an attempt to entrap their fiancées, and the complicity...
Rooms of One's Own
50 Places That Made Literary History
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2017
Writers’ relationships with their surroundings are seldom straightforward. While some, like Jane Austen and Thomas Mann, wrote novels set where they were staying (Lyme Regis and Venice respectively), Victor Hugo penned Les Misérables in an attic in Guernsey and Noël Coward wrote that most English...
Messi vs Ronaldo 2018
The Greatest Rivalry
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2017
For years, the rivalry between Real Madrid and Barcelona has defined top-level European football. At its heart: a personal battle – Messi vs Ronaldo. Since they were first pitted against each other in 2007, the two men’s domination of the record books has been unparalleled. Their styles, personalities...