TY - BOOK AU - Friedman,Thomas L. TI - The world is flat: : a brief history of the twenty-first century SN - 9780374292881 U1 - 303.4833 PY - 2005///] CY - New York PB - Farrar, Straus and Giroux KW - Diffusion of innovations KW - Information society KW - Globalization KW - Economic aspects N1 - Includes index; How the world became flat; American and the flat world; Developing countries and the flat world; Companies and the flat world; Geopolitics and the flat world ER -