Thomas L. Friedman

The World is Flat

The Globalized World in the Twenty-first Century

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Produktbeschreibung

Explores both the benefits and disadvantages of the developments in global communication. The author discusses the annoyance and dangers of BlackBerrys in meeting rooms, hands-free kits in conversation, and using a phone or iPod whilst driving.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Penguin Books UK
• Upd. and exp. ed.
• Seitenzahl: 672
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Juli 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 197mm x 129mm x 32mm
• Gewicht: 458g
• ISBN-13: 9780141034898
• ISBN-10: 0141034890
• Artikelnr.: 22893627

Autorenporträt

Thomas L. Friedman has been awarded the Pulitzer Prize three times for his work with The New York Times, where he serves as the foreign affairs columnist, and is read by everyone from small-business owners to President Obama. Friedman is also the author of From Beirut to Jerusalem (1989), which won both the National Book Award and the Overseas Press Club Award, The Lexus and the Olive Tree (1999), Longitudes and Attitudes (2002), The World Is Flat (2005), which won the first Financial Times/Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Award, and Hot, Flat, and Crowded (2008). He lives in Bethesda, Maryland.