The World Is Flat [Further Updated and Expanded; Release 3.0]: A Brief History of the Twenty-fi...
ISBN: 9780374292782 | 0374292787
Edition: 2ndFormat: Hardcover
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date: 8/7/2007
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The World Is Flatis 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 fl... MORE
| Introduction to the 3.0 Expanded Edition | p. ix |
| How the World Became Flat | |
| While I Was Sleeping | p. 3 |
| The Ten Forces That Flattened the World | p. 51 |
| 11/9/89 | |
| 8/9/95 | |
| Work Flow Software | |
| Uploading | |
| Outsourcing | |
| Offshoring | |
| Supply-Chaining | |
| Insourcing | ... MORE |
| In-forming | |
| The Steroids | |
| The Triple Convergence | p. 200 |
| The Great Sorting Out | p. 233 |
| America and the Flat World | |
| America and Free Trade | p. 263 |
| The Untouchables | p. 278 |
| The Right Stuff | p. 308 |
| The Quiet Crisis | p. 337 |
| This Is Not a Test | p. 374 |
| Developing Countries and the Flat World | |
| The Virgin of Guadalupe | p. 403 |
| Companies and the Flat World | |
| How Companies Cope | p. 441 |
| You and the Flat World | |
| Globalization of the Local | p. 477 |
| If It's Not Happening, It's Because You're Not Doing It | p. 489 |
| What Happens When We All Have Dog's Hearing? | p. 515 |
| Geopolitics and the Flat World | |
| The Unflat World | p. 533 |
| The Dell Theory of Conflict Prevention | p. 580 |
| Conclusion: Imagination | |
| 11/9 Versus 9/11 | p. 607 |
| Acknowledgments | p. 637 |
| Index | p. 641 |
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Thomas L. Friedman has won the Pulitzer Prize three times for his work at The New York Times, where he serves as the foriegn affairs columnist. He is the author of three previous books, all of them best-sellers: From Beirut to Jerusalem; winner of the National Book Award for nonfiction; The Lexus and the Olive Tree; and Longitudes and Attitudes. In 2005 The World Is Flat was given the first Financial Times and Golden 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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