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Ours is the most dynamic era in human history. The benefits of four centuries of        technological and organizational change are at last reaching a previously excluded        global majority. This transformation will create large-scale opportunities in richer        countries like the United States just as it has in poorer countries now in...

The Oxford Handbook of Culture and Psychology is an internationally representative        overview of the state of the art in cultural psychology. In contrast to        cross-cultural psychology that investigates differences in psychological phenomena        between societies, cultural psychology focuses on the ways in which our lives...

This book discusses the diversity of mechanisms by which prey avoid attack by predators and explores how such defensive mechanisms have evolved through natural selection. It considers how potential prey avoid detection, how they make themselves unprofitable to attack, how they signal their unprofitability, and how other species have exploited these...

A Guide to National Security offers an analysis of the threats and policy        responses facing the UK, presented within the framework of the Government's National        Security Strategy and the Strategic Defence and Security Review. It explores the        processes and developments which have shaped the transformation of national...

From Africa to AmericaSlavery and the British Empire provides a clear overview of the entire history of British involvement with slavery and the slave trade, from the Cape Colony to the Caribbean. The book combines economic, social, political, cultural, and demographic history, with a particular focus on the Atlantic world and the plantations of...

New Models of Sustainable Social ChangeExamines 'Social Entrepreneurship', a term that has come to be applied to the        activities of grass-roots activists, NGOs, policy makers, international        institutions, and corporations, amongst others, which address a range of social        issues in innovative and creative ways....