Smithsonian Books imprint: 162 books
Kelly
More Than My Share of It All
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2012
Clarence L. “Kelly” Johnson led the design of such crucial aircraft as the P-38 and Constellation, but he will be more remembered for the U-2 and SR-71 spy planes. His extraordinary leadership of the Lockheed “Skunk Works” cemented his reputation as a legendary figure in American aerospace management.
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Critical Issues in Public Art
Content, Context, and Controversy
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2014
In this groundbreaking anthology, twenty-two artists, architects, historians, critics, curators, and philosophers explore the role of public art in creating a national identity, contending that each work can only be understood by analyzing the context in which it is commissioned, built, and received....
by Mary Savig
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2012
Handmade Holiday Cards shows how artists imagined the holidays through original watercolors, etchings, silk-screen prints, and drawings. Rarely seen beyond the eyes of their recipients, these cards confirm the irrepressible artistry of their senders. Handmade Holiday Cards offers personal insight...
When Thunder Rolled
An F-105 Pilot over North Vietnam
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2011
Ed Rasimus straps the reader into the cockpit of an F-105 Thunderchief fighter-bomber in his engaging account of the Rolling Thunder campaign in the skies over North Vietnam. Between 1965 and 1968, more than 330 F-105s were lost—the highest loss rate in Southeast Asia—and many pilots were killed,...
Falling to Earth
An Apollo 15 Astronaut's Journey to the Moon
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2011
As command module pilot for the Apollo 15 mission to the moon in 1971, Al Worden flew on what is widely regarded as the greatest exploration mission that humans have ever attempted. He spent six days orbiting the moon, including three days completely alone, the most isolated human in existence. During...
Sky Walking
An Astronaut's Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2016
A gripping first-hand account of life in space and the making of an astronaut. What is it like to fly the space shuttle and work on and in the International Space Station? Veteran NASA astronaut Tom Jones is uniquely qualified to give the details: he flew four shuttle missions and led three space...
Moon Lander
How We Developed the Apollo Lunar Module
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2012
Chief engineer Thomas J. Kelly gives a firsthand account of designing, building, testing, and flying the Apollo lunar module. It was, he writes, “an aerospace engineer’s dream job of the century.” Kelly’s account begins with the imaginative process of sketching solutions to a host of technical...
The Mystery of Flight 427
Inside a Crash Investigation
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2013
The immediate human toll of the 1994 Flight 427 disaster was staggering: all 132 people aboard died on a Pennsylvania hillside. The subsequent investigation was a maze of politics, bizarre theories, and shrouded answers. Bill Adair, an award-winning journalist, was granted special access to the five-year...
Space Shuttle 1981-2011
Stories from 30 Years of Exploration
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2014
Space Shuttle 1981-2011 is a lavishly illustrated special edition celebrating the space shuttle era. In thirty years of operation, space shuttles were used in 135 different missions; this volume presents the adventure stories of many of these missions in the astronauts’ own words. Additional contributions...
Tex Johnston
Jet-Age Test Pilot
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2014
One of America's most daring and accomplished test pilots, Tex Johnston flew the first US jet airplanes and, in a career spanning the 1930s through the 1970s, helped create the jet age at such pioneering aersospace companies as Bell Aircraft and Boeing.
Math and the Mona Lisa
The Art and Science of Leonardo da Vinci
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2011
Leonardo da Vinci was one of history's true geniuses, equally brilliant as an artist, scientist, and mathematician. Readers of The Da Vinci Code were given a glimpse of the mysterious connections between math, science, and Leonardo's art. Math and the Mona Lisa picks up where The Da Vinci Code...
Witness in Our Time, Second Edition
Working Lives of Documentary Photographers
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2010
Witness in Our Time traces the recent history of social documentary photography in the words of twenty-nine of the genre's best photographers, editors, and curators, showing how the profession remains vital, innovative, and committed to social change. The second edition includes a new section of interviews...
How the States Got Their Shapes Too
The People Behind the Borderlines
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2011
Was Roger Williams too pure for the Puritans, and what does that have to do with Rhode Island? Why did Augustine Herman take ten years to complete the map that established Delaware? How did Rocky Mountain rogues help create the state of Colorado? All this and more is explained in Mark Stein's...
Culture and Comfort
Parlor Making and Middle-Class Identity, 1850-1930
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2013
In Culture and Comfort Katherine C. Grier shows how the design and furnishings of the mid-nineteenth century parlor reflected the self-image of the Victorian middle class. Parlors provided public facades for formal occasions and represented an attempt to resolve the often opposing ideals of gentility...