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9 reviews
Simon Kuper

Orion (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd ), 2003

The best football book written in the past 10 years
This book is written in a style that will appeal to the lazy sunday reader in search for a funny read about football and politics, or the serious academic seeking answers to how a nation's culture manifests itself in the football style it adopts. Kuper's book is simply outstanding. In it, we find out why the Dutch hate the Germans, the secret behind the success of Dynamo Kyev, and why anyone ...

Hans van der Meer: European Fields
Simon Kuper

SteidlMack, 2006

At the beginning of the 1995 soccer season, Hans van der Meer set out to take photographs of the game that dodged the clich d traditions of modern sports photography. In an attempt to record the sport in its original form--a field, two goals and 22 players--he sought matches at the bottom end of the amateur leagues. He avoided tight telescopic details and the hyperbole of action photography, pulled back from the central subject of the pitch, and ...

Soccer Against the Enemy: How the World's Most Popular Sport Starts and Fuels Revolutions and Keeps Dictators ...

8 reviews
Simon Kuper

Nation Books, 2006

Soccer Against the Enemy: a great read for travelling
Simon Kuper's first book "Soccer Against the Enemy" is one of the best books about football/soccer I've ever read. It's hard to believe Kuper was only 22/23 when he wrote it. But then again perhaps you'd have to be that young to travel to all the obscure corners of the globe he did. Kuper interviews football heroes in Africa, gangsters in Russia, East German fans, Brazilian coaches and just ...

Power, Corruption and Pies: The Best Football Writing from WSC (When Saturday Comes)

Mainstream Publishing, 1999

When Saturday Comes is one of the leading football magazines. This book presents a collection of some of the best football writing since the 1980s, by authors such as Harry Pearson, William Hill, Nick Hornby, and Simon Kuper.

Perfect Pitch: Dirt v. 4: Best New Writing on Football

Headline Review, 1999

A collection from authors as varied as Roddy Doyle (on children and football), Hunter Davis (on Igor Stimac), Ceri Evans (on Oxford United, Oxford University), Simon Buckby (on Labour's game), Phil Crossley (on fields and screens), and Simon Veksner (on tales from advertising).

Ajax, the Dutch, the War: Football in Europe During the Second World War

3 reviews
Simon Kuper

Orion (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd ), 2003

Great book. Engrossing and a quick read
I bought this book while I was in Amsterdam and began and finished the book on the flight home. The book was enlightening, dispelling many myths and opening my eyes to cultural issues in Holland that are hidden to non Dutch speakers.

Magnum Soccer

1 review
Simon Kuper

Phaidon Press, 2005

A Beautiful Homage To the Beautiful Game!
An absolutely beautiful collection of about 200 black and white and color photographs celebrating the global sport known as football. Since its founding by a collective of photojournalists in the '40s Magnum has been one of the world's premier photo agencies, so it's not surprising that their archives have yielded such an array of compelling photos of the beautiful game. Few of the photos are of ...

Productivity, Technology and Economic Growth

Springer, 2000

Productivity, Technology and Economic Growth presents a selection of recent research advances on long term economic growth. While the contributions stem from both economic history, macro- and microeconomics and the economics of innovation, all papers depart from a common viewpoint: the key factor behind long term growth is productivity, and the latter is primarily driven by technological change. Most contributions show implicitly or ...