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In this brilliant book, an award-winning "New York Times" columnist explains how the flattening—i.e., connectedness—of the world happened at the dawn of the 21st century, what it means to the global economy, and how governments and societies... [ More...]
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The author offers a brilliant, often hilarious history of shaped things. He says the future will bring user-alterable, baroquely multi-featured, and programmable replacements for what's in briefcases and pockets today.
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Taking us behind the scenes with today’s foremost researchers and pioneers, bestselling author Joel Garreau shows that we are at a turning point in history. At this moment we are engineering the next stage of human evolution. Through... [ More...]
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"Normal Accidents" analyzes the social side of technological risk. Charles Perrow argues that the conventional engineering approach to ensuring safety—building in more warnings and safeguards—fails because systems complexity makes failures... [ More...]
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"One mark of a great book is that it makes you see things in a new way, and Mr. Friedman certainly succeeds in that goal," the Nobel laureate Joseph E. Stiglitz wrote in "The New York Times," reviewing "The World Is Flat" in 2005. For this updated and... [ More...]
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