Icon Books imprint: 345 books
How Thinking About Sex Helps You Write Essays
From How to be a Knowledge Ninja
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2015
Essay writing is a drag, right? Not if it’s done the ninja way! In this short ebook, an edited extract from Graham Allcott’s brilliant How to be a Knowledge Ninja, you’ll learn how to write an essay - whether it’s for an article, a dissertation or an assignment. Allcott shows how the best...
Positive Psychology
A Toolkit for Happiness, Purpose and Well-being
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2016
Positive Psychology will help you to look on the bright side and to find your place in the world around you. With expert encouragement and guidance, you will set out your own positive psychology project to discover your strengths, overcome negative attitudes, focus on what gives you purpose, and take...
How to be a Knowledge Ninja
Study smarter. Focus better. Achieve more.
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2015
In the world of smartphones, instant internet access and on-demand documentaries, studying should be easier than ever. Yet all this background noise can make us unfocused and inefficient learners. So how can you cut through the distractions and get back to productive, rewarding learning? Four little...
by Rasmus Ankersen
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2012
'A great read and a fascinating insight into performance.' Sir Clive Woodward We all want to discover our hidden talents and make an impact with them. But how? Rasmus Ankersen, an ex-footballer and performance specialist, quit his job and for six intense months lived with the world's best athletes...
A Practical Guide to Building Self-Esteem
Accept, Value and Empower Yourself
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2012
This Practical Guide shows you how raising your self-esteem can make you feel better about yourself; let you stop you worrying about whether you are doing the right thing or whether you are good enough; help you engage in relationships constructively without putting yourself down and allow you to...
A Practical Guide to Assertiveness
Express Yourself
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2013
What is assertiveness, and what are benefits? Filled with straightforward, practical advice, Introducing Assertiveness: A Practical Guide will help you find out, allowing you to overcome passive behaviour and take ownership of your own thoughts and feelings without becoming aggressive. Experienced...
Introducing Psychology of Relationships
A Practical Guide
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2012
Understanding psychological techniques can help you make your relationships happier and more fulfilling. This Practical Guide will help you achieve new and healthier ways of relating by explaining some of the major underlying psychological ‘drivers’ that permeate relationships and identify and...
Introducing Mind and Brain
A Graphic Guide
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2018
How do emotions affect your basic decision making? Why do certain smells prompt long-forgotten memories, and what makes us suddenly self-conscious?
How does the biological organ, the brain, give rise to all of the thoughts in your head – enable you to think, to feel, to be conscious and aware...
Introducing Economics
A Graphic Guide
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2014
A comic-book introduction to economics from David Orrell, the author of Economyths: 11 Ways Economics Gets it Wrong. With illustrations from Borin Van Loon. Part of the internationally-recognised Introducing Graphic Guide series.
Today, it seems, all things are measured by economists. The...
Economyths
How the Science of Complex Systems is Transforming Economic Thought
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2010
From the inability of wealth to make us happier, to our catastrophic blindness to the credit crunch, "Economyths" reveals ten ways in which economics has failed us all. Forecasters predicted a prosperous year in 2008 for financial markets - in one influential survey the average prediction...
Quantum Economics
The New Science of Money
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2018
A decade after the financial crisis, there is a growing consensus that economics has failed and needs to go back to the drawing board. David Orrell argues that it has been trying to solve the wrong problem all along.
Economics sees itself as the science of scarcity. Instead, it should be the...
The Heart of the Matter
How Papworth Hospital transformed modern heart and lung care
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2015
Papworth Hospital in Cambridgeshire, founded in 1916 to tackle the great killer disease of tuberculosis, is famous for carrying out the UK’s first heart transplant operation in 1979. It followed this up not only with many other heart transplants but also with the UK’s first heart and lung operation...
Introducing Overcoming Phobias
A Practical Guide
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2014
Whether you suffer from panic attacks or feelings of crippling dread, Introducing Overcoming Phobias offers proven techniques to help you break down your fears into manageable parts. Psychologist Patricia Furness-Smith teaches the reader to understand their phobias and remove the anxiety surrounding...
A Practical Guide to CBT for Work
Enjoying Work Is Easy as CBT
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
**Maximize your happiness in the workplace. **
Stop negative thinking and tackle your problems at work using Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT).
Learn to control anger and frustration, reduce workplace anxiety and take control of your work-life balance by introducing CBT’s insights...