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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 Revision of the Family Adelidae of the Western Hemisphere (Lepidoptera: Adeloidea)

Donald R. Davis and Matthew J. Medeiros

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

A Synopsis of Leucheria (Asteraceae, Nassauvieae), with Notes on the Morphology cover image

A Synopsis of Leucheria (Asteraceae, Nassauvieae), with Notes on the Morphology

Liliana Katinas, María José Apodaca, and Jorge V. Crisci

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)

Aluminum: History, Technology and Conservation, Proceedings from the 2014 International Conference book cover

Aluminum: History, Technology and Conservation, Proceedings from the 2014 International Conference

Claudia Chemello, Malcom Collum, Paul Mardikian, Joe Sembrat, and Lisa Young

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

America’s Paper Money: A Canvas for an Emerging Nation

William L. Pressly

American Recent Eulipotyphla: Nesophontids, Solenodons, Moles, and Shrews in the New World book cover

American Recent Eulipotyphla: Nesophontids, Solenodons, Moles, and Shrews in the New World

Amphibians and Reptiles of Myanmar: Checklists and Keys. I. Amphibians, Crocodilians, and Turtles book cover

Amphibians and Reptiles of Myanmar: Checklists and Keys. I. Amphibians, Crocodilians, and Turtles

An Ecologically Annotated Checklist of the Vascular Flora at the Chesapeake Bay Center for Field Biology, with Keys: Updated Edition book cover

An Ecologically Annotated Checklist of the Vascular Flora at the Chesapeake Bay Center for Field Biology, with Keys: Updated Edition

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)

Anatomy and Classification of the Mesophyllaceae (Corallinales, Rhodophyta), Based on Phylogenetic Principles

Athanasios Athanasiadis and David L. Ballantine

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

Behind the Exhibit: Displaying Science and Technology at World's Fairs and Museums in the Twentieth Century book cover

Behind the Exhibit: Displaying Science and Technology at World’s Fairs and Museums in the Twentieth Century

Elena Canadelli, Marco Beretta, and Laura Ronzon

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

Biological Anthropology of Latin America: Historical Development and Recent Advances book cover

Biological Anthropology of Latin America: Historical Development and Recent Advances

Douglas H. Ubelaker, Sonia E. Colantonio

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

Built Heritage Evaluation: Manual Using Simple Test Methods book cover

Built Heritage Evaluation: Manual Using Simple Test Methods

A. Elena Charola, Jorge Otero, Paula T. DePriest, and Robert J. Koestler

Carriage Terminology: An Historical Dictionary

Don H. Berkebile

Catalog of Type Specimens of Recent Mammals: Orders Carnivora, Perissodactyla, Artiodactyla, and Cetacea in the National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution book cover

Catalog of Type Specimens of Recent Mammals: Orders Carnivora, Perissodactyla, Artiodactyla, and Cetacea in the National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution

Robert D. Fisher and Craig A. Ludwig

Challenging Collections: Approaches to the Heritage of Recent Science and Technology book cover

Challenging Collections: Approaches to the Heritage of Recent Science and Technology

Alison Boyle, Johannes-Geert Hagmann (Volume editor)

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

Complete Type Catalog of Trombiculidae sensu lato (Acari: Trombidiformes) of the U.S. National Entomology Collection, Smithsonian Institution book cover

Complete Type Catalog of Trombiculidae sensu lato (Acari: Trombidiformes) of the U.S. National Entomology Collection, Smithsonian Institution

Ricardo Bassini-Silva, Fernando de Castro Jacinavicius, Cal Welbourn, Darci Moraes Barros-Battesti, and Ron Ochoa

Connecting Women: National and International Networks during the Long Nineteenth Century book cover

Connecting Women: National and International Networks during the Long Nineteenth Century

Barton C. Hacker, Joanne Paisana, Margaret Esteves Pereira, Jaime Costa, and Margaret Vining

Conservation of the Exterior of the National Museum of the American Indian Building book cover

Conservation of the Exterior of the National Museum of the American Indian Building

Jane Sledge, Asuncion Elena Charola, Paula T. DePriest, Robert J. Koestler

Conspectus of the Benthic Marine Algae of the Gulf of California: Rhodophyta, Phaeophyceae, and Chlorophyta book cover

Conspectus of the Benthic Marine Algae of the Gulf of California: Rhodophyta, Phaeophyceae, and Chlorophyta

James N. Norris, Luis E. Aguilar-Rosas, Francisco F. Pedroche

Contextualizing Museum Collections at the Smithsonian Institution: The Relevance of Collections-Based Research in the Twenty-First Century book covers

Contextualizing Museum Collections at the Smithsonian Institution: The Relevance of Collections-Based Research in the Twenty-First Century

María Martínez-Martínez, Erin L. Sears, and Lauren Sieg

Culture Throughlines: Values, Visions and Transformation—African American Music, American Culture, and Society

William Banfield

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

Deception Island: Archaeology of 'Anyapax, Anacapa Island, California book cover

Deception Island: Archaeology of ‘Anyapax, Anacapa Island, California

Torben C. Rick and Leslie A. Reeder-Myers

Diversity in Pacific Slender-toed Geckos, Nactus pelagicus Complex (Reptilia: Squamata), of New Guinea and Adjacent Islands book cover

Diversity in Pacific Slender-toed Geckos, Nactus pelagicus Complex (Reptilia: Squamata), of New Guinea and Adjacent Islands

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)

Economic Analyses of Federal Scientific Collections: Methods for Documenting Costs and Benefits book cover

Economic Analyses of Federal Scientific Collections: Methods for Documenting Costs and Benefits

David E. Schindel

El Futuro de Madre de Dios: Simulador de Paisajes Productivos del Smithsonian para un Desarrollo Sostenible book cover

El Futuro de Madre de Dios: Simulador de Paisajes Productivos del Smithsonian para un Desarrollo Sostenible

Hadrian Vanthomme, Ana María Sánchez-Cuervo, Paola Gárate, Adriana Bravo and Francisco Dallmeier

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

Evaluación del Patrimonio Construido: Manual de Ensayos Preliminares book cover

Evaluación del Patrimonio Construido: Manual de Ensayos Preliminares

A. Elena Charola, Jorge Otero, Paula T. DePriest, and Robert J. Koestler

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

Examination and Treatment Report for a Carpenter & Co. Lock Found at SERC: Museum Conservation Institute #6955 book cover

Examination and Treatment Report for a Carpenter & Co. Lock Found at SERC: Museum Conservation Institute #6955

Carol A. Grissom, E. Keats Webb, and Thomas Lam

Exhibiting America: The Smithsonian's National History Museum, 1881-2018 book cover

Exhibiting America: The Smithsonian’s National History Museum, 1881-2018

David K. Allison and Hannah Peterson

Fortuna Forest Reserve, Panama: Interacting Effects of Climate and Soils on the Biota of a Wet Premontane Tropical Forest book cover

Fortuna Forest Reserve, Panama: Interacting Effects of Climate and Soils on the Biota of a Wet Premontane Tropical Forest

James W. Dalling and Benjamin L. Turner

Fred Whipple's Empire: The Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, 1955–1973 book cover

Fred Whipple’s Empire: The Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, 1955–1973

David H. DeVorkin

From Ideas to Action: Transforming Learning to Inspire Action on Critical Global Issues book cover

From Ideas to Action: Transforming Learning to Inspire Action on Critical Global Issues

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

Going Beyond Appearances: Examination of Hidden Paint Layers in a Gulistan of Sa'di from the Freer Gallery of Art book cover

Going Beyond Appearances: Examination of Hidden Paint Layers in Gulistan of Sa’di from the Freer Gallery of Art

Elisabetta Polidori, Emily Jacobson and Blythe McCarthy

Grasses of Chihuahua, Mexico book cover

Grasses of Chihuahua, Mexico

Yolanda Herrera Arrieta, Paul Peterson

Grasses of Mali book cover

Grasses of Mali

Kamal M. Ibrahim, Shruti Dube, Paul M. Peterson, and Hasnaa A. Hosni

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)

Green Persuasion: Advertising, Voluntarism, and America’s Public Lands book cover

Green Persuasion: Advertising, Voluntarism, and America’s Public Lands

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 1: Introduction book cover

Handbook of North American Indians, Volume 1: Introduction

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

Japan in the Age of Modernization: The Arts of Ōtagaki Rengetsu and Tomioka Tessai

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

Laaxaayík, Near the Glacier: Indigenous History and Ecology at Yakutat Fiord, Alaska

Aron L. Crowell

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

Lapps and Labyrinths

Noel D. Broadbent

Late Pleistocene (Rancholabrean) Mammalian Assemblage from Paw Paw Cove, Tilghman Island, Maryland book cover

Late Pleistocene (Rancholabrean) Mammalian Assemblage from Paw Paw Cove, Tilghman Island, Maryland

Ralph E. Eshelman, Darrin Lowery, Frederick Grady, Dan Wagner, H. Gregory McDonald

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

Marine Ecosystem Analysis of Gouldsboro and Dyer Bays, Maine book cover

Marine Ecosystem Analysis of Gouldsboro and Dyer Bays, Maine

Walter H. Adey, Thew S. Suskiewicz, and Douglas B. Rasher

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)

Miocene Palynology of the Solimões Formation (Well 1-AS-105-AM), Western Brazilian Amazonia book cover

Miocene Palynology of the Solimões Formation (Well 1-AS-105-AM), Western Brazilian Amazonia

Carlos D'Apolito, Carlos Jaramillo, and Guy Harrington

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

Musical Thinking: New Video Art and Sonic Strategies

Nomenclature of the Larger Toothed Whales (Odontocetes): A Historical Review

Thomas A. Jefferson, James G. Mead, and Carl C. Kinze

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

Phymatolithon (Melobesioideae, Hapalidiales) in the Boreal–Subarctic Transition Zone of the North Atlantic: A Correlation of Plastid DNA Markers with Morpho-Anatomy, Ecology, and Biogeography book cover

Phymatolithon (Melobesioideae, Hapalidiales) in the Boreal–Subarctic Transition Zone of the North Atlantic: A Correlation of Plastid DNA Markers with Morpho-Anatomy, Ecology, and Biogeography

Walter H. Adey, Jazmin J. Hernandez-Kantun, Paul W. Gabrielson, Merinda C. Nash, Lee-Ann C. Hayek

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)

Plant Fossils from the Pennsylvanian–Permian Transition in Western Pangea, Abo Pass, New Mexico book cover

Plant Fossils from the Pennsylvanian–Permian Transition in Western Pangea, Abo Pass, New Mexico

William A. DiMichele, Spencer G. Lucas, Cindy V. Looy, Hans Kerp, Dan S. Chaney

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

Proceedings of the Second International Symposium on the Biology of the Sipuncula book cover

Proceedings of the Second International Symposium on the Biology of the Sipuncula

Michael J. Boyle and Gisele Y. Kawauchi (Editors)

Proceedings of the Smithsonian Institution Summit on the Museum Preservation Environment book cover

Proceedings of the Smithsonian Institution Summit on the Museum Preservation Environment

Sarah Stauderman, William G. Tompkins (Volume editors)

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

Rodents (Mammalia) from Fitterer Ranch, Brule Formation (Oligocene), North Dakota book cover

Rodents (Mammalia) from Fitterer Ranch, Brule Formation (Oligocene), North Dakota

William W. Korth, Robert J. Emry, Clint A. Boyd, Jeff J. Person

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

Skeletal Anatomy of the North American Pangolin Patriomanis americana (Mammalia, Pholidota) from the Latest Eocene of Wyoming (USA) book cover

Skeletal Anatomy of the North American Pangolin

Timothy J. Gaudin, Robert J. Emry, and Jeremy Morris

Skilled Work: American Craft in the Renwick Gallery book cover

Skilled Work: American Craft in the Renwick Gallery

Kenneth R. Trapp, Howard Risatti

Smithsonian Plant Collections, Guiana Shield: 1985–2014, Biological Diversity of the Guiana Shield Collections book cover

Smithsonian Plant Collections, Guiana Shield: 1985–2014, Biological Diversity of the Guiana Shield Collections

Carol L. Kelloff, Vicki A. Funk, Sara N. Alexander (Author)

Smithsonian Plant Collections, Guiana Shield: 2002-2012, Karen M. Redden and Kenneth J. Wurdack

Carol L. Kelloff, Karen M. Redden, Kenneth J. Wurdack, and Sara N. Alexander

Smithsonian Plant Collections, Guyana: 1992–2014 book cover

Smithsonian Plant Collections, Guyana: 1992–2014

Henkel, Terry W., Carol L. Kelloff, Sara N. Alexander, and Vicki A. Funk.

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)

Stemming the Tide: Global Strategies for Sustaining Cultural Heritage through Climate Change book cover

Stemming the Tide: Global Strategies for Sustaining Cultural Heritage through Climate Change

Rebecca Rushfield

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

Sympatric Diversification in the Upper Amazon: A Revision of the Eumaeine Genus Paraspiculatus (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae) book cover

Sympatric Diversification in the Upper Amazon: A Revision of the Eumaeine Genus Paraspiculatus (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae)

Robert C. Busby, Christophe Faynel, Alfred Moser, Robert K. Robbins

Taxonomic Revision of the Neotropical Genus Werneria (Compositae, Senecioneae) book cover

Taxonomic Revision of the Neotropical Genus Werneria (Compositae, Senecioneae)

Joel Calvo, Andrés Moreira-Muñoz and Vicki A. Funk

Temperature-Dependent Sex Determination in Vertebrates book cover

Temperature-Dependent Sex Determination in Vertebrates

Nicole Valenzuela, Valentine A. Lance (Editors)

The Age of Plastic: Ingenuity and Responsibility: Proceedings of the 2012 MCI Symposium book cover

The Age of Plastic: Ingenuity and Responsibility: Proceedings of the 2012 MCI Symposium

Odile Madden, Asuncion Elena Charola, Kim Cullen Cobb, Paula T. DePriest, Robert J. Koestler (Volume editor)

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 Annual Cycle and Natural History of a Subtropical Atlantic Forest Avifauna in Paraguay book cover

The Annual Cycle and Natural History of a Subtropical Atlantic Forest Avifauna in Paraguay

Mercedes S. Foster, Ned K. Johnson

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 Future of Madre de Dios: Smithsonian's Working Landscape Simulator for Sustainable Development book cover

The Future of Madre de Dios: Smithsonian’s Working Landscape Simulator for Sustainable Development

Hadrien Vanthomme, Ana María Sánchez-Cuervo, Paola Gárate, Francisco Dallmeier and Adriana Bravo

The Geology and Vertebrate Paleontology of Calvert Cliffs, Maryland, USA book cover

The Geology and Vertebrate Paleontology of Calvert Cliffs, Maryland, USA

Stephen J. Godfrey

The Geology and Vertebrate Paleontology of Calvert Cliffs, Maryland, USA – Volume 2: Turtles and Toothed Whales

Stephen J. Godfrey

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 Marine Benthic Algal Flora of Puerto Rico, I. Ochrophyta: Phaeophyceae, Pelagophyceae, and Xanthophyceae book cover

The Marine Benthic Algal Flora of Puerto Rico, I. Ochrophyta: Phaeophyceae, Pelagophyceae, and Xanthophyceae

David L. Ballantine, James N. Norris, and Hector Ruiz

The Marine Benthic Algal Flora of Puerto Rico, II. Chlorophyta and Prasinodermatophyta

David L. Ballantine, James N. Norris, and Hector Ruiz

The Mechanics of Art Materials and Its Future in Heritage Science book cover

The Mechanics of Art Materials and Its Future in Heritage Science

Dawn V. Rogala, Paula T. DePriest, A. Elena Charola and Robert J. Koestler

The Mesophotic, Coral Reef-Associated, Marine Algal Flora of Puerto Rico, Caribbean Sea book cover

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