Smithsonian: 207 books
Seeing the Universe From Here
Field Notes from My Smithsonian Travels
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2016
As the Smithsonian Institution's twelfth Secretary, Dr. G. Wayne Clough traveled extensively to connect with researchers and gain a better understanding of the scope of the Institution's work. While the Smithsonian is comprised of nineteen museums and galleries, a National Zoological Park, and nine...
Exhibiting Dilemmas
Issues of Representation at the Smithsonian
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2016
In twelve essays on such diverse Smithsonian Institution holdings as the Hope Diamond, the Wright Flyer, wooden Zuni carvings, and the Greensboro, North Carolina Woolworth lunch counter that became a symbol of the Civil Rights movement, Exhibiting Dilemmas explores a wide range of social, political,...
Reflections of a Culture Broker
A View from the Smithsonian
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2014
Is culture brokered like stocks, real estate, or marriage? In this engaging book, Richard Kurin shows that cultures are also mediated and indeed brokered by countries, organizations, communities, and individuals -- all with their own vision of the truth and varying abilities to impose it on others....
Cats in Question
The Smithsonian Answer Book
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2016
What are cats? How do cats hunt? Do wild cats like catnip? Do cats dream? Cats in Question, a new book in Smithsonian's highly successful “In Question” series, offers authoritative and engaging answers to the thousands of questions about cats that Smithsonian scientists receive annually. All of...
Anthropology Explored, Second Edition
The Best of Smithsonian AnthroNotes
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2013
This new edition offers a variety of clearly written and readily accessible articles from the Smithsonian’s highly acclaimed, award-winning publication AnthroNotes. Some of the world's leading anthropologists explore fundamental questions humans ask about themselves as individuals, as societies,...
Ireland
A Smithsonian Natural History
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2014
Ireland conjures up images of nature's majesty: sweeping coastlines, rolling green hills, and secluded peat bogs and marshlands. A place of legendary beauty, it is also a land with a rich natural history. Michael Viney invites us to discover the geologic forces that created the island, peer into the...
Snakes in Question, Second Edition
The Smithsonian Answer Book
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2015
This new edition of Snakes in Question has been completely updated to take into account the most recent research available, offering useful scientific information about snakes while dispelling many widely-circulated myths and common fears. Accompanied by 100 stunning color photographs and written...
Un Tejido Magico
El Bosque Tropical de Isla Barro Colorado (Spanish Edition)
Language: Spanish
Release Date: June 28, 2016
Barro Colorado Island is the crown jewel of the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, and the most thoroughly studied tropical rainforest on Earth. This book reveals the extreme interconnections of life in a tropical forest, with lavishly beautiful full-color photographs. It gives an eyewitness...
Madcap May
Mistress of Myth, Men, and Hope
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2012
May Yohe was a popular entertainer from humble American origins who married and then abandoned a wealthy English Lord who owned the fabled Hope diamond--one of the most valuable objects in the world and now exhibited at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C. May was a romantic who had numerous...
by Edwin Tappan Adney, Howard I. Chappelle
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2015
The bark canoes of the North American Indians, particularly those of birchbark, were among the most highly developed manually propelled primitive watercraft. They could be used to carry heavy loads in shallow streams but were light enough to be hauled long distances over land. Built with Stone Age...
by Shepard Krech, III
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2014
Between the 1870s and 1950s collectors vigorously pursued the artifacts of Native American groups. Setting out to preserve what they thought was a vanishing culture, they amassed ethnographic and archaeological collections amounting to well over one million objects and founded museums throughout North...
Do All Indians Live in Tipis? Second Edition
Questions and Answers from the National Museum of the American Indian
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2018
How much do you really know about totem poles, tipis, and Tonto? There are hundreds of Native tribes in the Americas, and there may be thousands of misconceptions about Native customs, culture, and history. In this illustrated guide, experts from Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian...
by Thomas Lera, Leon Finik
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2013
A quiet philatelist, George H. Kaestlin joined the original Rossika Society in 1935 along with the better known Theo B. Lavroff and K. Szymanowski. Whereas Lavroff contributed significantly to Russian philately as an author and researcher and Szymanowski was an avid collector, Kaestlin collected privately....
Living Santería
Rituals and Experiences in an Afro-Cuban Religion
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2016
In 1992 Smithsonian anthropologist Michael Atwood Mason traveled to Cuba for initiation as a priest into the Santería religion. Since then he has created an active oricha “house” and has initiated five others as priests. He is a rare combination: a scholar-practitioner who is equally fluent in...