Icon Books Ltd: 338 books
by Jim Baggott, Stephen Fender, Maryanne Woolf
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2013
Icon Books is an independent British publisher which publishes popular and engaging non-fiction for adults. We’re proud to be part of the Independent Alliance in the UK, publishing companies who share a common vision of editorial excellence and original, diverse publishing. This ebook sampler –...
Frank Whittle (Icon Science)
The Invention of the Jet
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2017
The story of the jet engine has everything: genius, tragedy, heroism, a world war, the individual vs. the state, and an idea that would change the world. Frank Whittle always maintained that he was held back by a lack of government support. At the very moment in 1943 when his invention was unveiled...
by Piers Bizony
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2017
Riddled with jealousy, rivalry, missed opportunities and moments of genius, the history of the atom’s discovery is as bizarre, as capricious, and as weird as the atom itself.
John Dalton gave us the first picture of the atom in the early 1800s. Almost 100 years later the young misfit New...
Science and Islam (Icon Science)
A History
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2017
Long before the European Enlightenment, scholars and researchers working from Samarkand in modern-day Uzbekistan to Cordoba in Spain advanced our knowledge of astronomy, chemistry, engineering, mathematics, medicine and philosophy.
From Musa al-Khwarizmi who developed algebra in 9th century...
Turing and the Universal Machine (Icon Science)
The Making of the Modern Computer
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2017
The history of the computer is entwined with that of the modern world and most famously with the life of one man, Alan Turing. How did this device, which first appeared a mere 50 years ago, come to structure and dominate our lives so totally? An enlightening mini-biography of a brilliant but troubled man.
Knowledge is Power (Icon Science)
How Magic, the Government and an Apocalyptic Vision Helped Francis Bacon to Create Modern Science
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2017
Francis Bacon - a leading figure in the history of science - never made a major discovery, provided a lasting explanation of any physical phenomena or revealed any hidden laws of nature. How then can he rank as he does alongside Newton? Bacon was the first major thinker to describe how science should...
by Iwan Rhys Morus
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2017
The only scientist to ever appear on the British twenty pound note, Michael Faraday is one of the most recognisable names in the history of science. Faraday's forte was electricity, a revolutionary force in nineteenth-century society. The electric telegraph had made mass-communication possible and...
Moving Heaven and Earth (Icon Science)
Copernicus and the Solar System
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2017
When Nicolaus Copernicus claimed that the Earth was not stationary at the centre of the universe but circled the Sun, he brought about a total revolution in the sciences and consternation in the Church. Copernicus’ theory demanded a new physics to explain motion and force, a new theory of space,...
Eureka! (Icon Science)
The Birth of Science
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2017
Medicine, anatomy, astronomy, mathematics and cosmology, science began with the Greeks, and Plato, Aristotle, Pythagoras, Archimedes and Hippocrates were amongst its stars. That man ever managed to develop a 'scientific' attitude to the natural world at all is one of the true wonders of human thought.
Eureka!...
The Comet Sweeper (Icon Science)
Caroline Herschel's Astronomical Ambition
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2017
Having escaped domestic servitude in Germany by teaching herself to sing, and established a career in England, Caroline Herschel learned astronomy while helping her brother William, then Astronomer Royal.
Soon making scientific discoveries in her own right, she swept to international scientific...
Messi
Updated Edition
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2018
FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF RONALDO AND NEYMAR
Prolific, cool-headed and unerringly consistent, Lionel Messi is one of the most revered footballers in history.
But did you know that his transfer to Barcelona was first agreed on a paper napkin?
Or that an x-ray of his hand was...
Messi – 2018 Updated Edition
More Than a Superstar
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2017
Having risen to the top of the game more than a decade ago, Lionel Messi has matured into the perfect team player, as likely to provide a superlative assist as a masterful match-winner.
As the star of an exceptional Barcelona team, he has won more silverware than most football clubs.
Messi...
For Whom the Bell Tolls
Light and Dark Verse
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2011
Martin Bell OBE has been many things – an icon of BBC war reporting, Britain’s first independent MP for 50 years, a UNICEF ambassador, and ‘the man in the white suit’ – a tireless campaigner for honesty and accountability in politics.But as For Whom the Bell Tolls reveals, he’s also a...
Ronaldo – 2018 Updated Edition
The Obsession For Perfection
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2017
A three-time winner of the FIFA Ballon d’Or, Cristiano Ronaldo’s status as a footballing superstar is unquestionable.
His insatiable desire to succeed and to improve himself year-after-year has seen him win almost everything there is to win in the game, including his first international...