Icon Books

A new, beautifully illustrated hardback edition of the bestselling Etymologicon, published on its tenth anniversary.

It is difficult to overestimate the importance of Friedrich Nietzsche for our epoch. This title serves as a guide to the philosopher.

Explains what the sciences have to say about planning and action, language, memory, attention, emotions and vision. This book traces the historical development of ideas about the brain and its function from antiquity to the age of neuro-imaging.

A thrilling account of an utterly brilliant and utterly eccentric Russian mathematician which sheds a rare light on the unique burden of genius

A scintillating collection of short essays that really does cover 'life, the Universe, and everything'.

A Graphic Guide that takes readers on a tour through the world of William Shakespeare.

What do we mean by social class in the 21st century? University of Brighton sociologists Laura Harvey and Sarah Leaney and award-winning comics creator Danny Noble present an utterly unique, illustrated journey through the history, sociology and lived experience of class.

A graphic guide to the history of Romanticism.