When Friday Comes: Football revolution in the Middle East and the road to the Qatar World Cup
By: James Montague
4.32
Format: 416 pages, Paperback
'Passionate and moving and provides further evidence of the universality of football' Jonathan Wils…
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1. Up Pohnpei: A Quest to Reclaim the Soul of Football by Leading the World's Ultimate Underdogs to Glory
By: Paul Watson , Paul Watson
4.21
Format: 260 pages, Paperback
After one too many late-night discussions, football fanatic Paul Watson and his mate Matt Conrad ha… read more
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- soccer
- sports
- nonfiction
- football
2. Soccer in Sun and Shadow
By: Eduardo Galeano , Mark Fried
4.20
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
Discussing everything from the leveling of the Twin Towers to the death of the sole survivor of tha… read more
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- soccer
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- football
"و كان لدى الرب وقت ليهتم بشئون كرة القدم، فكم من مسئوليها سيبقون أحياءً"-Eduardo Galeano, Soccer in Sun and Shadow
"¿En qué se parece el fútbol a Dios? En la devoción que le tienen muchos creyentes y en la desconfianza que le tienen muchos intelectuales"-Eduardo Galeano, Soccer in Sun and Shadow
"[Garrincha] was the one who would climb out of the training camp window because he heard from some far-off back alley call of a ball asking to be played with, music demanding to be danced to, a woman…"-Eduardo Galeano, Soccer in Sun and Shadow
"Han pasado los años, y a la larga he terminado por asumir mi identidad: yo no soy más que un mendigo de buen fútbol. Voy por el mundo sombrero en mano, y en los estadios suplico: una linda jugadita, …"-Eduardo Galeano, Soccer in Sun and Shadow
3. On Palestine
By: Noam Chomsky , Ilan Pappé
4.25
Format: 220 pages, Paperback
Operation Protective Edge, Israel's most recent assault on Gaza, left thousands of Palestinians dea… read more
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- nonfiction
"It's quite standard for those who hold the clubs to say: "Forget about everything that happened and let's just go on from here." In other words, "I've got what I want, and out forget about what your …"-Noam Chomsky, On Palestine
"How, then, does one become an activist? The easy answer would be to say that we do not become activists; we simply forget that we are. We are all born with compassion, generosity, and love for others…"-Noam Chomsky, On Palestine
4. 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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- soccer
- sports
- nonfiction
- football
"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
5. Jude the Obscure
By: Thomas Hardy
3.83
Format: 310 pages, Paperback
Jude Fawley's hopes of a university education are lost when he is trapped into marrying the earthy … read more
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"Always wanting another man than your own."-Thomas Hardy, Jude the Obscure
"But no one came. Because no one ever does."-Thomas Hardy, Jude the Obscure
"Love has its own dark morality when rivalry enters in."-Thomas Hardy, Jude the Obscure
"We ought to have lived in mental communion, and no more."-Thomas Hardy, Jude the Obscure
6. Africa United: Soccer, Passion, Politics, and the First World Cup in Africa
By: Steve Bloomfield
2.50
Format: 62 pages, Paperback
Africa Unitedis the story of modern day Africa told through its soccer. Travelling across thirteen … read more
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- soccer
- sports
- nonfiction
- football
7. Eleven Rings: The Soul of Success
By: Phil Jackson , Hugh Delehanty
3.69
Format: 98 pages, Audio CD
During his storied career as head coach of the Chicago Bulls and Los Angeles Lakers, Phil Jackson w… read more
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- sports
- nonfiction
8. Notes from a Small Island
By: Bill Bryson
3.42
Format: None pages, Paperback
"Suddenly, in the space of a moment, I realized what it was that I loved about Britain-which is to … read more
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- nonfiction
9. 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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- soccer
- sports
- nonfiction
- football
10. Alex Ferguson: My Autobiography
By: Alex Ferguson
4.00
Format: 96 pages, Hardcover
The celebratory, revealing, inspiring, and entertaining autobiography of the greatest manager in th… read more
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11. Butcher's Crossing
By: John Williams , Michelle Latiolais
4.28
Format: 364 pages, Paperback
In his National Book Award-winning novel Augustus, John Williams uncovered the secrets of ancient R… read more
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12. Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy (George Smiley, #5; Karla Trilogy, #1)
By: John Le Carré
4.06
Format: 381 pages, Paperback
A modern classic in which John le Carré expertly creates a total vision of a secret world, Tinker, … read more
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"As a good Socialist, I'm going for the money."-John Le Carré, Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy (George Smiley, #5; Karla Trilogy, #1)
"Treason is very much a matter of habit, Smiley decided."-John Le Carré, Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy (George Smiley, #5; Karla Trilogy, #1)
"Good intelligence work, Control had always preached, was gradual and rested on a kind of gentleness."-John Le Carré, Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy (George Smiley, #5; Karla Trilogy, #1)
"The monstrosity of this, reaching Smiley through a thickening wall of spiritual exhaustion, left him momentarily speechless."-John Le Carré, Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy (George Smiley, #5; Karla Trilogy, #1)
13. Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics
By: Tim Marshall
4.20
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
In the bestselling tradition of Why Nations Fail and The Revenge of Geography, an award-winning jou… read more
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- nonfiction
"All great nations spend peacetime preparing for the day war breaks out."-Tim Marshall, Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics
"India and Pakistan can agree on one thing: neither wants the other one around."-Tim Marshall, Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics
"What is now the EU was set up so that France and Germany could hug each other so tightly in a loving embrace that neither would be able to get an arm free with which to punch the other."-Tim Marshall, Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics
"THE MIDDLE OF WHAT? EAST OF WHERE? THE REGION’S VERY name is based on a European view of the world, and it is a European view of the region that shaped it. The Europeans used ink to draw lines on map…"-Tim Marshall, Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics
14. Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives
By: Siddharth Kara
4.37
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
The revelatory New York Times and Publishers Weekly bestseller, shortlisted for the Financial Times… read more
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- nonfiction
"Now you understand how people like us work?"-Siddharth Kara, Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives
"Nothing looks the same after a trip to the Congo. The world back home no longer makes sense. It is difficult to reconcile how it even inhabits the same planet. Neatly arranged mountains of vegetables…"-Siddharth Kara, Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives
"Cobalt mining is the slave farm perfected. The cost of labor has been nullified through the degradation of Africans at the bottom of an economic chain that purports to exonerate all participants of a…"-Siddharth Kara, Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives
15. Politics On the Edge: A Memoir From Within
By: Rory Stewart
4.36
Format: 434 pages, Kindle Edition
A searing insider's account of ten extraordinary years in Parliament from Rory Stewart, former Cabi… read more
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- nonfiction
"Proper searching could stop drugs being carried through the gates. In the US and Sweden, where there was proper searching, I had discovered, the drug rates were far lower. But when I shared these sug…"-Rory Stewart, Politics On the Edge: A Memoir From Within
16. The Premonitions Bureau: A True Account of Death Foretold
By: Sam Knight
3.30
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
From a rising star New Yorker staff writer, the incredible and gripping true story of John Barker, … read more
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- nonfiction
17. There Will Be Fire: Margaret Thatcher, the IRA, and Two Minutes That Changed History
By: Rory Carroll
4.38
Format: 397 pages, Hardcover
Killing Thatcher is the gripping account of how the IRA came astonishingly close to killing Margar… read more
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- nonfiction
18. Africa Is Not a Country: Notes on a Bright Continent
By: Dipo Faloyin
4.43
Format: 385 pages, Hardcover
Africa Is Not A Country is a bright portrait of modern Africa that pushes back against harmful ster… read more
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- nonfiction
19. On the Border: The Rise and Decline of the Most Political Club in the World
By: Shaul Adar
3.75
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
In December 2020, an Israeli football club made worldwide headlines. The news that a UAE royal had … read more
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- football
20. 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
By: Adam Fletcher
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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- nonfiction
21. When Friday Comes: Football revolution in the Middle East and the road to the Qatar World Cup
By: James Montague
4.32
Format: 416 pages, Paperback
'Passionate and moving and provides further evidence of the universality of football' Jonathan Wils… read more
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- soccer
- nonfiction
- football
- sports
- sociology
22. Time to Think: The Inside Story of the Collapse of the Tavistock's Gender Service for Children
By: Hannah Barnes
4.40
Format: 455 pages, Hardcover
Time to Think goes behind the headlines to reveal the truth about the NHS’s flagship gender service… read more
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- nonfiction
- sociology
"GIDS’s own limited data, which found ‘no evidence of change in psychological function’ with puberty-blocker treatment."-Hannah Barnes, Time to Think: The Inside Story of the Collapse of the Tavistock's Gender Service for Children
"The Gender Identity Development Service (GIDS) has undoubtedly helped some people. It has unquestionably harmed others."-Hannah Barnes, Time to Think: The Inside Story of the Collapse of the Tavistock's Gender Service for Children
"NHS England. Why did they allow the early blocking of puberty to be rolled out as routine practice without demanding to see some data supporting this radical shift? Why didn’t it insist on seeing any…"-Hannah Barnes, Time to Think: The Inside Story of the Collapse of the Tavistock's Gender Service for Children
"It is mad,’ was the reply. Hutchinson paused. When one of the leaders of a service that helps children to access powerful, life-changing drugs comments that what they’re doing is ‘mad’, there is clea…"-Hannah Barnes, Time to Think: The Inside Story of the Collapse of the Tavistock's Gender Service for Children
23. Va-Va-Voom: The Modern History of French Football
By: Tom Williams
4.19
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
The players, the teams, the goals, the games, the scandals, the gloom and the glory: the story of F… read more
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- soccer
- sports
- football
24. Inshallah United: A story of faith and football
By: Nooruddean Choudry
4.06
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Manchester. Birthplace of industry, the Stone Roses, the Class of 92 and, in 1979, a small brown ma… read more
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- sports
- nonfiction
25. We Play On: Shakhtar Donetsk’s Fight for Ukraine, Football and Freedom
By: Andy Brassell
4.08
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
'A gripping account' Sunday Times 'We want to show to the world that we are alive. That we are str… read more
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- sports
26. Europe United: 1 football fan. 1 crazy season. 55 UEFA nations
By: Matt Walker
4.13
Format: 397 pages, Kindle Edition
AS SEEN ON BBC FOOTBALL FOCUS AND BT SPORT'Excellent and thoroughly enjoyable' Sunday Sport'One man… read more
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- sports
- football
27. A New Formation: How Black Footballers Shaped the Modern Game
By: Calum Jacobs
4.37
Format: 271 pages, Hardcover
An original exploration of the ways in which leading Black British footballers have shaped the mode… read more
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- sports
- nonfiction
- football
28. 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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- sports
- nonfiction
- football
29. USA 94: The World Cup that Changed the Game
By: Matthew Evans
3.92
Format: None pages, None
A group of volunteers begged, borrowed and remortgaged a house on their way to convincing FIFA to h… read more
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- sports
- football
30. Who Ate All the Squid?: Football Adventures in South Korea
By: Devon Rowcliffe
3.88
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
When a struggling Korean football club wants to transform its fortunes, who does it turn to? A form… read more
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- sports
- nonfiction
- football
31. Here to Compete: The Inside Story of Newcastle United and the Era of Eddie Howe
By: Pete Graves
3.74
Format: 240 pages, Kindle Edition
The quintessential book for Newcastle United fans everywhere, Sky Sports presenter Pete Graves tell… read more
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