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Diversity is the nature of humanity because the profiles of men and women have highly diverse features. The same applies to the structure, behavior and results of the groups they form, the institutions they create and the governance tools they use. This evidence has become an axiom of everything that concerns humanity. Globalization has brought people and all their differences together to act in a unique, dynamically diverse space in constant transformation. In the nineties, scientists such as Offerman and Gowing (IPD, 1996) researched the impact of diversity in corporate communities. The findings again confirmed that when managed, global megadiversity fosters innovation and therefore makes unprecedented contributions to the creation of the mechanisms that drive humanity to the highest levels of accelerated development. Diversity and inclusion management must be compulsory in all education systems so that men and women in their professional lives leverage this core competence.

In the edited collection Athletics in the Nordic Countries, scholars from Denmark, Finland, Norway, and Sweden explore historical developments and current phenomena in the sport of athletics (track and field). The chapters provide insight into sport officials, events, and athletes from the Nordic countries that have shaped the international athletics scene. The authors identify the leading role of sport leaders from Scandinavia in the foundation years and highlight how athletics' events held in the region were milestones in the transformation of the sport. Athletics' international governing body World Athletics was founded in Sweden in 1912 as the International Amateur Athletic Federation. Seventy years later, Finland hosted the first World Athletics Championships in Helsinki in 1983. In between those turning points, Nordic officials and athletes promoted significant changes in athletics, and their innovative approaches continue to shape the development of the sport until today

Social history is only one kind of history. Still, it is exactly the type of history that disability demands to be told, especially due to the universality of the disability experience. Doris and Frieda Zames remind us that "handicapism" is the only "ism" we all will experience if we live long enough. Although disability will always arguably be about physical differences (of body, mind, intellect, personality, etc.), its universal nature means that it should logically be the king/queen of identity politics, while it has long been the pauper. This story helps explain why that was and is today, and what America's unique and sometimes unpleasant role in the story is.This text attempts not just to represent the American experience with disability but the American experience. The further we move away from 1990 and the passage of the ADA, the less that demarcation seems to be distinct and dichotomous, and the more America seems to be an abject case study of identity possibility in flux, placed squarely at the intersection of the rational and irrational, the qualitative and quantitative, the old and new, the individual and collective, and at the nexus of classic liberalism and neomodernism. In fact, the ADA was reauthorized in 2008, an indication of the constructivist nature of disability policy.This book is intended to be useful and informative, whether as a classroom textbook or as a conversation starter on the coffee table. It also uses the unique tools of the social historian to tell the story.