A book "The Flat world" is in the format of the 10-minute reading : reviews of the best books, only most important and useful.Thomas Фридман is a triple laureate Пулитцеровской bonuses, journalist, are a specialist in international law and author of book on globalization of "Лексус and olive tree". Basic interest of Thomas as journalist always was tied down to political and economic development of countries Near east, about that he quite a bit wrote for a news agency "United Press International", and then for the readers of "The New York Times". Also Фридман made a few documentary movies for the channel of "Dicovery Channel".QUOTATION: "Obviously, that today due to computers, e-mail, of communication networks, netnewss, to quickly adapting to the new tasks software possibility to cooperate and compete in real time appeared at the unprecedentedly large number of habitants Earth is in the greater number of areas, in the greater number of points of earth, with greater equality of rights, than some time in world history".