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books:

Election 2008: A Voter's Guide (A New Republic Book)

5 reviews

Yale University Press, 2008

Foer Follies
In this revealing, behind the scenes look at the 2008 presidential campaign, the peerless journalists of TNR uncover - via unsubstantiated, anonymous sources of course - Republican presidential candidates committing multiple atrocities and war crimes while in the field. In Iowa, Fred Thomson and his good ol' boy colleagues mock disfigured WAC WWII vetrans while visiting a VA hospital; Rudolph ...

How Soccer Explains the World: An Unlikely Theory of Globalization

81 reviews
Franklin Foer

Harper Perennial, 2005

how soccer explains the world
This was a well written book regarding soccer in the global community. I would encourage anyone who enjoys the game to read this interesting perspective on how soccer is influenced by religion and race and vice versa.

How Football Explains the World

1 review
Franklin Foer

ARROW (RAND), 2006

Good for a laugh
A series of strung-together stories, with the overarching theme of globalisation and how it effects us. Football is a good example of the contradictions of the modern world, of course, because it draws us all together (except, perhaps, the US) but also can have all kinds of nationalist bollocks attached. It was amazing to read how Milosevic's shock troops in ethnic cleansing were Red Star ...

How Soccer Explains the World
Franklin Foer

Harpercollins, 2004

Wie man mit Fußball die Welt erklärt
Franklin Foer

Heyne Verlag, 2006

How Soccer Explains The World
Franklin Foer

Harpercollins, 2005

Star-Spangled Mirror: America's Image of Itself and the World

1 review
Franklin Foer

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 1990

Shows the errors of our international policies AND WHY.
I am in the middle of writing my first book and it is an attempt to find out where we are at presently and what course we are taking as the country currently in the lead. This book will answer anyones questions how we have gotten involved with other countries since World War2. We need to understand how we look to other countries and to stop our insistance of doing it our way. I wonder how ...