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  • The Time Traveler's Handbook

    18 Experiences from the Eruption of Vesuvius to Woodstock

    by James Wyllie, John Lyon-Dalberg-Acton, David Goldblatt ...
    Get immersed in the action of history's most pivotal and dramatic episodes with this "witty, irreverent, and brilliantly researched" guide (Giles Milton).Not many of us can claim to have thrown chests of tea into the Boston Harbor or to have watched Vesuvius erupt, but that's about to change thanks to The Time Traveler's Handbook. This book offers eighteen exceptional trips to the past, ... Read more

    $11.59 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Age of Football

    Soccer and the 21st Century

    by David Goldblatt ...
    A monumental exploration of soccer and society in our time—by its preeminent historian.The Age of Football proves that whether you call it football or soccer, you can’t make sense of the modern world without understanding its most popular sport. With breathtaking scope and an unparalleled knowledge of the game, David Goldblatt—author of the best-selling The Ball Is Round—charts soccer’s global ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • 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 Game of Our Lives

    The English Premier League and the Making of Modern Britain

    by David Goldblatt ...
    The Game of Our Lives is a masterly portrait of soccer and contemporary Britain. Soccer in the United Kingdom has evolved from a jaded, working-class tradition to a sport at the heart of popular culture, from an economic mess to a booming entertainment industry that has conquered the world. The changes in the game, David Goldblatt shows, uncannily mirror the evolution of British society.In the ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • 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

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Social Theory and the Environment

    by David Goldblatt ...
    This book establishes whether contemporary social theory can help us understand the structural origins of environmental degradation and environmental politics. ... Read more

    $25.00 USD

  • Futebol Nation

    The Story of Brazil through Soccer

    by David Goldblatt ...
    No nation is as closely identified with the game of soccer as Brazil. For over a century, Brazil's people, politicians, and poets have found in soccer the finest expression of the nation's collective potential. Since the team's dazzling performance in 1938 at the World Cup in France, Brazilian soccer has been revered as an otherworldly blend of the effective and the aesthetic.Futebol Nation is an ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Art and Ventriloquism

    by David Goldblatt ...
    Series series Critical Voices in Art, Theory and Culture
    This exciting collection of David Goldblatt's essays, available for the first time in one volume, uses the metaphor of ventriloquism to help understand a variety of art world phenomena. It examines how the vocal vacillation between ventriloquist and dummy works within the roles of artist, artwork and audience as a conveyance to the audience of the performer's intentions, emotions and beliefs ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

  • Aesthetics

    A Reader in Philosophy of the Arts

    by David Goldblatt, Lee B. Brown, Stephanie Patridge ...
    Aesthetics: A Reader in Philosophy of the Arts, fourth edition, contains a selection of ninety-six readings organized by individual art forms as well as a final section of readings in philosophical aesthetics that cover multiple art forms. Sections include topics that are familiar to students such as painting, photography and movies, architecture, music, literature, and performance, as well as ... Read more

    $165.00 USD

  • Jazz and the Philosophy of Art

    by Lee B. Brown, David Goldblatt, Theodore Gracyk ...
    Co-authored by three prominent philosophers of art, Jazz and the Philosophy of Art is the first book in English to be exclusively devoted to philosophical issues in jazz. It covers such diverse topics as minstrelsy, bebop, Voodoo, social and tap dancing, parades, phonography,musical forgeries, and jazz singing, as well as Goodman’s allographic/autographic distinction, Adorno’s critique of popular ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • How to Watch the Olympics

    The Essential Guide to the Rules, Statistics, Heroes, and Zeroes of Every Sport

    by David Goldblatt, Johnny Acton ...
    The must-have guide to the Summer Olympic GamesThis summer, millions of Americans will tune into the Olympic Games, the largest and most popular sporting event in the world. Yet while it's easy to be fascinated by agile gymnasts, poised equestrians, and perfectly synchronized swimmers, few of us know the real width of a balance beam, the intricate regulations of dressage, or the origin of those ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • Governance in the Asia-Pacific

    Edited by David Goldblatt, Richard Maidment, Jeremy Mitchell ...
    ]IGovernance in the Asia-Pacific is a student-friendly textbook which examines the governance of nation states in this diverse and rapidly-changing region. It sets out the range of political beliefs and styles that flourish and the similarities and differences between individual states and the ways in which they choose to govern. Wide-ranging in scope and clearly written to help students get to ... Read more

    $91.99 USD