Playa Novillero, Mexico Sign us up. This beach is 56 miles long, a third of a mile wide and water that's shallow enough that you can walk about 330 feet into the water. Ninety Mile Beach, New Zealand Unlike its neighbor to the west, this beach, on the North Island, is really only about 55 miles long.
World-systems theory. World-systems theory (also known as world-systems analysis or the world-systems perspective), is a multidisciplinary, macro-scale approach to world history and social change which emphasizes the world-system (and not nation states) as the primary (but not exclusive) unit of social analysis.
Systems Thinking. The concept of learning cultures developed out of a discipline called systems thinking. This is a conceptual framework that allows people who study businesses to understand how things -- parts, people, events -- influence one another within the system as a whole and to see problems as multifaceted.