Sally Cole-Misch is a writer and environmental communicator who advocates for the natural world through work and play. Her writing explores our essential connections with nature, the impact of our lifestyles on the planet, and our role in restoring and protecting our water, land, and air. She has ventured into fiction to delve into these profound connections. Her work is inspired by a deep appreciation for nature and the optimism found in its enduring beauty.
Beth thought she'd never go back. She buried her memories of summers on her family's island in Canada deep inside, and created a new life in urban Chicago-far from the natural world. When her grandfather asks Beth to return to the island, will she preserve who she's become or risk everything to discover if what was lost, still remains?
Ruth Landes (1908–91) is now recognized as a pioneer in the study of race and gender relations. Ahead of her time in many respects, Landes worked with issues that defined the central debates in the discipline at the dawn of the twenty-first century. In Ruth Landes, Sally Cole reconsiders Landes’s life, work, and career, and places her at the heart of anthropology. The daughter of Russian Jewish immigrants, Landes studied under the renowned anthropologist Franz Boas and was mentored by Ruth Benedict. Landes’s rejection of domestic life led to an early divorce. Her ideas regarding gender roles also shaped her 1930s fieldwork among the Ojibwa, where she worked closely with Maggie Wilson to produce a masterpiece study of gender relations, The Ojibwa Woman. Her growing prominence and subsequent work in Bahia, Brazil, was marked by outstanding fieldwork and another landmark study, The City of Women. This was a tumultuous time for Landes, who was accused of being a spy, and her remarkable work fed the envy of such prominent scholars as Melville Herskovits and Margaret Mead. Ultimately, however, the errors and excesses that her critics complained of long ago now point us to the innovations for which she is responsible and that give her work its lasting value and power.