TY - BOOK AU - Friedman,Thomas L. TI - The world is flat: a brief history of the twenty-first century SN - 9780312425074 AV - HM846 .F74 2007 U1 - 303.48/33 22 PY - 2007///, c2005 CY - New York PB - Picador/Farrar, Straus and Giroux KW - Diffusion of innovations KW - Information society KW - Globalization KW - Economic aspects KW - Social aspects KW - Acculturation KW - sears N1 - "Further updated and expanded."; "Release 3.0"--Cover; Includes index; 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 -