Hot, Flat and Crowded

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• The green American dreamer

  There can be few writers so adept at catching the American mood as Thomas Friedman. In The Lexus and the Olive Tree, published in 1999, the influential New York Times columnist celebrated globalisation in triumphal fin-de-siècle fashion as a process ... (read full critics)

  guardian.co.uk published on Fri, 24 Sep 2010

• Hot, Flat and Crowded by Thomas L Friedman

  Here is a little game to pass the time. Key the words "world population" into Google and add the year of your birth. The results, in every case, will be intriguing. For example, in 1950, when I was born, there were 2.5 billion people on the planet. T ... (read full critics)

  guardian.co.uk published on Fri, 24 Sep 2010

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  A great essay presenting his basic thesis to start with but the rest of the book seemed slightly superfluous and a chore to read.

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• MUST READ

  As usual, T. Friedman gives a synthetic but still complete view of the present situation. Smart grid is a word will hear often in the future ....

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• English Books
• Hardcover 448 Pages
• ISBN-10: 184614129X
• ISBN-13: 9781846141294
• Publisher: Allen Lane
• Pub date: Sep 08, 2008

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