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Kids, with their hyped-up-on-sugar-age opt for the more active endeavors these days. Mostly preschoolers and grade-schoolers won’t go for the solitary play anymore, they go for more challenging and competitive playing, one which allows them to move, run and express their energy more freely.

Soccer is an illustrious sport that equips its players with good practice of coordination skills, intelligent use of strategy, stamina, and a good sense of camaraderie within each participating individual. Aside from merely admiring a sight with kids on their cute soccer uniforms, running around and chasing a black and white ball, you get to feel a sense of enjoyment for having to know that these kids are getting a good foundation in sports.

Soccer, having been around for about 2,000 years, hasn’t been foreign to most households and school fields. It has been an essential addition to every budding athlete’s dream. Even if the mechanics of kids’ soccer go beyond just by mere kicking of the ball, children as young as 2 years old get easily engaged into it.

At a very young age, children should be honed to develop these early manifestations of being inclined to sports. Soccer is a pretty good outlet, the feel of the wind and the mild prickling of the heat of the sun while running in a soccer field brings a type of elation that sets the pent up energy in every kid’s heart to just be free.

Trainings in school and after school programs help hone these kids’ talent and budding love for the game. They may not full understand the sport, but a good foundation in its basics and the necessary skills intended to be displayed in the field, may make a special prospective about kids’ soccer. There are different soccer leagues that you can let your kids participate in. Most leagues just show the basics and let every player participate.

They are in no pressure to keep watch of the goals made, but basically just to have fun. All you need for kids’ soccer to be an accessible sport is a field, a ball and a bunch of players. Throw in a coach and some good audience to further uplift the spirits.

Do you know how to play soccer? Everything you ought to know about soccer can be found in this little community.

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NCAA North Carolina State Wolfpack 4 Piece Barbecue Set $26.87 College Team Four Piece BBQ Set Tailgating never looked so good! This four piece BBQ set is a perfect way of showing your team pride on Game Day. Each utensil is printed with your favorite college team’s artwork. Item Highlights: Stainless steel construction Includes tongs, brush, fork and a laser etched spatula…

NCAA Texas A&M Aggies 4 Piece Barbecue Set $26.27 College Team Four Piece BBQ Set Tailgating never looked so good! This four piece BBQ set is a perfect way of showing your team pride on Game Day. Each utensil is printed with your favorite college team’s artwork. Item Highlights: Stainless steel construction Includes tongs, brush, fork and a laser etched spatula…

BSI Wisconsin Badgers BBQ Set $35.99 Tailgating never looked so good! This stainless steel BBQ set is a perfect way of showing your team pride on Game Day. Each utensil is printed with your favorite College team’s artwork. The set includes: tongs, brush, fork and a laser etched spatula sporting the team’s primary logo….

Joyeux Noel (Widescreen) $6.26 Joyeux Noel captures a rare moment of grace from one of the worst wars in the history of mankind, World War I. On Christmas Eve, 1914, as German, French, and Scottish regiments face each other from their respective trenches, a musical call-and-response turns into an impromptu cease-fire, trading chocolates and champagne, playing soccer, and comparing pictures of their wives. But when Christmas end…

Switching Goals $4.24 Originally an ABC telefilm, Switching Goals comes to video. Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen play super-identical twins who are actually total opposites. OK, it’s not the freshest concept in the universe, but the teen divas (who also exec produce–as they did in their Passport to Paris) are an undeniable favorite with little girls all-over. Here, they’re Sam, the athletic one, and Emma, the fashion-…

Soccer Mom $2.44 Teenage girls often struggle with self-confidence and the members of the losing Galaxy girl’s soccer team are finding their own sense of inadequacy difficult to overcome. When their lackluster coach gets transferred to Italy, the team’s hopes soar at the promise of soccer legend Lorenzo Vincenzo (What I Like About You’s Dan Cortese) filling in as temporary coach. The team’s excitement threatens t…

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Soccer Spectators – 24H x 19W – Peel and Stick Wall Decal by Wallmonkeys $33.99 WallMonkeys wall graphics are printed on the highest quality re-positionable, self-adhesive fabric paper. Each order is printed in-house and on-demand. WallMonkeys uses premium materials & state-of-the-art production technologies. Our white fabric material is superior to vinyl decals. You can literally see and feel the difference. Our wall graphics apply in minutes and won’t damage your paint or l…

Girl Soccer Players on Sideline – 24W x 16H – Peel and Stick Wall Decal by Wallmonkeys $33.99 WallMonkeys wall graphics are printed on the highest quality re-positionable, self-adhesive fabric paper. Each order is printed in-house and on-demand. WallMonkeys uses premium materials & state-of-the-art production technologies. Our white fabric material is superior to vinyl decals. You can literally see and feel the difference. Our wall graphics apply in minutes and won’t damage your paint or l…

50 Years of American Sports $24.95 Presenting 50 years of sports records, high points, scandals, championships, and much more.50 Years of American Sports presents in full color the exciting history of American sports from 1960 through 2009. Examining sports as social history, this new guide covers the historical high points, scandals, records, championships, and the rise of professional athletics in an engaging decade-by-decade format. It captures the thrill of the games while looking at how sports have impacted culture, shaped race relations, influenced world events, and much more.Written by a team of top sports journalists and sports writers, this comprehensive book presents compelling and inspiring histories of the sports people love to watch and play. Year-by-year chapters recount important sports highlights, and full-color photographs capture some of the greatest moments in sports. Sports covered include:• Auto racing • Baseball • Basketball • Boxing • Football • Golf • Hockey • Horse racing • The Olympics • Soccer • Tennis • and many more.

A Place for Summer: A Narrative History of Tiger Stadium $1.99 On April 28, 1896, baseball fans traveled in horse-drawn buggies to watch the Detroit Tigers play their first baseball game at the site on the corner of Michigan and Trumbull Avenues. Starting out as Bennett Park, a wooden facility with trees growing in the outfield, Tiger Stadium has played a central role in the lives of millions of Detroiters and their families for more than a century. Bennett Park was torn down and replaced by a concrete and steel structure named Navin Field in 1912, was expanded and renamed Briggs Stadium in 1938, and finally was given the name Tiger Stadium in 1961.Richard Bak traces the importance of the corner of Michigan and Trumbull in the history of Detroit and its people. During the last century, millions of fans have come to Michigan and Trumbull to watch the Tigers’ 7,800 home games, as well as to attend numerous Other sporting, social, and civic events, including high school, collegiate, and professional football games, prep and Negro league baseball contests, political rallies, concerts, and boxing and soccer matches.A Place for Summer covers baseball in Detroit from its beginnings in the 1850s through the Tigers’ 1997 season, and offers a history of Detroit’s playing grounds before Bennett Park, including the Woodward Avenue cricket grounds, the original Detroit Athletic Club, Recreation and Boulevard parks, and the many places where the Tigers played bootleg games on Sundays at the turn of the century. Bak presents attendance records from the Tigers’ Western League days onward and a complete account of every opening day since 1896. A chapter is dedicated to the football Panthers of the 1920s and their more enduring successor, the Lions, who playedat Michigan and Trumbull through 1974.A companion to the narrative history, almost two hundred rare photographs capture the spirit of 140 years of baseball in Detroit, from photographs of Detroit’s nineteenth-century diamond pioneers, to an eighteen-year-old Ty Cobb in his rookie

Brilliant Orange: The Neurotic Genius of Dutch Soccer $79.97 Brilliant range is a book about Dutch soccer that’s not really about Dutch socer. It’s more about an enigmatic way of thinking peculiar to a people whose landscape is unrelentingly flat, mostly below sea level, ad who owe their salvation to a boy who plugged a fractured dike with his little inger. If any one thing, Brilliant Orange is about Dutch space and a people whose unique conception of it has led to ome of the most enduring art, the weirdest architecture, and a bizarrely crebral form of soccer—Total Football—that led in 1974 to a World Cup finalsmatch with arch-rival Germany and more recently to a devastating loss againstSpain in 2010. With its intricacy and oddity, it continues to mystify and delght observers around the world. As David Winner wryly observes, it is an expression of the Dutch psyche that has a shaed ancestry with the Mondrian’s Broadway Boogie Woogie, Rembrandt’s Th Night Watch, maybe even with Gouda cheese.Finally here in paperbck, Brilliant Orange reaches out to the reader from an unexpected place andnever lets go.

Brilliant Orange: The Neurotic Genius of Dutch Soccer $15.95 Brilliant range is a book about Dutch soccer that’s not really about Dutch socer. It’s more about an enigmatic way of thinking peculiar to a people whose landscape is unrelentingly flat, mostly below sea level, ad who owe their salvation to a boy who plugged a fractured dike with his little inger. If any one thing, Brilliant Orange is about Dutch space and a people whose unique conception of it has led to ome of the most enduring art, the weirdest architecture, and a bizarrely crebral form of soccer–Total Football–that led in 1974 to a World Cup finalsmatch with arch-rival Germany and more recently to a devastating loss againstSpain in 2010. With its intricacy and oddity, it continues to mystify and delght observers around the world. As David Winner wryly observes, it is an expression of the Dutch psyche that has a shaed ancestry with the Mondrian’s Broadway Boogie Woogie, Rembrandt’s Th Night Watch, maybe even with Gouda cheese.Finally here in paperbck, Brilliant Orange reaches out to the reader from an unexpected place andnever lets go.

Everyday Adventures $10.95 Women everywhere will find themselves within these pages!Women, wives, mothers, daughters, friends. Hear us roar. Or laugh. Or sigh. Then watch in amazement as we chauffer kids from piano to soccer, pick up the dry cleaning, handle the banking for our husbands, grocery shop, procure nine (or is it eight, now?) Styrofoam balls of varying sizes for a fourth grade science project, recover six awol pairs of dance shoes, sneakers and cleats, wash and deliver a basketball uniform, call our mothers, commiserate with our girlfriends and prepare dinner for a meat eater, vegetarian and a kid who only eats things that are white or brown. Did I mention that we do all of this at the same time? In her Everyday Adventures, Mary Fran Bontempo steers us through the wild ride of modern day womanhood, not always avoiding the pitfalls, but never losing a sense of humor along the way. If you are a woman, you�ll find yourself in these pages. Better yet, you�ll find reason to laugh once you discover that you�ve got plenty of company on your own Everyday Adventures!

Finn McCool’s Football Club: The Birth, Death, and Resurrection of a Pub Soccer Team in the City of the Dead $24.95 “Stephen Rea uses one of the worst natural disasters in U.S. history as the backdrop for a love story–not your average love story either, as it’s also the love of a city, the ties that bind friends, and the passion for a sport. Soccer brings fans from around the globe together and that has never been proven more true than in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. Rea’s book brings one of the biggest stories of the century down to a touching, emotional, personal level in a solid debut effort.”–Phil Schoen, GolTV commentatorIn 2004, Belfast-born Stephen Rea moved to New Orleans, a city where “football” means something entirely different than what it does for the British. After struggling to find a place to watch European soccer games, Rea discovered Finn McCool’s pub and its mixed clientele of good-humored European ex-pats, charismatic New Orleanians, and assorted matchless personalities. Irishmen exchanged jokes with the Scots, and the Dutch, English, and South African sat together swapping stories over murky drinks. Rea the Ulsterman became a regular and before long he was playing on the pub’s motley over-thirty-five fledgling soccer team.Gathered at the bar on August 27, 2005, members of the team were discussing their upcoming match, untroubled by the impending storm and unknowing that their city and team would nearly be obliterated by Hurricane Katrina in a matter of hours. Days later, the lucky among them were scattered across the country; the others struggled to survive as they awaited rescue in New Orleans. With clarity and compassion, Rea examines the disaster as he profiles the experiences of his teammates and their efforts to resurrect the team and pub that had become so central in all of their lives. A gripping and moving memoir about an unusual pub team and a devastating natural disaster, this work is a celebration of ex-pats and pubs, soccer and sportsmanship, and the strength it takes to rebuild a team, a city, and a life.

Gold Medal Physics: The Science of Sports $27 Nothing is quite as thrilling as watching superior athletes do the seemingly impossible. From Doug Flutie’s “Hail Mary” pass to Lance Armstrong’s record-breaking climb of Alp d’Huez to David Beckham’s astounding ability to bend a soccer kick, we marvel and wonder, “How did they do that?” Well, physics professor John Eric Goff has the answers.This tour of the wide world of sports uses some of the most exhilarating feats in recent athletic history to make basic physics concepts accessible and fun. Goff discusses the science behind American football, soccer, cycling, skating, diving, long jumping, and a host of other competitive sports. Using elite athletes such as Greg Louganis and Bob Beamon as starting points, he explains in clear, lively language the basic physical properties involved in amazing and everyday athletic endeavors. Accompanied by illustrations and mathematical equations, each chapter builds on knowledge imparted in earlier portions of the book to provide a firm understanding of the concepts involved.Fun, witty, and imbued throughout with admiration for the simple beauty of physics, Gold Medal Physics is sure to inspire readers to think differently about the next sporting event they watch.

Home and Away $12.95 By the time Germany and Costa Rica kicked off the 2006 World Cup in Munich, hundreds of thousands of soccer fans from around the globe had descended on the host nation to cheer on their national sides and soak up the atmosphere. Among them were a group of New York City soccer players celebrating an anniversary of sorts. At the tail end of the 2002 World Cup, inspired by many late nights watching live matches in some of the city’s crowded bars, the group of artists, photographers, and filmmakers began meeting in lower Manhattan’s Chinatown to play soccer a few mornings a week. Only a chain link fence shielded their pitch from the cacophony and traffic of the surrounding urban chaos. As they warmed up in the chill morning air, the smell of garbage from the nearby fish markets wafted over. Their spectators included bums sleeping off hangovers on the benches next to the field and Chinese immigrants finishing up their morning Tai Chi sessions. Some of them were playing for the first time, others rediscovering skills they had honed in high school or college. Still others found an outlet for a passion they had developed in their native countries: in England and Austria, Israel and Brazil. Even in the dead of winter, the love of soccer would get them out of bed at 8 in the morning several times a week to play for an hour or so before heading off to work. It would cost them extra in cable bills at the end of the month, or for pints at the pub to watch European matches at equally trying hours on Saturday mornings. They began calling themselves the Chinatown Soccer Club and by the time the 2006 World Cup rolled around, heading to Germany didn’t just seem like a good idea, it had become a requirement. This small book of photographs, Home and Away, is a record of that trip. Shot by Gerhard Stochl, Peter Sutherland, and Kevin Trageser, photographers who have all been integral members of the Chinatown Soccer Club since

Irish Sport Television Programmes: Special 1 Tv, Apr s Match, Use It or Lose It, Monday Night Soccer, Premier Soccer Saturday, Con Murphy $9.8 Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher’s book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Special 1 Tv, Après Match, Use It or Lose It, Monday Night Soccer, Premier Soccer Saturday, Con Murphy, Eircom League Weekly, Sports Tonight, Cois Farraige, Know Your Sport. Excerpt: Special 1 TV (formerly known as I’m on Setanta Sports) is a satirical football television programme, produced by Blue Elf Productions and Caboom Entertainment. The stars of the show are puppet caricatures of various football personalities; José Mourinho, Sven-Göran Eriksson, Wayne Rooney and Fabio Capello have been portrayed along with Mourinho. All of the characters on the programme are voiced by Irish actor, comedian and impressionist Mario Rosenstock.. Typical episodes were recorded on the day before transmission in Dublin and ran for up to six minutes length, airing weekly during coverage of Saturday evening Premier League games on Setanta Sports 1 in the UK and Ireland. Nearly all episodes appear in full on YouTube, and sections were repeated on the channel’s Monday Night show, Football Matters. On 20 August 2009, EPLTalk reported that no new episodes would be produced after Setanta’s UK operations ceased trading on 23 June 2009. The show is set to return in June 2010 for a special series on BBC Three to tie in with the 2010 FIFA World Cup. The new series will also be made available to watch on the BBC Three website. The show was originally known as I’m on Setanta Sports (a parody of rival Sky Sports’ You’re on Sky Sports phone-in programme), and featured heavy Setanta Sports branding. The final episode under the IOSS format was aired on 10 January following Setanta’s live coverage of Stoke City v Liverpool. On 17 January 2009, however, a special transition episode aired, with various characters begging the José puppet to reverse his decision to quit the …

Michael Ballack: The Biography $3.73 As a technically outstanding national captain, Michael Ballack has established himself as Chelsea FC’s midfield lethal weapon. His visionary passing, goal-scoring prowess, and perfect timing make him the player to watch whenever the Blues are on the pitch. Equally competent with both feet, he can turn defense into attack with killer results. This is the story of Ballack’s rapid rise to prominence, beginning with the start of his career at age seven with the BSG Motor club. After signing with Kaierslauten, Ballack went on to become a three-time winner of the German player of the year award. His subsequent three seasons at Bayer Leverkusen and four at Bayern Munich cemented his reputation as the premier attacking midfielder with an eye for a goal and one of soccer’s greats

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Pbs Sports: List of Fifa World Cup Finals Broadcasters, the Way It Was, Soccer Made in Germany $8.31 Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher’s book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Not illustrated. Excerpt: The FIFA World Cup was first televised in 1954 and is now the most widely-viewed and followed sporting event in the world, exceeding even the Olympic Games. The cumulative audience of all matches of the 2006 World Cup is estimated to be 26.29 billion. 715.1 million individuals watched the final match of this tournament (a ninth of the entire population of the planet). The 2006 World Cup draw, which decided the distribution of teams into groups, was watched by 300 million viewers. In Singapore, FIFA’s broadcast rights fees for the 2010 FIFA World Cup finals tournament have been described as “exorbitant”, with the organisation having changed prices according to what it perceived the country’s TV operators were willing to pay. When Singapore TV operators SingTel and Starhub joined together to bid for the broadcast rights in late 2009, they were reportedly charged an initial (about ). When the Singapore TV operators refused to pay the initial sum quoted by FIFA, and as time passed, Singapore was faced with the prospect of being one of the few countries not to get match broadcasts from the 2010 FIFA World Cup. With only about a month left before the tournament, FIFA finally relented and reportedly reduced the fee to (), which was then accepted by the Singapore TV operators. This reduced fee was still significantly higher than the fee that FIFA charged Starhub for the exclusive rights to broadcast the 2006 FIFA World Cup finals tournament in Germany, which was reported to be (). This increased fee for the 2010 World Cup tournament broadcast rights resulted in the Singapore TV operators passing on the cost to their subscribers, who were then charged a special fee of SGD$94 (US$68) in addition to existing contracts, to watch the to… More:

Sidetracked (Kurt Wallander Series #5) $29.95 Detective Kurt Wallander is called to a nearby rapeseed field where a teenage girl has been loitering all day long. He arrives just in time to watch her douse herself in gasoline and set herself aflame. The next day he is called to a beach where Sweden’s former minister of justice has been axed to death and scalped. The murder has the obvious markings of a demented serial killer, and Wallander is frantic to find him before he strikes again. But his investigation is beset with obstacles: a department distracted by the threat of cutbacks and the frivolity of World Cup soccer, a tenuous relationship with a widow, and the unshakably haunting preoccupation with the girl who set herself on fire. Fascinating and astute, Sidetracked is a compelling mystery enhanced by keen social awareness.

Sidetracked (Kurt Wallander Series #5) $15 Detective Kurt Wallander is called to a nearby rapeseed field where a teenage girl has been loitering all day long. He arrives just in time to watch her douse herself in gasoline and set herself aflame. The next day he is called to a beach where Sweden’s former minister of justice has been axed to death and scalped. The murder has the obvious markings of a demented serial killer, and Wallander is frantic to find him before he strikes again. But his investigation is beset with obstacles: a department distracted by the threat of cutbacks and the frivolity of World Cup soccer, a tenuous relationship with a widow, and the unshakably haunting preoccupation with the girl who set herself on fire. Fascinating and astute, Sidetracked is a compelling mystery enhanced by keen social awareness.

Sidetracked (Kurt Wallander Series #5) $28.95 Detective Kurt Wallander is called to a nearby rapeseed field where a teenage girl has been loitering all day long. He arrives just in time to watch her douse herself in gasoline and set herself aflame. The next day he is called to a beach where Sweden’s former minister of justice has been axed to death and scalped. The murder has the obvious markings of a demented serial killer, and Wallander is frantic to find him before he strikes again. But his investigation is beset with obstacles: a department distracted by the threat of cutbacks and the frivolity of World Cup soccer, a tenuous relationship with a widow, and the unshakably haunting preoccupation with the girl who set herself on fire. Fascinating and astute, Sidetracked is a compelling mystery enhanced by keen social awareness.

Sidetracked (Kurt Wallander Series #5) $25 Detective Kurt Wallander is called to a nearby rapeseed field where a teenage girl has been loitering all day long. He arrives just in time to watch her douse herself in gasoline and set herself aflame. The next day he is called to a beach where Sweden’s former minister of justice has been axed to death and scalped. The murder has the obvious markings of a demented serial killer, and Wallander is frantic to find him before he strikes again. But his investigation is beset with obstacles: a department distracted by the threat of cutbacks and the frivolity of World Cup soccer, a tenuous relationship with a widow, and the unshakably haunting preoccupation with the girl who set herself on fire. Fascinating and astute, Sidetracked is a compelling mystery enhanced by keen social awareness.

Soccer Counts/El futbol cuenta! $16.95 Simple rhyming text helps young readers count to fifteen, all in the context of a youth soccer game. Watch one ball, two goalkeepers, three referees, and more add up to a great game. Explanatory text gives additional information about the history and rules of soccer.

Soccer Counts/El futbol cuenta! $7.95 Simple rhyming text helps young readers count to fifteen, all in the context of a youth soccer game. Watch one ball, two goalkeepers, three referees, and more add up to a great game. Explanatory text gives additional information about the history and rules of soccer.

Soccer for Juniors: A Guide for Players, Parents and Coaches $12.95 "The best introduction to playing and coaching the game now in print, Soccer for Juniors delivers nonstop advice and instruction in an easy-to-read style. Everything the novice coach and player needs to get started, all in one book." —Joe Provey, editor of Soccer Jr. magazine This excellent, comprehensive guide provides players, parents, and coaches with everything they need to know about the U.S. variations of the world's most popular sport. Beginning with an introduction to the game and how to watch it, this brand-new edition of Soccer for Juniors explains how young athletes can test their soccer skills and determine their potential. It outlines practice drills in trapping, passing, heading, dribbling, and kicking that prepare the beginning player for more advanced skills such as the chip shot, the back-heel kick, and the volley. All are explained through photographs and diagrams that demonstrate both the right and wrong way of performing these moves. Soccer for Juniors is also an invaluable source of information about the tactics that make youth soccer one of the most exciting sports to watch, the best way to set up drills for tryouts and practices, the right equipment and diet for young players, and much more. Visit us online at mgr.com.

Soccer: How It Works $7.95 It’s fun to watch a high-flying slam dunk, a perfect spiral thrown for a touchdown, or a batter fooled by a hard-breaking curveball. But how are athletes able to perform these moves? From the laws of physics on a skateboard to the effects of weather on a ball, the Science of Sports books explore all the science behind these amazing plays.

Soccer: How It Works $18.78 It’s fun to watch a high-flying slam dunk, a perfect spiral thrown for a touchdown, or a batter fooled by a hard-breaking curveball. But how are athletes able to perform these moves? From the laws of physics on a skateboard to the effects of weather on a ball, the Science of Sports books explore all the science behind these amazing plays.

Spectator Sports Made Simple; How to Watch, Understand, and Enjoy Baseball, Football, Basketball, Golf, Tennis, Soccer, Bowling, and Ice Hockey $3.66 Dan Bartges,Paperback, English-language edition,Pub by NTC Publishing Group

The Seven-Day Weekend: Changing the Way Work Works $17.99 Ricardo Semler thinks that companies ought to put employee freedom and satisfaction ahead of corporate goals. Imagine a company where employees set their own hours; where there are no offices, no job titles, no business plans; where employees get to endorse or veto any new venture; where kids are encouraged to run the halls; and where the CEO lets other people make nearly all the decisions. This company—Semco—actually exists, and despite a seeming recipe for chaos, its revenues have grown from $35 million to $160 million in the last six years. It has virtually no staff turnover, and there are no signs that its growth will stop any time soon. How did Semco become wildly successful despite breaking many of the commonly accepted laws of business? In The Seven-Day Weekend, Ricardo Semler shows that for those willing to take a chance, there is a better way to run a workplace. He explains how the technology that was supposed to make life easier—laptops, cell phones, e-mail, pagers—has in fact stolen free time and destroyed the traditional nine-to-five workday. But this can be a good thing—if you have the freedom to get your job done on your own terms and to blend your work life and personal life with enthusiasm and creative energy. Smart bosses will eventually realize that you might be most productive if you work on Sunday afternoon, play golf on Monday morning, go to a movie on Tuesday afternoon, and watch your child play soccer on Thursday. This is a radical book that will challenge the business world to make the seven-day weekend a reality.

Thinking Fan’s Guide to the World Cup $0.99 The Thinking Fan’s Guide to the World Cup features original pieces by thirty-two leading writers and journalists about the thirty-two nations that have qualified for the world’s greatest sporting event. In addition to all the essential information any fan needs—the complete 2006 match schedule, results from past tournaments, facts and figures about the nations, players, teams, and referees—here are essays that shine a whole new light on soccer and the world. Former Foreign Minister of Mexico Jorge G. Castañeda invites George W. Bush to watch a game. Novelist Robert Coover remembers soccer in Spain after the death of General Francisco Franco. Dave Eggers on America, and the gym teachers who kept it free from communism. Time magazine’s Tokyo bureau chief Jim Frederick shows how soccer is displacing baseball in Japan. Novelist Aleksandar Hemon proves, once and for all, that sex and soccer do not mix. Novelist John Lanchester describes the indescribable: the beauty of Brazilian soccer. The New Yorker’s Cressida Leyshon on Trinidad and Tobago, 750-1 underdogs. Fever Pitch author Nick Hornby on the conflicting call of club and country. Plus an afterword by Franklin Foer on the form of government most likely to win the World Cup.

Unseen Academicals (Discworld Series) $25.99 Sir Terry Pratchett’s 37th Discworld novel, the first since he made the announcement that there might not be too many more, contains plots, subplots, side plots, thwarted plots, romance, comedy, soccer, and more. Set in the ancient city of Ankh-Morpork, Unseen Academicals seizes all the things you thought you understood, shakes them vigorously, and invites you to watch with snow globe sensations. On the shortlist of the most invigorating authors on the planet.

Unseen Academicals (Discworld Series) $7.99 Sir Terry Pratchett’s 37th Discworld novel, the first since he made the announcement that there might not be too many more, contains plots, subplots, side plots, thwarted plots, romance, comedy, soccer, and more. Set in the ancient city of Ankh-Morpork, Unseen Academicals seizes all the things you thought you understood, shakes them vigorously, and invites you to watch with snow globe sensations. On the shortlist of the most invigorating authors on the planet.

Unseen Academicals (Discworld Series) $39.99 Sir Terry Pratchett’s 37th Discworld novel, the first since he made the announcement that there might not be too many more, contains plots, subplots, side plots, thwarted plots, romance, comedy, soccer, and more. Set in the ancient city of Ankh-Morpork, Unseen Academicals seizes all the things you thought you understood, shakes them vigorously, and invites you to watch with snow globe sensations. On the shortlist of the most invigorating authors on the planet.

Unseen Academicals (Discworld Series) $1.03 Sir Terry Pratchett’s 37th Discworld novel, the first since he made the announcement that there might not be too many more, contains plots, subplots, side plots, thwarted plots, romance, comedy, soccer, and more. Set in the ancient city of Ankh-Morpork, Unseen Academicals seizes all the things you thought you understood, shakes them vigorously, and invites you to watch with snow globe sensations. On the shortlist of the most invigorating authors on the planet.

Why Work Sucks and How to Fix It: No Schedules, No Meetings, No Joke–The Big Idea That’s Already Transforming the Way We Work $12.99 Do you hate cramming all of your errands into the weekend? Do you resent having to beg permission to watch your kid’s weekday soccer game? Are you tired of seeing people who aren’t very good at their jobs get promoted because they arrive early and stay late? There’s got to be a better way—and there is! Cali Ressler and Jody Thompson show that everyone benefits when we change the focus from hours to outcomes. It’s just that our traditional definition of work—Monday through Friday, nine to five—doesn’t make sense in the always-on global economy. So, Ressler and Thompson created the Results-Only Work Environment. In a ROWE, you control when, where, and how long you work. As long as you meet your objectives, the way you spend your time is entirely up to you. Suddenly, work isn’t a place you go, it’s a thing you do. In a ROWE, there are no mandatory meetings or fixed schedules. You stop doing any activity that wastes time, and no one criticizes you for “leaving early” or “coming in late.” If you do your best work at midnight or on Sundays, go for it! ROWE sounds like a fantasy, but Ressler and Thompson have already made it a reality at Best Buy, a Fortune 100 company. They have proven that ROWE not only makes employees happier but also delivers better results. And now the authors are helping companies implement ROWE nationwide. Infused with passion and common sense, Why Work Sucks and How to Fix It will change the way you think about your job, your company, and your quality of life. Read it and join the revolution!

Why Work Sucks and How to Fix It: The Results-Only Revolution $15 “This is like TiVo for your work.” -BusinessWeek In a results-only workplace, employees can do whatever they want whenever they want, as long as the work gets done. No more pointless meetings, racing to get in at 9:00, or begging for permission to watch your kid play soccer. You make the decisions about what you do and where you do it.It sounds like a fantasy, but Cali Ressler and Jody Thompson are leading a movement to make it a reality, even implementing it successfully at best buy. They show how a Results-Only Work Environment not only makes employees happier, but also delivers better results.Filled with passion and common sense, their book will change the way you think about your job, your company, and your quality of life.

World Cup 2010: The Indispensable Guide $0.01 The World Cup is the planet’s biggest event. On millions of street corners in cities and villages around the globe, people watch, listen and follow every detail. Yet no one on this side of the pond has ever set out to explain comprehensively why it matters and what is likely to happen this time around.In this sharp, fun, and sassy guide, Stark & Stark lay it all out for both the casual and impassioned fan. In World Cup 2010: The Indispensible Guide to Soccer and Geopolitics you will discover feature essays on the cultural importance of soccer, the World Cup, this tournament in particular, and on African soccer, as well as an extra essay on North America’s participation in the tournament and how David Beckham has influenced the American team. Each of the 32 teams will then get an introductory essay and table, analyzing the team’s players, coach, history, flag, foods, and uniform. Each chapter will also cover how the teams qualified, World Cup history, starters, information on the upcoming venues and notable athletes, the spectacle, the tradition, and the teams.Learn why Spain never wins, Brazil often does, and what the US and Mexico really need to do to win the Cup. Discover, too, what the first World Cup in Africa will mean from Mandela to mythical spirits. Each team profile features a squad breakdown, players to watch, predictions, and an analysis of team tactics, tradition, coaching techniques, and even the national anthems that will be played before each match. Through it all, the book highlights the cultural politics that still make every England game resemble the Charge of the Light Brigade, as one reporter put it, and every Italian team a cross between Machiavelli and Michelangelo.No soccer book has ever been as informative, opinionated, or as hilarious. Just take one small category — coaches. After reading this guide, you’ll know:Which coach makes his squad selections by astrology and had a former porn queen dedicate a song to