books by Icon Books Ltd

books by Icon Books Ltd

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Lewis Hamilton
Mark Hughes

Icon Books Ltd, 2008

The Last Amateurs: To Hell and Back with the Cambridge Boat Race Crew
Mark De Rond

Icon Books Ltd, 2008

Brideshead Revisited meets Fight Club in this thrilling, first-hand account of a year in the life of Cambridge University's Boat Race squad.Founded in 1828, the Cambridge University Boat Club has one objective: to beat Oxford in the Boat Race. This annual affair is one of sharp contrasts: a private match between two of the world's oldest ...

The Man Who Ran the Moon: James Webb, JFK and the Secret History of Project Apollo
Piers Bizony

Icon Books Ltd, 2006

Why Do People Hate America?

Ziauddin Sardar, Merryl Wyn Davies

Icon Books Ltd, 2003

Eye-opening!
I believe every American owes it to themselves and their country to read this book. Many things are wrong with our government, and it seems no one is interested in why. Being well informed of such corruption is the first step to fight it. Read this book with an open ...

Lisa B: Lifestyle Essentials
Lisa B

Icon Books Ltd, 2008

Quantum : Einstein, Bohr and the Great Debate About the Nature of Reality
Manjit Kumar

Icon Books Ltd, 2008

Einstein's Heroes: Imagining the World Through the Language of Mathematics

Robyn Arianrhod

Icon Books Ltd, 2004

Clear Exposition of Mathematics and its Use in Science
Despite its title, this book's central themes are: the work of James Clerk Maxwell and the expression of scientific principles in the language of mathematics. In discussing Maxwell's life and work, the author allows a few excursions mainly into the work of Newton and ...

Introducing Darwin (Introducing...)
Jonathan Miller

Icon Books Ltd, 2006

Introducing Einstein (Introducing...)

Joseph Schwartz

Icon Books Ltd, 1999

Relativity effectively explained using cartoons and humor
The conventional wisdom is that Albert Einstein was a transcendent genius whose development of the concepts of relativity was a generation ahead of his time. Sir Arthur Eddington was once told that he was in distinguished company, as he was one of only three people who ...

Introducing Freud (Introducing...)
Richard Appignanesi, Oscar Zarate

Icon Books Ltd, 2007

Freud revolutionized the way we think about ourselves. His psychoanalytic terms such as Id, Ego, libido, neurosis and Oedipus Complex have become part of our everyday vocabulary. But do we know what they really mean? Introducing Freud successfully demystifies the facts of Freud's discovery of psychoanalysis. Irreverent and witty but never trivial, ...

The Discovery of the Germ

John Waller

Icon Books Ltd, 2004

Delightful, short introduction to a fascinating topic
With the ever present threats of bioterrorism and pandemics together with increasing rates of antibiotic resistant infections, this book should be of interest to many readers. As such, I found it a delightful, well-written, easy-to-read, brief introduction to the ...

Kuhn vs.Popper: Prophets of the End of Science
Steve Fuller

Icon Books Ltd, 2003

In 1965 Thomas Kuhn and Karl Popper met at the University of London to stage what has turned out to be the most momentous philosophical debate of the 20th century. At stake was no less than the soul of science itself...No discipline remained untouched by the consequences of this exchange. Was it really such a good thing that Kuhn's 'postmodernism' ...

Michael Faraday and the Electrical Century

Iwan Morus

Icon Books Ltd, 2004

A Well-Focused History of 19th Century Electrical Science
This is not a technical book; it is a history book. The main focus is the development of electrical science, technology and even related showmanship during the 19th century. Technical details are omitted in favor of a well-balanced digression on the related historical ...

The History of Britain Revealed: The Shocking Truth About the English Language

M. J. Harper

Icon Books Ltd, 2007

Education AND humor in one book!
In this book, Mr. Harper puts forth the (largely unacceptable, to the majority of linguists) idea that English, as we know it today, is not much changed from the English of hundreds of years ago; that our division of the language into "Old," "Middle," and "Modern" is ...

Eye of the Dragon (Fighting Fantasy)
Ian Livingstone

Icon Books Ltd, 2005

In a tavern in Fang, a mysterious stranger offers YOU the chance to find the Golden Dragon, perhaps the most valuable treasure in all Allansia. But it is hidden in a labryinth beneath Darkwood Forest and is guarded by the most violent creatures and deadly traps. Ages 8+.