Literatura obcojęzyczna - Cornerstone

• ISBN9781847943569
• Oprawamiękka
• AutorGreg Hoffman
• WydawnictwoCornerstone

'The marketing genius behind Nike... Greg Hoffman has inspired me tremendously' Steven Bartlett, author of Happy Sexy Millionaire How did Nike go from being a small sneaker brand to the world's most revered company? Why do its campaigns - from 'Just do it' to the famous Nike swoosh - capture the imaginations of millions worldwide? And what can any founder or marketer learn from them? Greg Hoffman joined Nike as 22-year-old design intern. Over the next thirty years, he would help craft some of the most iconic campaigns in history - for Ronaldo and Serena, Olympic Games and World Cup finals. Now, he unveils a transformative method that will make any brand more creative: emotion żeby design.'Great story, amazing career, so inspirational... I couldn't put it down' Chris Evans'The ultimate playbook to unleash creativity in any team' Jake Humphrey, author of High Performance'An unforgettable account of a man and a business that never had to try to be someone else's idea of cool - because they had already defined it themselves' Rory Sutherland, Vice-Chairman of Ogilvy and author of Alchemy'Brilliant... Hoffman draws on a lifetime of experience at Nike to reveal how any team can make brand connections stronger' Nir Eyal, author of Hooked'This book made me smile in my soul' Mary Portas'Remarkable... A distinctive framework that will help marketers and creatives connect with their audiences like never before' Jonah Berger, author of Contagious

• ISBN9781804940204
• Oprawamiękka
• Ilość stron400
• Rok wydania2024

Celebrating her 45th birthday at her local pub, podcaster Alix Summers crosses paths with an unassuming woman called Josie Fair. Josie is also celebrating her 45th birthday. They are, in fact birthday twins.A few days later, Alix and Josie bump into each other again, this time outside Alix's children's school. Josie has been listening to Alix's podcasts and thinks she might be an interesting subject for Alix's series. She is, she tells Alix, on the cusp of great changes in her life.Alix agrees to a trial interview. Josie's life appears to be strange and complicated, and although Alix finds her unsettling, she can't quite resist the temptation to keep digging.Slowly Alix starts to realise that Josie has been hiding some very dark secrets, and before she knows it Josie has inveigled her way into Alix's life - and into her home.Soon she begins to wonder who is Josie Fair? And what has she done?

• ISBN9780099542773
• Oprawamiękka
• Ilość stron464
• Rok wydania2012

While Luke and Ben Skywalker continue their exploration of the mystery known as Abeloth with their unlikely Sith allies, the galaxy is abuzz with the trial of former Jedi Knight Tahiri Veila. This moment when the fate of the Jedi might be determined is close at hand, as the exiled Grand Master works to find a reason behind the madness afflicting the Jedi, while those charged with keeping the Order intact struggle against a Republic that seems to have already declared their verdict in the only court that matters: the court of public opinion. "Conviction" begins the mini-trilogy that will leave readers breathlessly waiting to see how the bestselling "Fate of the Jedi" series ends.

• ISBN9781847943231
• Oprawamiękka
• Ilość stron208
• Rok wydania2021

The past decade has witnessed extraordinary advances in artificial intelligence. But what precisely is it and where does its future lie?In this brilliant, one-stop guide WIRED journalist Matt Burgess explains everything you need to know about AI. He describes how it works.He looks at the ways in which it has already brought us everything from voice recognition software to self-driving cars, and explores its potential for further revolutionary change in almost every area of our daily lives. He examines the darker side of machine learning: its susceptibility to hacking; its tendency to discriminate against particular groups; and its potential misuse by governments. And he addresses the fundamental question: can machines become as intelligent as human beings?

• ISBN9781847943255
• Oprawamiękka
• Ilość stron144
• Rok wydania2021

By the end of this century, living beyond 100 will be the rule rather than the exception. What medical breakthroughs and new technologies will make this possible?In this brilliantly wide-ranging, one-stop guide WIRED journalist James Temperton outlines the medical revolutions that are transforming healthcare. He looks at the burgeoning immune therapies that could one day cure such life-threatening diseases as cancer.He explores the science - and ethics - of genetic engineering and its potential to create 'designer babies'. He considers the role that cutting-edge medical research could play in the treatment of mental and neurological disorders ranging from depression to autism. And he addresses the fundamental question: could medical technology become so sophisticated that we witness the end of ageing?

• ISBN9781847943286
• Oprawamiękka
• Ilość stron192
• Rok wydania2021

With a global population estimated to reach nearly 10 billion by 2050 we face a huge challenge in feeding everyone on the planet. How is that to be achieved?In this brilliantly insightful, one stop guide WIRED journalist Matt Reynolds assesses the limits and drawbacks of current food production and looks at the ways in which they can be tackled. He considers the potential for lab-grown meat to replace inefficient livestock farming.He talks to the scientists hoping to perfect more productive and disease-resistant crops. He explores initiatives to make agriculture less environmentally damaging and to reduce food waste. And he addresses the fundamental question: how do we feed more people while using fewer of the Earth's resources?

• ISBN9781786090980
• Oprawamiękka
• Ilość stron384
• Rok wydania2021

__________________________________________________'Fresh, entertaining, funny and moving' RODDY DOYLE'A touching tale of how one woman survives a tough beginning to eventually end up exactly where her heart belongs' ANNE GRIFFIN, author of When All is Said__________________________________________________'If I could go back to being sixteen again, I'd do things differently.''Everyone over the age of forty feels like that, you total gom,' says my best friend Lizzie Magee.When she was young Mary Rattigan wanted to fly. She was going to take off like an angel from heaven and leave the muck and madness of troubled Northern Ireland behind. Nothing but the Land of Happy Ever After would do for her.But as a Catholic girl with a B.I.T.C.H. For a Mammy and a silent Daddy, things did not go as she and Lizzie Magee had planned.Now, five children, twenty-five years, an end to the bombs and bullets, enough whiskey to sink a ship and endless wakes and sandwich teas later, Mary's alone. She's learned plenty of hard lessons and missed a hundred steps towards the life she'd always hoped for. Will she finally find the courage to ask for the love she deserves? Or is it too late?

• ISBN9781529907575
• Oprawamiękka
• Ilość stron304
• Rok wydania2023

Cal Kestis leads the Mantis crew on an adventure set between Star Wars Jedi- Fallen Order and the highly anticipated Star Wars Jedi- Survivor.

• ISBN9780099463245
• Oprawamiękka
• Ilość stron368
• Rok wydania2003

This new paperback of Madhur Jaffrey's modern culinary classic is the companion to "Eastern Vegetarian Cooking": it will come as a revelation to all those whose experience of Indian cuisine has been confined to restaurants in Britain. In her fascinating Introduction, the author vividly describes the vast scope of Indian cooking, the regional differences in taste and method, and the special qualities of the food of her native Delhi; she provides a comprehensive list of the various herbs and spices used in India, a glossary of cookery terms and some suggested menus. The recipes range from soups to desserts, with meat, fish and egg dishes, vegetables, rice and bread, chutneys and pickles, and a section on summer cooking and barbeques. All are clearly and simply set out, with many helpful hints from Madhur Jaffrey's own wide experience. The wealth of colourful detail and incidental information makes "An Invitation to Indian Cooking" as much a pleasure to read as it is to use.

• ISBN9780099476627
• Oprawamiękka
• Ilość stron704
• Rok wydania2006

Harold Nicolson called her 'the greatest Queen since Cleopatra', while Cecil Beaton called her 'a marshmallow made on a welding machine'. Stephen Tennant said: 'She looked everything that she was not: gentle, gullible, tenderness mingled with dispassionate serenity, cool, well-bred, remote. Behind this veil she schemed and vacillated, hard as nails.' Who was she? The Queen Mother's story has not yet been properly told. This was partly due to her long life, and the difficulty that always exists when a biography of a living person is attempted, partly because she was a queen - and the real person gets hidden behind the perceived image - and partly because she is hard to pin down. From her privileged aristocratic childhood, to the Abdication and the problems with Diana - this book questions how she faced her challenges and crises, assesses her role, how powerful she was, and how she coped. This is a candid, personal portrait of one of Britain's most loved national treasures. Hugo Vickers, an acknowledged expert on the House of Windsor, has spent seventeen years researching this book, and observed the Queen Mother in public and private over a period of forty years.

• ISBN9780099466437
• Oprawamiękka
• Ilość stron128
• Rok wydania2004

In a recent series of ground-breaking psychological experiments, volunteers were shown a 30-second film of some people playing basketball and told to count the number of passes made with the ball. After just a few seconds, a man dressed as a gorilla slowly walked into frame, beat his chest at the camera, and sauntered off. Unbelievably, almost none of the people watching the film noticed the gorilla. Exactly the same psychological mechanisms that cause people to miss the gorilla also make them miss unexpected but vitally important opportunities in their professional and personal lives. This book outlines the scientific evidence and thinking behind this remarkable new phenomenon, and shows you how you can spot gorillas in your life - and what to do when you see one.

• ISBN9781804943601
• Oprawamiękka
• Ilość stron464
• Rok wydania2022

'The best Star Wars publication to date... [James] Luceno takes Darth Plagueis down the dark path and never looks back.' Newsday Darth Plagueis: one of the most brilliant Sith Lords who ever lived. Possessing power is all he desires; losing it is the only thing he fears. As an apprentice, he embraces the ruthless ways of the Sith. When the time is right, he destroys his Master-and vows never to suffer the same fate. For like no other disciple of the dark side, Darth Plagueis learns to command the ultimate power... Over life and death. Darth Sidious: Plagueis's chosen apprentice. Under the guidance of his Master, he secretly studies the ways of the Sith while publicly rising to power in the galactic government, first as Senator, then as Chancellor, and eventually as Emperor. Darth Plagueis and Darth Sidious, Master and acolyte, target the galaxy for domination-and the Jedi Order for annihilation. But can they defy the merciless Sith tradition? Or will the desire of one to rule supreme, and the dream of the other to live forever, sow the seeds of their destruction? 'Luceno draws on his storytelling skill and prodigious knowledge of the [Star Wars] world... To craft a complex tale of ambition and desire.' Library Journal

• ISBN9780099568544
• Oprawamiękka
• Ilość stron704
• Rok wydania2013

The Chosen Ones are about to start their second year in senior high school. Over the summer break, they have held their breaths waiting for the demons next move. But the threat comes from another direction - one they could never have foreseen. Seven teenage witches are hunted żeby an ancient evil in the gripping follow-up to THE CIRCLE.

• ISBN9780099491989
• Oprawamiękka
• Ilość stron448
• Rok wydania2008

A }Star Wars{ novel that covers the story of the Death Star from construction to destruction, so fans will get an inside, behind-the-scenes look at this famous technological creation.

• ISBN9781784752408
• Oprawamiękka
• Ilość stron528
• Rok wydania2015

Psychologist Sebastian Bergman desperately needs some order in his chaotic life. Having tried to find his daughter for many years, he's at last learned her identity: she happens to be Vanya, a respected police colleague. At the same time, Sebastian's old team in the National Crime Squad - including Vanya - is investigating a series of brutal murders. The murders remind Sebastian of Edward Hinde, a convicted serial killer he put behind bars many years ago. But Hinde is still in jail, which leads the police to believe that they might be dealing with a copycat. Soon Sebastian is called into the investigation, and finds himself working alongside Vanya once more. But it's not long before he realises the victims are all connected to him - and that Vanya might be in imminent danger.

• ISBN9781787461536
• Oprawamiękka
• Ilość stron848
• Rok wydania2019

Evacuated from Blitz-battered London, shy and genteel Elizabeth White is sent to stay with the boisterous O'Connors in Kilgarret, Ireland.

• ISBN9781787460171
• Oprawamiękka
• Ilość stron544
• Rok wydania2019

`The dream team delivers big time... Clinton's insider secrets and Patterson's storytelling genius make this the political thriller of the decade.' - Lee Child___________________ The President is Missing.

• ISBN9781529157642
• Oprawamiękka
• AutorTowles Amor
• WydawnictwoPenguin

The instant number one New York Times bestseller from the author of rules of civility and a gentleman in Moscow 'Deserves a place alongside Kerouac, Steinbeck and Wolfe as the very best of the genre' OBSERVER 'An absolute beauty of a book. As soon as I finished it, I wanted to read it again' Tana French 'Welcome to the enormous pleasure that is The Lincoln Highway... In which the miles fly żeby and the pages turn fast' Ann Patchett In June, 1954, eighteen-year-old Emmett returns home to his younger brother Billy after serving fifteen months in a juvenile facility for involuntary manslaughter. They are getting ready to leave their old life behind and head out to sunny California. But they're not alone. Two runaways from the youth work farm, Duchess and Wolly, have followed Emmett all the way to Nebraska with a plan of their own, one that will take the four of them on an unexpected and fateful journey in the opposite direction - to New York City. 'Already feels like an American coming of age classic' Red 'The best novel I've read in years' Chris Cleave 'Wise and wildly entertaining... Permeated with light, wit, youth' The New York Times

• ISBN9781784751142
• Oprawamiękka
• Ilość stron432
• Rok wydania2017

A decade ago, kidnappers grabbed two boys from wealthy families. For years their families have been left with nothing but a quiet desperation for the day that has finally arrived: Myron and Win believe they have located one of the boys, now a teenager. This is the blistering new thriller from Harlan Coben, the 'master of the multiple-twist' (THE TIMES) and bestselling author of TELL NO ONE.

• ISBN9780099519973
• Oprawamiękka
• Ilość stron592
• Rok wydania2009

A mixture of adventure, comic odyssey and geek nirvana. Gonzo Lubitsch, hero and troubleshooter, is hired to put out a fire, but there is more to it - and him - than meets the eye.

• ISBN9781529156102
• Oprawamiękka
• Ilość stron624
• Rok wydania2023

Based on nearly a decade of reporting, Invisible Child follows eight dramatic years in the life of Dasani Coates, a child with an imagination as soaring as the skyscrapers near her Brooklyn homeless shelter. Born at the turn of a new century, Dasani is named for the bottled water that comes to symbolise Brooklyn's gentrification and the shared aspirations of a divided city. As Dasani moves with her family from shelter to shelter, this story traces the passage of Dasani's ancestors from slavery to the Great Migration north.Dasani comes of age as New York City's homeless crisis is exploding. In the shadows of this new Gilded Age, Dasani leads her seven siblings through a thicket of problems: hunger, parental drug addiction, violence, housing instability, segregated schools and the constant monitoring of the child-protection system.When, at age thirteen, Dasani enrolls at a boarding school in Pennsylvania, her loyalties are tested like never before. Ultimately, she faces an impossible question: What if leaving poverty means abandoning the family you love? aby turns heartbreaking and revelatory, provocative and inspiring, Invisible Child tells an astonishing story about the power of resilience, the importance of family and the cost of inequality.

• ISBN9780099474449
• Oprawamiękka
• Ilość stron384
• Rok wydania2005

Adam Deveril, the new Viscount Lynton and a hero at Salamanca, returns from the Peninsula War to find his family on the brink of ruin and the broad acres of his ancestral home mortgaged to the hilt. It is Lord Oversley, father of Adam's first love, who tactfully introduces him to Mr Jonathan Chaleigh, a City man of apparently unlimited wealth with no social ambitions for himself, but with his eyes firmly fixed on a suitable match for his one and only daughter. For more than fifty years Georgette Heyer brought romance and adventure to a wordwide readership and Civil Contarct shows how she continues to be loved today.

• ISBN9780099514589
• Oprawamiękka
• Ilość stron480
• Rok wydania2010

When a rock star, a fashion designer, a software tycoon and a millionaire heiress are all murdered in mysterious circumstances, Detective Lindsay Boxer is quickly assigned to the high-profile investigation. Few people are as interested when a local hero, Bagman Jesus, is found brutally executed. Reporter Cindy Thomas however becomes fascinated aby his story. He was loved żeby so many - who would want to kill him? Could the down-and-out Samaritan have been hiding a dark secret? Both Lindsay and Cindy need the help of their fellow members of the Women

• ISBN9781786091338
• Oprawamiękka
• Ilość stron432
• Rok wydania2020

WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION FROM THE AUTHOR 'Impressive' The Times 'Funny and pitch perfect' Sunday Express 'I blink, bubble and boggle in amazed admiration' Stephen Fry 'These stories are a hit' Financial Times A small-town newspaper columnist with ol

• ISBN9781848091030
• Oprawamiękka
• Ilość stron512
• Rok wydania2010

Subtitled, }Allied Heroes, Nazi Thieves & The Greatest Treasure Hunt In History{. The story of the 8 Monuments Men, who tried to stop the theft of property, culture and heritage during WWII. Edited by Brett Witter.

• ISBN9781529158014
• Oprawamiękka
• Ilość stron608
• Rok wydania2022

'Fearless' MARK BILLINGHAM'Utterly compelling' HARRIET TYCE'Absolutely awesome' ALEX NORTH'Stunning' JANE CORRY 'A future classic' CHRISTOPHER FOWLER___________________________________SAND.A hostile world of burning sun.Outlines of several once-busy cities shimmer on the horizon, and in the distance a group of people - a family - walk towards us.Ahead lies shelter which they know they must reach before the light fails - as to be out after dark is to invite danger and almost certain death.To survive in this alien world of shifting sand, they must find an object hidden in or near water.But other families want it too. They are willing to fight for it.And you know that you may have to kill - just to say alive...

• ISBN9780099476436
• Oprawamiękka
• Ilość stron304
• Rok wydania2005

Robin und Prudence Merriot sind seit frühester Kindheit gute Geheimniskrämer und Strategen - kein Nachteil in diesen unruhigen Zeiten. So fällt es ihnen auch nicht schwer, eine reiche Erbin aus den Händen ihres Entführers zu befreien. Doch die hierfür begonnene Maskerade müssen sie nun bis zum bitteren Ende durchstehen. Spannend und herzergreifend: eine echte Georgette Heyer.

• ISBN9780099462392
• Oprawamiękka
• Ilość stron544
• Rok wydania1993

Nancy Friday's sexually and socially empowering international bestsellers My Secret Garden and Forbidden Flowers revealed that women possess erotic imaginations at least as inventive and powerful as those of men. Women on Top looks at a new generation of women and asks: what are women's sexual fantasies today? How have they responded to the changes brought about aby feminism, and the sexual freedom it provided? In a world wallpapered with erotic images, but which still denies them full sexual freedom, women are more determined than ever that they'll be 'nice girls' no longer. Explicit, iconoclastic, often shocking, these erotic stories - angry, lustful, tender and dark - blow apart the old social and sexual taboos. Nothing is forbidden.

• ISBN9780099481744
• Oprawamiękka
• Ilość stron400
• Rok wydania2006

Jacobs tells the story of his bizarre, hilarious and seemingly impossible quest to read the }Encyclopaedia Britannica{ from A-Z.

• ISBN9781804945759
• Oprawamiękka
• Ilość stron288
• Rok wydania2023

• ISBN9781787467576
• Oprawamiękka
• AutorPatterson James
• WydawnictwoCornerstone

At the wedding of the century, a brazen kidnapper steals the star of the show... Erin Easton's wedding in one of New York's biggest venues may have a TV crew documenting every extravagant detail, but when the bride disappears from the reception, it's no diva turn. Her dressing room is empty except for a blood-spattered wedding dress. Detective Kylie MacDonald of NYPD Red, already at the scene as a plus-one, brings in her partner, Detective Zach Jordan, to search for the missing bride. Unable to rule anything out, every A-list celebrity on the guest list has to be considered either a target of suspicion... Or a target.

• ISBN9780099551423
• Oprawamiękka
• Ilość stron368
• Rok wydania2014

This is the incredible rise and unbelievable fall of a woman whose energy and ambition is often overshadowed żeby Napoleon's military might. In this triumphant biography, Kate Williams tells Josephine's searing story, of sexual obsession, politics and surviving as a woman in a man's world. Abandoned in Paris aby her aristocratic husband, Josephine's future did not look promising. But while her friends and contemporaries were sent to the guillotine during the Terror that followed the Revolution, she survived prison and emerged as the doyenne of a wildly debauched party scene, surprising everybody when she encouraged the advances of a short, marginalised Corsican soldier, six years her junior. Josephine, the fabulous hostess and skilled diplomat, was the perfect consort to the ambitious but obnoxious Napoleon. With her aby his side, he became the greatest man in Europe, the Supreme Emperor; and she amassed a jewellery box with more diamonds than Marie Antoinette's. But as his fame grew, Napoleon became increasingly obsessed with his need for an heir and irritated with Josephine's extravagant spending. The woman who had enchanted France became desperate and jealous.Until, a divorcee aged forty-seven, she was forced to watch from the sidelines as Napoleon and his young bride produced a child.

• ISBN9780099591825
• Oprawamiękka
• Ilość stron400
• Rok wydania2016

The brilliantly compelling new biography of the treacherous and tyrannical King John, published to coincide with the 800th anniversary of Magna Carta. King John is familiar to everyone as the villain from the tales of Robin Hood - greedy, cowardly, despicable and cruel. But who was the man behind the legend? Was he truly a monster, or a capable ruler cursed aby ill luck? In this book, bestselling historian Marc Morris draws on contemporary bronicles and the king's own letters to bring the real John vividly to life. John was dynamic, inventive and relentless, but also a figure with terrible flaws. In two interwoven stories, we see how he went from being a youngest son with limited prospects to the ruler of the greatest dominion in Europe, an empire that stretched from the Scottish border to the Pyrenees. We discover how, having lost most of his lands in France, he battled for the rest of his life to win them back. His rise to power involved treachery, rebellion and murder.His reign saw oppression on an almost unprecedented scale: former friends hounded into exile and oblivion; Wales, Scotland and Ireland invaded; harsh fines and huge taxes, the greatest level of financial exploitation since the Norman Conquest. A quarrel with the pope led to the king being excommunicated and England being placed under Interdict; for six years, the church bells remained silent and the dead were buried in unconsecrated ground. John's tyrannical rule climaxed in conspiracy and revolt, and his leading subjects famously forced him to issue Magna Carta, a document binding him and his successors to behave better in future. The king's rejection of the charter led to civil war and foreign invasion, bringing his life to a disastrous close. Authoritative and dramatic, Marc Morris' King John offers a compelling portrait of an extraordinary king, whose reign marked a momentous turning point in the history of Britain and Europe. Contains a translation of Magna Carta: 1215.

• ISBN9781784751357
• Oprawamiękka
• AutorGabaldon Diana
• WydawnictwoCornerstone

Jamie Fraser is lying on the battlefield of Culloden, where he rises wounded, to face execution or imprisonment. Either prospect pales beside the pain of loss - his wife is gone. Forever. But sometimes forever is shorter than one thinks.

• ISBN9781804945773
• Oprawamiękka
• Ilość stron304
• Rok wydania2023

• ISBN9780099510826
• Oprawamiękka
• AutorJonathan Butterworth
• Ilość stron304

Beautifully illustrated, with gradually evolving maps offering an inventive visual glossary as the journey progresses, A Map of the Invisible provides an essential introduction to our world, and to particle physics.

• ISBN9781804944448
• Oprawamiękka
• Ilość stron400
• Rok wydania2024

• ISBN9781911720003
• Oprawamiękka
• Ilość stron192
• Rok wydania2024

• ISBN9781804944486
• Oprawamiękka
• Ilość stron400
• Rok wydania2024

• ISBN9781529152807
• Oprawatwarda
• Ilość stron400
• Rok wydania2024

• ISBN9781787460249
• Oprawamiękka
• Ilość stron432
• Rok wydania2018

Written with input from director Rian Johnson, this official adaptation of Star Wars: The Last Jedi expands on the film to include scenes from alternate versions of the script and other additional content.

• ISBN9780375700200
• Oprawamiękka
• Ilość stron160
• Rok wydania1998

Through this luminous, lively book, St. Francis's followers preserved his legend and those of his first disciples, combining stories of miracles with convincing--and often slyly humorous--portraits of men who were no less human for having been touched aby God.

• ISBN9781529909920
• Oprawatwarda
• Ilość stron384
• Rok wydania2024

• ISBN9780099416876
• Oprawamiękka
• Ilość stron736
• Rok wydania1997

Anthony Powell's brilliant twelve-novel sequence chronicles the lives of over three hundred characters, and is a unique evocation of life in twentieth-century England. It is unrivalled for its scope, its humour and the enormous pleasure it has given to generations. Volume 2 contains the second three novels in the sequence: At Lady Molly's; Casanova's Chinese Restaurant; The Kindly Ones

• ISBN9781529159417
• Oprawamiękka
• Ilość stron128
• Rok wydania2024

• ISBN9780099492269
• Oprawamiękka
• Ilość stron272
• Rok wydania2006

What in the world has the power to liberate women in Iran while provoking antagonism between Catholics and Protestants in Scotland, to lure Nigerians to the cold of the Ukraine while heating up class warfare in the US heartlands, and both profit local gangsters and create local - and international - celebrities? Foer presents an unexpected, uniquely revealing tour of the politics and culture of football from Milan to Tehran. He examines the game's role in sustaining ancient hatreds and rivalries (Serbia's Red Star and Croatia's Dinamo); in supporting the migration of players and the rise of the football oligarchs (such as Silvio Berlusconi, President of AC Milan - and of Italy); and in defending the virtues and vices of old-fashioned nationalism. As Foer brilliantly illuminates, the Balkan War, anti-Semitism, Jewish identity, racism, social integration, media manipulation, and American patriotism have all been influenced by, as well as have had a dramatic effect on, football.On his travels, Foer encounters a collection of fans that is stranger than fiction: from a British hooligan with a Jewish mother, a Nazi father and a career as a soldier of fortune, to a fan club in Serbia that turns into a brutal anti-Muslim paramilitary unit. The result is an unforgettable parade of uniquely memorable fans - each set into his - or her - unique political and cultural context.

• ISBN9781529150056
• Oprawatwarda
• Ilość stron496
• Rok wydania2022