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GRAHAM ALLCOTT is a productivity trainer and social entrepreneur. He is the founder of Think Productive, a company that runs productivity workshops and training throughout the UK and North America, whose clients include the British Library, the National Trust, the Cabinet Office, British Airways, BT and eBay. He lives in Brighton. Despite an intolerance of failure elsewhere in his life, he is an Aston Villa season ticket holder.

Move beyond timemanagement, get your inbox to zero and learn to think like a Productivity Ninja!

In this age of information overload, traditional time management techniques simply aren’t able to deal with overloaded inboxes, ever-expanding to-do lists and endless, pointless meetings that leave us all feeling panicked and overworked. The solution? Think like a Ninja!

With techniques from ruthlessness to stealth to mindfulness, you can get your inbox down to zero, make the most of your attention, avoid procrastination and learn to work smarter, not harder.

Fun, accessible and practical, How to be a Productivity Ninja teaches you how to stay calm, cool and collected, get more done, and enjoy your work again.

How to be a Productivity NinjaWorry Less, Achieve More and Love What You Do

Graham Allcott

January 2014 / Rights: WorldAVAILABLE NOW




VICTORIA WILLIAMSON a is a lecturer and researcher in music psychology who holds academic posts in the UK and Switzerland. An expert in the impact of music on human behaviour, she has worked in both university and private industry research and hosts the popular educational blog musicpsychology.co.uk. A popular public speaker, she has presented her work at numerous forums including TED, the Latitude Festival, the British Science Festival and NPR.

Her writing has appeared in NME and her research has been presented across national and international media including BBC, ITV, Channel 4 and Sky (UK), CNN and MSNBC (USA), CBC (Canada), Radio New Zealand National, and 2SER and the Big Issue (Australia).

‘You are the music / While the music lasts’ T.S. Eliot, The Four Quartets

Do babies remember music from the womb? Can classical music increase your child’s IQ? Is music good for productivity? What is going on in your brain when Ultravox’s Vienna, Armand Van Helden’s remix of Professional Widow or Dizzle Rascal’s Bonkers transport you to back to a student party?

In this brilliant new exploration of the place of music in all our lives – whether we’re a professional musician or just often find ourselves humming The Archers theme tune – music psychologist Victoria Williamson asks: from the womb to old age, why is music SO important to so many of us?

From the child who takes music lessons to the commuter who cannot travel to work without an iPod, this upbeat, eye-opening book reveals for the first time the extent of the universal language of music that lives deep inside us all.

You Are the MusicHow Music Reveals What it Means to be Human

Victoria Williamson

March 2014 / Rights: WorldManuscript available Nov 2013




JAMES GARVEY works for the Royal Institute of Philosophy and edits The Philosophers’ Magazine. He is author of a number of books, including The Story of Philosophy (with Jeremy Stangroom) and The Ethics of Climate Change. He’s written for the Guardian, The Times Literary Supplement, the Huffington Post, the New Statesman, and the Times Higher Education Supplement

Popular philosophical polemic in the tradition of On Bullshit, James Garvey mourns the death of proper debate and reminds us of the value of rational argument.

In almost every hour of every day, people will try to change your mind - but none of it consists in giving you good reasons.

Instead, you’ll experience product placement, infoganda, sock puppeteering, psychological pricing, viral marketing, crowd manipulation, framing, spinning, propagandising. Loyalty cards, death panels, airport toilets, think tank reports, search algorithms and weapons dossiers are all symptoms of this. You are nudged, anchored, and incentivized.

It’s a profound shift in the way human beings interact with one another.

Philosopher James Garvey - described by the Guardian has having ‘a delicious style, often very funny, and a trick of ushering the reader right inside his thought experiments’ - writes clearly and entertainingly about the dangers we face when we lose our grip on persuasion by rational means.

Easily SwayedModern Persuasion and the Lost Art of Argument

James Garvey

June 2014 / Rights: WorldManuscript available April 2014




JAMES STEEN is an award-winning journalist, food writer, author and ghostwriter. He has a deep fascination for both the cook and cooking, and collaborates with great chefs. He ghosted the autobiographies of Marco Pierre White (The Devil in the Kitchen), Raymond Blanc (A Taste of My Life) and Keith Floyd (Stirred But Not Shaken). His other books include Marco Made Easy and Kitchen Secrets. He is a consultant to small-but-pioneering food companies, and contributes to a wide variety of publications. James lives in London.

A feast of hundreds of food facts, mouth-watering myths and culinary curiosities to satisfy all appetites.

There are fascinating tips and expert know-how. How do you make the perfect pork crackling, the finest fried egg, or roast beef in an oven that’s not even switched on? How do you tell a ripe melon? Why is the belly of salmon better than the tail? The answers are here, the science explained.

The book also delves into the history of food through the ages and reveals who ate what, why, when and where. There’s the tale of swan (and horse) in the British diet, as well as that of crane in the Japanese diet – the bird’s blood was mixed with sake and then swigged by samurai warriors. Along the way we find out why on earth John Wayne kept his cow at a hotel, and who invented the fork.

Also featuring exclusive cooking tips from the celebrity chefs of today, The Kitchen Magpie is a book unlike any other; a must-read for curious cooks and food lovers everywhere.

The Kitchen Magpie (Miscellany)James Steen

June 2014 / Rights: WorldManuscript available Feb 2014




MARC ALLUM is a freelance art and antiques writer and consultant based in Wiltshire. Marc has been a miscellaneous specialist on the BBC’s Antiques Roadshow programme since 1998.

From the mythical artefacts of the ancient world to saucy seaside postcards, The Antiques Magpie explores the wonderful world of antiques and collectables.

With Antiques Roadshow regular Marc Allum as your guide, go in search of stolen masterpieces, explore the first museums, learn the secrets of the forgers and brush up on your auction technique.

Meet the garden gnome insured for £1 million, track down Napoleon’s toothbrush, find out how to spot a corpse in a Victorian photograph – and much more.

This book is for anyone who’s ever been fascinated by what relics of the past tell us about history – and what they are worth today.

The Antiques Magpie (Miscellany)Marc Allum

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SIMON FLYNN was a publisher and is now a science teacher. He has degrees in Chemistry and Philosophy.

Simon Flynn’s bestselling selection of enthralling facts, stories, poems and more from science’s history

From the Large Hadron Collider rap to the sins of Isaac Newton, The Science Magpie is a compelling collection of scientific curiosities.

Expand your knowledge as you view the history of the Earth on the face of a clock, tremble at the power of the Richter scale and learn how to measure the speed of light in your kitchen.

Skip through time with Darwin’s note on the pros and cons of marriage, take part in an 1858 Cambridge exam, meet the African schoolboy with a scientific puzzle named after him and much more.

‘Simon Flynn’s cornucopia of curious facts, anecdotes and quotations ... is sure to entertain and surprise.’ New Scientist

The Science Magpie (Miscellany)Simon Flynn

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DANIEL ALLEN is a British author making a name for himself in the world of animal/nature writing. His first book, Otter, was published in Reaktion Books’ Animal series in September 2010. Virginia McKenna OBE described the book as ‘the most brilliant mix of facts ancient and modern about the otter species’.

The Nature Magpie picks the choicest morsels from history, literature, philosophy, science and more of the natural world.

A collection of anecdotes, facts, figures, folklore and literature, The Nature Magpie is a veritable treasure trove of humanity’s thoughts and feelings about nature.

With acclaimed nature writer Daniel Allen as your guide, join naturalists, novelists and poets as they explore the most isolated parts of the planet, choose your side – pineapple or durian – in the great ‘king of fruits’ debate and discover which plants can be used to predict the weather.

Meet the roadkill connoisseurs, learn to dance the Hippopotamus Polka, find out the likelihood of sharing your name with a hurricane – and much more.

The Nature Magpie (Miscellany)Daniel Allen





BRIAN CLEGG studied physics at Cambridge University and specialises in making the strangest aspects of the universe, from infinity to time travel and quantum theory, accessible to the general reader. He is editor of www.popularscience.co.uk and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. His previous books include Inflight Science, Build Your Own Time Machine, The Universe Inside You, Dice World and Introducing Infinity: A Graphic Guide.

What do your iPhone, the Large Hadron Collider and liquid helium at -272°C have in common?

The Stone, Bronze and Iron Ages, and the birth of steam and electricity, saw human life transformed by new materials and technology. Now we’ve reached the Quantum Age, the revolution led by our understanding of the very, very small. Today technologies based on quantum physics may account for as much as 30 per cent of GDP.

Atoms, electrons, photons of light are all quantum particles, acting totally unlike the objects we experience. This weird quantum behaviour lies at the heart of every electronic device and powers lasers in everything from DVDs to eye correction. It is also behind quantum biology, the astonishing new realisation that biological functions, from our ability to see and photosynthesis in plants to the amazing ability of birds to navigate, rely directly on quantum effects.

The Quantum AgeHow the Physics of the Very Small

has Transformed Our Lives

Brian Clegg

June 2014 / Rights: WorldManuscript available Feb 2014




As troubling as we pattern-seeking humans may find it, modern science has repeatedly shown us that randomness is the underlying heartbeat of nature.

In Dice World, acclaimed science writer Brian Clegg takes readers on an incredible trip around our random universe, uncovering the truths and lies behind probability and statistics, explaining how chaotic intervention is behind every great success in business, and demonstrating the possibilities quantum mechanics has given us for creating unbreakable ciphers and undergoing teleportation.

He explores how the ‘clockwork universe’ imagined by Newton, in which everything could be predicted given enough data, was disproved bit by bit, to be supplanted by chaos theory and quantum physics. Clegg reveals a world in which not only is accurate forecasting often impossible but probability is the only way for us to understand the fundamental nature of things.

‘Methodical, clear, entertaining and just a bit mind-boggling.’ Irish Times

Dice WorldScience and Life in a Random Universe

Brian Clegg

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Fascinating facts and mind-boggling science of the human body.

Built from the debris of exploding stars that floated through space for billions of years, home to a zoo of tiny aliens, and controlled by a brain with more possible connections than there are atoms in the universe, the human body is the most incredible thing in existence.

In the sequel to his bestselling Inflight Science, Brian Clegg explores mitochondria, in-cell powerhouses which are thought to have once been separate creatures; how your eyes are quantum traps, consuming photons of light from the night sky that have travelled for millions of years; your many senses, which include the ability to detect warps in space and time, and why meeting an attractive person can turn you into a gibbering idiot.

Read The Universe Inside You and you’ll never look at yourself the same way again.

The Universe Inside YouThe Extreme Science of the Human Body from Quantum Theory to the Mysteries of the Brain

Brian Clegg

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A brilliant global history of the device that is now utterly ubiquitous and yet represents an unprecedented revolution in technology.

Jon Agar takes the mobile to pieces, tracing what makes it work, and puts it together again, showing how it was shaped in different national contexts in the United States, Europe, the Far East and Africa. He tells the story from the early associations with cars and the privileged, through its immense popular success, to the rise of the smartphone.

Few scientific revolutions affect us in such a day-to-day way as the development of the mobile phone. Jon Agar’s deft history explains exactly how this revolution has come about - and where it may lead in the future.

‘Agar reassesses the ever-evolving nature of this multitasking machine clamped to the ears of billions ... with characteristically clear precision.’ Nature

Constant TouchA Global History of the Mobile Phone

Jon Agar

Rights: World Original edition rights sold: Hungary

AVAILABLE NOW

JON AGAR is currently Senior Lecturer in Science and Technology Studies at University College London and was previously director of the National Archive for the History of Computing.




Michael Steen, author of the acclaimed The Lives and Times of the Great Composers, provides a compendium of self-standing short guides to 25 of the world’s greatest and most popular operas.

Michael Steen, whose The Lives and Times of the Great Composers was described as ‘hugely informative and deliciously gossipy’ by the Spectator, presents Great Operas, his accessible and entertaining user’s manual to making the best of an opera, whether at home or at a live performance, interspercing the key facts with erudite commentary from a man for whom opera is a lifetime’s passion. Great Operas covers: Mozart’s The Marriage of Figaro,

Don Giovanni, Così fan tutte and The Magic Flute;

Rossini’s The Barber of Seville and La Cenerentola;

Verdi’s La Traviata, Rigoletto, Il Trovatore and Aïda;

Donizetti’s Lucia di Lammermoor and L’Elisir d’amore;

Bizet’s Carmen; Wagner’s Tannhäuser and Tristan und

Isolde; Puccini’s Madame Butterfly, La Bohème, Tosca

and Turandot; Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin; Mascagni’s

Cavalleria Rusticana; Leoncavallo’s Pagliacci; Gounod’s

Faust; Johann Strauss’s Die Fledermaus; Handel’s Giulio

Cesare, Britten’s Peter Grimes.

Great OperasA Guide to 25 of the World’s Finest Musical

Experiences

Michael Steen


MICHAEL STEEN studied at the Royal College of Music, and has been chairman of both the RCM Society and the Friends of the V&A.




The perfect companion to any flight - a guide to the science on view from your window seat.

20,000+ copies sold

There are few times when science is as immediate as when you’re in a plane. Your life is in the hands of the scientists and engineers who enable tons of metal and plastic to hurtle through the sky at hundreds of miles an hour. Inflight Science shows how you stay alive up there - but that’s only the beginning.

Brian Clegg explains the ever changing view, whether it’s crop circles or clouds, mountains or river deltas, and describes simple experiments to show how a wing provides lift, or what happens if you try to open a door in mid-air (don’t!). On a plane you’ll experience the impact of relativity, the power of natural radiation and the effect of altitude on the boiling point of tea. Every moment of your journey is an opportunity to experience science in action: Inflight Science will be your guide.

Inflight ScienceA Guide to the World from your Airplane Window

Brian Clegg

Rights sold: Germany, Chinese Mainland ex. Taiwan, Hong Kong & Macau, Italy,

Turkey, Denmark, France, the NetherlandsAVAILABLE NOW





Robin Oakley shares 40 years’ worth of stories and anecdotes from his life as one of Britain’s best-known turf enthusiasts.

Join him as he shares evocative personal stories of being there at racing legends’ key moments, such as Frankie Dettori riding seven winners in a day at Ascot. He debates whether jockeys are sportsmen or masochists – jump jockeys can expect a fall on average every 13 rides – and reminisces about unusual achievements, including trainer Sirrell Griffith’s Cheltenham Gold Cup win after milking his 100 cows that morning.

Tales From the Turf is an extraordinary account from the Spectator’s long-running Turf columnist, and a man for whom horseracing is a lifetime’s passion.

Tales from the TurfReflections from a Life in Horseracing

Robin Oakley


ROBIN OAKLEY OBE is a European Political Editor at CNN International and was BBC Political Editor.




With Slavoj Zizek, Alain Badiou is one of the best-known philosophers alive today.

The works of French philosopher Alain Badiou range from novels, poems, “romanopéras” and popular political treatises to elaborate philosophical arguments engaging with mathematical theory.

Throughout all of his writings, there is a staunch commitment to emancipatory politics and radical change through fidelity to what he calls the “event” and its “truth”. Badiou’s famous, or infamous, philosophy of emancipation is faithful to the communist truth, the universal idea of a collective life, but he also claims that “philosophy is always a biography of the philosopher”.

Introducing Alain Badiou is an elegantly written and crisply illustrated guide to an essential contemporary thinker.

Introducing Alain BadiouA Graphic Guide

Michael Kelly & Piero


MICHAEL KELLY is a historian, philosopher and Ph.D. Candidate at the University of Leeds. His research intersects contemporary thought with rigorous, historical research into early medieval existences, and he is very much engaged in the Philosophy of History and the use of the concept of History today. He is a General Editor of both the International Journal for Badiou Studies & Networks and Neighbours, coorganizer of the Philosophies of History and Lacan Read(s) Across the Disciplines seminar series at the University of Leeds.

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.




An incredible illustrated tour through the cutting-edge of physics.

What really happens at the most fundamental levels of nature?

Introducing Particle Physics explores the very frontiers of our knowledge, even showing how particle physicists are now using theory and experiment to probe our very concept of what is real.

From the earliest history of the atomic theory through to supersymmetry, micro-black holes, dark matter, the Higgs boson, and the possibly mythical graviton, practising physicist and CERN contributor Tom Whyntie gives us a mind-expanding tour of cutting-edge science.

Featuring brilliant illustrations from Oliver Pugh, Introducing Particle Physics is a unique tour through the most astonishing and challenging science being undertaken today.

Introducing Particle PhysicsA Graphic Guide

Tom Whyntie & Oliver Pugh

Rights sold: GermanAVAILABLE NOW

TOM WHYNTIE is currently based at CERN working on the Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) experiment, a 12,500 tonne, cathedral-sized ‘digital camera’ one hundred metres under the ground. Tom has received awards from the Institute of Physics for his lecturing, performing in locations as varied as Cambridge, London, Portsmouth, Dublin, Enfield and Romania and has written for the Guardian.

OLIVER PUGH’S most recent book was Introducing Infinity.




A guide to Walter Benjamin, tracing his influence on modern aesthetics and cultural history as well as his particular focus on the tension between Marxism and Zionism, and between word and image in modern art.

The German Jewish philosopher and critic Walter Benjamin witnessed first-hand some of the great historical events of the 20th century, meeting many of the leading modernist artists, writers and poets, and taking a critical stance on the dominant ideologies of the period – Marxism, Zionism and Technocracy. He died while fleeing the Nazis in 1940.

Introducing Walter Benjamin follows his life and work, tracing his influence on modern aesthetics and cultural history as well as his particular focus on the tension between Zionism and Marxism, and between word and image in modern art. With its brilliant combination of words and images, this book is the ideal introduction to this key modern philosopher and critic of modern art.

Introducing Walter BenjaminA Graphic Guide

Howard Caygill, Alex Coles & Andrezej Klimonowski





An Introducing Graphic Guide to the father of modern anthropology..

Introducing Lévi-Strauss is a guide to the work of the great French anthropologist Claude Lévi-Strauss (1908–2009) traces the development and influence of his thought, from his early work on the function of the incest taboo to initiate an exchange of women between groups, to his identification of a timeless “wild” or “primitive” mode of thinking – a pensée sauvage – behind the processes of human culture.

Accessibly written by Boris Wiseman and beautifully illustrated by Judy Groves, Introducing Lévi-Strauss also explores the major contribution that Lévi-Strauss made to contemporary aesthetic history – his work on American-Indian mythology provides a key insight into the way in which art itself comes into being.

This is an essential introduction to a key thinker.

Introducing Levi-StraussA Graphic Guide

Boris Wiseman & Judy Groves


BORIS WISEMAN studied in London at King’s College and the London School of Economics and in Paris at the Sorbonne Nouvelle and the École Normale Supérieure. He had been a lecturer in the French Department at Durham University since 1997 and is currently at the University of Copenhagen.

JUDY GROVES is a painter, graphic designer and illustrator. She has illustrated numerous Introducing titles.




By an acclaimed and widely-recognised author, this is the ideal book for anyone who needs just a little more steel in their life’s armour.

Introducing Resilience: A Practical Guide will save you emotional energy as well as time, allowing you to become more effective and successful both personally and at work.

Written by Gladeana McMahon, one of the UK’s Top Ten Coaches according to the Independent on Sunday and the Observer, Introducing Resilience: A Practical Guide uses a Cognitive Behavioural Therapy approach. You will learn how to deal with stress, self-defeating thoughts and resilience-draining emotions, and how to develop resilient behaviours.

Introducing ResilienceA Practical Guide

Gladeana McMahon

January / Rights: WorldManuscript available Dec 2013

GLADEANA MCMAHON is a Life Coach for the GMTV Website and Stress Coach for the Channel 4 Website. She is considered one of the UK’s Top Ten Coaches by the Independent on Sunday and the Observer. Her Media work includes being: Presenter of Get Ahead with Gladeana and Ease the Load for Teacher’s TV, Co-presenter of ITV’s Dial a Mum and Co-Presenter of Granada Television’s Sex and Soaps. Gladeana has appeared on many shows such as This Morning, Richard and Judy and The Wright Stuff. She pioneered the UK’s Ethical Guidelines for Reality Television in association with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy.




An Introducing Practical Guide on how to stop your fears from controlling your life.

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 them.

STAND UP TO FEAR and increase your self-confidence.

UNDERSTAND PANIC ATTACKS so that the symptoms no longer frighten you.

CONTROL THE FIGHT OR FLIGHT RESPONSE and free yourself from avoidance behaviours.

Introducing Overcoming PhobiasA Practical Guide

Patricia Furness-Smith

May 2014 / Rights: WorldAVAILABLE NOW

PATRICIA FURNESS-SMITH is a psychologist and accredited practitioner with over twenty years’ experience in her field. Her work with people suffering with phobias has led her to travel around the world helping people to overcome the various fears which have blighted their lives.




Learn to use Emotional Freedom Technique to overcome adversity and move on from the past.

EFT Founding Master Judy Byrne gives you practical advice on how to use Emotional Freedom Technique to improve your emotional well-being and change your life. In Introducing EFT, through the proven method of ‘tapping’ you will learn how to remove negative feelings, let go of the past, improve willpower and aim for a positive future.

CLEAR AWAY NEGATIVE EMOTIONS and find inner peace.

CURB CRAVINGS and take back control of your life.

TAP INTO YOUR POTENTIAL and eradicate those nagging doubts.

Introducing EFT (Emotional Freedom Technique)

A Practical Guide

Judy Byrne

May 2014 / Rights: WorldManuscript available Dec 2013

JUDY BYRNE ian EFT Founding Master and experienced therapist. She runs international EFT masterclasses and uses her expertise to bring well-being to as many people as she possibly can.




Learn to use Emotional Freedom Technique to overcome adversity and move on from the past.

EFT Founding Master Judy Byrne gives you practical advice on how to use Emotional Freedom Technique to improve your emotional well-being and change your life. In Introducing EFT, through the proven method of ‘tapping’ you will learn how to remove negative feelings, let go of the past, improve willpower and aim for a positive future.

CLEAR AWAY NEGATIVE EMOTIONS and find inner peace.

CURB CRAVINGS and take back control of your life.

TAP INTO YOUR POTENTIAL and eradicate those nagging doubts.

Introducing Confident SpeakingA Practical Guide

Alan Woodhouse

May 2014 / Rights: WorldMancuscript available Oct 2013

ALAN WOODHOUSE is a voice, acting, communication and public speaking coach. He runs a private consultancy based in London, training everyone from actors to business executives to media professionals.




An Introducing Practical Guide showing you how to decrease stress and increase efficiency.

Introducing Productivity – by Graham Allcott of Think Productive, and the author of How to be a Productivity Ninja – reveals, using simple tips, advice and real-life examples, how to get more done and manage your time effectively. Whether you are overwhelmed by your to-do list or just get stressed looking at your full inbox, it will help you to think – and act – more productively.

AVOID UNNECESSARY MEETINGSto maximise your time.

STOP PROCRASTINATINGand eradicate stress.

CLEAR OUT YOUR INBOXand take back control.

IMPROVE YOUR WORKFLOWand love your job again.

Introducing ProductivityA Practical Guide

Graham Allcott

May 2014 / Rights: WorldMancuscript available Mar 2014

GRAHAM ALLCOTT’S transition from charity chief executive to freelance consultant inspired him to set up Think Productive. With a mission to revolutionise stuffy time management courses, Think Productive launched in April 2009 and has earned rave reviews from the likes of British Airways, The Cabinet Office, Blackberry, eBay, University College London and Barclays Commercial Bank for its practical, at-desk coaching approach. Away from productivity, Graham’s background and other big passion is for the charity sector. He is also the author of How to Be a Productivity Ninja (Icon Books).




A fascinating graphic novel-style introduction to the classical composer everyone has heard of - and few truly understand.

Wagner’s operatic works rank with the supreme achievements of western culture. But acceptance of Wagner’s musical genius is tempered by feelings of misgiving and many believe the composer’s underlying ideas to be indefensible. A self-styled social revolutionary, Wagner thought the world could be redeemed through vegetarianism and Aryan philosophy.

Introducing Wagner: A Graphic Guide separates the composer’s art from the ideas and the arrogant destructive personal behaviour of the man.

Introducing WagnerA Graphic Guide

Michael White & Kevin Scott


MICHAEL WHITE is an opera critic for the Daily Telegraph and was voted Britain’s least boring music critic by listeners of Classic FM. He has made documentaries about Menotti, Britten and Nielsen and once attempted to explain Wagner’s Ring Cycle on TV in half an hour.

KEVIN SCOTT is an award-winning illustrator based in north London




A compact Graphic Guide to a boundlessly intriguing subject.

Infinity is a profoundly counter-intuitive and brain-twisting subject that has inspired some great thinkers – and provoked and shocked others.

The ancient Greeks were so horrified by the implications of an endless number that they drowned the man who gave away the secret. And a German mathematician was driven mad by the repercussions of his discovery of transfinite numbers.

Brian Clegg and Oliver Pugh’s brilliant graphic tour of infinity features a cast of characters ranging from Archimedes and Pythagoras to al-Khwarizmi, Fibonacci, Galileo, Newton, Leibniz, Cantor, Venn, Gödel and Mandelbrot, and shows how infinity has challenged the finest minds of science and mathematics. Prepare to enter a world of paradox.

Introducing InfinityA Graphic Guide

Brian Clegg & Oliver Pugh



OLIVER PUGH is a graphic designer.




Compact Introducing guide to this commonly overlooked body of thought.

What makes philosophy on the continent of Europe so different and exciting? And why does it have such a reputation for being ‘difficult’?

Continental philosophy was initiated amid the revolutionary ferment of the 18th century, philosophers such as Kant and Hegel confronting the extremism of the time with theories that challenged the very formation of individual and social consciousness.

Covering the great philosophers of the modern and postmodern eras – from Nietzsche, Heidegger, Derrida and Deleuze right to up Agamben and Žižek – and philosophical movements from German idealism to deconstruction and feminism – Christopher Kul-Want and Piero brilliantly elucidate some of the most thrilling and powerful ideas ever to have been discussed.

Introducing Continental PhilosophyA Graphic Guide

Christopher Kul-Want & Piero

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CHRISTOPHER KUL-WANT is the course director of M.A. Fine Art at the Byam Shaw School of Art, Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, University of the Arts London.

PIERO is a graphic designer and illustrator.




Slovenian philosophy Slavoj Zizek inspires dramatic headlines. But what does he really think?

Charting his meteoric rise in popularity, Christopher Kul-Want and Piero explore Zizek’s timely analyses of today’s global crises concerning ecology, mounting poverty, war, civil unrest and revolution.

Covering topics from philosophy and ethics, politics and ideology, religion and art, to literature, cinema, corporate marketing, quantum physics and virtual reality, Introducing Slavoj Zizek deftly explains Zizek’s virtuoso ability to transform apparently outworn ideologies – Communism, Marxism and psychoanalysis – into a new theory of freedom and enjoyment.

Introducing Slavoj ZizekA Graphic Guide

Christopher Kul-Want & Piero

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Mainland ex. TaiwanAVAILABLE NOW

CHRISTOPHER KUL-WANT is the course director of M.A. Fine Art at the Byam Shaw School of Art, Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, University of the Arts London.

PIERO is an illustrator, artist, and graphic designer whose work has been exhibited in the Royal College of Art, London.




A flight of imagination that explores the consequences of film history going just that little bit differently...

The most intriguing stories from the history of cinema are the tales of what might have been, those seemingly insignificant incidents that would have had the largest unforeseen effects.

Imagine That…The farmers of southern California revolt against plans for an aqueduct … and Chicago becomes the new home of American cinema

Casablanca’s writing committee takes total control … and the film’s greatest moments are whitewashed from history

Disney decides against collaborating with Hitler’s former engineer … and the USA never wins the ‘Space Race’

Engaging, contentious and compulsively readable, each book in this new series takes the reader on a historical flight of fancy, imagining the consequences if history had gone just that little bit differently.

Imagine That... FilmThe History of Film Rewritten

Michael Sells


MICHAEL SELLS is a historian educated at the University of Chester. Captivated by history from a young age, he is especially interested in Jack Kerouac and the Beat Generation and 1960s and 70s football. Outside of history, his passions include dystopian novels, animal sanctuaries and lower-league football. Born in the South East of England, he now lives in Cambridge and the Imagine That titles are his first books.




A flight of imagination that explores the consequences of football history going just that little bit differently...

International football’s most intriguing stories are the tales of what might have been, those seemingly insignificant incidents that would have had the largest unforeseen effects.

Imagine That…

Messi is unable to afford growth hormone treatment … and Spanish football loses its charitable nature

Technology helps prevent decades of human error in football ... and West Germany claims victory at Wembley in 1966

Substitutions are never introduced to football … and the game is rid of greed and disloyalty


Imagine That... MusicThe History of Music Rewritten

Michael Sells






A flight of imagination that explores the consequences of football history going just that little bit differently...

International football’s most intriguing stories are the tales of what might have been, those seemingly insignificant incidents that would have had the largest unforeseen effects.

Imagine That…

Messi is unable to afford growth hormone treatment … and Spanish football loses its charitable nature

Technology helps prevent decades of human error in football ... and West Germany claims victory at Wembley in 1966

Substitutions are never introduced to football … and the game is rid of greed and disloyalty


Imagine That... FootballThe History of Football Rewritten

Michael Sells






A flight of imagination that explores the consequences of the history of technology going just that little bit differently...

Technology’s most intriguing stories are the tales of what might have been, those seemingly insignificant incidents that would have had the largest unforeseen effects.

Imagine That…

Alexander Fleming cleans up his dishes … and penicillin is washed down the drain

Steve Jobs skips the company visit to Xerox PAR C … and computers never crack the commercial market

Nikola Tesla receives philanthropic support … and the 20th century is illuminated by space age energy and technology


Imagine That... Technology The History of Technology Rewritten

Michael Sells






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