The World Is Flat &ndash A Brief History of the 21st Century (Ocean View, CA)

The World Is Flat &ndash A Brief History of the 21st Century

Local pick-up preferred but will ship at the buyer s expensecondition like newKingston Books 4 IMG_1131 Author Thomas L. Friedman Published Straus and Giroux Contents by Chapter 1. How the World Became Flat 2. America and the Flat World 3. Developing Countries and the Flat World 4. Companies and the Flat World 5. Geopolitics and the Flat World 6. Conclusion Imagination Acknowledgments Index When 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. Harcover with Jacket 488 pages ISBN 0-374-29288-4