Smithsonian Books imprint: 162 books
by Harri Luukkanen, William W. Fitzhugh, Evguenia Anichtchenko
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2020
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2020
The Bark Canoes and Skin Boats of Northern Eurasia is a history and description of bark and skin boat traditions of the native peoples of Scandinavia and northern Russia. The history of northern peoples and cultures is inextricably linked to the technology of water transport. This is particularly...
Storm Over Iraq
Air Power and the Gulf War
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2015
An incisive account of the Persian Gulf War, Storm Over Iraq shows how the success of Operation Desert Storm was the product of two decades of profound changes in the American approach to defense, military doctrine, and combat operations. The first detailed analysis of why the Gulf War could be fought...
How McGruff and the Crying Indian Changed America
A History of Iconic Ad Council Campaigns
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2013
Pulitzer Prize nominated journalist Wendy Melillo authors the first book to explore the history of the Ad Council and the campaigns that brought public service announcements to the nation through the mass media.
How McGruff and the Crying Indian Changed America: A History of Iconic Ad Council...
Komodo Dragons
Biology and Conservation
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2015
More than twenty years have passed since Walter Auffenberg's monumental The Behavioral Ecology of the Komodo Monitor. In the intervening years the populations of Komodo dragons—native only to a handful of islands in southeast Indonesia—have dwindled, sparking intensive conservation efforts. During...
Measuring and Monitoring Biological Diversity
Standard Methods for Amphibians
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2014
Measuring and Monitoring Biological Diversity is the first book to provide comprehensive coverage of standard methods for biodiversity sampling of amphibians, with information on analyzing and using data that will interest biologists in general.
In this manual, nearly fifty herpetologists recommend...
Red Fox
The Catlike Canine
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2013
In this engaging introduction to the red fox (Vulpes vulpes), J. David Henry recounts his years of field research on this flame-colored predator. With its catlike whiskers, teeth, and paws, as well as vertical-slit pupils, the North American red fox not only resembles but often behaves like a feline,...
The Bald Eagle
Haunts and Habits of a Wilderness Monarch
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2014
The Bald Eagle is a comprehensive description of the morphology, behavior, flight patterns, hunting, migration, nesting, development, and growth of bald eagles.
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Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2013
What made ancient cities successful? What are the similarities between modern cities and ancient ones? The Social Construction of Ancient Cities offers a fresh perspective on ancient cities and the social networks and relations that built and sustained them, marking a dramatic change in the way archaeologists...
by Peter L. Jakab
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2016
For the first time, nearly seventy of Wilbur and Orville Wright's published writings are brought together in a single, annotated reference. Spanning the decades from the brothers' turn-of-the-century experiments with gliders until Orville's death in 1948, the articles describe the design of their...
Last Days of the Concorde
The Crash of Flight 4590 and the End of Supersonic Passenger Travel
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2018
The gripping true tale of a devastating plane crash, the investigation into its causes, and the race to prevent similar disasters in the future.
On July 25, 2000, a Concorde, the world's fastest passenger plane, was taking off from Charles de Gaulle Airport in Paris when it suddenly burst into...
Slacks and Calluses
Our Summer in a Bomber Factory
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2012
In 1943 two spirited young teachers decided to do their part for the war effort by spending their summer vacation working the swing shift on a B-24 production line at a San Diego bomber plant. Entering a male-dominated realm of welding torches and bomb bays, they learned to use tools that they...
Pueblo Bonito
Center of the Chacoan World
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2018
Pueblo Bonito is the largest and most famous ruin in New Mexico's Chaco Culture National Historical Park. Built by the ancestral Puebloan people some 1,000 years ago, the ruin testifies to one of the oldest and most complex societies ever discovered in North America. Study of the large corpus of data...
We Return Fighting
World War I and the Shaping of Modern Black Identity
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2019
A richly illustrated commemoration of African Americans' roles in World War I highlighting how the wartime experience reshaped their lives and their communities after they returned home.
This stunning book presents artifacts, medals, and photographs alongside powerful essays that together highlight...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2013
Taking an integrated approach to the biology of marine carnivores, cetaceans, and sirenians, twenty-two prominent researchers compare marine mammals with one another and with terrestrial mammals, providing a framework for fundamental biological and ecological concepts. They describe functional morphology,...