Thinking Fan's Guide To The World Cup - Prijzen

Thinking Fan's Guide To The World Cup

"Sports Illustrated" meets "The Economist" and "McSweeney's" in this unique, indispensable literary companion to the largest, most popular global sporting event: the World Cup.

Twelve Yards

It shouldn't be that hard, should it? It's just a matter of placing a ball into a goal measuring eight feet high and eight yards wide, with only a six-foot man able to stop you. Yet the humble penalty...

People's Game

At the beginning of the twentieth century, soccer was widely accepted as the most popular game in the western world. In the space of a few decades, it had become the best-supported team game in Britai...

Blinded by the Lights

What links the studio-set for BBCs Match of the Day and the titlesequence of the comedy quiz-show They Think Its All Over? And whatconnects JK Rowlings Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire and DavidBec...

Bayern

Bayern Munich is a team of extremes. They are the most passionately supported club in Germany and the most hated. There is no doubt that they are the most successful. Winners of twenty-four domestic t...

Notes from Underground

Backgrounds and Sources includes relevant writings by Dostoevsky, among them Winter Notes on Summer Impressions, the author's account of a formative trip to the West. New to the Second Edition are...

Oliver Twist

Marriage Most Scandalous

#1 New York Times bestselling author Johanna Lindsay presents a powerfully romantic Regency-era tale that is breathtaking in scope and wondrously passionate. When Sebastian Townshend, son of the eig...

Foreign Agent

“The best thriller of the year...an exciting and entertaining read.” —The Washington Times “A top-notch thriller.” —Bill O’Reilly From #1 New York Times bestselling author Brad Thor—a brilliant thri...