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  • The Worst Songs in the World

    The Terrible Truth About National Anthems

    by David Pate ...
    The best-known songs in the world are violent, sexist, and religious — so why do we celebrate national anthems when we should be rewriting them?The story begins in a London theatre in 1745, where the modern idea of anthems started out as triumphant expressions of national superiority. They glorified violence, claimed the support of God for their country, and mostly ignored women.David Pate says it ... Read more

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  • The Fix

    Soccer and Organized Crime

    by Declan Hill ...
    The Fix is the most explosive story of sports corruption in a generation. Intriguing, riveting, and compelling, it tells the story of an investigative journalist who sets out to examine the world of match-fixing in professional soccer.From the IntroductionUnderstand how gambling fixers work to corrupt a soccer game and you will understand how they move into a basketball league, a cricket ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • More Than A Shirt

    How Football Shirts Explain Global Politics, Money and Power

    by Joey D'Urso ...
    SHORTLISTED FOR THE BEST SPORTS WRITING OF THE YEAR AWARDLONGLISTED FOR THE WILLIAM HILL SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARDA GUARDIAN SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEARA WATERSTONES SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEAR'A marvellous football book, although it is much more than that' The Times'More Than A Shirt shows why geopolitics keeps invading the pitch' The Economist<br... ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

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  • The Ball is Round

    A Global History of Soccer

    by David Goldblatt ...
    The definitive book about soccer, from the author of The Games: A Global History of the Olympics.There may be no cultural practice more global than soccer. Rites of birth and marriage are infinitely diverse, but the rules of soccer are universal. No world religion can match its geographical scope. The single greatest simultaneous human collective experience is the World Cup final.In this ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

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  • Soccer Against the Enemy

    How the World's Most Popular Sport Starts and Fuels Revolutions and Keeps Dictators in Power

    by Simon Kuper ...
    Soccer is much more than just the most popular game in the world. It is a matter of life and death for millions around the world, an international lingua franca. Simon Kuper traveled to twenty-two countries to discover the sometimes bizarre effect soccer can have on politics and culture. At the same time he tried to discover what makes different countries play a simple game so differently. Kuper ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • The Billionaires Club

    The Unstoppable Rise of Football’s Super-rich Owners WINNER FOOTBALL BOOK OF THE YEAR, SPORTS BOOK AWARDS 2018

    by James Montague ...
    A compelling examination of football club ownership in the era of the super-richOnce upon a time football was run by modest local businessmen. Today it is the plaything of billionaire oligarchs, staggeringly wealthy from oil and gas, from royalty, or from murkier sources. But who are these new masters of the universe? Where did all their money come from? And what do they want with our beautiful ... Read more

    $11.29 USD

  • How Soccer Explains the World

    An Unlikely Theory of Globalization

    by Franklin Foer ...
    “Step aside Tom Friedman, Sam Huntington, and Amy Chua. Franklin Foer’s dark and witty tale of the soccer world reveals the meaning of globalization in all its joys and horrors.”—Robert KaganJust in time for the 2026 World Cup in North America—a reissue of the bestselling sports classic, featuring a new preface from the author.With the 2026 World Cup in all three nations of North America, the ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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  • The Games

    by David Goldblatt ...
    “A people’s history of the Olympics.”—New York Times Book ReviewA Boston Globe Best Book of the YearA Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Book of the YearThe Games is best-selling sportswriter David Goldblatt’s sweeping, definitive history of the modern Olympics. Goldblatt brilliantly traces their history from the reinvention of the Games in Athens in 1896 to Rio in 2016, revealing how the Olympics ... Read more

    $12.29 USD

  • The Power and the Glory

    The History of the World Cup

    by Jonathan Wilson ...
    **A definitive new history of the world’s most watched sporting event—just in time for the 2026 tournament"Wilson is the game’s pre-eminent popular historian."—Observer (UK)An Irish Times Best Sports Book of the Year**Since 1930, the World Cup has become a truly global obsession. It is the most watched sporting event on the planet, and 211 teams competed to make it into the 2022 tournament. From ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

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  • Foul Play

    The Dark Arts of Cheating in Sport

    by Mike Rowbottom ...
    Foul Play dissects the age-old subject of cheating in all its absurdity. From plain old doping to claiming a marathon victory despite having driven the middle section of the race, from match-fixing to diving for a penalty - cheating in sport is as old as sport itself.There are plenty of well-known cases of cheats being found out in sport: Ben Johnson, for example, was stripped of his 100m Olympic ... Read more

    $9.89 USD

  • The Language of the Game

    How to Understand Soccer

    by Laurent Dubois ...
    Essential reading for soccer fans as the 2022 World Cup approaches, this lively and lyrical book is "an ideal guide to the world's most popular sport" (Simon Kuper, coauthor of Soccernomics).Soccer is not only the world's most popular game; it's also one of the most widely shared forms of global culture. The Language of the Game is a passionate and engaging introduction to soccer's history, ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • The Olympics

    by Stephen Halliday ...
    Series series Amazing & Extraordinary Facts
    “Halliday is a pass master at assembling golden nuggets of fact . . . amusingly written . . . a fun way to brush up on your Olympic history” (Londonist).Who reprimanded Hitler during the 1936 Olympic Games?When did the Olympic event “shin-kicking” get banned?Which Shakespearean play refers to the Olympic Games?Who was the first official cheat in 388 BC?Find the answers to these... ... Read more

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