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¡Pleibol! En los barrios y las grandes ligas book cover

¡Pleibol! In the Barrios and the Big Leagues En los barrios y las grandes ligas

Margaret Salazar-Porzio, Adrian Burgos Jr., and Robin Morey

A Chance for Lasting Survival: Ecology and Behavior of Wild Giant Pandas photo

A Chance for Lasting Survival: Ecology and Behavior of Wild Giant Pandas

A Magic Web: The Tropical Forest of Barro Colorado Island by [Christian Ziegler] photo

Egbert Giles Leigh, Jr. and Christian Ziegler

A New Century of Biology photo

A New Century of Biology

John Kress and Gary W. Barrett (Editors)

A Right to Bear Arms?: The Contested Role of History in Contemporary Debates on the Second Amendment cover image

A Right to Bear Arms? The Contested Role of History in Contemporary Debates on the Second Amendment

Jennifer Tucker, Barton C. Hacker, and Margaret Vining

Aiming for the Stars book cover

Aiming for the Stars: The Dreamers and Doers of the Space Age

Airlines of the Jet Age book cover

Airlines of the Jet Age: A History

R. E. G. Davies

aka Marcel Duchamp book cover

aka Marcel Duchamp: Meditations of the Identities of an Artist

Anne Collins Goodyear and James W. McManus (Editors)

Amarakaeri: Connecting Biodiversity book cover

Amarakaeri: Connecting Biodiversity / Conectando la Biodiversidad

Francisco Dallmeier and Adriana Bravo

Amazonia: Man and Culture in a Counterfeit Paradise book cover

Amazonia: Man and Culture in a Counterfeit Paradise (Revised Edition)

Betty J. Meggers

Analyzing Art and Aesthetics (Artefacts: Studies in the History of Science and Technology) book cover

Analyzing Art and Aesthetics

Anne Collins Goodyear and Margaret A. Weitekamp (Editors)

Arctic Crashes: People and Animals in the Changing North book cover

Arctic Crashes: People and Animals in the Changing North

Igor Krupnik and Aron L. Crowell

Around the World in 175 Days: The First Round-the-World Flight book cover

Around the World in 175 Days: The First Round-The-World Flight

Carroll V. Glines

Asteroids: A History book cover

Asteroids: A History

Astride Two Worlds: Technology and the American Civil War book cover

Astride Two Worlds: Technology and the American Civil War

Barton C. Hacker

Benjamin O. Davis, Jr.: American: An Autobiography book cover

Benjamin O. Davis Jr., American: An Autobiography

Benjamin O. Davis Jr.

Bernt Balchen: Polar Aviatior book cover

Bernt Balchen: Polar Aviatior

Carroll V. Glines

Beyond Grief: Sculpture and Wonder in the Gilded Age Cemetery book cover

Beyond Grief: Sculpture and Wonder in the Gilded Age Cemetery

Breakthroughs on Hunger: A Journalist's Encounter with Global Change book cover

Breakthroughs on Hunger: A Journalist’s Encounter with Global Change

Richard M. Harley

Chasing the Silver Bullet: U.S. Air Force Weapons Development from Vietnam to Desert Storm book cover

Chasing the Silver Bullet: U.S. Air Force Weapons Development from Vietnam to Desert Storm

Kenneth P. Werrell

China Pilot: Flying for Chennault During the Cold War book cover

China Pilot: Flying for Chiang and Chennault

Climate Change, Biodiversity, and Sustainability in the Americas book cover

Climate Change, Biodiversity, and Sustainability in the Americas

Francisco Dallmeier, Adam Fenech, Don Maciver, and Robert Szaro

Cutting a New Pattern: Uniformed Women in the Great War book cover

Cutting a New Pattern: Uniformed Women in the Great War

Barton C. Hacker and Margaret Vining

Death Across Oceans: Archaeology of Coffins and Vaults in Britain, America, and Australia book cover

Death Across Oceans: Archaeology of Coffins and Vaults in Britain, America, and Australia

Harold Mytum and Laurie Burgess

Early Inuit Studies: Themes and Transitions, 1850s-1980s book cover

Early Inuit Studies: Themes and Transitions, 1850s-1980s

Igor Krupnik (Editor)

Ecology of Marine Fishes of Cuba book cover

Ecology of Marine Fishes of Cuba

Rodolfo Claro, Kenyon C. Lindeman. Lynne R. Parenti (Editors)

Engaging Smithsonian Objects book cover

Engaging Smithsonian Objects

Mary Jo Arnoldi (Editor)

Engendering Culture book cover

Engendering Culture

Ethnicity, Hunter-Gatherers, and the Other book cover

Ethnicity, Hunter-Gatherers, and the Other

Ethnology of the Ungava District, Hudson Bay Territory (Classics of Smithsonian Anthropology) book cover

Ethnology of the Ungava District, Hudson Bay Territory

Lucien M. Turner

Every Stamp Tells a Story: The National Philatelic Collection book cover

Every Stamp Tells a Story: The National Philatelic Collection

Cheryl Ganz, Richard R. John, M. T. Sheahan

Glorious Mud!: Ancient and Contemporary Earthen Design and Construction in North Africa, Wester n Europe, the Near East, and Southwest Asia (Smithsonian Contributions to Knowledge) book cover

Grassland Grouse and Their Conservation book cover

Grassland Grouse and Their Conservation

Paul A. Johnsgard

Great Apes and Humans: The Ethics of Coexistence (Zoo and Aquarium Biology and Conservation Series) book cover

Great Apes and Humans: The Ethics of Coexistence

Benjamin B. Beck,Tara S. Stoinski, Michael Hutchins, Terry L. Maple (Editors)

Guide to the Wildlife of Southwest China book cover

Guide to the Wildlife of Southwest China

William McShea, Sheng Li, Xiaoli Shen, Fang Wang, Dajun Wang

Handbook of North American Indians, Volume 10: Southwest book cover

Handbook of North American Indians: Volume 10 – Southwest

Alfonso Ortiz and William C. Sturtevant

Handbook of North American Indians, Volume 11: Great Basin book cover

Handbook of North American Indians: Volume 11 – Great Basin

Warren L. d'Azevedo

Handbook of North American Indians, Volume 17: Languages book cover

Handbook of North American Indians: Volume 17 – Languages

Ives Goddard and William C. Sturtevant (Editors)

Handbook of North American Indians, Volume 2: Indians in Contemporary Society book cover

Handbook of North American Indians: Volume 2 – Indians in Contemporary Society

Garrick A. Bailey

Handbook of North American Indians, Volume 4: History of Indian-White Relations book cover

Handbook of North American Indians: Volume 4 – History of Indian-White Relations

Wilcomb E. Washburn and William C. Sturtevant (Editors)

Handbook of North American Indians Volume 5 Arctic book cover

Handbook of North American Indians: Volume 5 – Arctic

David Damas and William C. Sturtevant (Editors)

Handbook of North American Indians, Volume 9: Southwest book cover

Handbook of North American Indians: Volume 9 – Southwest

Horatio Greenough and the Form Majestic: The Biography of the Nation's First Washington Monument book cover

Horatio Greenough and the Form Majestic: The Biography of the Nation’s First Washington Monument

How Humans Adapt: A Biocultural Odyssey book cover

How Humans Adapt: A Biocultural Odyssey

Donald J. Ortner (Editor)

Hubble's Legacy: Reflections by Those Who Dreamed It, Built It, and Observed the Universe with It (Smithsonian Contribution to Knowledge) book cover

Hubble’s Legacy

Roger D. Launius, David H. Devorkin (Editors)

Illuminating Instruments (Artefacts: Studies in the History of Science and Technology) book cover

Illuminating Instruments

Peter J. T. Morris, Klaus Staubermann (Editors)

In Light of Our Differences book cover

In Light of Our Differences

Joseph Henry: The Rise of an American Scientist (Smithsonian Studies in the History of Film & Television) book cover

Joseph Henry: The Rise of an American Scientist (Smithsonian Studies in the History of Film & Television)

Albert E. Moyer

Key Areas for Threatened Birds in the Neotropics book cover

Key Areas for Threatened Birds in the Neotropics (BirdLife Conservation Series)

David C. Wege, Adrian J. Long

Lapps and Labyrinths: Saami Prehistory, Colonization, and Cultural Resilience book cover

Lapps and Labyrinths

Noel D. Broadbent

Lion Tamarins: Biology and Conservation (Zoo and Aquarium Biology and Conservation Series) book cover

Lion Tamarins: Biology and Conservation

Devra G. Kleiman, Anthony B. Rylands (Editors)

Longhorned Woodboring Beetles (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae and Disteniidae): Primary Types of the Smithsonian Institution (Smithsonian Contribution to Knowledge) book cover

Longhorned Woodboring Beetles

Steven W. Lingafelter, Eugenio H. Nearns, Gérard L. Tavakilian, Miguel A. Monné, Michael Biondi

Lox, Stocks, and Backstage Broadway: Iconic Trades of New York City book cover

Lox, Stocks, and Backstage Broadway

Mammals of Ungava and Labrador: The 1882-1884 Fieldnotes of Lucien M. Turner together with Inuit and Innu Knowledge book cover

Mammals of Ungava and Labrador: The 1882-1884 Fieldnotes of Lucien M. Turner together with Inuit and Innu Knowledge

Scott A. Heyes, Kristofer M. Helgen (Editors)

Many Voices, One Nation: Material Culture Reflections on Race and Migration in the United States book cover

Many Voices, One Nation: Material Culture Reflections on Race and Migration in the United States

Margaret Salazar-Porzio, Joan Troyano, Lauren Safranek

Material Culture and Electronic Sound (Artefacts: Studies in the History of Science and Technology) book cover

Material Culture and Electronic Sound (Artefacts: Studies in the History of Science and Technology)

Frode Weium, Tim Boon (Editors)

Monitoring Biodiversity: Lessons from a Trans-Andean Megaproject (English and Spanish Edition) book cover

Monitoring Biodiversity / Monitoreo de Biodiversidad

Alfonso Alonso, Francisco Dallmeier, Grace P. Servat (Editors)

Monuments & Memory book cover

Monuments and Memory: History and Representation in Lowell, Massachusetts

Martha Norkunas

Nuclear Weapons and Aircraft Carriers book cover

Nuclear Weapons and Aircraft Carriers

Objects in Motion: Globalizing Technology (Artefacts: Studies in the History of Science and Technology) book cover

Objects in Motion: Globalizing Technology

Nina Möllers and Bryan Dewalt (Editors)

Only the Wing: Reimar Horten's Epic Quest to Stabilize and Control the All-Wing Aircraft / With a New Introduction book cover

Only the Wing: Reimar Horten’s Epic Quest to Stabilize and Control the All-Wing Aircraft / With a New Introduction

Open Borders to a Revolution: Culture, Politics, and Migration (Smithsonian Contributions to Knowledge) book cover

Open Borders to a Revolution: Culture, Politics, and Migration

Jaime Marroquin Arredondo, Adela Pineda Franco, Magdalena Mieri (Editors)

Parasite Biodiversity book cover

Parasite Biodiversity

Robert Poulin, Serge Morand

Patton's Air Force book cover

Patton’s Air Force: Forging a Legendary Air-Ground Team

David N. Spires

Photographic Guide to Longhorned Beetles of Bolivia: Guía Fotográfica de Escarabajos Longicornios de Bolivia book cover

Photographic Guide to Longhorned Beetles of Bolivia

Steven Wayne Lingafelter, James Earl Wappes, Julieta Ledezma Arias

Picturing Poverty: Print Culture and FSA Photographs book cover

Picturing Poverty: Print Culture and FSA Photographs

Cara A. Finnegan

Picturing the Past book cover

Picturing the Past: Illustrated Histories and the American Imagination, 1840-1900

Gregory M. Pfitzer

Places of Invention book cover

Places of Invention

Arthur P. Molella, Anna Karvellas (Editors)

Politics and Portraits in the United States and France during the Age of Revolution book cover

Politics & Portraits in the United States & France during the Age of Revolution

T. Lawrence Larkin

Raramuri Souls: Knowledge and Social Process in Northern Mexico (Smithsonian Series in Ethnographic Inquiry) book cover

Raramuri Souls: Knowledge and Social Process in Northern Mexico (Smithsonian Series in Ethnographic Inquiry)

William L. Merrill

Rare Books and Special Collections in the Smithsonian Institution Libraries book cover

Rare Books and Special Collections in the Smithsonian Institution Libraries

Smithsonian Institution Libraries

Recreating First Contact: Expeditions, Anthropology, and Popular Culture book cover

Recreating First Contact: Expeditions, Anthropology, and Popular Culture

Joshua A. Bell, Alison K. Brown, Robert J. Gordon (Editors)

Reflections of a Culture Broker: A View From the Smithsonian book cover

Reflections of a Culture Broker: A View from the Smithsonian

Remaking the World: Myth, Mining, and Ritual Change among the Duna of Papua New Guinea book cover

Remaking the World: Myth, Mining, and Ritual Change among the Duna of Papua New Guinea

Pamela J. Stewart, Andrew Strathern

Rethinking the Museum and Other Meditations book cover

Rethinking the Museum and Other Meditations

Stephen E. Weil

Sara Tyson Hallowell: Pioneer Curator and Art Advisor in the Gilded Age book cover

Sara Tyson Hallowell: Pioneer Curator and Art Advisor in the Gilded Age

Carolyn Kinder Carr

Science, Ethics, and Food: Papers and Proceedings of a Colloquium Organized by the Smithsonian Institution (Smithsonian International Symposia Series) book cover

Science, Ethics, and Food: Papers and Proceedings of a Colloquium…

Brian W.J. LeMay

Skilled Work: American Craft in the Renwick Gallery book cover

Skilled Work: American Craft in the Renwick Gallery

Kenneth R. Trapp, Howard Risatti

Spacefarers: Images of Astronauts and Cosmonauts in the Heroic Era of Spaceflight (A Smithsonian Contribution to Knowledge) book cover

Spacefarers: Images of Astronauts and Cosmonauts in the Heroic Era of Spaceflight

Michael J. Neufeld (Editor)

Sweet Stuff: An American History of Sweeteners from Sugar to Sucralose book cover

Sweet Stuff: An American History of Sweeteners from Sugar to Sucralose

Deborah Jean Warner

Temperature-Dependent Sex Determination in Vertebrates book cover

Temperature-Dependent Sex Determination in Vertebrates

Nicole Valenzuela, Valentine A. Lance (Editors)

The Air Force Integrates, 1945-1964, Second Edition (Smithsonian History of Aviation Series) book cover

The Air Force Integrates, 1945-1964, Second Edition

Alan L. Gropman

The Archaeology of Social Boundaries book cover

The Archaeology of Social Boundaries

Miriam T. Stark

The Development and Evolution of Butterfly Wing Patterns book cover

The Development and Evolution of Butterfly Wing Patterns

H. Frederik Nijhout

The Ecology and Conservation of Seasonally Dry Forests in Asia book cover

The Ecology and Conservation of Seasonally Dry Forests in Asia

William J. McShea Stuart J. Davies and Naris Bhumpakphan

The Ecology of Migrant Birds: A Neotropical Perspective book cover

The Ecology of Migrant Birds: A Neotropical Perspective

John H. Rappole

The Enterprise of Flight: The American Aviation and Aerospace Industry (Smithsonian History of Aviation and Spaceflight Series) book cover

The Enterprise of Flight

Roger E. Bilstein

The Extermination of American Bison book cover

The Extermination of American Bison

William Temple Hornaday

The First Smithsonian Collection: The European Engravings book cover

The First Smithsonian Collection: The European Engravings…

Helena E. Wright

The GH Kaestlin Collection of Imperial Russian and Zemstvo Stamps book cover

The GH Kaestlin Collection of Imperial Russian and Zemstvo Stamps

Thomas Lera, Leon Finik

The Hummingbirds of North America, Second Edition book cover

The Hummingbirds of North America, Second Edition

Paul A. Johnsgard

The Origins of Satellite Communications, 1945-1965 book cover

The Origins of Satellite Communications, 1945-1965

David J. Whalen

The Science of Overabundance: Deer Ecology and Population Management book cover

The Science of Overabundance: Deer Ecology and Population Management

William J. McShea

The Value of Money book cover

The Value of Money

Ellen R. Feingold

Trogons and Quetzals of the World book cover

Trogons and Quetzals of the World

Paul A. Johnsgard

Un Tejido Magico: El Bosque Tropical de Isla Barro Colorado (Spanish Edition) book cover

Un Tejido Mágico: El Bosque Tropical de Isla Barro Colorado

Photographs by Christian Ziegler; text by Egbert Giles Leigh Jr.; translated by María Marta Kandler

Vertebrate Paleontology in the Neotropics book cover

Vertebrate Paleontology in the Neotropics

Richard F. Kay, Richard H. Madden, Richard L. Cifelli, John J. Flynn

We'll Understand It Better By and By: Pioneering African American Gospel Composers (The

We’ll Understand It Better By and By: Pioneering African American Gospel Composers

Bernice Johnson Reagon

When the Circus Came to Town! An American Tradition in Photographs book cover

When the Circus Came to Town! An American Tradition in Photographs

Dawn Rogala, David Haberstich and Shannon Perich