Thomas L. Friedman
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 10.3 - AR Pts: 35
Language
English
Description
When scholars write the history of the world twenty years from now, what will they say was the most crucial development at the dawn of the 21st century--the attacks of 9/11, or the convergence of technology and events that allowed India, China, and so many other countries to become part of the global supply chain for services and manufacturing, creating an explosion of wealth in the middle classes of the world's two biggest nations, and giving them...
Author
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.
Author
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
America is in trouble. We face four major challenges on which our future depends, and we are failing to meet them—and if we delay any longer, soon it will be too late for us to pass along the American dream to future generations.
In That Used to Be Us, Thomas L. Friedman, one of our most influential columnists, and Michael Mandelbaum, one of our leading foreign policy thinkers, offer both a wake-up call and a call to collective
Publisher
Yale University Press
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
In 1986, Elie Wiesel received the Nobel Peace Prize in recognition of his victory over "the powers of death and degradation, and to support the struggle of good against evil in the world." Soon after, he and his wife, Marion, created the Elie Wiesel Foundation for Humanity. A project at the heart of the Foundation's mission is its Ethics Prize, an essay writing contest through which thousands of students from colleges across the country are encouraged...
Publisher
Discovery Communications
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
Three-time Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times columnist Thomas L. Friedman tries to answer two of the most puzzling questions about 9/11: What drove nineteen young, middle-class Muslim men to give up their lives to murder almost 3,000 people? And why does this violent act elicit so much support from millions of ordinary Muslims around the world? Through interviews with Muslim students, a radical Palestinian, and others, this program reveals the...
Publisher
Discovery Communications
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
"What happens when the demands of the global economy with all of its excess baggage of Westernizing forces collide with the deeply held traditions of an age-old culture like India's? Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Thomas L. Friedman heads to the heart of the conflict and examines how this clash of cultures is affecting the everyday lives of Indian workers, many of them young people, who are caught in the middle. Learn how this noble, proud society...
Publisher
Discovery Communications
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
Join New York Times columnist and Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Thomas L. Friedman as he asks world leaders, ordinary citizens and organizers of grass routes movements whether our longest-standing, European allies now hate us? With the European Union on the threshold of redefining the global balance of power, this continuing confrontation between the U.S. and Europe has profound implications for the future.
