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If you're 18, love Beckham and can bend a ball like him, the world's your oyster right? Wrong. If you're Jess – 18, Indian and a girl – you can forget it. Her wedding-obsessed parents have quite different ideas for her. But Jess joins a ladies football team and gets spotted by a talent scout." This is a book that will appeal to both girls and boys. It is the entertaining and inspiring story of a girl who is determined to follow her dream. It also deals with serious matters, such as the culture clashes that many young Asians have to live with. Author: Narinder Dhami. (167 pages)
Level: 8.-9. klasse.

“The Story of How Brand Beckham was Built”:
New edition! There is no one quite like David Beckham: brilliant footballer, dedicated athlete, fashion model, global icon and all-round celebrity! But Beckham the brand? Well, yes. This book shows David Beckham in a new light: as a man who has harnessed his skills and his growing fame to market himself in the same professional and disciplined way that a successful company markets its brand. This is the story of a new breed of sportsman: one who is as comfortable with the trappings of marketing, fashion and the media as he is with team strips, playing surfaces and training grounds. By looking at the key choices David Beckham has made on and off the pitch, this book helps us understand how he has achieved his phenomenal commercial success. It provides fresh insights for readers who want to learn more about branding. (202 pages)
Level: HH

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What in the world has the power to liberate women in Iran while provoking antagonism between Catholics and Protestants in Scotland, to heat up class warfare in the US heartlands, to profit local gangsters and create local — and international — celebrities? Franklin Foer tours the politics and culture of football from Milan to Tehran. He examines the game’s role in sustaining ancient hatreds and rivalries (Serbia's Red Star and Croatia's Dinamo); in supporting the migration of players and the rise of the football oligarchs (such as Silvio Berlusconi, President of AC Milan); and in defending the virtues and vices of old-fashioned nationalism. As Foer points out, the Balkan War, anti-Semitism, Jewish identity, racism, social integration, media manipulation, and American patriotism have all been influenced by, or had a dramatic effect on, football. On his travels, Foer encounters a collection of fans that is stranger than fiction, not least a fan club in Serbia that turns into a brutal anti-Muslim paramilitary unit. The result is an unforgettable parade of uniquely memorable fans, each set into his — or her — unique political and cultural context. Perhaps football doesn't fully explain the world, but Foer has written a witty, insightful snapshot of world football. Whether you use excerpts or the whole book, there are lots of good things here: a grotesque game in Theresienstadt concentration camp; fascinating interviews on the Rangers-Celtic rivalry; Iranian women struggling against strict edicts to attend matches; a short description of his own upbringing, describing why his liberal, middle-class parents, living in a prosperous suburb of Washington DC, pushed him towards playing soccer rather than basketball, baseball or American football: because “soccer came to represent the fundamental tenets of yuppie parenting, the spirit of Sesame Street and Dr Benjamin Spock.” (255 pages)
Level: Gymnasiet etc/Library/Depot/A great resource for interdisciplinary projects about sport or globalisation

This debut collection of stories (also known as Rope Burns) by 70-year-old boxing cut man F.X. Toole explores the challenges, glory, humanity and complex relationships of the world of American boxing. Toole's 25 years of experience helps him to write with a fine authority and tight prose about this world. His novella "Million $$$ Baby," the best story in the book, begins like an old pulp story with the grumpy veteran trainer and the eager would-be student; then Toole gives it a fresh angle by making the boxer an innocent young woman from the Ozarks. It becomes a lacerating account of a courageous, endearing hillbilly woman fighter and her sad fate. "The Money Look" is a great turning-the-tables story about a cynical crook of a fighter; "Black Jew" is a tale of humble ambition woven with the temptation of big money. "Fightin' in Philly" is a moving tale of the price to be paid for the ambition to be a title fighter. Another innocent torn up by the fight game is portrayed in "Frozen Water." (235 pages)
Level: B

This book examines the importance of sport within British society, from participation in sporting activites in schools to the 2012 London Olympics. Issues such as racisim, homophobia and football hooliganism are looked at, as well as the debates surrounding footballers' wages and the use of performance-enhancing drugs.

• The majority of football fans attending matches have heard homophobic abuse on the terraces
• There were 3,752 arrests related to violence at football grounds during the 2008-09 season – down two per cent on the year before
• A survey showed that people in Britain think that a fair average salary for a professional footballer would be £62,000 per year
• Drugs have been used to enhance performance since the Greeks and Romans

Level: 8.-10. kl./AVU + HG C-F etc.

Activities; Key Facts; Glossary; Web Links

(Replaces Focus on Sport)

The excitement displayed during sporting competitions such as the World Cup and the Olympics show that British people take sport very seriously, especially young people.

• Yet only 21% of 5- to 19-year-olds take part in any organised sport outside of the school day.

This book looks at young people's engagement with sport and how it can be improved, as well as raising topics such as footballers' salaries, whether professional sports people are good role models, football violence, equality in sport and the use of performance-enhancing drugs such as steroids.

Key Facts;  Glossary Index;  Additional Resources (websites etc.);  Index.

Special price in 2012: kr. 92,50 ex. moms minus 15% = kr. 78,63

Ethics of Sport takes a critical-eye view of the world of sport and explores the many ways that sport factors into our world:

This theme book examines sporting traditions from around the world and explores the difference between following the rules and being a good sport. How do different cultures and sports define being a good sport? Are there different expectations for professional athletes than there are for amateurs?  Case studies illustrate issues and concepts. (Hardback 56 pages)
Level: 9.10.kl. / 1.g / 1.HF / D-C

PREVIEW

Once, football claimed to stand for passion, community, honour, even beauty. Today, football is about money. Its richest clubs  earn about GBP200 million per year; yet since 1992 thirty-six of the Football League's seventy-two clubs have been insolvent. The game is in danger of losing its lifeblood — and its soul. A respected investigative journalist sets out on a journey through the heart of the British national game, exploring how the sport has failed — and who is to blame. Travelling to football's every outpost, David Conn interviews players, managers, chairmen and fans, building up a picture of a game mired in crisis. At its heart, football is a game deeply loved by millions. This is a book for those who believe that the sport itself, stripped of the greed and self-interest, still has values, and can still be beautiful. The Beautiful Game makes the effort to understand what is happening in the whole world of football — to the minnows as well as the sharks. The stories he tells are scandalous, touching, and encouraging. Find extracts that fit your project! Author: David Conn (known from The Independent and Radio Five Live). (411 pages)
Level : B/Interdisciplinary projects