Thomas L. Friedman - Hot, Flat, and Crowded Why the World Needs a Green Revolution--And How We Can Renew Our Global Future

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THE SUNDAY TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER
THE OBSERVER BOOK OF THE YEAR

THE INSIDE STORY ON PRESIDENT TRUMP, AS ONLY BOB WOODWARD CAN TELL IT.

'Fear is a meticulously researched account of a White House and a president in financial, legal and personal disorder...essential reading...' Daily Mail

'I think you've always been fair.' -- President Donald J. Trump, in a call to Bob Woodward, August 14, 2018

'The sheer weight of anecdotes depicts a man with no empathy and a pathological capacity for lying.' - The Financial Times

'Fuelling his narrative is an astonishing cast of rogues, ideologues, self-made millionaires and men in uniform who have spent the past two years in and out of Trump's administration.' - The Sunday Times

'Woodward's meticulous account of office intrigues, the president's men don't seem to be trembling with fright. What they mostly feel is contempt for Trump or pity for his ignorance and the "teenage logic" of his obsessively vented grievances.' - The Observer

'Horribly fascinating. Strongly recommended. If you can bear it.' Richard Dawkins

'To me the standout message from the book...is that the president is a bit clueless, a bit vain, a bit dangerous even; but his people are utterly at sea...' - Justin Webb, The Times

'He is the master and I'd trust him over politicians of either party any day of the week.' --Peter Baker, New York Times

'His work has been factually unassailable . . . In an age of 'alternative facts' and corrosive tweets about 'fake news,' Woodward is truth's gold standard.' - Jill Abramson, The Washington Post

'Fear depicts a White House awash in dysfunction, where the Lord of the Flies is the closest thing to an owner's manual.' The Guardian

'I wonder how many journalists have arrived in Washington over the years dreaming of becoming the next Bob Woodward . . . Though his books are often sensational, he is the opposite of sensationalist. He's diligent, rigorous, fastidious about the facts, and studiously ethical. There's something almost monastic about his method . . . He's Washington's chronicler in chief.' -- Nick Bryant, BBC

'I've been on the receiving end of a Bob Woodward book. There were quotes in it I didn't like. But never once--never--did I think Woodward made it up. Anonymous sources have looser lips and may take liberties. But Woodward always plays is straight. Someone told it to him.' -- Ari Fleisher, White House Press Secretary for George W. Bush

With authoritative reporting honed through eight presidencies from Nixon to Obama, author Bob Woodward reveals in unprecedented detail the harrowing life inside President Donald Trump's White House and precisely how he makes decisions on major foreign and domestic policies. Woodward draws from hundreds of hours of interviews with firsthand sources, meeting notes, personal diaries, files and documents. The focus is on the explosive debates and the decision-making in the Oval Office, the Situation Room, Air Force One and the White House residence.

Fear is the most intimate portrait of a sitting president ever published during the president's first years in office.

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Thomas L Friedman's The World is Flatwas one of the biggest global bestsellers of any kind in 2005 and 2006. With his unique combination of analysis, reportage and call to action, Friedman now addresses the biggest crisis in the world - climate change - and argues that we haven't even begun to acknowledge and react to the true scale of the problem yet. At the moment, he says, we aren't having a pro-green revolution, we're having a green party - a lot of good feelings, some nice bits of green branding, and a lot of hot air. If we're going to have the real green revolution we need, we must acknowledge that unless we change, we die.

Friedman will show that 'green is better' - and that America and the world need to 'think green' as they thought 'red white and blue' after the 9/11 attacks- he will redefine green as geopolitical, strategic, and patriotic. Then he will show that if we're going to make a real difference, we need a disruptive green revolution- Friedman describes what 'the four disruptions' should be, and provides concrete examples of 'better, smarter, healthier, greener'. He shows that we need to change our leaders, not just our light bulbs, and that if we are going to get this right, we need to change ourselves from the 'me-generation' into the 'regeneration'.

This is sure to be one of the most talked about and best-selling nonfiction books in the world in 2008.

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All books are second hand. Prices are according to condition of the book which may vary from used to almost new. No books are sold in unacceptable conditions.