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E. M. (‘Rick’) Rickerson served as the General Editor of the first and second editions of this book. He is Professor Emeritus of German, Director Emeritus of the award-winning language program at the College of Charleston (South Carolina), a former Deputy Director of the U.S. government’s Center for the Advancement of Language Learning, and an Associate of the National Museum of Language. In 2005 he created the radio series on languages (Talkin’ about Talk) from which The Five-Minute Linguist was been adapted. He is currently retired in the mountains of North Carolina.