Smithsonian: 207 books
The Story of Science: Einstein Adds a New Dimension
Einstein Adds a New Dimension
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2016
In volume three, students will look over Albert Einstein's shoulder as he and his colleagues develop a new kind of physics. It leads in two directions: to knowledge of the vast universe and its future (insights build on Einstein's theories of relativity), and to an understanding of the astonishingly...
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...
Remaking the World
Myth, Mining, and Ritual Change Among the Duna of Papua New Guinea
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2014
Drawing on both their own fieldwork from 1991 to 1999 and older written sources, Stewart and Strathern explore how the Duna have remade their rituals and associated myths in response to the outside influences of government, Christianity, and large-scale economic development, specifically mining and...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2016
In the twentieth century, scientists in the relatively new field of biology played an important role in exposing the threats of environmental degradation, loss of species diversity, habitat fragmentation, scarce energy resources, and human population growth. In the essays found in A New Century of...
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...
Recreating First Contact
Expeditions, Anthropology, and Popular Culture
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2013
Recreating First Contact explores themes related to the proliferation of adventure travel which emerged during the early twentieth century and that were legitimized by their associations with popular views of anthropology. During this period, new transport and recording technologies, particularly...
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,...
The Great Inka Road
Engineering an Empire
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2015
This compelling collection of essays explores the Qhapaq nan (or Great Inca Road), an extensive network of trails reaching modern-day Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Chile, and Argentina. These roads and the accompanying agricultural terraces and structures that have survived for more than six centuries...
Hope Diamond
The Legendary History of a Cursed Gem
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2017
An entertaining and well-researched history of the Hope diamond
Since its discovery in seventeenth-century India, the Hope diamond, a glimmering deep blue gem weighing over 45 carats, has been shrouded in mystery and steeped in intrigue. In this groundbreaking work, Dr. Richard Kurin goes beyond...
The Garden Club of America
One Hundred Years of a Growing Legacy
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2013
How women changed the American landscape from planting war victory gardens to saving the redwoods, beautifying the highway to creating horticultural standards.
In 1904, Elizabeth Price Martin founded the Garden Club of Philadelphia. In 1913, twelve garden clubs in the eastern and central United...
Around the World in 175 Days
The First Round-the-World Flight
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2016
American military aviation reached a low point after World War I, lagging behind its European counterparts and facing a peacetime battle for survival. To raise the public profile of aviation, military leaders encouraged their pilots to enter air shows and vie for speed, endurance, and altitude records....
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Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2018
Death Across Oceans: Archaeology of Coffins and Vaults in Britain, America, and Australia brings together the leading researchers in historic mortuary practice from Britain, North America, and Australia. It is the first book dedicated to the material culture associated with burial in the historic,...