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Name: The World Is Flat
Rating: 3.0 (5 reviews)
Author: Thomas Friedman
ISBN: 9780374292799

The World Is Flat

A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century

by Thomas Friedman

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Apr 1, 2005, 496 pages

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Jul 2007, 640 pages

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Thomas L. Friedman has won the Pulitzer Prize three times for his work at The New York Times. He is the author of three best-selling books: From Beiruit to Jerusalem (1989), winner of the National Book Award for nonfiction and still considered to be the definitive work on the Middle East, The Lexus and the Olive Tree: Understanding Globalization (1999), and Longitudes and Attitudes: Exploring the World After September 11 (2002). He lives in Bethesda, Maryland, with his family (more).

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