Best Selling Books by David Goldblatt

Have all the football facts at your fingertipsLearn to shoot like Su�rez and dribble like Messi with The Football Book, the ultimate visual guide to planet football. Revised and updated to include details of all the stats, goal tallies and cup wins so you can now relive the excitement of the Brazil 2014 World Cup. You''ll discover the finest moments of the players, coaches and teams who have created football history and learn everything from match highlights to the inside stories on the players, managers and fans. Use The Football Bookto find out about the laws, the tactics, the science, and the art of the beautiful game. With a fantastic cover that feels just like a football, it''s a great gift for football lovers and sports enthusiasts alike.

"Die Olympischen Spiele sind das größte Spektakel der Welt. David Goldblatt erzählt ihre Geschichte von den antiken Vorläufern bis zu den Massenevents von heute. Er zeigt, wie die Zahl der Teilnehmer und Disziplinen immer weiter gewachsen ist. Er beleuchtet, wie die Spiele politisch instrumentalisiert wurden. Und er berichtet von den ersten Fernsehübertragungen, der zunehmenden Kommerzialisierung, Dopingproblemen und Bestechungsskandalen. Dabei vergisst Goldblatt nie den eigentlichen Gegenstand der Spiele: den Sport und seine herausragenden Athleten. ""Eines der besten Sportbücher, das je geschrieben wurde."" (Kirkus) ""Eine exzellente, flotte, anekdotenreiche Geschichte der Spiele der Neuzeit."" (The Times) ""Goldblatt ist wohl der führende englischsprachige Sporthistoriker. Dieses Buch ist erhellend, wohlunterrichtet, unvoreingenommen, schön zu lesen, temporeich erzählt und stellt die Spiele in ihren gesellschaftlichen und politischen Kontext."" (Financial Times) ""Eine lebhafte Geschichte der Spiele, die ihnen den Nimbus nimmt, geschrieben mit der Intelligenz und dem sozialen Verständnis, wie man sie von Goldblatt kennt, mit einem hervorragenden Auge für die entlarvenden Details."" (Guardian) ""Ein ambitioniertes Buch, das auch abschrecken könnte, aber Goldblatt ist ein kompetenter Führer. Sein Buch zeichnet das Verständnis und die Reichweite aus, wie man sie von seiner heldenhaften Geschichte des Fußballs The Ball Is Round kennt."" (Observer) ""Eine elegante und anspruchsvolle neue Studie."" (The Economist) ""Eine Hochgeschwindigkeitsrodelfahrt durch die Geschichte."" (New Statesman) ''Goldblatts detailreiche Recherche der politischen und finanziellen Betrügereien der heutigen olympischen Spiele ist beeindruckend. Seine Analyse ist faszinierend zu lesen."" (Wall Street Journal)"

Visual guide to soccer skills, rules, tactics, and coaching.

Following a series of portraits of his compatriots made at the beginning of the 1970s, photographer David Goldblatt, for a very short and intense period of time, naturally turned to focusing on peoples'' particulars and individual body languages "as affirmations or embodiments of their selves." Goldblatt''s affinity was no accident: Working at his father''s men''s outfitting store in the 1950s, his awareness of posture, gesture and proportion-technical as it was-formed early and would accompany him throughout his life. In this series we see hands resting on laps, crossed legs, the curved backs of sleepers on a lawn at midday, their fingers and feet relaxed, pausing from their usual occupations. This deeply contemplative work is framed by Ingrid de Kok''s poetry. The photographs in Particulars were taken beginning in 1975, and the first edition of the book was published by Goodman Gallery, Johannesburg, in 2003. Goldblatt has revised Particulars for this new Steidl edition.

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 Shankly） 創立自己的球賽規則，是愛爾蘭和蘇格蘭能否脫離英格蘭掌控的指標 踢出自己的球風，象徵了南美洲、非洲國家的民族精神 一九五四年的世界盃冠軍，打造了西德的經濟奇蹟 奧斯曼帝國的末代蘇丹及後來的中國文化大革命，都下令禁止人民踢球 足球為什麼這麼重要？正史又為何總是忽略足球？ 足球是最全球化的文化活動，影響力跨越種族、性別、宗教、時區……，透過踢球、觀戰、組織團體和追蹤賽事等行動，人群界定了彼此的分際，建立了自我的認同。因此沒有哪一段歷史可以不談足球，也沒有哪一個足球活動從當代社會中抽離了以後，還能描述其發展過程及意義。 運動社會學學者大衛?哥德布拉特補足了這個世界史的缺口，闡述在歷史長河中，足球如何影響政治、經濟、社會和文化層面，如何一步步型塑現代社會的樣貌，以及在足總弊案頻傳、分離主義盛行的今天，足球的未來會如何，而我們的未來又該怎麼走？ 或許把世界置於足球的象徵之下，一如把自己攤在球賽的變化無常之前，願我們能有那樣的胸襟和智慧，把球穩穩控在腳下。 ★專文推薦 石明謹│資深足球球評、詩人、社會觀察家 ★ 熱血推薦 宋世祥│【百工裡的人類學家】創辦人 蔣竹山│東華大學歷史學系副教授 魏寶生│凱基銀行董事長 ★各界讚譽 「足球之所以有其魅力，是因為勝負有著高度的不確定性，但是同時擁有公平、普及的精神，對足球的熱愛，是人類對於混沌中秩序的追求。翻開這本《足球是圓的》，你會發現它帶給你的不只是足球的歷史軌跡，更是人類的社會學、經濟學、理則學——看懂了足球，我們也就看懂世界、看懂了人生。」 ——石明謹│資深足球球評、詩人、社會觀察家 「足球早已不單是一項運動，更是全球通行的語言。這本《足球是圓的》帶我們回顧足球的歷史，以及歷史上足球運動發展的重要階段和社會脈絡。這本書讓足球迷們不只欣賞球場上的球技，更帶我們看到背後在時間長河中積累起來文化與情感，真正走入足球的『世界』。」 ——宋世祥│【百工裡的人類學家】創辦人 「哥德布拉特不只是當今最優秀的足球歷史學家，可能是史上最傑出的一位。」 ——《週日泰晤士報》（Sunday Times） 「足球用驚人的能力征服了全世界，這是貨真價實的歷史。」 ——《獨立報》（Independent） 「這絕對是個全球化的現象，卻一直無人能有辦法把它寫下來。如今哥德布拉特做到了！這本卓越的書成為衡量這類研究的唯一指標。」 ——《衛報》（Guardian） 「哥德布拉特用幽默又熱情的筆觸寫下這本重磅鉅作，整本書中貫穿著各場重要的賽事紀錄……這本書無疑成就非凡。」 ——《泰晤士報文學增刊》（Times Literary Supplement） 「這本近千頁的大作，雄心萬丈地想讓人印象深刻。所有喜歡足球的人都會愛上這本書——只是小心不要砸到腳了！」 ——《每日電信報》（The Daily Telegraph） 「充滿智性的書，輕鬆好讀又發人深省。」 ——《今日歷史》（History Today） 「無可挑剔的學術研究，令人印象深刻，裡頭包含了所有我們需要了解的足球故事，告訴我們這個十九世紀英格蘭公學校的遊戲，如何成為今日全球性的產業。」 ——《週日獨立報》（Independent on Sunday）? 出版社 商周出版 (城邦)?

‘David Goldblatt is possibly the best football historian there has ever been’. Dominic Sandbrook ‘David Goldblatt is the greatest British sportswriter of the 21st century ... Injury Time is an absolute classic.’ James Montague, author of The Billionaires Club and Engulfed Football, history and the state of the nation – and why it matters

This is a luxurious box containing two books, a large book on Johannesburg,TJ, with astonishing pictures by David Goldblatt, and a smaller second book,Double Negative, with a novel by Ivan Vladislavic. This collection is an exceptional duo-edition in a special format--part fiction and part photo-essay. The book is about Johannesburg and about life in the city, home, habit, change, memory, mortality, friendship, ghosts, gardens, walking, falling, selling, and stealing. It is a partial account of both authors'' lives in their neighborhoods; it is a selective self-portrait. David Goldblatt is the recipient of Henri Cartier-Bresson Award 2009 for this work. Ivan Vladislavic is one of the most talented authors of South Africa.

The Olympics is the world''s biggest sporting event - and it moves centre stage for London 2012. Yet the sports the world is familiar with - football, cricket, rugby, baseball, motor sports - are either missing or have a token presence. In their place are games that most of us have not a clue how to play or to watch. Which is where this witty, insightful book comes into play, offering the back story behind each Olympics sport and, by means of fiendishly clever diagrams and prose, explaining the rules and finer points. Once you''ve read David Goldblatt and Johnny Acton''s accounts, you''ll be on tenterhooks to see whether the Danish or the Koreans triumph at handball, just what the Italian fencers are up to, and if Greco-Roman wrestling really is like a game of chess.

''For the first time in one volume, the complete sequence of Bosman''s "In die Voorkamer" sketches. Published to a weekly deadline over 1950 - 51 as hilarious satires of the issues of the day ... These deft conversation pieces, set in Jurie Steyn''s backveld Marico post office, raise the art of idle talk to a level unequalled in South African humour.''--Back cover.

This book presents photos by David Goldblatt taken between 1952 and 2016 of Fietas in Johannesburg, with an emphasis on his 1976-77 images of the suburb''s last Indian residents before they were forcibly removed under apartheid. Known affectionately by its inhabitants as Fietas, though officially called Pageview, this was one of the city''s few "non-racial" suburbs, where Malay, African, Chinese, Indian and a few white people lived. Composed of narrow streets and small houses of two rooms and a kitchen for up to 15 people, here different races and religions formed a strong, safe community where children played in the streets. There were two mosques, Hindu, Tamil and Muslim schools, cricket, soccer and bridge clubs, and 170 shops--customers came from all over the Witwatersrand. In 1948 the National Party came to power and made the clearance of all "non-white" inhabitants of Pageview an immediate objective. Some 5,000 Africans and other people of color were evicted or "persuaded" to leave by the promise of better townships, while under the Group Areas Act the Indians were to move to Lenasia, an apartheid creation 35 kilometers from the city. For 20 years the remaining Indians fought against removal, principally in the courts, but in 1977 police and their dogs finally forced them out, except for a few. Almost all buildings were destroyed and in their place new houses for lower-income whites built. Today these are occupied by a mix of people from Africa, Europe and Asia; no sense of community remains except that of the homeless sheltering in the spaces left by demolition.

Nesta obra é explorado o contributo de algumas teorias sociais contemporâneas; as origens e os efeitos da degradação do ambiente nas sociedades modernas, e as condições sob as quais as forças políticas podem ser mobilizadas com êxito contra a degradação do ambiente. Relativamente à primeira questão é quase polémico afirmar que as transformações de ordem económica e demográfica são causas relevantes de degradação do ambiente. Contudo, vale a pena examinar, com mais atenção do que por vezes se presta, os mecanismos exactos que estas forças põem em movimento. Além de considerar estas vias de explicação já gastas, o autor examina, também o duplo papel do poder político e cultural ao favorecer a degradação do ambiente e, em raras ocasiões, ao tentar pôr-lhe termo. A emergência de movimentos políticos que tentam impedir a destruição do ambiente é um dos efeitos mais significativos da actual degradação do ambiente. Se estes movimentos conseguem, ou não cumprir a sua vocação política é outra questão. O autor, nesta obra, procura reflectir sobre as questões através de um estudo da obra de quatro sociólogos contemporâneos; Anthony Giddens, André Gorz, Jurgen Habermas e Ulrich Beck. Existem bons motivos para se usar de prudência nesta abordagem. Em primeiro lugar, a herança teórica que nos foi legada pela teoria social clássica tem algumas limitações substanciais, tanto no âmbito do estudo das relações entre sociedades e os seus ambientes, como no âmbito das origens de uma política de ambiente. Em segundo lugar, o estudo da relação entre o ambiente e as sociedades humanas é necessariamente uma matéria interdisciplinar; confiar numa única disciplina, embora rica e variada, seria uma atitude profundamente restritiva. Em terceiro lugar, os quatro escritores em que o autor se concentrou não foram os únicos teóricos contemporâneos a dedicar atenção à relação entre os mundos social e natural, ou à origem e futuro dos movimentos sociais ambientalistas. Em defesa desta abordagem, o autor admite que as bases da teoria social contemporânea do século XIX prestam uma ajuda bastante limitada nas respostas às suas perguntas e que, de qualquer modo, teremos de recorrer a outras disciplinas. Mesmo assim, nesta obra, tenciona contudo o autor analisar, se bem que sucintamente, a herança da teoria social clássica e, em particular, a obra de Karl Marx, Max Weber e Émile Durkheim. Ao fazê-lo, pretende que, apesar de problemas consideráveis, a teoria social contemporânea constitui apoio quanto às questões que lhe interessam.

David Goldblatt’s lens has been zooming in on the South African social and political scenario for half a century. His sharp chronological and political insight can once again be observed as a primary and semi-permanent exhibition at the Red Location Museum: It depicts portraits of activists from the Port Elizabeth and Uitenhage area (now Nelson Mandel Bay) taken during 1990. These images were originally intended for the Human Rights Trust’s magazine - “Monitor” - but were never published. It is important to note that the choice of activists captured, depended on their availability for the photography session. This exhibition can therefore not be perceived as a comprehensive reflection on the local struggle activists and leaders from that era.