TY  - BOOK
AU  - Friedman,Thomas L.
TI  - The world is flat: a brief history of the twenty-first century 
SN  - 0312425074 (pbk.)
AV  - HM 846 .F74 2007
PY  - 2007///
CY  - New York
PB  - Picador/Farrar, Straus and Giroux, Distributed by Holtzbrinck Publishers
KW  - Diffusion of innovations
KW  - Information society
KW  - Globalization
KW  - Economic aspects
KW  - Social aspects
N1  - Release 3.0; Includes index; While I was sleeping -- The ten forces that flattened the world -- The triple convergence -- The great sorting out -- America and free trade -- The untouchables -- The right stuff -- The quiet crisis -- This is not a test -- The Virgin of Guadalupe -- How companies cope -- Globalization of the local -- If it's not happening, it's because you're not doing it -- What happens when we all have dog's hearing -- The unflat world -- The Dell theory of conflict prevention -- 11/9 versus 9/11
N2  - In The World Is Flat, the highly-regarded New York Times columnist Thomas L. Friedman advances the work on globalization that made his The Lexus and the Olive Tree a bestseller. Claiming that the world is now at an important historical point--as important as the changes brought by the discoveries by Columbus or by the Industrial Revolution--Friedman analyzes the events, inventions, and business practices that have resulted in a changed world, one he calls Globalization 3.0
ER  -