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The Physics of Soccer: Using Math and Science to Improve Your Game $13.99 Whether it’s called soccer, football, or the world’s game, soccer is fun and has been deemed the most popular sport in the world. Soccer is about motion. Physics is about the laws of motion, and it can be applied to ball games. Combining soccer and physics is one way to appreciate the high-speed aspects of the sport. In The Physics of Soccer, author Deji Badiru introduces basic mathematics and sci…

Eleven: Making Lives Better: 11 Stories of Development Through Football $4.44 From the minefields of Cambodia to the gangland streets of Colombia, 11 inspiring true tales of achievement through the world’s most popular sport Focused on 11 individuals, the book contains stories of how soccer—or European football—can transform the lives of disadvantaged people around the world. Each chapter focuses on a different social issue, including drug and alcohol abuse, HI…

Beckham $10.99 In England, where he spent ten seasons leading his storied club Manchester United and his nation to soccer glory, he is so wildly popular that his countrymen voted him the face they’d most want to see imprinted on their money. (Winston Churchill finished second.) In Japan, where he is worshiped as much for his headline-making fashion trends as for his ability to bend a ball around a wall of defenders, women styled their bikini waxes after the blond mohawk he sported during the 2002 World Cup. And in Spain, within days of his $41 million trade to Real Madrid, his new team received two million requests to buy his number 23 jersey. The legend of David Beckham — soccer god, global sex symbol, style icon — has been celebrated around the world, arguably more than Tiger Woods and Michael Jordan combined. Now, with the publication of his long-awaited autobiography, the man who inspired the surprise hit movie Bend It Like Beckham is set to conquer the last remaining outpost where soccer is not a national religion: the United States. Beckham is a classic rags-to-riches saga: a boy, David, is born to a poor East End London family. He develops prodigious soccer skills, and his parents nurture him until he becomes one of the most gifted athletes of his generation. He grows up to marry Victoria — a Spice Girl, “Posh” — and enters a celebrity whirlwind of Princess Diana — esque proportions. Together, the Beckhams are Britain’s new royal couple — their 240-acre estate outside of London is known as Beckingham Palace — and their presence at parties or charity events guarantees endless tabloid stories and photos as well as adoring mobs that must be restrained by police barricades. Their life is as much a study in managing fame as it is in sports and pop phenomena. In Beckham he talks candidly about the pressures of celebrity — his wife and sons were the targets of a 2002 kidnapping plot; how he balances his roles as a devoted husband and besotted father with his globetrotting existence as an international soccer player; the behind-the-scenes stories of his most memorable career moments, such as the penalty kick against archrival Argentina in the World Cup that redeemed him to a nation who blamed him for their failure in the previous World Cup; the controversy surrounding his move to Real Madrid and the falling out with the man who shaped his career, Manchester United’s famously combative manager Sir Alex Ferguson; and, finally, his love of America — his first son was conceived in and named Brooklyn — where, like the great PelÉ, David can imagine playing out his final seasons. So much has been written about David Beckham that it’s easy to think we know everything about the world’s most famous athlete, but only Beckham himself can set the record straight on his beliefs, his dreams, his loves, his fears, and, above all, his sense of who he is. Beckham is an intimate account of an extraordinary life, a life in which, agai

VII: David Beckham $5.99 David Beckham, captain of England”s 2006 World Cup soccer team, is arguably the best-known sports figure in the world…

Arise Sir David Beckham $1.44 Famous both on and off the pitch, David Beckham has reached iconic status druing a career spanning 16 years and taking in four of the world’s biggest clubs. This in-depth biography traces the incredible accomplishments of the kind-hearted and talented star who has taken the world by storm. Born in east London, Beckham began his football career at Tottenham Hotspur but signed schoolboy forms for Manchester United on his 14th birthday. He was part of the team that won the FA Youth Cup in 1992 and, having made his senior debut in 1994, soon established himself as United’s right-sided midfielder. Beckham was integral to the club’s success during him time at Old Trafford, winning six Premier League medals, two FA Cups and being part of the legendary Treble-winning side of 1999. Beckham has also been a major player for England since making his international debut in 1996. His infamous sending-off against Argentina in the 1998 World Cup looked set to ruin his England career but thanks to his impressive perfomances and his attitude on and off the pitch, he won supporters round and became England captain in 2000. Similarly, Manchester United supporters were rocked by Beckham’s move to Real Madrid in 2003, but he is still held in high regard by the club and fans alike. Awarded the OBE in 2003, Beckham is now an iconic figure in English football and has been instrumental in England’s bid to host the 2018 World Cup. Although injury sadly put paid to his dream of playing in the 2010 Finals, his status is such that he travelled with the England team to South Africa to act as a mentor. As much a brand as a fooballer, and with a celebrity lifestyle most can only dream of, David Beckham is much more than a footballing legend.