Simon: 5480 books
Everything is a Beautiful Trick
A short story from The Secret Lives of People in Love
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2010
The Secret Lives of People in Love is the first short story collection by award-winning writer Simon Van Booy. These stories, set in Kentucky, New York, Paris, Rome, and Greece, are a perfect synthesis of intensity and atmosphere. Love, loss, human contact, and isolation are Van Booy's themes. In...
Germania
een persoonlijke geschiedenis van het oude en het huidige Duitsland
Language: Dutch
Release Date: February 20, 2014
‘Een betoverend weefsel van een reisverslag, anekdotes en komisch-heroïsche geschiedenis.’ Sunday Times
Simon Winder raakte op jonge leeftijd gefascineerd door Duitsland. Boeken over de geschiedenis van Duitsland gaan vaak over de zwartste bladzijden uit haar verleden. Duitsland kende in de eeuwen...
Germania
In Wayward Pursuit of the Germans and Their History
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2010
A UNIQUE EXPLORATION OF GERMAN CULTURE, FROM SAUSAGE ADVERTISEMENTS TO WAGNER
Sitting on a bench at a communal table in a restaurant in Regensburg, his plate loaded with disturbing amounts of bratwurst and sauerkraut made golden by candlelight shining through a massive glass of beer, Simon...
Wolves Match of My Life
Twelve Stars Relive Their Greatest Games
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2012
Twelve Wolves legends tell the stories behind their favourite games from their Molineux careers. The selected games include the 1949 and 1960 FA Cup and the 1974 and 1980 League Cup Finals, the famous floodlit friendlies against Honved and Real Madrid and tussles with local rivals West Bromich Albion....
by Caryl Philips, Simon Schama
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2017
Simon Schama’s extraordinary novel in a new stage adaptation by Caryl Philips.
As the American War of Independence reaches its climax, a plantation slave and a British Naval Officer embark on an epic journey in search of freedom. Divided by barriers of race but united in their ambitions for...
Yankees Index
Every Number Tells a Story
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2016
Yankees fans have witnessed improbable feats, extraordinary achievements, and unmatched performances during the team's 100-plus seasons. The Yankees Index details the numbers every Yankees fan—from the rookie attending his first game at Yankee Stadium to the veteran who recalls Ron Guidry's days...
Jerusalem
Die Biographie
Language: German
Release Date: January 17, 2013
Die Geschichte Jerusalems ist die Geschichte der WeltJerusalem ist die Stadt der Städte, die Hauptstadt zweier Völker, der Schrein dreier Weltreligionen, der Schauplatz des jüngsten Gerichts und der Brennpunkt des Nahost-Konflikts. Jerusalems Geschichte bedeutet 3000 Jahre Glauben, Fanatismus und...
Ajax, the Dutch, the War
The Strange Tale of Soccer During Europe's Darkest Hour
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2012
When most people think about the Netherlands, images of tulips and peaceful pot smoking residents spring to mind. Bring up soccer, and most will think of Johan Cruyuff, the Dutch player thought to rival Pele in preternatural skill, and Ajax, one of the most influential soccer clubs in the world whose...
by Louis de Rouvroy de Saint-Simon
Language: French
Release Date: March 16, 2011
Language: French
Release Date: March 16, 2011
Edition enrichie (introduction, notes, arbres généalogiques, bibliographie)
« Cette pute me fera mourir… » soupirait Marie-Thérèse, reine de France, épouse de Louis XIV, en regardant le Roi s’afficher avec la belle Montespan. Le duc de Saint-Simon, qui a tout vu et tout entendu,...
Soccer Men
Profiles of the Rogues, Geniuses, and Neurotics Who Dominate the World's Most Popular Sport
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2014
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...
Soccer Against the Enemy
How the World's Most Popular Sport Starts and Fuels Revolutions and Keeps Dictators in Power
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2010
Soccer is much more than just the most popular game in the world. It is a matter of life and death for millions around the world, an international lingua franca. Simon Kuper traveled to twenty-two countries to discover the sometimes bizarre effect soccer can have on politics and culture. At the same...
Red Machine
Liverpool FC in the '80s: The Players' Stories
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2013
During the 1980s, Liverpool Football Club dominated English football, winning six league titles, two European Cups, two FA Cups and four League Cups. In Red Machine, Simon Hughes interviews some of the most colourful characters to have played for the club during that period. The resulting interviews,...
by Simon Yates
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2010
Simon Yates is 'the one who cut the rope' in Joe Simpson's award-winning account of their epic struggle for survival in Touching the Void. Afterwards, Yates continued mountaineering on the hardest routes. Perhaps the most testing of all was one of the world's largest vertical rockfaces, the 4, 000-ft...
Stoke City Match of My Life
Sixteen Stars Relive Their Greatest Games
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2012
Sixteen Stoke legends tell the stories behind their favourite games. Terry Conroy relives the moment his header opened the scoring in City's 1972 League Cup Final. Mark Stein remembers another Wembley win in the 1992 Autoglass Trophy. Denis Smith recalls when Stoke took on the best in Europe and came...