The football World Cup is the most watched sporting event on the planet. It has become a global obsession: 211 nations initially entered the 2022 edition. It has been running for almost a century. Yet there is no comprehensive history of the tournament: based on fresh interviews and meticulously researched this book will change that.

By 1930, football had outgrown the Olympic Games. A new competition, run by Fifa, would take international football to the next level. After a shambolic...

What happens when cultural policy turns digital? Digital Transformation and Cultural Policies in Europe analyzes and compares different digital cultural policies of Europe.

Bringing together leading scholars from media studies and digital sociology, this edited volume provides a comprehensive introduction to digital media metaphors, unpacking their power and limitations. This unique collection will interest students and scholars of digital media and media and communication studies.

Step inside the dazzling world of the sixteenth-century scientist.

The Hitler Years: Holocaust 1933 to 1945 provides a year-by-year narrative, fully illustrated, of the road Adolf Hitler mapped out to achieve his dream - the destruction of the European Jewish population.