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Verlag: Profile Books Ltd Mai 2018, 2018
ISBN 10: 1781259224ISBN 13: 9781781259221
Anbieter: Smartbuy, Einbeck, Deutschland
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - What do we think about when we think about football Football is about so many things: memory, history, place, social class, gender (especially masculinity, but increasingly femininity too), family identity, tribal identity, national identity, the nature of groups. It is essentially collaborative, even socialist, yet it exists in a sump of greed, corruption, capitalism and autocracy.Philosopher Simon Critchley attempts to make sense of it all, and to establish a system of aesthetics - even poetics - to show what is beautiful in the beautiful game. He explores, too, how the experience of watching football opens a particular dimension in time; how its magic wards off oblivion; how its dramas play out national identity and non-identity; how we spectators, watching football with tragic pensiveness, participate in the play. And of course, as a football fan, he writes about his heroes and villains: about Zidane and Cruyff, Clough and Revie, Shankly and Klopp. 208 pp. Deutsch.
Verlag: Profile Books Ltd Mai 2018, 2018
ISBN 10: 1788160126ISBN 13: 9781788160124
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Shortlisted for The Man Booker International Prize 2018A Hungarian interpreter obsessed with waterfalls, at the edge of the abyss in his own mind, wanders the chaotic streets of Shanghai. A traveller, reeling from the sights and sounds of Varanasi, encounters a giant of a man on the banks of the Ganges ranting on the nature of a single drop of water. A child labourer in a Portuguese marble quarry wanders off from work one day into a surreal realm utterly alien from his daily toils.In The World Goes On, a narrator first speaks directly, tells twenty-one unforgettable stories, then bids farewell ('for here I would leave this earth and these stars, because I would take nothing with me'). As László Krasznahorkai himself explains: 'Each text is about drawing our attention away from this world, speeding our body toward annihilation, and immersing ourselves in a current of thought or a narrative.' The World Goes On is another masterpiece by the winner of the 2015 Man Booker International Prize. 'The excitement of his writing,' Adam Thirlwell proclaimed in the New York Review of Books, 'is that he has come up with his own original forms-there is nothing else like it in contemporary literature.' 320 pp. Deutsch.
Verlag: Profile Books Ltd Mai 2018, 2018
ISBN 10: 1781257329ISBN 13: 9781781257326
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A wonderful little book about a great man'Tim Krabbé, author of The Rider'If you don't know Fournel, then you're missing out, if you don't know Anquetil, then you don't know cycling.'David MillarI don't love the bike, the bike loves me.It's going to pay for it.For the young Paul Fournel, Jacques Anquetil was the only rider that mattered: arrogant, iconoclastic, elegant and victorious . His aristocratic demeanour and relaxed attitude to rules, his womanising and frank admissions of doping appalled 1960s French society, even as his five Tour de France wins enthralled it. In this stunningly original biography, Fournel blends the story of Anquetil's life with scenes from his own, with the passion of a fan and the eye of a poet. It is a classic of cycling literature.Anquetil, Alone is translated by Nick Caistor.'An unconventional take on a fascinating character. This is not your standard cycling biography - and all the better for it.'Gary Imlach 144 pp. Englisch.
Verlag: Profile Books Ltd Mai 2018, 2018
ISBN 10: 1781259038ISBN 13: 9781781259030
Anbieter: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Deutschland
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Based on previously unseen documents from the Tsarist military archive, this new history of the Russian Revolution proposes that the support of bordering countries seeing more benefit in the communist side's fortunes was integral to the revolution and ensuing power structure's success.
Verlag: Profile Books Ltd Mai 2018, 2018
ISBN 10: 1781256837ISBN 13: 9781781256831
Anbieter: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Deutschland
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This well-researched debut from the presenter of BBC2's 'Victorian Bakers' looks at Queen Victoria's appetite for life through the lens of her apparently formidable appetite for food, telling the story of the development of British culinary culture along the way.