A brilliant and entertaining deconstruction of the most popular sport in the world from the bestselling author of How to Watch Basketball Like a GeniusAfter reading this fun book, you’ll never look at soccer the same way again.In How to Watch Soccer Like a Genius, Nick Greene calls on a turf manager, an expert on color theory, and a landscape historian to understand the field itself, a paleoanthropologist to talk kicking, ...

A brilliant, entertaining deconstruction of basketball, drawing on the expertise of board-game creators, magicians, therapists, and moreBasketball is the second-most popular sport in the world—an insanely complicated game built on a combination of athleticism, craftiness, rules, intangibles, and superstardom. However, while it’s enjoyable to watch, the real reason it works is because it’s a game of culture, art, and all the things that make us human. How to Wat...

"I swear, I absolutely swear that hope has a sound..." It's October 1991, and the residents of Casey House, Canada's first free-standing AIDS hospice, have woken up to the life-changing news that Princess Diana will be paying them a visit. Inspired by incredible true events, Casey and Diana is the story of compassion, kindness, community, and forgiveness in the face of devastating loss.

Three Journeys to Patagonia tells the story of Nick Green's love affair with Latin America; and charts his progress backpacking the subcontinent as a teenager, as an aspiring travel writer in his twenties, and later as a confirmed adventurer and Patagonia aficionado in his thirties.Nick tells the story of how once Patagonia had come into his life in 1991, it remained in his consciousness, compelling him to read around the subject, to study it, and to visit the region again...

This book guides you through doctoral study from the student's point of view - the challenges, pitfalls, and ups and downs that you're likely to encounter in the course of your PhD. Inside you'll find: - Advice on doing research - Examples of PhD problems and their resolution - Reflections on life as a PhD student - Insights into how the academic system works - Real life cases of famous (and not so famous)PhD students Over and above what your supervisors and university may have to offer, Y...

A brilliant, entertaining deconstruction of basketball, drawing on the expertise of board-game creators, magicians, therapists, and more.Basketball is the second-most popular sport in the world—an insanely complicated game built on a combination of athleticism, craftiness, rules, intangibles, and superstardom. However, while it's enjoyable to watch, the real reason it works is because it's a game of culture, art, and all the things that make us human. How to Wa...

A brilliant and entertaining deconstruction of the most popular sport in the world, just in time for the 2026 World Cup in North America, from the bestselling author of How to Watch Basketball Like a GeniusIn How to Watch Soccer Like a Genius, Nick Greene calls on a turf manager, an expert on color theory, and a landscape historian to understand the field itself, a paleoanthropologist to talk kicking, and an Anglican priest to exp...

The point is that we started the conversation.In 1971 Phillip was on the cusp of starting something big. Something that would make history. Now he’s an aging journalist trying to make sense of Grindr. Phillip was a founding member of The Body Politic, a gay-liberation newspaper based in Toronto. As he recounts memories of censorship battles, police raids, historic rallies, and the onset of HIV/AIDS during an intimate encounter with a younger man, their generationa...

In writing The Settlement Patterns of Britain Nick Green was inspired by the short story genre. His book is a collection of eight non-fiction short stories or essays, where the characters are the places, some of which appear more than once, usually as bit-part players, occasionally as the main protagonist. Preceded by a prologue describing Britain’s prehistory as a European peninsula, each essay covers a fixed period in the history of the development of Britain’s settlement patter...

When the murdered body of a Merton College undergraduate turns up in the centre of Oxford, Detective Inspector Amanda Godspeed from Kidlington must investigate her first murder case. All the clues point to Botswana, Africa and Amanda is drawn into a world she had never even dreamed of. The case, although deadly awakens in her something that will never go away: Is it a feeling of wanderlust or something deeper? As they race against the clock to avert further catastrophe Amanda is forced to ...

It is 2016 and the coldest winter on record. Oxfordshire has ground to a halt. In Akebury Castle's Italian Garden the discovery of a young girl's dead body is raising many questions.Newly promoted Detective Chief Inspector Amanda Godspeed must catch the killer before he/she strikes again. But the path of the investigation is anything but smooth, mirroring the tumult in her own personal life.

A chance conversation at a friend's wedding takes a very English restaurant manager from Oxford to the remotest deserts of Namibia's Skeleton Coast and the tropical swamplands of Botswana's Okavango Delta.Learning to cope with the heat and the tribal customs of the Himba and the San (Bushmen), adapting to work in an environment where confrontations with lions, elephants, and leopards are the norm, often pale in comparison when considering the complexity of tackling the most curious...