TY - BOOK AU - Friedman,Thomas L TI - World is flat : a brief history of the twenty-first century SN - 9780374292799 U1 - 330.90511 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 N1 - 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 ER -