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From the bestselling author of Chums comes an explorer's tale of a naïf getting to understand a complex, glittering, beautiful and often cruel city. Simon Kuper has experienced Paris both as a human being and as a journalist. He has grown middle-aged there, eaten the croissants, taken his children to countless football matches on freezing Saturday mornings in the city's notorious banlieues, and in 2015 lived through two terrorist attacks on hi...

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Dies ist die  Geschichte, wie der FC Barcelona zum erfolgreichsten Fußballverein der Welt wurde - und wie diese Position nun auf dem Spiel steht. Mit 250 Millionen Fans in den sozialen Medien und vier Millionen Besuchern im Camp-Nou-Stadion pro Jahr ist es kein Wunder, dass das Vereinsmotto "Mas que un club"lautet. Aber das war nicht immer so. Simon Kuper hat für sein preisgekröntes Buch recherchiert, wie in den letzten 30 Jahren aus einem kat...

Magnificent... Freakonomics for football' - Guardian

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Soccernomics is written with an economist's brain and a soccer writer's skill, and it applies high-powered analytical tools to everyday soccer topics, looking at data and revealing counterintuitive truths about the world's most loved game. It all adds up to a revolutionary new way of looking at soccer that could change the way the game is played"--

With rare and unrivaled access, bestselling coauthor of Soccernomics and longtime Financial Times journalist Simon Kuper tells the story of how FC Barcelona became the most successful club in the world-and how that era is now endingFC Barcelona is not just the world's highest grossing sports club, it is simply one of the most influential organizations on the planet. At last count, it had approximately 214 million social media followers, more t...

With rare and unrivaled access, bestselling coauthor of Soccernomics and longtime Financial Times journalist Simon Kuper tells the story of how FC Barcelona became the most successful club in the world-and how that era is now endingFC Barcelona is not just the world's highest grossing sports club, it is simply one of the most influential organizations on the planet. At last count, it had approximately 214 million social media followers, more t...

From the author of bestselling Soccernomics, this tour de force, the result of decades of investigation, reveals the truth behind the myths and legends of the world's greatest football club.

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER AND TIMES BEST BOOK OF 2022. Eleven of the fifteen postwar British prime ministers went to Oxford. In Chums, Simon Kuper traces how the rarefied and privileged atmosphere of this narrowest of talent pools - and the friendships and worldviews it created - shaped modern Britain. A damning look at the university clique-turned-Commons majority that will blow the doors of Westminster wide open and change the way you look...

When the fate of the nation is in your hands, who do you call?

This is a masterfully written history of the world's greatest football club. Més que un book!' - GARY LINEKERFrom the bestselling co-author of Soccernomics comes the story of how FC Barcelona became the most successful football club in the world - and how that envied position now hangs in the balance.Barça is not just the world's most popular sports club, it is simply one of the most influential organisations on the planet. With almost 250 mil...

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A 'humane and informative' (according to John Le Carre) biography of George Blake, the most notorious double agent in British history. The Happy Traitor is the work of many years' writing, research and unparalleled access, but was embargoed until Blake's death in Moscow in December 2020.

From the author of bestselling Soccernomics, this tour de force, the result of decades of investigation, reveals the truth behind the myths and legends of the world's greatest football club.

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L'Ajax era la squadra del ghetto di Amsterdam. Ogni domenica, le bancarelle del mercato ebraico chiudevano in tempo per andare a vedere la partita. Poi è arrivato Hitler. Kuper, giornalista e scrittore olandese, racconta la tragedia della Shoah da un'angolazione inedita: quella delle pagine sportive dei vecchi giornali, delle storie dei tifosi e atleti sopravvissuti, degli archivi delle squadre olandesi. L'utilizzo del calcio da parte di Hitle...

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Questa è la storia politica e sociale dello sport più popolare del mondo. La prospettiva mondiale di Kuper diventa un racconto sul campo che tiene insieme il consenso a Mussolini e l'ascesa di Berlusconi, l'indipendentismo basco e catalano, lo scontro religioso in Irlanda tra Celtic e Rangers, i traumi della Seconda guerra mondiale tra Germania e Olanda, la contrapposizione tra squadre borghesi e popolari. Perché il calcio è molto più di un gi...

In his national bestseller, Soccernomics, Simon Kuper pioneered a new way of looking at soccer, the world's most popular game, through his witty and meticulous use of data. In Soccer Men, Kuper explores the heart and soul of the sport by getting up close and personal with soccer's greatest players and coaches. An inquiry into the genius and hubris of the modern game, Soccer Men details the lives of international stars such as Arsene Wenger, Jo...