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10 years that shook the world : a timeline of events from 2001 / Loretta Napoleoni.

Title
10 years that shook the world : a timeline of events from 2001 / Loretta Napoleoni.
Author
Napoleoni, Loretta
Publication
New York : Seven Stories Pr., c2012.

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Description
ix, 181 p.; 18 cm.
Summary
"From 9/11 to the launch of the iPod, from the creation of "Gmail: to the 2004 tsunami, from the Enron Bankruptcy to the killing of Osama bin Laden, 10 Years That Shook the World is the story of an extraordinary decade. For each year, Loretta Napoleoni presents events not as a chronology bus as dispatches from the world's collective memory. Topics like politics, economics, celebrities, and the environment intersect and converge to reveal the accelerating pace of globalization and the changes that have affected us all." -- Back cover.
Alternative Title
Ten years that shook the world
Subjects
Genre/Form
Chronologies
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 173-181).
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
"From 9/11 to the launch of the iPod, from the creation of "Gmail: to the 2004 tsunami, from the Enron Bankruptcy to the killing of Osama bin Laden, 10 Years That Shook the World is the story of an extraordinary decade. For each year, Loretta Napoleoni presents events not as a chronology bus as dispatches from the world's collective memory. Topics like politics, economics, celebrities, and the environment intersect and converge to reveal the accelerating pace of globalization and the changes that have affected us all." -- Back cover.
ISBN
  • 9781609804138 (pbk.)
  • 1609804139 (pbk.)
LCCN
^^2011035620
OCLC
749115650
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library