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Football is the most popular sport in the world. Globalisation and commercialisation of the game, however, have created new conflicts and challenges. This book explores the role of the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) within the rising significance of football in Asia, drawing on three key theoretical perspectives: globalisation, neo-institutionalism and governance, as well as comprehensive data from interviews and archive material. It explores the organisational structure of AFC, its decision-making processes, relations with other actors, and policies put forward. To understand the...

Wars over food. Legions of homeless. Dwindling resources amid a growing, out-of-control population. The American dream of prosperity could be the death of us as early as 2020.

At least that's what Maj. Stone Rogers must believe-and what he must convince others to believe. His mission? To find a way to make suicide seem patriotic-to make the ill and troubled truly believe in dying with dignity, to believe that their willful deaths will help their nation thrive.

When Maj. Stone hires the famous advertising agency of Abbott and Hastings to make the pitch to the people, it falls upon...

1954: Ganz Deutschland befindet sich im Freudentaumel, denn die Nationalelf hat die Fußballweltmeisterschaft gewonnen! Auch die junge Luise, die mit drei sportbegeisterten Brüdern aufgewachsen ist, interessiert sich brennend für die angesagte Sportart, vor allem, da fünf der frisch gekürten Weltmeister aus ihrer Heimatstadt stammen. Mit Feuereifer nimmt sie am Training einer neu gegründeten Frauenmannschaft teil. Das stößt nicht überall auf Gegenliebe, denn die öffentliche Meinung besagt noch immer, dass Fußball unweiblich und zu rabiat für zarte Frauenkörper ist. Überall...

Just as Henry David Thoreau "traveled a great deal in Concord," Nobel Prize-winning physicist Steven Weinberg sees much of the world from the window of his study overlooking Lake Austin. In Lake Views Weinberg, considered by many to be the preeminent theoretical physicist alive today, continues the wide-ranging reflections that have also earned him a reputation as, in the words of New York Times reporter James Glanz, "a powerful writer of prose that can illuminate--and sting."

This collection presents Weinberg's views on topics ranging from problems of cosmology to...