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Publisher
HarperAudio
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
In From Beirut to Jerusalem, Thomas L. Friedman of The New York Times, author of The Lexus and the Olive Tree, has drawn on his decade in the Middle East to produce the most trenchant, vivid, and thought-provoking book yet on the region.
No issue in international politics has been more hotly debated than the Arab-Israeli conflict. And no reporter has illuminated both the conflict and the rhythms of life in the Middle East with more immediacy
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Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
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Description
A three-time Pulitzer Prize recipient and director of the Johns Hopkins American Foreign Policy program make recommendations for meeting four major challenges currently facing the United States including globalization, the information technology revolution, chronic deficits and unbalanced energy consumption.
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus, Giroux
Pub. Date
c2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.2 - AR Pts: 21
Language
English
Description
America's leading observer of the international scene on the minute-by-minute events of September 11, 2001-before, during and after.
As the Foreign Affairs columnist for the The New York Times, Thomas L. Friedman is in a unique position to interpret the world for American readers. Twice a week, Friedman's celebrated commentary provides the most trenchant, pithy,and illuminating perspective in journalism.
Longitudes and Attitudes contains the columns...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 10.3 - AR Pts: 35
Language
English
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Description
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...
Author
Language
English
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Description
Friedman discusses how the key to understanding the 21st century is understanding that the planet's three largest forces -- Moore's law (technology), the market (globalization) and Mother Nature (climate change and biodiversity loos) -- are accelerating all at once. And these accelerations are transforming the five key realms: the workplace, politics, geopolitics, ethics, and community. Friedman posits that we should purposely "be late" -- we should...
Author
Publisher
Macmillan Audio
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 10.9 - AR Pts: 39
Language
English
Description
Friedman's bestseller "The World Is Flat" has helped millions of readers to see globalization in a new way. Now the author brings a fresh outlook to the crises of destabilizing climate change and rising competition for energy.
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