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The Flight 981 Disaster

Samme Chittum

• Paperback | Engels | Air Disasters | nr. 1
• On June 12, 1972, a powerful explosion rocked American Airlines Flight 96 a mere five minutes after its takeoff from Detroit. The explosion ripped a g... Lees meer

Cycads of the World

David L Jones

• Hardcover | Engels
• Cycads superficially resemble palms and are often misidentified as such. However, cycads are actually a unique assemblage of primitive plants that hav... Lees meer

Sharks in Question

Victor G Springer, Joy P Gold

• Paperback | Engels | Smithsonian's in Question
• Sharks in Question is a collective response to the thousands of questions about sharks received annually by scientists at Smithsonian's National Museu... Lees meer

African Predators

Gus Mills

• Hardcover | Engels
• From the sleek cheetah and the majestic lion to the oft-maligned hyena and opportunistic jackal, large carnivores reign supreme in the African wild. I... Lees meer

North on the Wing

Bruce M Beehler

• Hardcover | Engels
• The story of an ornithologist's journey to trace the spring migration of songbirds from the southern border of the United States through the heartland... Lees meer

Rethinking Cold War Culture

Peter J Kuznick, James Gilbert

• Paperback | Engels
• This anthology of essays questions many widespread assumptions about the culture of postwar America. Illuminating the origins and development of the m... Lees meer

Heliconia

Fred Berry, John W Kress

• Paperback | Engels | Identification Guide
• Heliconia, large tropical flowers native to Central and South America and some islands of the South Pacific, have become favorite horticultural subjec... Lees meer

Loggerhead Sea Turtles

• Paperback | Engels
• Sea turtles have been the focus of research and intense conservation efforts for decades and the Loggerhead Sea Turtle, currently listed as a threaten... Lees meer

See America First

Marguerite Shaffer

• Paperback | Engels
• In See America First , Marguerite Shaffer chronicles the birth of modern American tourism between 1880 and 1940, linking tourism to the simultaneous g... Lees meer

Smithsonian Treasures of American History

Kathleen M Kendrick, Peter Liebhold

• Paperback | Engels
• The National Museum of American History--our country's largest history museum and one of the Smithsonian's most visited--preserves three million objec... Lees meer

The Declaration of Independence, Smithsonian Edition

Founding Fathers

• Hardcover | Engels
• This elegant edition captures a defining document of independence in the US that represents the ideals of the nation. In this luxurious, pocket-sized ... Lees meer

Discovery and Revelation

Peter Manseau, Andrew Ali Aghapour

• Hardcover | Engels
• An illustrated history of how scientific study and religious thought have influenced each other throughout the history of the United States. Discovery... Lees meer

Senator Mansfield

Don Oberdorfer

• Hardcover | Engels
• A spellbinding biography of one of the most powerful and dignified men ever to come to DC--Senator Mike Mansfield. Mike Mansfield's career as the long... Lees meer

Johnny Cash

Alan Light

• Hardcover | Engels
• An illustrated biography of Johnny Cash that tells his life story through never-before-seen personal photographs and memorabilia from the Cash family ... Lees meer

Eye in the Sky

Dwayne Day

• Paperback | Engels | Smithsonian History of Aviation and Spaceflight (Paperback)
• Presenting the full story of the CORONA spy satellites' origins, Eye in the Sky explores the Cold War technology and far-reaching effects of the satel... Lees meer

Smithsonian Book of Air & Space Tri PB

Smithsonian Institution

• Paperback | Engels
• Who was the first person to dine in space? How long was the Wright brothers's first successful flight? What famous aircraft was named after a grape-fl... Lees meer

Living In, Living Out

Elizabeth Clark-Lewis

• Paperback | Engels
• This oral history portrays the lives of African American women who migrated from the rural South to work as domestic servants in Washington, DC in the... Lees meer

History from Things

Stephen Lubar, David W Kingery

• Paperback | Engels
• History from Things explores the many ways objects--defined broadly to range from Chippendale tables and Italian Renaissance pottery to seventeenth-ce... Lees meer

Biography of a Phantom

Robert Mack McCormick

• Paperback | Engels
• The drama of In Cold Blood meets the stylings of a Coen brothers film in this long-lost manuscript from musicologist Robert "Mack" McCormick, whose re... Lees meer

Air Commando One

Warren A Trest

• Hardcover | Engels
• Air-dropping agents deep behind enemy lines in clandestine night missions during the Korean War, commanding secret flights into Tibet in 1960 to suppo... Lees meer

Last of the Blue and Gray

Richard A Serrano

• Hardcover | Engels
• Richard Serrano, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist for the Los Angeles Times , pens a story of two veterans. In the late 1950s, as America prepared fo... Lees meer

A History of Plants in Fifty Fossils

Paul Kenrick

• Hardcover | Engels
• An illustrated history of plants presented through the stories of 50 key fossil discoveries This is the lively, fully illustrated story of plant life ... Lees meer

A Legal Primer on Managing Museum Collections

Marie C Malaro, Ildiko Deangelis

• Paperback | Engels
• Hailed when it was first published in 1985 as the bible of U.S. collections management, A Legal Primer on Managing Museum Collections offers the only ... Lees meer

Hope Diamond

Richard Kurin

• Paperback | Engels
• An entertaining and well-researched history of the Hope diamond Since its discovery in seventeenth-century India, the Hope diamond, a glimmering deep ... Lees meer