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The world is flat : a brief history of the twenty-first century
Thomas L. Friedman.
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"The World Is Flat is a timely and essential update on globalization, its successes and discontents, illuminated by one of our most respected journalists."--BOOK JACKET.
2005; 488 p.; isbn:0374292884 More Information |
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The world is flat : a brief history of the twenty-first century
Thomas L. Friedman
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Offers a concise history of globalization, discussing a wide range of topics, from the September 11 terrorist attacks to the growth of the middle class in both China and India
2006; 593 p.; isbn:0374292795 More Information |
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The world is flat : a brief history of the twenty-first century
Thomas L. Friedman
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An account of the great changes taking place in the modern world as a result of swift advances in technology and communications, including an explosion of wealth in India and China
2007; 660 p.; isbn:0374292787 More Information |
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The post-American world
Fareed Zakaria
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The "post-American world," argues Zakaria (editor, Newsweek International), is resulting not from the decline of American power but from the rise of the rest of the world (i.e. China, India, Brazil, Russia, etc.), a power shift that is as significant in its implications for world order as the rise of the United States in the closing years of the 19th ...
2008; 292 p.; isbn:039306235X More Information |
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The future of freedom : illiberal democracy at home and abroad
Fareed Zakaria
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Liberty and Democracy. The two go hand in hand in popular thinking, fused by more than two hundred years of U.S. history. More democracy means more freedom. Or does it? At a time when democracy is transcendent, the one political system whose legitimacy is unquestioned, this deeply important book points out the tensions between democracy and freedom. ...
2003; 286 p.; isbn:0393047644 More Information |
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Opening the borders : solving the Mexico/U.S. immigration problem for our sake and Mexico's
by Larry Blasko
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2007; 211 p.; isbn:9781933769189 More Information |
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The end of poverty : economic possibilities for our time
Jeffrey D. Sachs.
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An international economic advisor shares a wide-spectrum theory about how to enable economic success throughout the world, posing solutions to top political, environmental, and social problems that contribute to poverty.
2005; 396 p.; isbn:1594200459 More Information |
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Hot, flat, and crowded : why we need a green revolution-- and how it can renew America
Thomas L. Friedman
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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
2008; 438 p.; isbn:9780374166854 More Information |
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The omnivore's dilemma : a natural history of four meals
Michael Pollan
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Offers insight into food consumption in the twenty-first century, explaining how an abundance of unlimited food varieties reveals the responsibilities of consumers to protect their health and the environment
2006; 450 p.; isbn:1594200823 More Information |
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Why geography matters : three challenges facing America : climate change, the rise of China, and global terrorism
H. J. de Blij
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In 1995, Blij (geography, Michigan State U.) wrote a book about the world from a geographic perspective for television watchers. Here he presents a new look focusing more on the US, and taking into account three factors that did not seem crucial a decade ago, but do now. His underlying arguments is that geographic literacy is a matter of national security, ...
2005; 308 p.; isbn:0195183010 More Information |
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The complete idiot's guide to geography
Thomas E. Sherer, Jr., Thom Werthman, and Joseph Gonzalez
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Part of the ever popular Complete Idiot's Guide To series, this publication tackles world geography in its updated third edition. The book goes deeper than the "this-country-is-here" approach that one may expect, and thematic sections discuss physical, cultural, and human geography, population growth, atmosphere, and energy and water needs. Three parts ...
2007; 345 p.; isbn:159257663X More Information |
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Things fall apart
Chinua Achebe ; with an introduction by Kwame Anthony Appiah
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THINGS FALL APART tells two overlapping, intertwining stories, both of which center around Okonkwo, a "strong man" of an Ibo village in Nigeria. The first of these stories traces Okonkwo's fall from grace with the tribal world in which he lives, and in its classical purity of line and economical beauty it provides us with a powerful fable about the ...
1992; 181 p.; isbn:0679446230 More Information |
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