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The World Is Flat [Updated and Expanded]; A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century

ISBN: 9780374292799 | 0374292795
Format: Trade Book
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date: 4/18/2006

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SummaryTable of ContentsAuthor Biography
"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 t... MORE
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Introduction to the Updated and Expanded Editionix
How the World Became Flat
One: While I Was Sleeping
3(47)
Two: The Ten Forces That Flattened the World
50 (151)
Flattener #1. 11/9/89
Flattener #2. 8/9/95
Flattener #3. Work Flow Software
Flattener #4. Uploading
Flattener #5. Outsourcing
Flattener #6. Offshoring
Flattener #7. Supply-Chaining
Flattener #8. Insourcing
Flattener #9. In-forming
Flattener #10. The Steroids
Three: The Triple Convergence
201 (33)
Four: The Great Sorting Out
234(27)
America and the Flat World
Five: America and Free Trade
261 (15)
Sis: the Untouchables
276 (25)
Seven: The Right Stuff
301(22)
Eight: The Quiet Crisis
323 (37)
Nine: This Is Not a Test
360(33)
Developing Countries and the Flat World
Ten: The Virgin of Guadalupe
393(32)
Companies and the Flat World
Eleven: How Companies Cope
425(32)
Geopolitics and the Flat World
Twelve: The Unflat World
457(48)
Thirteen: Globalization of the Local
505(10)
Fourteen: The Dell Theory of Conflict Prevention
515(28)
Conclusion: Imagination
Fifteen: 11/9 Versus 9/11
543(24)
Acknowledgments567 (4)
Index571
Thomas L. Friedman has won the Pulitzer Prize three times for his work at The New York Times, where he serves as the foreign affairs columnist. He is the author of three previous books, all of them bestsellers: From Beirut to Jerusalem, winner of the National Book Award for nonfiction; The Lexus and the Olive Tree: Understanding Globalization; and Longitudes and Attitudes: Exploring the World After September 11. In 2005 The World Is Flat was given the first Financial Times and Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Award, and Friedman was named one of America’s Best Leaders by U.S. News & World Report. He lives in Bethesda, Maryland, with his family.

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