When WHO/RPC started their deliberations in 2001 on how best to analyse health research systems, one recommendation was that a comprehensive picture of benefits should be developed drawing on examples from many countries.
This makes it essential that the educational experience breed cosmopolitanism — that students have international experiences, and classes in the social sciences draw on examples from around the world.
The show concentrates on examples from the 1970's and 1980's, illustrating his remarkable blend of technical skill and creative imagination.
Drawing on examples from popular culture and the law, Ford guides the reader through the worst of these abuses, and articulates a bold strategy for dealing with systematic injustice in a world of "racism without racists".
The former care minister and MP for North Norfolk said the UK should draw on examples from US states such as Colorado, which legalised the possession of small amounts of marijuana for recreational use by over-21s in November 2012.
Darian Leader's scholarly and entertaining Hands: What We Do with Them and Why (Hamish Hamilton) riffs on examples from modern technology, psychoanalysis, popular culture and child development to investigate how our hands often do the talking for us.
And along with his wife, Amy Apfel Kass, a humanities professor, he teaches a class on marriage and courtship, which champions traditional virtues like patience and fidelity and draws on examples from Jane Austen and Shakespeare's "As You Like It".
Jonathan Powell, former chief of staff to Tony Blair, is writing an update of Machiavelli's "The Prince": "It is based on examples from the Blair, Bush and Clinton administrations rather than 15th Century Florence".
He drew on examples from his years as a special agent with the F.B.I., saying that a "Hooveresque" culture regarded local law enforcement officials as uneducated and corrupt -- a culture that he said is "not timely any longer".
Although the focus is on Wales, this packs draws on examples from all over the world and covers everyday issues such as how food supply, settlement, transport and health may be affected.
