Product Description: Throughout the world football is a potent force in the lives of billions of people. Focusing on national, political and cultural identities, football is the medium through which the world's hopes and fears, passions and hatreds are expressed...read more

Product Description: In the tradition of great Magnum books, this publication brings together the work of the finest photographers of our time. Whether covering the latest news or working on commissions or their own personal stories, Magnum photographers have also found time to document a sport that unites us all - football...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Published for the first time in the U.S. to coincide with the 2006 World Cup, an analysis of the role of professional soccer in world affairs offers insight into the political and cultural factors that come into play between competing nations; in an account that shares the perspectives of fans ranging from a persecuted East Berliner to an Argentine general. Original.

Product Description: “Some people believe football is a matter of life and death,” the legendary Liverpool manager Bill Shankly once remarked. “I am very disappointed with that attitude. I can assure you it is much, much more important than that...read more

Product Description: Roger Pielke reveals how sports stars break the rules in their search for a competitive edge.Both entertaining and thought-provoking, THE EDGE not only visits the battlefields in the war against cheating and corruption, but also explores ways to ensure that “the spirit of sport” can survive in today’s high-tech, highly professional world...read more