Book
The World is Flat
- Published
- 2005
- Genre
- Nonfiction
- Pages
- 593
- Words
- 172405
- URL
- https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1911.The_World_Is_Flat?ref=nav_sb_ss_1_18
Reading measures
- Accelerated Reader level
- 10.3
- AR interest level
- UG — upper grades, 9–12
- Suggested reading age
- ages 14–18
- Ambleside year
- Year 12 onwards · ages 17–20
An Ambleside year is a year of the Ambleside Online programme, not a reader's age. Year 0 is its first year, and a book used over several years shows the span. The ages beside it are that band offered two grades up and none down, which is how we offer a band; they are a placement, not a reading measure.
When scholars write the history of the world twenty years from now, and they come to the chapter Y2K to March 2004 , what will they say was the most crucial development? The attacks on the World Trade Center on 9/11 and the Iraq war? 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, giving them a huge new stake in the success of globalisation? And with this flattening' of the globe, which requires us to run faster in order to stay in one place, has the world got too small and too fast for human beings and their political systems to adjust in a stable manner?
ISBN
- ISBN-13
- 9784532312800
- ISBN-10
- 4532312809
Tags
Community Life-PoliticsEconomicsForeign PolicyHistoryModernRecommended Reading-SLJ Adult Book for High School/TeensSocial Issues-Civic/Economic Progress