English | 2010 | ISBN: 9781439640135 | 15 pages | EPUB | 43.2 MB

Ocean Shores was the newest city in Washington for nearly 40 years, but for centuries before it had been a place of permanent occupation and food gathering for Native American tribes and a place for sea otter hunters, pioneers, and settlers to reach the interior of the Olympic Peninsula. Before Ocean Shores, there was the dream of a town called Cedarville followed by the reality of Lone Tree with its post office and 200 residents. Point Brown Peninsula was a village of survival for Polynesian Kanakas, Finns living on the edge of society, migrant workers called Bluebills, and a Hooverville for Depression-era families. After World War II, when developers first conceived of creating a "Venice of the West," many said their dream would never last. However, in 1970, Ocean Shores became a city and today has entered its 50th year of development.

English | 2021 | ISBN: 9781912992317 | 21 pages | EPUB | 582 KB

Since he introduced the concept of the birthing pool in the 1970s, Michel Odent has continued to expand his interest in the mysterious connections between human beings and water. In Planet Ocean he shows that the evolution of the oceans―especially fluctuations of sea levels―and the evolution of humankind are inseparable. Oceans are givers and sustainers of life, containing ninety-five percent of the planet’s habitable space in their vast depths.

English | 2018 | ISBN: 9781911547211 | 22 pages | EPUB | 1.1 MB

Like one in six people in India, Sujatha Gidla was born an untouchable. While most untouchables are illiterate, her family was educated by Canadian missionaries in the 1930s, making it possible for Gidla to attend elite schools and move to America at the age of twenty-six. It was only then that she saw how extraordinary – and yet how typical – her family history truly was.