In this extraordinary tour de force of a book, David Goldblatt describes the rise of football, from a chaotic folk ritual to a sector of the global-entertainment industry. It's the story of players and managers, fans and owners, clubs and national teams; a chronicle of who won and who lost. But it's also a history of states and markets, money and power. And, above all, how all these forces interact. It is a history which attempts to locate where the line between the realm of glory and the realm of power has been crossed, that celebrates the love of the game, but knows that it can be bought. Thus the book describes and accounts for the careers of Pele and Maradona, Puskas and George Best; the histories of the Wunderteam and the incomparable Hungarians, the anti-futbol of Estudiantes de la Plata and the futbol arte of Brazil 1970. It explores the cultural meanings and political uses of football in Peron's Argentina, Adenauer's West Germany, Stalin's Soviet Union and Mussolini's Italy. It ranges from the postcolonial politics of African football to the manufacturing history of the football boot; from the history of stadium architecture to the architecture of power in global football's leading institutions.

The Ball is Round: A Global History of Football

David Goldblatt

History

VIKING

This widely acclaimed book throws new light on the complex processes that are reshaping the contemporary world. All too often debates about globalization - and about whether it implies the end of the nation-state - have descended into polemics and confusion. 
Please visit the accompanying website at: http://www.polity.co.uk/global

Global Transformations: Politics, Economics and Culture

Business & Money

David Held

Anthony McGrew

Jonathan Perraton

Economics

Polity Press

Whether you want to bend it like Beckham or dribble like Ronaldinho, The Soccer Book is the ultimate visual guide to soccer skills, rules, tactics, and coaching, illustrating every aspect of every variant of the sport more clearly, and in more detail, than any other book has done before.

The Soccer Book: The Sport, the Teams, the Tactics, the Cups

Reference

Johnny Acton

Encyclopedias & Subject Guides

DK Publishing

Shows the daily lives of Black workers forced to make a three-hour busride between their jobs and where they are allowed to live

The Transported: A South African Odyssey

Arts & Photography

Photography & Video

Aperture

First edition, first printing. Soft cover. Laminated wrappers., contained in a photographically illustrated cardstock slipcase. Photographs by Robert Adams, Peter Fraser, David Goldblatt and Joel Sternfeld. Forewords by Paul Wombell and Michael Kirkwood. Essays by Thomas Weski, Johanna Burton, Okwui Enwezor and Brian Wallis. Design by Spin. 100 pp., with 19 four-color and 13 black and white plates (and additional illustrations) finely printed on heavy coated paper by Graphicom Italia. 9-1/8 x 6-5/8 inches. Published on the occasion of the 2004 Citigroup Photography Prize exhibition at The Photographer's Gallery, London, and the Museum Kunst Palast, Düsseldorf. Presents work by the four finalists for the 2004 competition, won by Joel Sternfeld.

Citigroup Photography Prize 2004: Robert Adams, Peter Fraser, David Goldblatt, Joel Sternfeld

Johanna Burton

Joel Sternfeld

Okwui Enwezor

PETER FRASER

Robert, Adams

Brian Wallis

Paul Wombell

Michael, Kirkwood

Thomas, Weski

The Photographer's Gallery, London

In conjunction with the exhibition at the Jewish Museum, a related 200-page book with 150 black and white plates,Kith, Kin & Khaya: South African Photographs: David Goldblatt, has been published.In its introduction, writer and critic Ingrid Sischy writes, "A highly sophisticated, even strict, sense of aesthetics, combined with a rigorous moral stance about what it means to take somebody's photograph, is what sets Goldblatt's work apart." She also observes that "the glue that holds this broad body of work together is a mix of Goldblatt's highly attuned eye and his razor-sharp mind. His photographs are objects of thought, as much as they're objects to behold."

kith, kin & khaya: South African Photographs

Literature & Fiction

Dramas & Plays

David Krut Publishing

Art and Ventriloquism

Routledge

Aesthetics: A Reader in Philosophy of the Arts

Lee B. Brown

Stephanie Patridge

Taylor & Francis Group

Learn to bend it like Beckham and dribble like Ronaldinho with this ultimate visual guide to planet football. Open up the tactile padded cover and experience the excitement, the passion and the glory of arguably the world's greatest sport - football. You'll relive the finest moments of the players, coaches, and teams who have created football history and learn everything from match highlights to the inside stories on players, managers and fans. Discover all you need to know on the clubs, the rituals, the stats and the results. Plus find out about the laws, the tactics, the science, and the art of the beautiful game.

The Football Book

Dorling, Kindersley

TJ: Johannesburg photographs 1948-2010

Umuzi

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