The great footballers and coaches are rarely glimpsed from up close. They shield themselves from the tabloids, hide their personalities behind professionalism, and in the words of the cliche, 'do their talking on the pitch'. This book gets up close to them. The Football Men is not a series of celebrity profiles, and it doesn't attempt to unearth secrets in the players' private...(展开全部)

Learn to bend it like Beckham and dribble like Ronaldinho with this ultimate visual guide to planet football. Open up the tactile padded cover and experience the excitement, the passion and the glory of arguably the world's greatest sport - football. You'll relive the finest moments of the players, coaches, and teams who have created football history and learn everything from m...(展开全部)

Throughout the world, football is a potent force in the lives of billions of people. Focusing national, political and cultural identities, football is the medium through which the world's hopes and fears, passions and hatreds are expressed. Simon Kuper travelled to 22 countries from South Africa to Italy, from Russia to the USA, to examine the way football has shaped them. ...(展开全部)

Throughout the world, football is a potent force in the lives of billions of people. Focusing national, political and cultural identities, football is the medium through which the world's hopes and fears, passions and hatreds are expressed. Simon Kuper travelled to 22 countries from South Africa to Italy, from Russia to the USA, to examine the way football has shaped them. ...(展开全部)

*Now with a new afterword containing never-before-seen research on the identity of the spy ring’s most secret member, Agent 355 “This is my kind of history book. Get ready. Here’s the action.” —BRAD MELTZER, bestselling author of The Fifth Assassin and host of Decoded When George Washington beat a hasty retreat from New York City in August 1776, many thought the American Revolu...(展开全部)

Levi wrote of the moral collapse that occurred in Auschwitz and the fallibility of human memory that allows such atrocities to recur. Levi's last book published before his death in 1987.

Levi wrote of the moral collapse that occurred in Auschwitz and the fallibility of human memory that allows such atrocities to recur. Levi's last book published before his death in 1987.

In September 1975 Dannion Brinkley was talking on the telephone during a thunderstorm when he was struck by lightning and 'died'. He was clinically dead for more than 20 minutes. But between leaving his body and returning to it, he had an extraordinary experience. He visited a spiritual realm and was brought before 13 angelic instructors in what he describes as 'a cathedral of ...(展开全部)

On September 17,1975,after being electrocuted by a bolt of lightning,Dannion Brinkley died. When he revived twenty-eight minutes later in a morgue, he had the story of a lifetime to tell- a profoundly moving account of what happened to him during his near-death experience.It is a tale of a dark tunnel, a crystal city, and a "cathedral of knowledge" where thirteen angels shared ...(展开全部)

《1984》描写了未来社会即1984年大洋国一个普通人的日常生活。在大洋国，权力高度集中在“党”英社的手中，到处张贴着党的领袖老大哥的画像，几乎到处都安有电屏幕，思想警察神出鬼没，人们主要指党员，无时无刻不在被监视、被监听，连自由地思想都是一种罪。主人公温斯顿·史密斯在真理部从事篡改历史的工作，他对所处的社会和老大哥渐渐地产生了怀疑，在与另一名党员朱莉雅秘密恋爱后，逐渐成为思想犯，被思想警察逮捕……全书文笔犀利冷峻，以惊人的敏锐洞察力、严密的逻辑推理和丰富的想象力刻画了未来极权主义社会的面貌，警醒世人提防这种预想中的黑暗成为现实。