10 Years That Shook the World

A Timeline of Events from 2001

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On sale Feb 14, 2012 | 192 Pages | 978-1-60980-413-8
In a style similar to many of today’s social media networks, this booklet will appeal to readers across generational lines, especially the millennial generation that came of age on or after 9/11/2001.

The technological revolution, the wide use of the Internet, and the advent of social media are just some of the innovations that grew to define the past decade. September 11, 2001, is considered the main event, but the changes from 2001 to 2011 go far beyond the menace of terrorism and the war on terror. The purpose of this booklet is to show the true patterns of change–those innovations that will influence coming decades.

This is more than a timeline; it is the tale of an extraordinary decade. Within each year, Napoleoni presents events not in a strict chronology but more as we might remember them, often with the most significant events recalled first. Thus the main topics--politics, economics, people, technology, and the environment--cross over constantly, showing how they are all interlinked and how globalization is speeding up the pace of change in our world.

Written in tweet-like bursts of information, 10 Years takes the reader through the last decade at breakneck speed, teasing out the links between financial policy, terrorism, propaganda, and social media over the course of the decade.
A woman of the Left who garners praise from Noam Chomsky and Greg Palast at the same time as she is quoted respectfully in Forbes and the Wall Street JournalLORETTA NAPOLEONI was born in 1955 in Rome. In the mid 1970s she became an active member of the feminist movement in Italy, and later studied as a Fulbright Scholar at Johns Hopkins University’s Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies in Washington, D.C. She began her career as an economist, and went on to work as London correspondent and columnist for La StampaLa Repubblica and La Paîs. Napoleoni is the author of the international bestsellers Rogue Economics: Capitalism’s New Realityand Terror Incorporated: Tracing the Money Behind Global Terrorism. She has served as the Chairman of the countering terrorism financing group for the Club de Madrid, and lectures regularly around the world on economics, money laundering and terrorism. Napoleoni lives in London and Montana. View titles by Loretta Napoleoni

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In a style similar to many of today’s social media networks, this booklet will appeal to readers across generational lines, especially the millennial generation that came of age on or after 9/11/2001.

The technological revolution, the wide use of the Internet, and the advent of social media are just some of the innovations that grew to define the past decade. September 11, 2001, is considered the main event, but the changes from 2001 to 2011 go far beyond the menace of terrorism and the war on terror. The purpose of this booklet is to show the true patterns of change–those innovations that will influence coming decades.

This is more than a timeline; it is the tale of an extraordinary decade. Within each year, Napoleoni presents events not in a strict chronology but more as we might remember them, often with the most significant events recalled first. Thus the main topics--politics, economics, people, technology, and the environment--cross over constantly, showing how they are all interlinked and how globalization is speeding up the pace of change in our world.

Written in tweet-like bursts of information, 10 Years takes the reader through the last decade at breakneck speed, teasing out the links between financial policy, terrorism, propaganda, and social media over the course of the decade.

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A woman of the Left who garners praise from Noam Chomsky and Greg Palast at the same time as she is quoted respectfully in Forbes and the Wall Street JournalLORETTA NAPOLEONI was born in 1955 in Rome. In the mid 1970s she became an active member of the feminist movement in Italy, and later studied as a Fulbright Scholar at Johns Hopkins University’s Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies in Washington, D.C. She began her career as an economist, and went on to work as London correspondent and columnist for La StampaLa Repubblica and La Paîs. Napoleoni is the author of the international bestsellers Rogue Economics: Capitalism’s New Realityand Terror Incorporated: Tracing the Money Behind Global Terrorism. She has served as the Chairman of the countering terrorism financing group for the Club de Madrid, and lectures regularly around the world on economics, money laundering and terrorism. Napoleoni lives in London and Montana. View titles by Loretta Napoleoni

10 Years That Shook The World

10 Years that Shook the World tells the tale of an extraordinary decade post 9/11. Within each year, the book present events not in a strict chronology but more as we might remember them, often with the most significant events recalled first. The main topics—politics, economics, people, technology, and the environment—cross over constantly, showing how they are all interlinked and how globalization poses a phenomenal challenge to our world.

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