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HERGÉ
The Genius of Tintin:
A Biography
Raphaël Taylor
Georges Remi, better known as Hergé, is widely
regarded as the greatest twentieth-century master
of the European bande dessinée. His Tintin books
have sold well over 200 million copies worldwide.
Drawing from private archives, exclusive interviews
and thousands of hours of research, Raphaël Taylor
both tells the story of the man’s life – which
spanned the greater part of the twentieth century –
and searches for the inspiration behind his work.
Taylor explores Hergé the man, covering his youth,
his controversial life in Nazi-occupied Brussels
during the Second World War, his depressive
crises, the break-up of his first marriage and the
manner in which his later life became a ‘practice of
philosophy’.
For fans, Taylor’s painstakingly researched
biography will bring many new insights; for those
who know less about Hergé, this is a beautifully
written, sympathetic portrait of a fascinating writer
and artist whose work has enchanted millions.
Detailed Chapter Outline: Early March
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Publication Date: 6th October 2011
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Raphaël Taylor is an independent scholar with a
Ph.D from King’s College London and is an expert
on Hergé and Tintin.
He is half-French and bilingual. Born in Scotland, he
learnt to read in French with the Tintin books.
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The Practical Guides
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A new brand of the
Introducing series -
useful, focused guides
that get big ideas
working for YOU
Beginning with
Psychology, the series
will expand to cover
subjects such as
Atheism, Statistics,
Game Theory and the
Philosophy of Love in
2012.
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Publication Date: 4th Aug 2010
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Introducing CBT: A Practical
Guide Elaine Iljon Foreman and Clair Pollard Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, commonly known as CBT, has
roots stretching back as far as the ancient Greeks.
It is a talking cure – a branch of therapy widely regarded as
effective in curing or at least alleviating the symptoms of a wide
range of disorders from anorexia to post-traumatic stress
disorder. Whether you’re suffering from a particular complaint
or simply feel that CBT’s measured and results-driven approach
can be of benefit to you, this is the perfect concise guidebook.
Introducing Child Psychology: A
Practical Guide Kairen Cullen Child Psychology is a branch of developmental psychology,
which is the scientific study of systematic psychological changes
that occur in human beings over the course of their life span.
In this Practical Guide child psychologist Kairen Cullen applies
the lessons from a lifetime’s research and practice in the area to
help you understand, without jargon or technical language, why
your child develops in the way that he or she does, and how
you can best create the conditions for their living a healthy,
successful and happy life. Full MS Available: Mid May
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Introducing NLP: A Practical
Guide Neil Shah
Neurolinguistic Programming (NLP) is an approach to
psychotherapy and organisational change, which, though
sometimes controversial, has built up a huge following among
a wide range of people keen to live fuller, more successful
and more rewarding lives.
By focusing on how we communicate – the words we use as
well as non-verbal communication such as body language –
NLP seeks to change our mental habits into those of more
successful people.
Introducing Psychology of
Success: A Practical Guide Alison Price
What is it about entrepreneurs, industry-leaders, medal-
winning athletes or in-demand freelancers that makes them
successful over a long period of time?
Occupational Psychologist Alison Price explores both how
successful people think, and how the organizations in which
they work foster a culture of success.
With numerous real-life case studies, practical strategies to
implement and easy-to-remember points to remember, this
book could be your first step to a more successful life.
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Introducing Sport Psychology: A
Practical Guide Dr. Arnold LeUnes
Sport Psychology is the study of the psychological factors that
affect participation and performance in sports. It deals with
increasing performance by managing emotions and minimizing
the psychological effects of injury and poor performance. Some
of the most important skills taught are goal setting, relaxation, visualization, self-talk, awareness and control,
concentration, confidence, using rituals, attribution training,
and periodization.
With straightforward mental exercises, point-by-point
suggestions for improvement and real-life examples – whether
you’re an aspiring athlete or just someone who wants to
perform your chosen sport a little better, this Introducing
Practical Guide is for you.
Trait Emotional Intelligence: A
Practical Guide Dr. Konstantinos Petrides
Emotional intelligence is the innate potential to feel, use,
communicate, recognize, remember, describe, identify, learn
from, manage, understand and explain emotions.
Increasingly it is seen that people who have a higher level of
emotional intelligence do better at work in all sorts of fields and
in relationships from marriage to casual friends to how you get
on with your colleagues.
This guide both explores what Emotional Intelligence –
particularly the branch known as Trait Emotional Intelligence –
is all about, and how you can cultivate a higher EI yourself.
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INFLIGHT SCIENCE: A
Guide to the World from
Your Airplane Window
Brian Clegg
Acclaimed science writer Brian Clegg shows how you
stay up there – but that’s only the beginning. Inflight
Science explains the ever-changing view, whether it’s
crop circles or clouds, mountains or river deltas, and
describes easy-to-do experiments to show how a
wing provides lift, how to calculate how far away you
are from distant objects, or the population of the
towns you fly over.
Fascinating facts to discover include:
The jet stream winds are so fast that a plane travelling west to east within them can fly
beyond the speed of sound.
The wingspan of a 747 is around twice the
distance flown by the Wright Flyer, the first
powered plane, on its maiden flight.
With good visibility and total darkness, the human eye is so sensitive that you could see a
single candle from the cruising height of a
plane.
Inflight Science is a voyage of scientific discovery
perfect for any journey – even if it’s just in your
armchair.
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Brian Clegg is a science journalist and writer. He
runs www.popularscience.co.uk and his previous
books include Before the Big Bang (St Martin’s Griffin,
2011), Armageddon Science (St Martin’s Press, 2010),
The God Effect (St Martin’s Griffin, 2009) and A Brief
History of Infinity (Robinson Publishing, 2003).
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SOCRATES VS. JESUS
The Struggle for the
Meaning of Life
Steve Fuller
Socrates and Jesus are among Western culture’s most iconic figures.
They are even offered as exemplars of what it means
to be human. Both are notable for their forthright
views on the extent of moral obligation and the limits
of knowledge, the meaning of life and the prospects
of an afterlife. They were also both ‘celebrities’, and
both died to make a point.
But how do the lives of Socrates and Jesus look to 21st century eyes? Would either attract a following
today?
Steve Fuller compares Socrates and Jesus as guides to
living today and, in a point that will prove
controversial to our secular reverence for Socrates,
he argues Jesus is the more demanding philosopher –
and that Socrates is really just a Christ-lite.
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Steve Fuller is Professor of Sociology at the
University of Warwick. He is the author of Dissent
over Descent (Icon, 2008), Kuhn vs. Popper (Icon, 2003)
and many other books.
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LOVE, SEX, DEATH AND
WORDS
Surprising Tales from a
Year in Literature
John Sutherland and
Stephen Fender
‘Love, Sex, Death and Words ... is an enjoyable and
entirely arbitrary romp through a leap year of
anecdotes, from January 1st and the vexed history of
the copyright of Peter Pan to the December 31st
publication of Richard Yates’s 1961 novel
Revolutionary Road, with stops along the way to visit
Nietzsche at his typing lessons and Alexander Pope at his doctor’s. Good, clean, harmless fun.’
John Banville, Books of the Year, Irish Times
Love, sex, death, boredom, ecstasy, existential angst,
political upheaval – the history of literature offers a
rich and varied exploration of the human condition
across the centuries.
Find out what happened when the young Alexander
Dumas fought a duel on 5 January 1825, how Proust,
Joyce, Picasso, Stravinsky and Diaghilev got on at a
dinner party on 18 May 1922, the ban on which
dystopian book was finally lifted in Australia on 23
March 1933 and much more...
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John Sutherland is Lord Northcliffe Professor
Emeritus at University College London.
He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature,
and was Chair of the Man-Booker Prize panel in
2005.
Stephen Fender was born in San Francisco, and
educated at Stanford and the Universities of Wales.
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INTRODUCING
SLAVOJ ŽIŽEK
A Graphic Guide
Christopher Kul-want
and Piero
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.
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Christopher Kul-Want is Course Director
of the MA in Fine Art at Byam Shaw School of
Art, London. Piero is an illustrator, artist and
graphic designer whose work has twice been
included in the Royal College of Art in London.
He has illustrated many Introducing titles.
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INTRODUCING
ECONOMICS
A Graphic Guide
David Orrell and Borin
Van Loon.
Brand-new INTRODUCING guide to the
subject that makes the world go round.
Economics was described by the English
economist Lionel Robbins in 1935 as ‘the
science of scarcity’ but these days economics is
everywhere, and it’s never been more popular –
as bestselling books such as Freakonomics
attest.
But what is economics really all about? What do
the great economists think, and what can
economics do for us today?
David Orrell, author of Economyths, explains all
in Introducing’s trademark intelligent but witty
style, accompanied by brilliant illustrations from
the legendary Borin van Loon.
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David Orrell is a Canadian mathematician who
lives in Oxford, where he also obtained his doctorate.
Borin Van Loon has worked on numerous
Introducing titles.
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A CARPET RIDE TO
KHIVA
Seven Years on the Silk
Road
Christopher Aslan
Alexander
‘Too many travel writers visit Central Asia in a
hurry, bulking out their own misadventures
with a slice of the region’s colourful history.
But the strength of this readable book derives
from the author’s patience: after seven years in
Uzbekistan, Alexander has provided a frank
and penetrating portrait of the country, with
all its contradictions and absurdities. He writes
with clear-eye observation and courage.’ Times
Literary Supplement
Chris Alexander originally travelled to Khiva, a
remote walled city in Uzbekistan on the route
of the ancient Silk Road, to write a guidebook.
But he stayed, mesmerized by a world of silk
and forgotten 15th-century carpet designs –
discovering indigo blue, madder red,
pomegranate gold and the subtle shades of life
in a desert oasis.
Alexander’s entrancing travelogue sees him
stripped naked at a former Soviet youth camp,
crawling through silkworm droppings, tackling
a carpet-thieving mayor, distinguishing natural
dyes from sacks of opium in Northern
Afghanistan, bluffing his way through My Heart
Will Go On for Uzbek TV and seeking
sanctuary as an anti-Western riot consumed
the Kabul carpet bazaar.
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Christopher Aslan Alexander was born in
Turkey and grew up in war-torn Beirut. While
writing a guidebook about Khiva, he fell in love
with this desert oasis boasting the most
homogenous example of Islamic architecture in
the world, and stayed.
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GOD’S PHILOSOPHERS
How the Medieval World
Laid the Foundations of
Modern Science
James Hannam
SHORTLISTED FOR THE ROYAL SOCIETY PRIZE
FOR SCIENCE BOOKS 2010
‘Wonderful…with an engaging fervor, James
Hannam has set about rescuing the reputation of a
bunch of half-forgotten thinkers, and he shows how
they paved the way for modern science.’ Boris
Johnson, Mail on Sunday
‘A well-researched, fluently written account of a
fascinating period. Hannam clearly understands the
science (and some of it is dazzlingly sophisticated)
and he has an eye for the seductive story…the best
parts are a triumph’ Catholic Herald
Charting an epic journey through six centuries of
history, God’s Philosophers debunks many myths
about the Middle Ages.
As James Hannam reveals, the period gave rise to staggering achievements in science and technology –
spectacles and the mechanical clock were both
invented in thirteenth-century Europe and ideas
from the Far East, like printing, gunpowder and the
compass, were taken further by Europeans than the
Chinese had imagined possible.
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Dr James Hannam was educated at Oxford and
Cambridge where he studied physics and then the
history of science.
Hannam runs the website www.bede.org.uk which
receives up to 40,000 page views a month.
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BATS SING, MICE
GIGGLE
The Surprising Science of
Animals’ Inner Lives
Karen Shanor and
Jagmeet Kanwal
'Did you know that spiders taste with their feet,
that a decapitated cockroach can live for two
weeks, that a certain type of parrotfish wraps itself
in a sort of foul-smelling snot before taking a nap,
and that ants play? I didn't until I read Bats Sing,
Mice Giggle.' New Scientist
‘Amazing, moving and enlightening. Bats Sing, Mice
Giggle presents the latest findings on the intimate
lives of animals with great elegance. I recommend
it wholeheartedly.’ Larry King
Did you know that bats compose their own songs?
That mice giggle when tickled? That porpoises go
to sleep in only one-half of their brains at a time?
That lizards do push-ups to seduce a mate, or that
fish yawn?
Drawing upon the very latest scientific research,
Karen Shanor and Jagmeet Kanwal show how
animals build, create and entertain themselves and
others; how they express grief, joy, anger and fear;
how animal ‘friends’ keep in touch; and how some
animals problem-solve even more effectively than
humans.
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Publication Date: 1st May 2010
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Karen Shanor is a clinical psychologist, former
White House consultant and an advisory member
for Discovery Channel's Animal Planet programs.
Jagmeet Kanwal is an internationally
recognized neuroethologist and was among the
first to perform magnetic resonance imaging in
awake animals.
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THE WORLD’S
GREATEST IDEA
The Fifty Greatest Ideas
that Have Changed
Humanity
John Farndon
Where would humanity be now without fire,
vaccinations, farming … or wine? A great idea is one
that has changed the path of human civilisation. But
which is the greatest of them all?
John Farndon, author of the bestselling Do You Think
You’re Clever?, has set out to find the answer. A distinguished panel of experts agreed on a list of 50
ideas, and each chapter of The World’s Greatest Idea
sees Farndon explore the argument for a different
one.
The candidates are intriguingly varied: Electricity grids
enable us to power our cities, but then sewers
allowed those cities to grow. Without the wheel,
modern civilisation would be pretty much
impossible, but take away Logic and we’d lose the
essential structures for rational thought ... But then
what would be the point of all of this without the idea
of romance?
The World’s Greatest Idea is an enthralling voyage of
discovery through the most powerful intellectual,
social, scientific and creative brainwaves humans have
ever had.
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John Farndon is the author of many books on
contemporary issues, including China Rises and
India Booms (Virgin), and Bird Flu and Iran in the
Everything You Need to Know series (Icon).
He is the author Do You Think You’re Clever? The
Oxford and Cambridge Questions, also published by
Icon Books.
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THE SOLDIER
A Story of Courage,
Sacrifice and
Brotherhood
Darren Moore
‘This is a powerful book, and should be read
anyone contemplating taking the queen’s
shilling’ Max Arthur
From Wellington’s battles against the French in
Spain to the horrors of deadly house-to-house
fighting by US Marines in Fallujah, this unique
history of the soldier provides a penetrating
insight into the politics, emotions and
psychology of war and its aftermath.
Drawing upon hundreds of narrative accounts
of warfare written by soldiers (and sailors,
airmen and marines) from many nations
(including contemporary accounts from Iraq and
Afghanistan), Darren Moore’s book, in the
words of Martin Bell OBE, ‘really gets inside the
soldier’s mind and benefits from setting out the
record without sentiment. It is a timely and
unvarnished reminder of the reality of warfare.’
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Darren Moore served in the Australian Army
for seventeen years and held the rank of major
when he left the service. He is a graduate of the
Australian Defence Force Academy, the Royal
Military College, Duntroon and the Australian
Command and Staff College (Joint).
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ECONOMYTHS
Ten Ways that
Economics Gets it
Wrong
David Orrell
From the failure of wealth to make us happier
to the catastrophic blindness to the credit
crunch, Economyths reveals ten ways in which
economics has failed us all.
A forgotten casualty of the crash of 2008 was
the credibility of economics, which for decades
has claimed that the economy is a rational,
stable, efficient machine, governed by well-
understood laws.
Mathematician David Orrell traces the history
of this idea from its roots in ancient Greece to
the financial centres of London and New York,
shows ten distinct ways in which it is mistaken –
and proposes new alternatives.
Orrell explains how the economy is the result
of complex and unpredictable processes; how
risk models go astray; why the economy is not
rational or fair; why until very recently no
woman had ever won the Nobel Prize for
economics; why financial crashes are less Black
Swans than part of the landscape; and finally,
how new ideas in mathematics, psychology, and
environmentalism are helping to reinvent
economics.
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Publication Date: 6th May 2010
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David Orrell is a Canadian mathematician who lives in Oxford, where he also obtained his
doctorate.
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DO YOU THINK
YOU’RE CLEVER?
The Oxford and
Cambridge Questions
John Farndon
Why can’t you light a candle in a spaceship?
What books are bad for you? Is feminism dead?
Every year interviewees for Oxford and
Cambridge colleges are posed such curious
conundrums, aimed at separating the merely
bright from the truly clever.
Providing dazzling responses to 60 of these
infamously perplexing problems, Do You Think
You’re Clever? explores the twisting paths your
mind can take when you’re really made to think.
From philosophy to physics and from literature
to logarithms John Farndon traverses the great
mountain ranges of the mind and considers why
the pole vaulting world record will never
exceed 6.5m, whether there are too many
people in the world, how crime might be
reduced through architecture - and much
more…
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John Farndon, a graduate of Jesus College,
Cambridge, is the author of many books on
contemporary issues, including China Rises and
India Booms (Virgin), and Bird Flu and Iran in the
Everything You Need to Know series (Icon).
He is the author of The World’s Greatest Idea,
also published by Icon Books.
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