FREE Icon Books eBook Sampler
Mar 2013 · Icon Books Ltd
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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 – available free on Kindle, in EPUB and as a PDF download from our website – covers subjects from popular science to sports biography to philosophy.
The sampler includes extracts from: Atomic by Jim Baggott; Crashed & Byrned by Tommy Byrne; Fordlandia by Greg Grandin; God's Philosophers by James Hannam; The Lives and Times of the Great Composers by Michael Steen; Love, Sex, Death and Words by John Sutherland and Stephen Fender; A Mind of Its Own by Cordelia Fine; Proust and the Squid by Maryanne Woolf; Quantum by Manjit Kumar; Sex, Botany and Empire by Patricia Fara; The Real Oliver Twist and A Time to Dance, A Time to Die by John Waller. From Proust and the Squid, a fascinating exploration of the science of the reading brain – 'We were never born to read,' begins Maryanne Wolf – to Greg Grandin's Fordlandia, the riveting story of the American town Henry Ford tried to build in the Brazilian Amazon and Manjit Kumar's BBC Samuel Johnson prizewinning Quantum, these books represent the best of over 20 years of non?fiction publishing from Icon Books.
The sampler includes extracts from: Atomic by Jim Baggott; Crashed & Byrned by Tommy Byrne; Fordlandia by Greg Grandin; God's Philosophers by James Hannam; The Lives and Times of the Great Composers by Michael Steen; Love, Sex, Death and Words by John Sutherland and Stephen Fender; A Mind of Its Own by Cordelia Fine; Proust and the Squid by Maryanne Woolf; Quantum by Manjit Kumar; Sex, Botany and Empire by Patricia Fara; The Real Oliver Twist and A Time to Dance, A Time to Die by John Waller. From Proust and the Squid, a fascinating exploration of the science of the reading brain – 'We were never born to read,' begins Maryanne Wolf – to Greg Grandin's Fordlandia, the riveting story of the American town Henry Ford tried to build in the Brazilian Amazon and Manjit Kumar's BBC Samuel Johnson prizewinning Quantum, these books represent the best of over 20 years of non?fiction publishing from Icon Books.
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Jim Baggott / Tommy Byrne / Mark Hughes / Greg Grandin / James Hannam / James Hannam / Michael Steen / John Sutherland / Cordelia Fine / Stephen Fender / Maryanne Woolf / Manjit Kumar / Patricia Fara / John Waller
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