01282cam a22002534a 4500 0 0 0 GIMPA GIMPA REF 2015-03-20 Purchase 0 HM 846 FRI 64056 2022-11-22 2023-02-23 BK 1492 1492 0374292795 (hardcover : alk. paper) 9780374292799 HM 846 FRI Friedman, Thomas L. The world is flat : a brief history of the twenty-first century / 1st updated and expanded ed. New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, c2006. viii, 593 pages : 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 -- 11/9 versus 9/11. Diffusion of innovations. Information society. Globalization - economic aspects. Globalization - social aspects. http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip068/2006003748.html http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0629/2006003748-b.html http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0629/2006003748-d.html BK