Thank You for Being Late
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  • Published: 30 October 2017
  • ISBN: 9780141985756
  • Imprint: Penguin Press
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 560
  • RRP: $32.99
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Thank You for Being Late

An Optimist's Guide to Thriving in the Age of Accelerations

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The bestselling field guide to the twenty-first century by one of its most celebrated observers

We all sense it - our lives are speeding up at a dizzying rate. Thank You for Being Late exposes the tectonic movements that are reshaping the world today and explains how to get the most out of them. Friedman's thesis is that the planet's three largest forces - Moore's law (technology), the market (globalization) and Mother Nature (climate change and biodiversity loss) - are all accelerating at once. Thank You for Being Late is a work of contemporary history that serves as a field manual for how to think about this era of accelerations and how we can anchor ourselves in the eye of this storm.
  • Published: 30 October 2017
  • ISBN: 9780141985756
  • Imprint: Penguin Press
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 560
  • RRP: $32.99
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About the author

Thomas L. Friedman

Thomas L. Friedman, the foreign-affairs columnist for The New York Times, is a three-time Pulitzer Prize-winner and the author of From Beirut to Jerusalem (winner of the National Book Award for non-fiction and the Overseas Press Club Award); The Lexus and the Olive Tree: Understanding Globalization (also winner of the Overseas Press Club Award); Logitudes and Attitutdes: Exploring the World After September 11; and The World is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century (winner of the first Financial Times/Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Award). He lives in Bethesda, Maryland, with his family.

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Praise for Thank You for Being Late

His most ambitious book - part personal odyssey, part commonsense manifesto ... An honest, cohesive explanation for why the world is the way it is, without miracle cures or scapegoats. And that is why everybody should hope this book does very well indeed

John Micklethwait, The New York Times

Engaging ... In some senses Thank You For Being Late is an extension of [Friedman's] previous works, woven in with wonderful personal stories (including admirably honest discussions about the nature of being a columnist). What gives Friedman's book a new twist is his belief that upheaval in 2016 is actually far more dramatic than earlier phases.

Gillian Tett, Financial Times