Welcome to Hell?: In Search of the Real Turkish Football
By: John McManus
4.32
Format: 400 pages, Paperback
Ask a British football fan what they know about Turkish football, and they are unlikely to describe…
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1. Fear and Loathing in La Liga
By: Sid Lowe
4.30
Format: 480 pages, Paperback
Fear and Loathing in La Liga is the definitive history of the greatest rivalry in world sport: FC B… read more
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2. Inverting the Pyramid: The History of Football Tactics
By: Jonathan Wilson
4.15
Format: 374 pages, Hardcover
Soccer fans love to argue about the tactics a manager puts into play, and this fascinating study tr… read more
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"Many before have hailed the end of history; none have ever been right."-Jonathan Wilson, Inverting the Pyramid: The History of Football Tactics
"Anti-intellectualism is one thing, but faith in wrongheaded pseudointellectualism is far worse."-Jonathan Wilson, Inverting the Pyramid: The History of Football Tactics
"كان مينوتي شخصية رومانسية بشكل يفوق الوصف. كان نحيلا كقلم رصاص، ومدخنا شرها يتدل شعره على ياقته، أشيب السوالف، وله نظرة محدقة كصقر، بدا كما لو كان تجسيدا للبوهيمية الأرجنتينية، كان جناحأ أيسر ومفكرا،…"-Jonathan Wilson, Inverting the Pyramid: The History of Football Tactics
3. Behind the Curtain
By: Jonathan Wilson
4.18
Format: None pages, Paperback
Alternate-Cover Edition for this ISBN can be found From the war-ravaged streets of Sarajevo, wher… read more
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4. Soccer Against the Enemy: How the World's Most Popular Sport Starts and Fuels Revolutions and Keeps Dictators in Power
By: Simon Kuper
4.50
Format: 122 pages, Paperback
Soccer is much more than just the most popular game in the world. It is a matter of life and death … read more
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5. Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
By: Jared Diamond
3.93
Format: 608 pages, Paperback
Brilliant, illuminating, and immensely absorbing, Collapse is destined to take its place as one of … read more
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"...neither life nor history is an enterprise for those who seek simplicity and consistency."-Jared Diamond, Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
"History as well as life itself is complicated -- neither life nor history is an enterprise for those who seek simplicity and consistency."-Jared Diamond, Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
"[T]he values to which people cling most stubbornly under inappropriate conditions are those values that were previously the source of their greatest triumphs."-Jared Diamond, Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
"The Anasazi did manage to construct in stone the largest and tallest buildings erected in North America until the Chicago steel girder skyscrapers of the 1880s."-Jared Diamond, Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
6. Angels With Dirty Faces: The Footballing History of Argentina
By: Jonathan Wilson
3.64
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Diego Maradona, Gabriel Batistuta, Juan Roman Riquelme, Sergio Aguero, Lionel Messi ... Argentina i… read more
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7. The Bottom Corner: A Season with the Dreamers of Non-League Football
By: Nige Tassell
3.44
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
Everyone loves an FA Cup upset: a smug Premier League team being knocked out by plucky underdogs. I… read more
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8. Soccernomics
By: Stefan Szymanski , Simon Kuper
4.67
Format: 88 pages,
Why do England lose? Why does Scotland suck? Why doesn't America dominate the sport internationally… read more
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9. The Ball is Round: A Global History of Soccer
By: David Goldblatt
3.68
Format: None pages, Paperback
The definitive book about soccer. With a new foreword for the American edition. There may be no cul… read more
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10. "Dirty Northern Bastards!" And Other Tales from the Terraces: The Story of Britain's Football Chants
By: Tim Marshall
4.12
Format: None pages, Paperback
"This is a book about football and Britain, and Britain and football. You can't fully understand on… read more
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11. Baumgartner
By: Paul Auster
3.78
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
A taut yet expansive novel of love, memory, and grief from Paul Auster, best-selling, award-winning… read more
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"Vivir es sentir dolor, y vivir con miedo al dolor es negarse a vivir"-Paul Auster, Baumgartner
"To live is to feel pain, he told himself, and to live in fear of pain is to refuse to live."-Paul Auster, Baumgartner
"at some point in the coming years, the two books should be combined and reconfigured into a large, one-volume collected poems—a monument of singing pages that will overwhelm the silence of Anna’s gra…"-Paul Auster, Baumgartner
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12. The Power of Geography: Ten Maps That Reveal the Future of Our World
By: Tim Marshall
4.20
Format: 360 pages, Hardcover
In this revelatory new book, Marshall explores ten regions that are set to shape global politics in… read more
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"Vietnam is an irritation for China. For centuries the two have squabbled over territory, and unfortunately for both this is the one area to the south which has a border an army can get across without…"-Tim Marshall, The Power of Geography: Ten Maps That Reveal the Future of Our World
13. Abroad in Japan: Ten Years In The Land Of The Rising Sun
By: Chris Broad
4.18
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
When Englishman Chris Broad landed in a rural village in northern Japan he wondered if he'd made a … read more
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14. Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape
By: Cal Flyn
4.20
Format: 376 pages, Hardcover
Investigative journalist Cal Flyn's ISLANDS OF ABANDONMENT, an exploration of the world's most deso… read more
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"But the unplanned nature preserves that have formed up in the buffer zones have come to serve as a focus for bilateral cooperation after hostilities are over."-Cal Flyn, Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape
"Further back, cooling ponds strewn with rusted pipes were busy with teals and moorhens. An old concrete streetlight stood incongruously in the woods beyond: some ravaged Narnia. Jays catcalled overhe…"-Cal Flyn, Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape
"This is a corrupted world, yes - one long fallen from a state of grace - but it is a world too that knows how to live. It has a great capacity for repair, for recovery, for forgiveness - of a sort - …"-Cal Flyn, Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape
"And so for a hundred years a forest grew up across the land, tall and dark and impenetrable, whose undergrowth curled and snarled into a thicket of bramble and black thorn. This was a forbidden fores…"-Cal Flyn, Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape
15. Zonal Marking: The Making of Modern European Football
By: Michael Cox
4.37
Format: 433 pages, Kindle Edition
Continental football has always cast a spell over the imagination. From the attacking flair of Real… read more
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16. The Widow of Bath
By: Margot Bennett
3.43
Format: 187 pages, Kindle Edition
Hugh Everton was intent on nothing more than quietly drinking in the second-rate hotel he found him… read more
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"...hatred destroyed with the speed of a bonfire in a wooden house. [Hugh Everton]"-Margot Bennett, The Widow of Bath
"The judge's manner would have made any man doubt the efficacy of lonely truth. Evidence would be demanded."-Margot Bennett, The Widow of Bath
"...I...advise you that it is the duty of every citizen to expose and so help to destroy evil. [Judge Gregory Bath]"-Margot Bennett, The Widow of Bath
"Life didn't stop, and a mind given too much to thoughts of death would create nothing but its own tomb. [Hugh Everton]"-Margot Bennett, The Widow of Bath
17. Aftermath: Life in the Fallout of the Third Reich, 1945–1955
By: Harald Jähner
4.09
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
Germany, 1945: a country in ruins. Cities have been reduced to rubble and more than half of the pop… read more
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18. When Footballers Were Skint: A Journey in Search of the Soul of Football
By: Jon Henderson
3.80
Format: 345 pages, Kindle Edition
Shortlisted for The Telegraph Sports Book Awards 2019 Long before perma-tanned football agents and… read more
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19. Chums: How A Tiny Caste of Oxford Tories Took Over The UK
By: Simon Kuper
3.98
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
Boris Johnson, Michael Gove, David Cameron, George Osborne, Theresa May, Dominic Cummings, Daniel H… read more
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20. 1312: Among the Ultras, A journey with the world's most extreme fans
By: James Montague
4.17
Format: 400 pages, Paperback
You can see us, but you don't know us. Ultras are football fans like no others. Fiercely loyal, … read more
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21. The Full English: A Journey in Search of a Country and its People
By: Stuart Maconie
4.08
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Three years before George Orwell made his expedition to the far and frozen North JB Priestley – who… read more
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22. To Die in June (Harry McCoy, #6)
By: Alan Parks
4.33
Format: 306 pages, Kindle Edition
A woman enters a Glasgow police station to report her son missing, but no record can be found of th… read more
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23. Life Sentence: The Brief and Tragic Career of Baltimore’s Deadliest Gang Leader
By: Mark Bowden
3.97
Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition
In this unprecedented deep dive into inner-city gang life, Mark Bowden takes readers inside a Balti… read more
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24. Don’t Go There!: From Chernobyl to North Korea—One Man’s Quest to Lose Himself and Find Everyone Else in the World’s Strangest Places
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3.84
Format: 232 pages, Kindle Edition
How much would you risk to change your life? After Spiegel bestselling author Adam Fletcher is … read more
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25. Welcome to Hell?: In Search of the Real Turkish Football
By: John McManus
4.32
Format: 400 pages, Paperback
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26. Nowhere to Run: The Ridiculous Life of a Semi-Professional Football Club Chairman
By: Jonathan Sayer
4.02
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
On the second oldest football pitch in the world, Jonathan Sayer stands atop a beer crate to addres… read more
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27. Los Leones: The Unique Story of Athletic Club Bilbao
By: Christopher James Evans
4.69
Format: 381 pages, Kindle Edition
Los Leones: The Unique Story of Athletic Club Bilbao is the first English language book that tells… read more
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28. The Names Heard Long Ago: How the Golden Age of Hungarian Football Shaped the Modern Game
By: Jonathan Wilson
4.08
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
In 1953, the Mighty Magyars beat England 6-3 at Wembley, a result that echoes through the history o… read more
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29. Emancipation for Goalposts: Football's Role in the Fall of Yugoslavia
By: Chris Etchingham
3.97
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In 1987, a Zvonimir Boban-inspired Yugoslavia won the World Under-20 Championships in Chile, and a … read more
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30. The Outsider: A History of the Goalkeeper
By: Jonathan Wilson
3.91
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
“Kaleci yalnız bir kartal, esrarengiz bir adam, son kurtarıcıdır.” –Vladimir Nabokov Albert Camu… read more
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31. Blood on the Crossbar: The Dictatorship's World Cup
By: Rhys Richards
4.15
Format: 305 pages, Kindle Edition
Blood on the The Dictatorship's World Cup is the story of the most controversial football World Cu… read more
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