托马斯·弗里德曼

《世界是平的：一部二十一世纪简史》是一本由托马斯·弗里德曼所撰写的畅销书，书中分析了21世纪初期全球化的过程。书中主要的论题是“世界正被抹平”，这是一段个人与公司行号通过全球化过程中得到权力的过程。 作者分析这种快速的改变是如何通过科技进步与社会协议的交合，诸如手机、网络、开放源代码程序……等，而产生的。弗里德曼他本身大力的拥护这些改变，他称自己为“自由贸易人”、“热情推土机”，并且批评抗拒这些改变的国家。书中，他着重在“这些快速改变的必然性”及“个人和发展中国家所显现出能力对美国人民及贸易所加诸压力的程度”。 …

From Beirut to Jerusalem is a book by American journalist Thomas L. Friedman chronicling his days as a reporter in Beirut during the Lebanese Civil War and in Jerusalem through the first year of the Intifada. It received the 1989 National Book Award for Nonfiction and also the Cornelius Ryan Award. Friedman wrote a …

The Lexus and the Olive Tree is a 1999 book by Thomas L. Friedman that posits that the world is currently undergoing two struggles: the drive for prosperity and development, symbolized by the Lexus, and the desire to retain identity and traditions, symbolized by the olive tree. He says he came to this realization …

Hot, Flat, and Crowded: Why We Need a Green Revolution—And How It Can Renew America is a book by New York Times Foreign Affairs columnist Thomas Friedman, proposing that the solutions to global warming and the best method to regain the United States' economic and political stature in the world is to embrace the clean …

A New York Times BestsellerThomas L. Friedman won his third Pulitzer Prize "for his clarity of vision, based on extensive reporting, in commenting on the worldwide impact of the terrorist threat" after the attacks of September 11, 2001. Longitudes & Attitudes is made up of the columns Friedman has published about …

A field guide to the twenty-first century, written by one of its most celebrated observers We all sense it_something big is going on. You feel it in your workplace. You feel it when you talk to your kids. You can't miss it when you read the newspapers or watch the news. Our lives are being transformed in so many …

This book brings together the strongest contemporary graphic design currently promoting sustainability and the fight against climate change. Collectively, essays by Michael Bierut, Steven Heller, Edward Morris and Dmitri Siegel look back in time to posters and ideas that set the stage for the current movement (World …