Books from Icon Books
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Quantum Economics: The New Science of Money
By David OrrellTymoigne, É., and Wray, L.R. (2007), 'Money: An Alternative Story', in P. Arestis, and M.C. Sawyer (eds.) ... Ragan, C.T., and Lipsey, R.G. (2011), Economics (13th edn) (Toronto: Pearson Education Canada), pp. 672–3.
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Cosmic Impact: Understanding the Threat to Earth from Asteroids and Comets
By Andrew MayAstrophysicist and science writer Andrew May disentangles fact from fiction in this fast-moving and entertaining account, covering the nature and history of comets and asteroids, the reason why some orbits are more hazardous than others, ...
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Introducing Heidegger
By Jeff Collins, Howard Selina, Richard AppignanesiThis title is now available in a new format. Refer to Heidegger: A Graphic Guide 9781848311749.
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Astrobiology: The Search for Life Elsewhere in the Universe
By Andrew MayIn their book What Does a Martian Look Like?, Jack Cohen and Ian Stewart say the following about it: It makes you think we only made it by the skin of our teeth. All those obstacles to overcome. All those ways for incipient life to fail ...
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No Time for Itching Ears: How the Most Important Biblical Doctrines Are Based on a Foundation of Genesis
By Paul TaylorPaul Taylor has very succinctly laid out the biblical understandings of these times, by taking the reader back to the book of beginnings, Genesis, to expose the real personage behind the new answers being offered.
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The Real Oliver Twist: Robert Blincoe: A life that illuminates an age
By John WallerBray, William, Sketch of a Tour into Derbyshire and Yorkshire: Including Part of Buckingham, Warwick, Leicester, Nottingham, Northampton, Bedford, and Hertford-shires (London: printed for B. White, 1778). Briggs, Asa, Essays in Labour ...
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Apollo 11: The Inside Story
By David WhitehouseThe amazing full story of Apollo 11 - Tom Wolfe's The Right Stuff for a new generation
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The Solar Revolution: One World. One Solution. Providing the Energy and Food for 10 Billion People.
By Tony Ryan, Steve McKevittThe Solar Revolution tells the story of how scientists are working to reconnect us to the ‘solar economy’, harnessing the power of the sun to provide sustainable food and energy for a global population of 10 billion people: an ...
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What Colour is the Sun?: Mind-Bending Science Facts in the Solar System's Brightest Quiz
By Brian CleggBut until around the time that Wallis came up with the symbol, infinity had limited use. However, the introduction of calculus by Leibniz and Newton would make infinity an important limit in some mathematical operations.
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Slavery by Another Name: The re-enslavement of black americans from the civil war to World War Two
By Douglas A. BlackmonHand Book of Alabama: A Complete Index to the State, with Map. Birmingham: Roberts and Son, 1892. ... Blight, David W. Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory. Cambridge, Mass. ... New York: Simon & Schuster, 2006.
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The Smell of Fresh Rain: The Unexpected Pleasures of our Most Elusive Sense
By Barney ShawThe outside world is a vivid place, with river trips and Toad Hall and caravan expeditions. But a moment comes when Mole catches a fleeting whiff: 'Mole ... stopped dead in his tracks, his nose searching hither and thither in his ...
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Britain and Ireland's Top 100 Racehorses of All Time
By Robin OakleyOnly The Callant, Hall Weir, Linwell and Bremontier remained in touch. Hall Weir fell at the second last and Linwell, cheered on by the crowd, came to challenge Mandarin at the last. Mandarin fought back, repassed him up the finishing ...
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Headline Britons 1921-1925
By Peter PughThe 1924 Olympic Games in Paris elated the British thanks to Harold Abrahams winning the 100 metres against some very strong American opposition, and Eric Liddell winning a gold medal in the 400 metres having refused to compete in his ...
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Do Animals Have Rights?
By Alison HillsJeff McMahan gives very dense and difficult arguments about life and death in humans and animals in The Ethics of Killing (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003), Chapters 2 and 3. Chapter 10: All Animals Are Equal.
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How to be Cool: The 150 Essential Idols, Ideals and Other Cool S***
By Thomas HodgkinsonThat’s the received wisdom, yet this wry, entertaining compendium by Thomas W. Hodgkinson (author of the indispensable How to Sound Cultured) shows that, on the contrary, anyone can increase their cool quotient by learning from the ...
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Grass-Fed Nation: Getting Back the Food We Deserve
By Graham HarveyGraham Harvey, agricultural advisor to BBC Radio 4’s The Archers, lays out all the arguments for grass-fed food – why it’s good for us, and why it’s good for the planet.
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Perfect Copy: Unravelling the Cloning Debate
By Jonathan AgarPresident Bush wasn't persuaded by ACT's playing up of the medical benefits of therapeutic cloning. He said, 'We should not as a society grow life to destroy it, and that's exactly what's taking place.' Doubtless Bush intends 'life' to ...
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366: A Leap Year of Great Stories from History
By W. B. Marsh, Bruce CarrickAlso on this day 323 BC : Alexander the Great dies in Babylon , probably of malaria * 1865 : Irish poet William Butler Yeats is born * 1886 : Mad King Ludwig ( II ) of Bavaria drowns himself in the Starnberger See * 1900 : The Boxer ...
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Introducing Darwin
By Jonathan Miller, Borin Van LoonProgress in genetics today would not be possible with Darwin's revolution, but the mysterious man who laid the rational basis for undermining belief in God's creation was remarkably timid.
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The Lying Ape: An Honest Guide to a World of Deception
By Brian King, School of Hotel & Tourism Management Brian KingIn her book A Little Light Friction , Val Hennessy recalls how she was once quoted on the cover of a new paperback release , Who's Really Who by Richard Compton Miller . She was reported as saying ' People will rush out and buy this ...