Global Englishes

Art today is defined by its relationship to money as never before. Prices of living artists' works have been driven to unprecedented heights, conventional boundaries within the art world have collapsed, and artists now think ever more strategically about how to advance their careers. Artists no longer simply make art, but package, sell, and brand it. Noah Horowitz exposes the inner workings of the contemporary art market, explaining how this unique economy came to be, how it works, and where it's headed.

What would Albert Einstein say about the possibility that nuclear power can be a clean source of energy? How does Saint Francis answer questions about healing the planet and living in spiritual communion with it? Now, exclusively in this one-of-a-kind audiobook, you get to hear their voices channeled through a gifted psychic medium, sharing with you the wisdom and knowledge they gained while living their extraordinary lives, and after crossing over.

As nationalism and anti-immigration rhetoric surge in France (and elsewhere), The Shortest History of France presents a portrait of a nation whose politics and society have always been shaped by global forces. Grounded in up-to-date historical scholarship that avoids the traps of national exceptionalism, Jones reminds us that it was only after the first millennium of French history that a nation-state began to emerge.

Charles Street was once a highly respected agent working for MI6, until a terrible mistake cost him his job. Now he's a desperate man, living on past glories and struggling to make ends meet. Until he makes a discovery that has the power to bring down the new President of the United States. But when Street tries to cash in on this discovery, he finds himself pursued by a Russian snatch squad.

In the late 1990s, when Keefe was a graduate student in England, he heard stories about an eavesdropping network led by the United States that spanned the planet. The system, known as Echelon, allowed America and its allies to intercept the private phone calls and e-mails of civilians and governments around the world.

An inspiring personal story of redemption, second chances, and the transformative power within us all, from the founder and CEO of the nonprofit charity: water. In the tradition of such best-selling books as Shoe Dog and Mountains Beyond Mountains, Thirst is a riveting account of how to build a better charity, a better business, a better life - and a gritty tale that proves it’s never too late to make a change.

Kaur constantly embraces growth, and in Home Body, she walks listeners through a reflective and intimate journey visiting the past, the present, and the potential of the self. Home Body is a collection of raw, honest conversations with oneself - reminding listeners to fill up on love, acceptance, community, family, and embrace change. Themes of nature and nurture, light and dark, rest here.

In this incisive new work, Adrian Daub analyzes the global spread of cancel culture discourse as a moral panic, showing that, though its object is fuzzy, talk of cancel culture in global media has become a preoccupation of an embattled liberalism. There are plenty of conservative voices who gin up worries about cancel culture to advance their agendas. But more remarkable perhaps is that it is centrist, even left-leaning, media that have taken up the rallying cry and really defined the outlines of what cancel culture is supposed to be.

How to tune in AM talk radio and shortwave from your PC, tablet, or smart phone — anywhere with internet access. Listen to live signals, in any country, without your own radio, for free and no strings attached. It may sound crazy, but such a thing is real. This book is a guide to tuning in the world using remote radio receivers located all over the world. It is a recent and powerful technology combining software defined radio with broadband internet.

In Five Cities that Ruled the World, theologian Douglas Wilson fuses together, in compelling detail, the critical moments birthed in history’s most influential cities—Jerusalem, Athens, Rome, London, and New York.

America in Retreat identifies a profound crisis on the global horizon. As Americans seek to withdraw from the world to tend to domestic problems, America’s adversaries spy opportunity. Vladimir Putin's ambitions to restore the glory of the czarist empire go effectively unchecked, as do China's attempts to expand its maritime claims in the South China Sea, as do Iran's efforts to develop nuclear capabilities.

In an eminently clear-sighted reckoning, The Fractured Age lays out the threats and opportunities confronting the world economy over the next decade and maps the uneven blocs that are set to emerge from a world in flux. The geopolitical tectonic plates of the planet have shifted back into action and the increased pressures their movements are bringing to bear will stress all our existing financial and commercial structures, habits and orthodoxies.

From the National Business Book Award winner and GG finalist, a very different book about facing the climate crisis, and what awaits us on the other side.

Is that just a shadow? Or could it be something—or someone—else? This chilling series introduces reluctant listeners to ghost stories from around the world. This startling series is sure to delight ghost lovers! This volume includes Ghosts in Africa, Ghosts in Asia, and Ghosts in Australia.

Is that just a shadow? Or could it be something—or someone—else? This chilling series introduces reluctant listeners to ghost stories from around the world. This startling series is sure to delight ghost lovers! This volume includes Ghosts in Europe, Ghosts in North America, and Ghosts in South America.

Imagine you're racing against a deadline for a project pitch, but your CPD hours are looming large, untouched. Maybe you're even spending your weekends poring over lengthy texts on renewable energy systems, wishing there was a way to combine this with your CPD requirements without sacrificing precious downtime—well now there is. Enter a transformative resource in sustainable architecture. This book is designed to streamline your learning process, directly aligning with your CPD requirements while enhancing your expertise in eco-friendly design.

More than 70 percent of Earth is covered in water. Yet only about 3 percent of it is freshwater that people can use. Every year, parts of the world suffer through severe droughts, and millions of people don’t have easy access to clean drinking water. Why is there a shortage of clean and healthy water? Max Axion and the Society of Super Scientists travel around the world to learn the reasons behind the global water crisis. Young listeners can tag along to discover what causes water scarcity and find out ways they can help preserve this precious resource.

From its creation as a mail-order record company to the literal launch of Virgin Galactic, today Virgin is one of the premier ‘way-of-life’ brands in the world, trusted and enjoyed by many millions of people. In Business Stripped Bare, Sir Richard Branson shares the inside track on his life in business and reveals the incredible truth about his most risky, brilliant and audacious deals.

Do you want to learn how to speak conversational Bosnian but you have no clue where to start? Or perhaps you've dabbled with Bosnian language learning in the past but could use a refresher? If any of these sound like you, then this audiobook is just for you.

Flat Earth is not a conspiracy. Far from it. Did you know the entire heliocentric system of a globe Earth rotating and revolving around the sun with other planets was actually designed after ancient occultic beliefs? The heliocentric system is not real. It never was, but its imaginary design fulfills Satan’s grand purpose of misdirecting the human race away from the True Creator God. The elaborate scheme constructed over centuries, launched officially with Copernicus’ book in 1543, has been Satan’s single greatest act of sorcery and occult magic on Earth.