Erich von Däniken, the Swiss author whose books on the alleged extraterrestrial origins of ancient civilizations brought him ...
From left, UVA’s Scott Doney and Kazlin Mason and UVA Wise’s Donald W. Sorah Jr. are among the 12 winners of the State ...
Responses to an essay by Roger Rosenblatt about keeping and tossing old books. Also: A.I. and human identity; new heights for ...
Born in Schaffhausen, Switzerland, in 1935, von Däniken rose to prominence when he published Chariots of the Gods? while working as a hotel manager in Davos. The book posed a provocative question that ...
“Catapult” works because of its aw-shucks quality. Despite the sidebars into prickly themes, the book never strays far from ...
In 18th-century France, science was a men’s club, and women were expected to be ornaments. One aristocrat, the Marquise ...