David Goldblatt: 14 books

“A people’s history of the Olympics.”—New York Times Book Review A Boston Globe Best Book of the Year A Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Book of the Year The Games is best-selling sportswriter David Goldblatt’s sweeping, definitive history of the modern Olympics. Goldblatt...

This exciting collection of David Goldblatt's essays, available for the first time in one volume, uses the metaphor of ventriloquism to help understand a variety of art world phenomena. It examines how the vocal vacillation between ventriloquist and dummy works within the roles of artist, artwork...

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The Game of Our Lives is a masterly portrait of contemporary Britain through the lens of soccer. In the last two decades soccer in the United Kingdom has made the transition from a peripheral dying sport to the very center of British popular culture, from an economic basket-case to a booming entertainment...

The definitive book about soccer, from the author of The Games: A Global History of the Olympics. There may be no cultural practice more global than soccer. Rites of birth and marriage are infinitely diverse, but the rules of soccer are universal. No world religion can match its geographical...

No nation is as closely identified with the game of soccer as Brazil. For over a century, Brazil's people, politicians, and poets have found in soccer the finest expression of the nation's collective potential. Since the team's dazzling performance in 1938 at the World Cup in France, Brazilian soccer...

The must-have guide to the Summer Olympic Games This summer, millions of Americans will tune into the Olympic Games, the largest and most popular sporting event in the world. Yet while it's easy to be fascinated by agile gymnasts, poised equestrians, and perfectly synchronized swimmers, few...

Travel through time to witness some of the most extraordinary and colorful events in world history with this unusual and entertaining guide that includes fascinating cultural details from each period, including what and where to eat, what to wear, how to act like a local, and most importantly, how...

Aesthetics: A Reader in Philosophy of the Arts, fourth edition, contains a selection of ninety-six readings organized by individual art forms as well as a final section of readings in philosophical aesthetics that cover multiple art forms. Sections include topics that are familiar to students such...

This book establishes whether contemporary social theory can help us understand the structural origins of environmental degradation and environmental politics.

Co-authored by three prominent philosophers of art, Jazz and the Philosophy of Art is the first book in English to be exclusively devoted to philosophical issues in jazz. It covers such diverse topics as minstrelsy, bebop, Voodoo, social and tap dancing, parades, phonography, musical forgeries,...

◆第27屆William Hill年度最佳運動圖書獎◆《衛報》、《新政治家》2015年度選書◆研究21世紀之交不列顛歷史的必讀經典！不懂足球，別說你懂不列顛！足球是反映英格蘭文化、經濟和國民幸福的最重要指標，足球精神更是社會的中流砥柱，帶領我們走過全球化挑戰與國內分裂危機。「當大英帝國終究被歷史洪流吞沒後，只會留下兩項遺產，一是髒話Fuck...

少了足球，世界史就不完整！ 世界盃是史上最多人觀看的活動，是唯一真正由國際大眾共同參與的時刻…… 生活在全球化的世界中，你怎麼能不懂足球！ 「有的人認為足球攸關生死，這種態度我聽了很失望，我可以告訴你，足球遠遠超越生死。」 ——比爾．香克利（Bill...

少了足球，世界史就不完整！ 世界盃是史上最多人觀看的活動，是唯一真正由國際大眾共同參與的時刻…… 生活在全球化的世界中，你怎麼能不懂足球！ 「有的人認為足球攸關生死，這種態度我聽了很失望，我可以告訴你，足球遠遠超越生死。」 ——比爾．香克利（Bill...