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Spoken by a quarter of the world's population, English is today's lingua franca—its common tongue. The language of business, popular media, and international politics, English has become commodified for its economic value and increasingly detached from any particular nation. This meteoric "rise of English" has many obvious benefits, but very real downsides as well. In The Rise of English, Rosemary Salomone offers a commanding view of the unprecedented spread of English and the far-reaching effects it has on global and local politics, economics, media, education, and business.

In the tradition of Oliver Sacks's The Island of the Colorblind, Rosemary Mahoney tells the story of Braille Without Borders, the first school for the blind in Tibet, and of Sabriye Tenberken, the remarkable blind woman who founded the school. Fascinated and impressed by what she learned from...

In the Company of Radical Women Writers rediscovers the political commitments and passionate advocacy of seven writers who as young women turned to communism around the Great Depression and, over decades of national crisis, spoke to issues of labor, land, and love in ways that provide thought-provoking guidance for today. Rosemary Hennessy spotlights the courageous lives of women who confronted similar challenges to those we still face: exhausting and unfair labor practices, unrelenting racial injustice, and environmental devastation.

Rosemary Clooney grew up singing with her sister at family gatherings, and in her senior year of high school they were hired to sing at the local radio station. She soared to fame in the 1950s with the novelty song "Come On-a My House" and continued to release a number of other pop and jazz hits. In 1973 Clooney sat down with Wink Martindale to provide an intimate look at her early personal life and legendary musical career.

Pimpernel and Rosemary continues the legacy of the Scarlet Pimpernel through his descendant, Peter Blakeney. Set against the backdrop of rising Nazi power in Hungary, this thrilling tale of spies, deception, and forbidden romance weaves together political intrigue and heroism in the fight against oppression.

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Danger Lab is Chicago-based Rosemary’s Other Baby’s mad playhouse of comedic experimentation. Every show is a different format, ranging from bracket competitions to game shows to Shark Tank-esque pitching extravaganzas. What will we cook up next? We have no idea either.

Rosemary Martínez es una creadora indomable: diseñadora, conferencista y escritora apasionada del florecimiento humano. En 2024 publicó Adiós mamá, adiós papá, bestseller de Amazon, donde narra con honestidad luminosa el viaje de acompañar a sus padres en sus últimos días. Su mirada de diseñadora transformó la despedida en un acto inesperado: humano, creativo y lleno de significado.Ha compartido esta visión en cursos y conferencias, incluidas 2 TEDX, mostrando cómo el diseño no solo transforma espacios, sino también formas de vivir… y de despedirnos.En una sociedad donde ...

Integrating mindfulness, neuroscience, positive psychology, and creativity research, Craftfulness offers a thought-provoking and surprising reconsideration of craft, and how making things with your hands can connect us to our deepest selves and improve our well-being and overall happiness. We...

In World War II, 59,000 women voluntarily risked their lives for their country as US Army nurses. For more than half a century these women's experiences remained untold, almost without reference in books, historical societies, or military archives. After years of research and hundreds of hours of interviews, Evelyn M. Monahan and Rosemary Neidel-Greenlee have created a dramatic narrative that at last brings to light the critical role that women played throughout the war.

🎙️You Are Not Alone | The H1b Talk Podcast is a place dedicated for us international students, where we share our struggles and celebrate our wins in the job search, h1b process, career and daily life in the United States. We invite you to the true stories of this small and often overlooked community.Hey, if you are listening, just know that you Are Not Alone!Follow us and stay tuned on Instagram @theh1btalk

A podcast for the general public about what you need to know about therapy, what you thought you knew about therapy but may have wrong, and the importance of education and outreach to stop the silence and end the stigma. This will be a series for everyday people and then hopefully evolve to reach out to other therapists and mental health professionals.

The laugh-out-loud banter of two Irish sisters that entertains and makes you feel like you’re just hanging out with old friends! Created and hosted by Rosemary and Beatrice Mac Cabe. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Journey to a different city across the globe each week for unfiltered conversations with small business owners and entrepreneurs making a difference in their community. Listen to their stories, laugh along the way and explore the city they call home. Support the show - https://bit.ly/peopleeverywherepatreon

Say hi to Meet/Cute, a podcast about getting together, breaking up, and everything that comes in between. I’m your host, Rosemary Mac Cabe, journalist and author of the book, This is Not About You, a memoir told through a chronology of romantic relationships. As I was putting the book together, I started to think about how fascinating romance is. What brings two people together? And what tears them apart? In this podcast, I’ll be talking to as wide an array of people as I can about the relationships that have colored the landscape of their lives. What age were they when they met their ...

Who says women don’t go to war? From Vikings and African queens to cross-dressing military doctors and WWII Russian fighter pilots, these are the stories of women for whom battle was not a metaphor. The woman warrior is always cast as an anomaly—Joan of Arc, not GI Jane. But women, it turns...

When Abortion Was a Crime is the must-listen book on abortion history. Originally published ahead of the thirtieth anniversary of Roe v. Wade, this award-winning study was the first to examine the entire period during which abortion was illegal in the United States, beginning in the mid-nineteenth century and ending with that monumental case in 1973. When Abortion Was a Crime is filled with intimate stories and nuanced analysis, demonstrating how abortion was criminalized and policed—and how millions of women sought abortions regardless of the law.