Since the Viking ascendancy in the Middle Ages, the Atlantic has shaped the lives of people who depend upon it for survival. And just as surely, people have shaped the Atlantic. In his innovative account of this interdependency, W. Jeffrey Bolster, a…
A physicist by training, a prolific author and charismatic leader by inclination, Vandana Shiva is a juggernaut of social activism. When not busy traveling the world to promote sustainable agriculture, Shiva spends much of her time at Navdanya (“Nine…
Hill was a graduate of Vassar College and Montana School of Mines. She was a geologist, daughter of a member of Congress, and a vice-president of the DAR. She was a prominent member of the Congressional Union for Woman Suffrage and the National…