THOMAS FRIEDMAN

Offers an outlook to the crises of destabilizing climate change and competition for energy. This work speaks to all who are concerned about the state of the world in the global future. It proposes a national strategy not only to save the planet from overheating; but also makes us all healthier, richer, innovative, productive, and secure.

From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of "From Beirut to Jerusalem" comes a brilliant investigation of globalization, the most significant socioeconomic trend in the world today.

Longitudes and Attitudes brings together reportage and reflections by one of the world's most admired journalists about the state of the world leading up to and after 11 September, 2001 the most momentous news story of our time. Travelling throughout the Middle East and Europe, Thomas Friedman talks to men and women in bazaars, schools and alleyways, as well as the world's leading political figures, developing and refining his unique perspective on the new kind of war the West finds itself fighting.

The beginning of the twenty-first century will be remembered, Friedman argues, not for military conflicts or political events, but for a whole new age of globalization a flattening'' of the world. The explosion of advanced technologies now means that suddenly knowledge pools and resources have connected all over the planet, levelling the playing field as never before, so that each of us is potentially an equal and competitor of the other. The rules of the game have changed forever but does this death of distance'', which requires us all to run faster in order to stay in the same place, mean the world has got too small and too flat too fast for us to adjust! Friedman brilliantly demystifies the exciting, often bewildering, global scene unfolding before our eyes, one which we sense but barely yet understand. The World is Flat is the most timely and essential update on globalization, its successes and its discontents, powerfully illuminated by a world-class writer.

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 action. They analyze the four challenges we face—globalization, the revolution in information technology, the nation's chronic deficits, and our pattern of excessive energy consumption—and spell out what we need to do now to sustain the American dream and preserve American power in the world. They explain how the end of the Cold War blinded the nation to the need to address these issues seriously, and how China's educational successes, industrial might, and technological prowess remind us of the ways in which "that used to be us." They explain how the paralysis of our political system and the erosion of key American values have made it impossible for us to carry out the policies the country urgently needs. And yet Friedman and Mandelbaum believe that the recovery of American greatness is within reach. They show how America's history, when properly understood, offers a five-part formula for prosperity that will enable us to cope successfully with the challenges we face. They offer vivid profiles of individuals who have not lost sight of the American habits of bold thought and dramatic action. They propose a clear way out of the trap into which the country has fallen, a way that includes the rediscovery of some of our most vital traditions and the creation of a new thirdparty movement to galvanize the country.

En un mundo cada vez más caluroso, globalizado y superpoblado, la tarea de crear sistemas, recursos energéticos y una ética que nos permitan crecer de forma más limpia y sostenible es el mayor desafío de nuestras vidas.El mundo es un lugar cada vez mas caliente, plano y abarrotado. El calentamiento global, el extraordinario aumento de la clase media en todo el mundo y el rapido crecimiento demografico convergen de tal manera que podrian hacer de nuestro planeta un lugar peligrosamente inestable. Se estan reduciendo las reservas de energia, se intensifica cada vez mas rapido la extincion de plantas y animales, esta aumentando la pobreza energetica, que a su vez refuerza la dictadura del petroleo y se acelera el cambio climatico.Como nos enfrentemos a estas tendencias globales determinara la calidad de la vida de nuestro planeta en el siglo veintiuno. Para Friedman la solucion es romper con el pasado y llevar a cabo una verdadera revolucion. Una revolucion verde, basada en la innovacion y una serie de medidas gubernamentales para promover el desarrollo economico y social responsable desde el punto de vista energetico. Y la tendra que liderar Estados Unidosen gran parte responsable de la situacion actualpor el bien de sus ciudadanos, su economia y su seguridad. Y por el bien del planeta.

Thomas Friedman, tres veces ganador del prestigioso premio Pulitzer y auténtico gurú de la economía en la actualidad, presenta en su esperadísimo y bestselleriano La Tierra es plana las claves que explican el fenomeno conocido como aplanamiento o muerte de las distancias, por el cual tanto la economia como la sociedad, las estructuras de poder e, incluso, los gobiernos, se han visto profundamente alterados y socavados. Con un estilo brillante, claro y directo, Friedman acerca al lector al complicado proceso de la globalizacion, que nos aboca a un nuevo orden social, y explica sus logros y desgracias.