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Futebol Nation: A Footballing History of Brazil by David Goldblatt
Category: Sport
Futebol Nation by David Goldblatt - a thriling history of Brazil through its sporting passion. From the genius of Pele to corruption and civil unrest, no nation has so closely aligned its national identity with playing and watching football as Brazil. Football is regarded as a thing of joy, its yellow s ...Show more
How to Watch the Olympics by David Goldblatt
Category: Sport
The Olympic Games can dazzle us with the sheer scale and variety of its sporting contests. Yet many of the games are unfamiliar to even the most avid sports fan. Which is where this witty, insightful book comes in. How to Watch the Olympics offers each sport's backstory and culture, and explains the fin ...Show more
How to Watch the Olympics: A Sport by Sport Guide to the Greatest Show on Earth by David Goldblatt & Johnny Acton
Category: Accessories
This is the one book you have to read for London 2012. The Olympics is the world's biggest sporting event - and it moves centre stage for London 2012. Yet the games the world is familiar with - football, cricket, rugby, baseball, motor sports - are either missing or have a token presence. In their place ...Show more
The Age of Football: The Global Game in the Twenty-first Century by David Goldblatt
Category: Sport
The epic exploration of football in the twenty-first century through the prism of sociology, politics, and economics, by David Goldblatt, the critically acclaimed author of The Ball is Round. 'David Goldblatt is not merely the best football historian writing today, he is possibly the best there has eve ...Show more
The Age of Football: the Global Game in the Twenty-First Century - The Global Game in the Twenty-First Century by David Goldblatt
Category: Sport
The epic exploration of society, politics, and economics in the twenty-first century through the prism of football, by the critically acclaimed author of The Ball is Round.'David Goldblatt is not merely the best football historian writing today, he is possibly the best there has ever been'Dominic Sandbr ...Show more
The Ball is Round : A Global History of Football by David Goldblatt
Category: Sport
This is a definitive history of global football.
The Game of Our Lives: The Meaning and Making of English Football by David Goldblatt
Category: Sport
In the last two decades football in Britain has made the transition from a peripheral dying sport to the very centre of our popular culture, from an economic basket-case to a booming entertainment industry. What does it mean when football becomes so central to our private and political lives? Has it enr ...Show more
The Game of Our Lives: The Meaning and Making of English Football by David Goldblatt
Category: Sport
The Game of Our Lives by David Goldblatt - The Meaning and Making of English Football. In the last two decades football in Britain has made the transition from a peripheral dying sport to the very centre of our popular culture, from an economic basket-case to a booming entertainment industry. What does ...Show more
The Games by David Goldblatt
Category: Sport
David Goldblatt writes about sports 'with the expansive eye of a social and cultural critic' (Wall Street Journal). In The Games he delivers a magisterial history of the biggest and most beloved sporting event of them all: the Olympics. He tells the epic story of the Games, from their reinvention in Ath ...Show more
The Games A Global History of the Olympics by David Goldblatt
Category: Sport
The Olympic Games have become the single greatest festival of a universal and cosmopolitan humanity. Seventeen days of sporting competition watched and followed on every continent and in every country on the planet. Simply, the greatest show on earth. Yet when the modern games were inaugurated in Athens ...Show more
Time Travel Handbook: From Pompeii to Woodstock by David Goldblatt
Category: History
Have you ever wondered what you might need to wear if you were setting off back in time to be at the execution of Charles I? Or what might have been the best vantage point to watch the eruption of Mount Vesuvius and still survive? Or how you might get your point across at the trial of Greek philosopher ...Show more
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