Thomas Friedman

Svět je plochý: Stručné dějiny jedenadvacátého století je kniha amerického spisovatele a novináře Thomase L. Friedmana zabývající se fenoménem globalizace se zaměřením na 21. století. Slovní spojení „svět je plochý“ objevující se v titulu knihy je metafora, která odkazuje ke stále se „zplošťujícímu“ světu, ve kterém …

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 …