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Product Identifiers
PublisherFarrar, Straus & Giroux
ISBN-100374292884
ISBN-139780374292881
eBay Product ID (ePID)43435374
Product Key Features
Number of Pages496 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication NameWorld Is Flat : a Brief History of the Twenty-First Century
SubjectSocial Aspects, Globalization, Social Aspects / General, General
Publication Year2005
TypeTextbook
AuthorThomas L. Friedman
Subject AreaPolitical Science, Computers, Technology & Engineering, Social Science
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height1.5 in
Item Weight27.2 Oz
Item Length9.2 in
Item Width6.2 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN2004-028685
Dewey Edition22
TitleLeadingThe
ReviewsPraise for Longitudes and Attitudes : "Eminently worth reading . . . It is Friedman's ability to see a few big truths steadily and whole that makes him the most important columnist in America today." --Walter Russell Mead, The New York Times, Praise forLongitudes and Attitudes: "Eminently worth reading . . . It is Friedman's ability to see a few big truths steadily and whole that makes him the most important columnist in America today." --Walter Russell Mead,The New York Times
Dewey Decimal330.90511
SynopsisWhen scholars write the history of the world twenty years from now, and they come to the chapter "Y2K to March 2004," what will they say was the most crucial development? The attacks on the World Trade Center on 9/11 and the Iraq war? Or the convergence of technology and events that allowed India, China, and so many other countries to become part of the global supply chain for services and manufacturing, creating an explosion of wealth in the middle classes of the world's two biggest nations, giving them a huge new stake in the success of globalization? And with this "flattening" of the globe, which requires us to run faster in order to stay in place, has the world gotten too small and too fast for human beings and their political systems to adjust in a stable manner?In this brilliant new book, the award-winning New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman demystifies the brave new world for readers, allowing them to make sense of the often bewildering global scene unfolding before their eyes. With his inimitable ability to translate complex foreign policy and economic issues, Friedman explains how the flattening of the world happened at the dawn of the twenty-first century; what it means to countries, companies, communities, and individuals; and how governments and societies can, and must, adapt. The World Is Flat is the timely and essential update on globalization, its successes and discontents, powerfully illuminated by one of our most respected journalists.