Fundamentals of Building Construction Materials and Methods 5th Edition
Don’t let your business or creative ideas go the way of the Dinosaurs - read this book!
Whether you love or hate the latest innovations of technology, they are forever changing the way things get done in your neighborhood and around the world.
Pick up a copy and upgrade your personal understanding of why the world has changed, how it changed, and what changes are coming to the way you buy, sell, and collaborate on business ideas.
Informative and easy to read.
If you have heared terms like outsourcing, Internet Technology, SOA, Workflows, Business Processes, web servers, collaboration platforms, etc. and you were not sure what does it mean and how does it relates to you or your work, this is the book to read. The biggest value of this book is that it gives an overview of changes in technology and globalization that happened in the last 15-20 years on a high level. This makes it possible for a non-geak to get a better understanding of all the recent tech buzzwords and to evaluate potential impact on his own business (but also private) field. Considering the fact that we are all impacted by the changes described in this book and we all live in these revolutionary times, I believe the potential audience for Friedmans book is simply everyone.
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“In China today, Bill Gates is Britney Spears. In America today, Britney Spears is Britney Spears — and that is our problem.” What a great line! It really hits home as it expresses a major problem in the U.S. that makes us less competitive with the emerging markets and economies of India and China.
Friedman is certainly a great writer and I so appreciate well-written prose. I read the book in 2005 when it was released after watching Charlie Rose interview him on PBS. The interview was fascinating. The book is incredibly well-researched while being very well-articulated. That is a winning combination for me!
He certainly seems to have his finger on the pulse of international matters. I suppose that’s why he got three Pulitzer prizes for distinguished commentary and his work with the NY Times as the foreign affairs columnist is held in high regard. He’s won two Overseas Press Club Awards and the National Book Award. Not a bad list of accolades and I can see why. This is the only work of his that I’ve read and it is one of the best researched and well-thought out books of the literally thousands that I’ve read in various subjects from the Humanities to the Sciences. His reporting is concise while being detailed where it needs to be and when it is detailed he knows how to express it well so as not to bore the reader. He can be punchy at times which adds his own flare to things while expressing a sense of humanity and a commitment to furthering it. We could debate his strategies for doing so, as I would in certain aspects of globalization (which he very much support), but at least he brings an intellectual rigor and a journalistic integrity to the table that makes dining with him a pleasure. His discussion of context toward the end of the book is brilliant.
This is one of the most important reads I’ve opened this year. The writer (unlike many other current books) doesn’t stop with the rate of change being imposed on humanity by computers. He continues on to talk about the possible political, economic and educational fallout. Read this.
It is really a short history of XXI century. Read it and prepare for the changes, as they are unavoidable. Especially valuable for americans - Friedman gives right insights, how USA should remain a leader and not give the way to “hungry” Indians, Chinese and East Europeans.
