Deze auteur duikt in de complexiteit van de menselijke ervaring door middel van nauwgezet geconstrueerde proza en scherpzinnige observatie. Zijn werk verkent vaak thema's als identiteit, geheugen en de zoektocht naar betekenis in een chaotische wereld. Gekenmerkt door een diepgaand begrip van de menselijke psyche, bezit hij een opmerkelijk vermogen om de subtiele nuances van interpersoonlijke relaties vast te leggen. Lezers waarderen zijn schrijfstijl vanwege de intellectuele diepgang en emotionele resonantie.
A fun and essential guide to the world of football and an incredible gift for young fans. Discover everything you've EVER wanted to know about football, from fascinating facts about your favourite players and clubs, to incredible international stats and terrific trivia. Packed with hilarious illustrations, this encyclopedia is anything but boring! Learn about all aspects of the game, including the positions, rules, mascots, nicknames, trophies and tournaments and laugh loads along the way.
How much do you know about football and the world? Test yourself and your friends with over 300 brain-busting questions from Football School. Discover questions on star strikers, crafty coaches, momentous matches and much, much more
"Discover the incredible true stories behind the most famous clubs in football. Find out the stories behind the most legendary clubs in football history, such as Manchester United, Real Madrid and Liverpool. Explore how these teams have overcome failure and tragedy to win leagues, lift trophies and enter the record books. Also discover fascinating facts about more unknown clubs, including the German team with a skull and crossbones logo and the most eco-friendly club in the world. Perfect for fans of Football School: Star Players and Football School: Epic Heroes, this collection of fifty true stories is a must-read for any young football fan"--Publisher's description
A fun football-themed puzzle activity book that will keep children busy for hours with games and word and number puzzles. Boggle your brain and enjoy hours of football-themed fun with Football School's The Ultimate Puzzle Activity Book. Packed with over 200 brain-teasers, wordsearches, riddles, maths puzzles and logic games, this book is perfect for car journeys, planes and rainy days and is the ideal gift for any young football fan.
Put your wits—and survival instincts—to the test! Publisher’s Note: Perilous Problems for Puzzle Lovers was previously published in the UK under the title So You Think You’ve Got Problems? In Perilous Problems for Puzzle Lovers, Alex Bellos collects 125 of the world’s greatest stumpers—many dangerous to your person, and all dangerous to your pride. Brace yourself to wrestle with wordplay, grapple with geometry, and scramble for survival. For example . . . Ten lions and a sheep are in a pen. Any lion who eats the sheep will fall asleep. A sleeping lion will be eaten by another lion, who falls asleep in turn. If the lions are all perfect logicians, what happens? Bellos pairs his fiendish brainteasers with fascinating history, so you’ll meet Alcuin, Sam Loyd, and other puzzle masters of yore—in between deranged despots and wily jailers with an unaccountable taste for riddles. Will you make it out alive? And what about the sheep?
A unique entry in the selling like hotcakes grown-up colouring category, from a bestselling math writer and a topnotch illustrator: 78 colouring designs and games that explore symmetry, fractals, tessellations, randomness, and more!
The fourth book in the bestselling series that teaches you amazing facts about the world through football. This book is packed with awesome true stories, real science and fascinating facts and will make you laugh loads - and it's all about football! Discover when robots play football, where the highest ever football match took place, how referees keep time in matches and what llamas and professional footballers have in common. With hilarious illustrations throughout and laugh-out-loud gags, this is the perfect book for football-mad children everywhere
. Everything is at stake in this compendium of more than 150 ingenious puzzles, selected to reveal the wonderful diversity of brainteasers that have confounded and intrigued solvers for the last thousand years.
Celebrate the greatest moments in football history with this collection of 50 true stories. Discover the greatest football moments of all time in this collection of 50 exciting stories, perfect for fans of Football School: Star Players. Who was the dog that found the stolen World Cup? Which player was bought by a club for two freezers full of ice-cream? And what happened in the match that became known as the Miracle of Istanbul? Bringing together the best and most heartfelt moments in the game with some truly weird, wonderful and hilarious occurrences, this book is a must-read for any young football fan
Crossing continents and borders, bestselling author Alex Bellos has gathered more than one hundred of the world's best conundrums that test your deduction, intuition and street smarts. These lexical perplexities uncover the secrets of languages from Ancient Egyptian to internet slang and will delight fans of wordplay, Sudoku and anyone with a curiosity about the world. Some of the problems are as simple as ABC. Others will have you muttering "it's all Greek to me". Together they celebrate the rich diversity of human language and culture