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Loading... How Soccer Explains the World: An Unlikely Theory of Globalization... 15. Black Swan Green and 16.Smoke and Mirrors. Hmm...been so long it's hard to remember. 17. Fat Girl, 18. How Soccer Explains the World, and 19. Screwball. In the baseball vein, 20. Fantasyland and 21. Moneyball. Guess that catches me partway up--I'm sure I'll remember ... ... Keeper, Marcia Davenport
Turtle Moon, Alice Hoffman
The Woman in White, Wilkie Collins
and for my husband,
How Soccer Explains the World, by Franklin Foer ... be highly appreciated):
Simon and the Oaks
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The Poisonwood Bible
The Glass Bead Game
How Soccer Explains the World
Lucifer's Shadow
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Funny in Farsi
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Counselors
Troubling a Star
War Story
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4) Schrodinger's Ball by Adam Felber
5) Light by M. John Harrison
6) The Black Swan by Nassim Taleb
7) How Soccer Explains the World by Franklin Foer
8) A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
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White Noi ... ... but "tales based on a true story" or such.
To me a good nonfiction book is something like Anatomy of a Typface or How soccer explains the world or Battle of Wits; all of which I recommend.
Am I alone in defining nonfiction thusly? I read about 3/4 of How Soccer Explains the World but since I was looking for books about how to play soccer and not necessarily the background of the sport I finally gave up. I was astounded by the whole hooligan thing surrounding the game. I guess I've just never paid attention.
228 and 229 ... #224 (and #225) - How soccer explains the world is talked about in the group Beautiful Game... Personally I enjoyed reading the book, but as how the game explains the world? In this case it's a way to look at ... ... it’s been on the 'short wait' list for ever now! Oh well.
Busifer and ragazzavagabonda, thanks; I recently picked up How Soccer Explains the World, I have only read the first two chapters, but so far it is great. I wish more books were written like it; it’s nice to learn history and ... I quite enjoy How Soccer Explains the World and used it several times as a source for some omy university papers on football culture and globalisation. I agree that it is biased, and it's a good lead in for the reader to research more about the cultural and political situations that are mentioned. ... Well, now I've actually finished How soccer explains the world, something I'll admit I hadn't done when I wrote the msg above... And I have to edit myself on the comment on how he describes Barca. He actually admits to the RM vs Barca rivalry, and even mentions the pigs' head. Still he hails the ... I would say How soccer explains the world by Franklin Foer. It is quite good (although my edition is titled "How football explains the world", but no touchstone on that...).
Entertaining and easy to read. A bit biased, thou' - in the chapter on jews in sports and football he in parts ... Despite not having finished ANY of the books I wrote about earlier, I have started in on a couple more: How Soccer Explains the World, a series of lively essays about globalization and local culture as they relate to the sport, and Everything is Illuminated.
I just found out from a friend ...
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