Smithsonian Books imprint: 162 books
Exoplanets
Diamond Worlds, Super Earths, Pulsar Planets, and the New Search for Life beyond Our Solar System
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2017
The past few years have seen an incredible explosion in our knowledge of the universe. Since its 2009 launch, the Kepler satellite has discovered more than two thousand exoplanets, or planets outside our solar system. More exoplanets are being discovered all the time, and even more remarkable than...
With Schwarzkopf
Life Lessons of The Bear
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2015
With Schwarzkopf is Gus Lee's remembrance of his mentor and friend H. Norman Schwarzkopf, and his firsthand account of how Schwarzkopf shaped his life. In 1966, Lee, a junior-year cadet at West Point, was bright, athletic, and popular. He was also on the verge of getting kicked out. Nearing the bottom...
by Richard C. Kirkland
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2013
Richard Kirkland is legendary for his P-38 Lightning missions in the South Pacific theater during WWII. After the war, he realized the potential of Igor Sikorsky’s new flying machine, and he traded in his fighter-pilot wings for rotors. The nerve-racking chopper missions he has flown are the stuff...
Game Worn
Baseball Treasures from the Game's Greatest Heroes and Moments
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2016
Game Worn: Baseball Treasures from the Game's Greatest Heroes and Moments is a richly illustrated exploration and first-of-its-kind compendium study of the world's most coveted and precious baseball uniforms worn by Major League ballplayers during the twentieth century. This coffee-table book features...
American Endurance
Buffalo Bill, the Great Cowboy Race of 1893, and the Vanishing Wild West
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author Richard A. Serrano's new book American Endurance: Buffalo Bill, the Great Cowboy Race of 1893, and the Vanishing Wild West is history, mystery, and Western all rolled into one. In June 1893, nine cowboys raced across a thousand miles of American prairie...
Washington on Foot, Fifth Edition
24 Walking Tours and Maps of Washington, DC, Old Town Alexandria, and Takoma Park
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2012
The best way to see—really see—any city is on foot. The perennial favorite Washington on Foot has been compeltely revised and updated to offer 24 walking tours of Washington's neighborhoods. Familiar monuments and museums are all here, side-by-side with lesser-known historic sites and storied...
The Value of the Moon
How to Explore, Live, and Prosper in Space Using the Moon's Resources
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2016
While the Moon was once thought to hold the key to space exploration, in recent decades, the U.S. has largely turned its sights toward Mars and other celestial bodies instead. In The Value of the Moon, lunar scientist Paul Spudis argues that the U.S. can and should return to the moon in order to remain...
Living in the Anthropocene
Earth in the Age of Humans
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2017
Explores the causes and implications of the Anthropocene, or Age of Humans, from multiple points of view including anthropological, scientific, social, artistic, and economic.
Although we arrived only recently in Earth's timeline, humans are driving major changes to the planet's ecosystems....
One Nation Under Goods
Malls and the Seductions of American Shopping
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2014
Loved and hated, visited and avoided, seemingly everywhere yet endlessly the same, malls occupy a special place in American life. What, then, is this invention that evokes such strong and contradictory emotions in Americans? In many ways malls represent the apotheosis of American consumerism, and...
Conservation Concerns
A Guide for Collectors and Curators
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2012
Written in accessible, nontechnical language, this book's twenty-three essays provide invaluable conservation guidelines for a variety of materials and media. Focusing also on proper storage techniques and environmental control, contributors offer information on emergency planning, disaster management, and identifying damages that may require professional treatment.
by Stephen Weil
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2012
In this volume of 29 essays, Weil's overarching concern is that museums be able to “earn their keep”—that they make themselves matter—in an environment of potentially shrinking resources. Also included in this collection are reflections on the special qualities of art museums, an investigation...
Museums and Communities
The Politics of Public Culture
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2013
Contributors to this volume examine and illustrate struggles and collaborations among museums, festivals, tourism, and historic preservation projects and the communities they represent and serve. Essays include the role of museums in civil society, the history of African-American collections, and experiments with museum-community dialogue about the design of a multicultural society.
Exhibiting Cultures
The Poetics and Politics of Museum Display
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2012
Debating the practices of museums, galleries, and festivals, Exhibiting Cultures probes the often politically charged relationships among aesthetics, contexts, and implicit assumptions that govern how art and artifacts are displayed and understood. The contributors—museum directors, curators, and...
Lines in Long Array
A Civil War Commemoration: Poems and Photographs, Past and Present
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
Lines in Long Array demonstrates the enduring impact of the Civil War on American culture by presenting poems and photographs from both the past and present, including 12 wholly new poems by contemporary poets created especially for this volume.
Includes previously unpublished poetry by Eavan...