TY  - BOOK
AU  - Friedman,Thomas L.
TI  - The world is flat: a brief history of the twenty-first century 
SN  - 9780374292799 (hardcover : alk. paper)
AV  - HM846 .F74 2006
U1  - 303.48/33 22
PY  - 2006///
CY  - New York
PB  - Farrar, Straus and Giroux
KW  - Diffusion of innovations
KW  - Information society
KW  - Globalization
KW  - Economic aspects
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - Acculturation
KW  - sears
N1  - 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 -- The unflat world -- Globalization of the local -- The Dell theory of conflict prevention; Adult; Follett Library Resources; Adult
N2  - Contains an overview of the global political and economic change since the turn of the twenty-first century, discussing the rapid developments in technologies that has allowed India and China to become part of a growing supply chain of manufacturing impacting global markets
ER  -