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The World Is Flat |
| Updated and Expanded: A Brief History of the
Twenty-first Century |
by Thomas L. FriedmanISBN: 0374292795
Pub. Date: April 2006
ISBN-13: 9780374292799
Format: Hardcover, pp. 608
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Edition Description: Updated and Expanded Edition
Sales Rank: 109
List Price: $30.00 |
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This new edition of The World Is Flat is Thomas L. Friedman†s account of the
great changes taking place in our time, as lightning-swift advances in
technology and communications put people all over the globe in touch as never
before-creating an explosion of wealth in India and China, and challenging the
rest of us to run even faster just to stay in place.
This updated and expanded edition features more than a hundred pages of fresh
reporting and commentary, drawn from Friedman†s travels around the world and
across the American heartland--from anyplace where the flattening of the world
is being felt.
In The World Is Flat, Friedman at once shows "how and why globalization has now
shifted into warp drive" (Robert Wright, Slate) and brilliantly demystifies the
new flat world for readers, allowing them to make sense of the often
bewildering scene unfolding before their eyes. With his inimitable ability to
translate complex foreign policy and economic issues, he 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; how governments
and societies can, and must, adapt; and why terrorists want to stand in the
way.
More than ever, The World Is Flat is an essential update on globalization, its
successes and discontents, powerfully illuminated by one of our most respected
journalists.
Annotation
This updated and expanded edition features more than a hundred pages of fresh
reporting and commentary, drawn from Friedman†s travels around the world and
across the American heartland--from anyplace where the flattening of the world
is being felt.
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