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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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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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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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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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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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Backlist Highlights

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