Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Press imprint: 43 books
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Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2015
The companion book to an upcoming museum exhibition of the same name, Places of Invention seeks to answer timely questions about the nature of invention and innovation: What is it about some places that sparks invention and innovation? Is it simply being at the right place at the right time, or...
by Lucien M. Turner
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2014
Lucien Turner arrived at the present-day community of Kuujjuaq on the northern Quebec-Labrador peninsula in 1882. As with his earlier long-term appointments in Alaska, he primarily conducted meteorological, atmospheric, and tidal observations for the U.S. Army's Signal Corps. But he also developed...
To Fill the Skies with Pilots
The Civilian Pilot Training Program, 1939-1946
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2014
Launched in 1939, the Civilian Pilot Training Program (CPTP) was one of the largest government-sponsored vocational education programs of its time. In To Fill the Skies with Pilots, Dominick A. Pisano explores the successes and failures of the program, from its conception as a hybrid civilian-military...
A Magic Web
The Tropical Forest of Barro Colorado Island
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2016
The tropical forest of Panama's Barro Colorado Island is a luxuriant community of plants and animals, pulsating with life and offering an astonishing view of nature's myriad processes. What does the forest look like? How do the activities of the forest's plants and animals create a community?
In...
Raramuri Souls
Knowledge and Social Process in Northern Mexico
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2014
In his sensitive portrayal of the Raramuri (or Tarahumara) Indians, Merrill examines the ways in which a society, lacking formal educational institutions, produces and transmits its basic knowledge about the world.
Photographic Guide to Longhorned Beetles of Bolivia
Guía Fotográfica de Escarabajos Longicornios de Bolivia
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2017
With loss of habitats throughout the world occurring at a staggering rate, it is critical to document what is being lost. This book strives to do that by focusing on longhorned woodboring beetles in Bolivia. Wholesale clearing of large tracts of land kills everything or forces species to move quickly...
Carriage Terminology
An Historical Dictionary
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2014
This reference work is the definitive source for the terminology, nomenclature, and illustrative diagrams for all known carriage types of the Western world, as well as many of the better known vehicles of other areas.
Great Apes and Humans
The Ethics of Coexistence
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2014
The great apes -- gorillas, chimpanzees, bonobos, and orangutans -- are known to be our closest living relatives. Chimpanzees in particular share 98 percent of our DNA, and scientists widely agree that they exhibit intellectual abilities long thought to be unique to humans, such as self-awareness...
Asteroids
A History
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2016
Asteroids suggest images of a catastrophic impact with Earth, triggering infernos, tidal waves, famine, and death -- but these scenarios have obscured the larger story of how asteroids have been discovered and studied. During the past two centuries, the quest for knowledge about asteroids has involved...
aka Marcel Duchamp
Meditations on the Identities of an Artist
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2014
aka Marcel Duchamp is an anthology of recent essays by leading scholars on Marcel Duchamp, arguably the most influential artist of the twentieth century. With scholarship addressing the full range of Duchamp's career, these papers examine how Duchamp's influence grew and impressed itself upon his...
Lapps and Labyrinths
Saami Prehistory, Colonization, and Cultural Resilience
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2013
Professor Noel D. Broadbent is one of Sweden's foremost experts on north Swedish archaeology and literally wrote the book on the prehistory of the Skellefteå region on the North Bothnian coast. This knowledge is now brought to bear on the issue of Saami origins. The focus is on the successful adaptive...
by Stephen E. Weil
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2014
In these 19 insightful and frequently witty meditations, Stephen E. Weil examines the purposes and functions of the museum in the late 20th century, proposing museums make encounters with a variety of visitors more central to their operation.
Astride Two Worlds
Technology and the American Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2016
By the middle of the nineteenth century, industrialization and military-technological innovation were beginning to alter drastically the character and conditions of warfare as it had been conducted for centuries. Occurring in the midst of these far-reaching changes, the American Civil War can justly...
Airlines of the Jet Age
A History
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2016
Airlines of the Jet Age provides the first comprehensive history of the world's airlines from the early 1960s to the present day. It begins with an informative introductory chapter on the infancy of flight and the development of air-transport craft used during the First and Second World Wars, and...