“jonathan wilson”

For soccer fans, following, discussing, and arguing about the tactics a manager puts into play are part of what makes the sport so appealing. This fascinating study traces the history of soccer tactics back from such modern pioneers as Rinus Michels, Valeriy Lobanovskyi, Catenaccio, and Herbert Chap... More

After just a handful of matches in 2006, it seemed clear that Sunderland, a town and a soccer club in England's northeast, was going down, ready to drop into a lower-level league. Then, with just ten games to go, the board dismissed the manager, and the stage was set for a miracle. "Returning messia... More

The author of "An Ambulance Is on the Way" offers a brilliant new perspective on one of the most beloved--and most misunderstood--artists of the 20th century. Illustrations.Novelist and critic Jonathan Wilson clears away the sentimental mists surrounding an artist whose career spanned two world wars... More

In British-occupied Palestine after World War I, Mark Bloomberg, a beleaguered London painter, and Joyce, his American wife, witness the murder of a prominent Orthodox Jew. Joyce, a non-Jew and ardent Zionist, is drawn into an affair with the British investigating officer, while Mark seeks solace in... More

On the heels of his highly praised novel A Palestine Affair, Jonathan Wilson returns to his first love----the short story----to give us these sharp, bittersweet, often uproariously funny tales of middle-aged American men in hot water with women, with their sweet and savvy kids, with their own consci... More

"It's hard to be a Christian in America," writes Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove, a leader in the new monasticism movement, a growing group of committed Christians who are living lives of radical discipleship and unearthing a fresh expression of Christianity. He takes readers inside new monasticism, traci... More

'To Baghdad and Beyond' is the story of a young evangelical couple who followed the conviction of their faith into a war zone and discovered an alternative to the violence of empires and the complicity of quietism in the "third way" of Jesus's beloved community. Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove writes of h... More

Jonathan was a product of the new South: color-blind and culturally sensitive. Yet despite his progressive worldview, he was unaware of the invisible borders separating neighborhood churches. Then, as a political candidate on the local campaign trail, Jonathan began to reach out to the black communi... More