The world is flat a brief history of the twenty-first century / Thomas L. Friedman.

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Friedman, Thomas L

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Material type: Text

TextPublication details: New York : Picador/Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2007.Edition: Further updated and expanded edDescription: 1 online resource (x, 660 p.) 26 cmISBN:

9780312425074

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Electronic books.

DDC classification:

23 330.90511 FIR-W 2007 807898

Contents:

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.

Summary: 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.

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode	Item holds
Books	Lahore Business School Library Shelf No. 16, LBS	Book	330.90511 FIR-W 2007 807898 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		807898

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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.