New Releases by David Goldblatt

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

For more than 50 years Goldblatt has produced comprehensive series of photographs dealing with poignant issues of life in South Africa. ''Intersections Intersected'' features approximately 30 pairs of images, each set composed of one black and white and one colour image, taken before and after 1994. The series of photographs, many presented here for the first time, were taken in the same place that was visited during the Apartheid regime and then later, after its fall. The choice of pairs was made by the artist who has also contributed extended documentary captions relating to each one of the images. In addition, the publication is also accompanied by essays from Ivor Platt and Ulrich Loock.

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.

The definitive book about football. There may be no cultural practice more global than soccer. Rites of birth and marriage are infinitely diverse, but the rules of football are universal. No world religion can match its geographical scope. The single greatest simultaneous human collective experience is the World Cup final. In this extraordinary tour de force, David Goldblatt tells the full story of football''s rise from chaotic folk ritual to the world''s most popular sport-now poised to fully establish itself in the USA. Already celebrated internationally, The Ball Is Round illuminates football''s role in the political and social histories of modern societies, but never loses sight of the beauty, joy, and excitement of the game itself.

David Goldblatt, renowned South African photographer, got 2006 Hasselblad award, the most important of the world.

This is the first true survey of soccer around the world--from its origins in the 19th century, to the national, league, and club standings in the 2002-3 season. Included are exciting photographs, graphics, and illustrated charts.

Le seul guide annuel vraiment complet. Les résultats, les statistiques, les faits, les anecdotes, les grands dossiers... sur la saison 2003-04 dans le monde entier.

Embracing the fanatical interest in soccer, World Soccer Yearbook 2003-4 examines the game on a global level. Where other books have been club-based, league based, or specific to national teams, this is the first true survey of soccer around the world--from its origins in the 19th century, to the national, league, and club standings in the 2002-3 season. Exciting action-photographs, dynamic graphics, and illustrated charts take a refreshing and innovative approach to illustrating the world''s most popular sport.

For Gooners, Toffees, Cottagers, Pilgrims, Red Devils, Saints and football fans everywhere - this is an up-to-date guide to the beautiful game.

Thousands of football statistics are brought to life with illustrations and special features in this text. Every major league and international competition is covered, including: La Liga; the UEFA Cup 2002; and the European Champions League 2002.

A comprehensive guide to soccer, discussing its origins, the World Cup, and the Olympic Games, and looking at how the sport has developed in nations around the world.

Precise in description, Goldblatt''s photographs are also acute in historical and political perception. They provide a sense of the texture of daily life, and an important piece of missing information regarding life under apartheid in South Africa. Susan Kismaric

This text reflects aspects of an era of South African history and culture in photographic and written form. The book grew out of David Goldblatt''s desire to explore South Africa''s structural heritage, to put on film what seemed so immediately and potently eloquent of the civilisation we had built.

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.