Introducing - Thought for the Day widget

Annoucing our nifty bringer of bite-sized intellectual wisdom - see below - which you can grab for you own site here.

Books on Chaos, Ethics, Freud, Jung, Islam & more..

Introducing - new website launched today!

The beta version of our brand new Introducing website is now live - see www.introducingbooks.com. Hope you like it!

Introducing Capitalism - published this week!

One of the first brand-new Introducing title for some time is published this week - and it couldn't be more timely.

As the capitalist world, it may seem, falls down before our eyes, read this brilliantly perceptive graphic guide to the history, philosophy and politics of one of the biggest, must successful but most controversial ideas ever.

Buy it now at:

Waterstones
Borders
Amazon
WHSmith
The Book Depository

Introducing Descartes - read it here for free!

This month's free Introducing book is Dave Robinson and Chris Garratt's classic book on the man behind philosophy's most famous (if least understood) slogan, I Think Therefore I Am.

Read the whole thing online here and leave your comments below:

Open publication - Free publishing - More thinking

Introducing Wittgenstein - free online book!

Here is this month's free online read - Introducing Wittgenstein by John Heaton and Judy Groves. Icon republish this book in the new compact format in September this year, but enjoy it for free for the moment here:

Get your own - Open publication

Introducing titles for September 2009

We've very pleased to announce that we will be publishing six Introducing titles in September this year - one brand-new title, Statistics, and five older books in the cool new format. Below are the fabulous front covers, designed as usual by Ed Bettison:

Introducing Capitalism and Critical Theory

Here's the brilliant new, full covers of both Introducing Critical Theory and Introducing Capitalism, which we are publishing in April:

Waterstones currently have a 3 for 2 offer across all of the currently available compact Introducing books in their shops - this is their display in their Picadilly shop and are offering 40% off on their website here.

New Introducing covers - Relativity

And here's the new cover for the compact edition of Introducing Relativity: