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The Intimate Lives of the Founding Fathers

Thomas Fleming

• Hardcover | Engels
• In The Intimate Lives of the Founding Fathers from Smithsonian Books, historian Thomas Fleming, author of The Perils of Peace , offers a fresh look at... Lees meer

Genetics in the Wild

John C Avise

• Paperback | Engels
• Award-winning geneticist John C. Avise guides this delightful voyage around the planet in search of answers to nature's mysteries. He demonstrates how... Lees meer

The Air Force Integrates, 1945-1964, Second Edition

Alan L Gropman

• Paperback | Engels | Smithsonian History of Aviation
• On April 5, 1945, more than sixty black officers of the U.S. Army Air Forces were arrested for entering a whites-only club at Freeman Field, Indiana, ... Lees meer

Counting the Days

Craig B Smith

• Paperback | Engels
• Counting the Days is the story of six prisoners of war imprisoned by both sides during the conflict the Japanese called the "Pacific War." As in all w... Lees meer

Cool Comfort

Marsha Ackermann

• Paperback | Engels
• The year 2002 marked the 100th anniversary of the first installation of air-conditioning. During the past century, it has become a staple of American ... Lees meer

The Imperial Season

William Seale

• Paperback | Engels
• This story of the young city of Washington coming up in the international scene is populated with presidents, foreign diplomats, civil servants, archi... Lees meer

Market Sentiments

Elizabeth White Nelson

• Paperback | Engels
• In this brilliant study, Elizabeth White Nelson challenges a central tenet of 19th-century American history: namely, that men and women lived in separ... Lees meer

Raramuri Souls

William L Merrill

• Paperback | Engels | Smithsonian Ethnographic Inquiry
• In his sensitive portrayal of the Raramuri (or Tarahumara) Indians, Merrill examines the ways in which a society, lacking formal educational instituti... Lees meer

The House at the End of the Road

W Ralph Eubanks

• Hardcover | Engels
• A powerful story about race and identity told through the lives of one American family across three generations In 1914, in defiance of his middle-cla... Lees meer

On the Frontier

Richard P Hallion, Michael H Gorn

• Paperback | Engels
• This little known classic history of flight-testing the Xplanes is reborn, sweepingly revised and updated with new and recently released information. ... Lees meer

America Noir

David Cochran

• Paperback | Engels
• In America Noir David Cochran details how ten writers and filmmakers challenged the social pieties prevalent during the Cold War, such as the superior... Lees meer

The Origins of Satellite Communications, 1945-1965

David J Whalen

• Paperback | Engels | Smithsonian History of Aviation and Spaceflight
• Conventional assumptions hold that U.S. government research and development efforts produced the satellite communications industry. David J. Whalen ha... Lees meer

Remaking the World

Pamela J Stewart, Andrew Strathern

• Paperback | Engels | Smithsonian Ethnographic Inquiry
• Drawing on both their own fieldwork from 1991 to 1999 and older written sources, Stewart and Strathern explore how the Duna have remade their rituals ... Lees meer

Taking Charge

Michael Schiffer

• Paperback | Engels
• The tumultuous history of inventors and corporations who have tried to bring the electric car to the market. Amazingly, in 1900 28 percent of all cars... Lees meer

Worlds of Sound

Richard Carlin

• Hardcover | Engels
• A man, a microphone, and a dream When he opened his tiny recording studio in New York in 1940, Moses Asch had a larger-than-life dream: To document an... Lees meer

To Hanoi and Back

Wayne Thompson

• Paperback | Engels
• After nearly eighteen months of the largely unsuccessful bombing campaign called Operation Rolling Thunder, the US Air Force began to look for ways to... Lees meer

Translating America

Peter Conolly-Smith

• Paperback | Engels
• At the turn of the century, New York City's Germans constituted a culturally and politically dynamic community, with a population 600,000 strong. Yet ... Lees meer

China Pilot

Felix Smith

• Paperback | Engels
• A pilot for the China-based airline reputed to be the most shot at in the world, Felix Smith recounts in vivid detail his experiences ferrying troops ... Lees meer

To Keep the British Isles Afloat

Thomas Parrish

• Hardcover | Engels
• An inside look at the work and adventures of Harry Hopkins and Averell Harriman in the creation of history's most remarkable international partnership... Lees meer

Cheating Death

George J Marrett

• Paperback | Engels
• They flew low and slow, at treetop level, at night, in monsoons, and in point-blank range of enemy guns and missiles. They were missions no one else w... Lees meer

The Enterprise of Flight

Roger E Bilstein

• Paperback | Engels | Smithsonian History of Aviation and Spaceflight
• The Enterprise of Flight is a highly praised contribution to the literature on American aviation and space exploration history. In a new introduction ... Lees meer

Home Gardens and Agrobiodiversity

• Paperback | Engels
• Focusing on peoples throughout the tropical world, and including case studies from Cuba, Ethiopia, Ghana, Venezuela, and Vietnam, Home Gardens and Agr... Lees meer

Hat in the Ring

Bert Frandsen

• Paperback | Engels
• When Congress declared war in April 1917, the Europeans had already deployed their third generation of fighters, equipped with machine guns and capabl... Lees meer

Among the Cannibals

Paul Raffaele

• Hardcover | Engels
• It's the stuff of nightmares, the dark inspiration for literature and film. But astonishingly, cannibalism does exist, and in Among the Cannibals trav... Lees meer