This May Help You Understand the World: A Timely Book for Those Confused by the Problems of a Troubled World - Softcover

Potter, Lawrence

 
9780714531373: This May Help You Understand the World: A Timely Book for Those Confused by the Problems of a Troubled World
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0714531375 ISBN 13: 9780714531373
Verlag: Marion Boyars Publishers Ltd, 2007

Inhaltsangabe

Everyone has insecurities about what they think they should know—the popularity of Lawrence Potter’s previous book, Mathematics Minus Fear, proves that. With its humorous style, his book makes knowledge accessible to anyone.

Each day, newspapers deliver fresh information on conflicts all around the world. This May Help You Understand the World assures you that it is okay to need more information than what is carried in today’s papers. People do want to understand the facts behind the headlines, and Potter makes it his business to enable this by discussing the following topics:

  • Who has won more battles: the autocrat, plutocrat, theocrat, meritocrat, bureaucrat, democrat, or pornocrat?
  • What did you say this country was called? Identity crises in Eastern Europe.
  • Charisma or coercion: leaders we fell out of love with.
  • Who’s kicking now? Political footballs.
  • Buckle up: ideology through the window of a private jet.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Lawrence Potter is a 27 year old classics graduate and math teacher, who likes to travel the world and is currently teaching math to children in Rwanda.

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Verlag
Marion Boyars Publishers Ltd
Erscheinungsdatum
2007
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0714531375
ISBN 13 
9780714531373
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
272
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