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1 FALL 2011 History / United States / General Hardcover $24.95 $27.95 CDN 46 b&w portraits, 46 b&w maps 6×9 352 pages 978-1-58834-314-7 Carton Quantity: 24 Load Group: 0202 Order Form Cat: History Rights: No Restrictions Territory: W On Sale: 6/7/2011 E-Book $24.95 $27.95 CDN 978-1-58834-315-4 Marketing and Publicity National print & online publicity campaigns Smithsonian magazine advertising Online promotion with The History Channel 10-part TV series on The History Channel based on the book featuring the author How the States Got Their Shapes Too The People Behind the Borderlines Mark Stein New York Times bestselling author Mark Stein tells the story of people who literally shaped the United States and why Was Roger Williams too pure for the Puritans, and what does that have to do with Rhode Island? Why did Augustine Herman take ten years to complete the map that established Delaware? How did Rocky Mountain rogues help create the state of Colorado? All this and more is explained in Mark Stein’s follow-up book to the best-selling How the States Got eir Shapes. The people behind the bound- ary stories of the United States reveal how we are like those who came before us, how we differ, and, most importantly, how the human aspect of these stories leads to the nation we are today. Told in Mark Stein’s humorous voice, How the States Got eir Shapes Too is a historical journey unlike any other you’ve taken. Key Points/Quotes Follow-up to the New York Times bestseller, How the States Got eir Shapes Companion book to The History Channel 10-part series airing in early June featuring author Mark Stein Where the first book tells us how, this book tells us who in memorable stories Major national media promotion Mark Stein is a playwright and screenwriter. His films include Housesitter with Steve Martin and Goldie Hawn. Stein has also taught writing and drama at American University and Catholic University. His previous book, How the States Got eir Shapes, was the basis for The History Channel’s documentary of the same name. Hist/Prev Titles ISBN On sale Publisher Price How the States Got eir Shapes HC 9780061431388 2008 Harper Collins / Smithsonian $22.95 How the States Got eir Shapes PB 9780061431395 2009 Harper Collins / Smithsonian $14.99 Comp Titles ISBN On sale Publisher Price Measuring America 9780452284593 2003 Plume $16.00 Names on the Land 9781590172735 2008 NYRB Classics $19.95 Assassination Vacation / Sarah Vowell 9780743260039 2006 Simon & Schuster $15.00
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Histor y / Unite d States / Gener al

Hardcover $24.95 $27.95 CDN46 b&w portraits, 46 b&w maps • 6×9 352 pages • 978-1-58834-314-7Carton Quantity: 24 • Load Group: 0202Order Form Cat: History • Rights: No RestrictionsTerritory: W • On Sale: 6/7/2011

E-Book $24.95 $27.95 CDN978-1-58834-315-4

Marketing and Publicity

• National print & online publicity campaigns

• Smithsonian magazine advertising

• Online promotion with The History Channel

• 10-part TV series on The History Channel based on the book featuring the author

How the States Got Their Shapes TooThe People Behind the Borderlines Mark Stein

New York Times bestselling author Mark Stein tells the story of people who literally shaped the United States and why

Was Roger Williams too pure for the Puritans, and what does

that have to do with Rhode Island? Why did Augustine Herman

take ten years to complete the map that established Delaware?

How did Rocky Mountain rogues help create the state of Colorado? All this and more is explained in Mark

Stein’s follow-up book to the best-selling HowtheStatesGotTheirShapes. The people behind the bound-

ary stories of the United States reveal how we are like those who came before us, how we differ, and, most

importantly, how the human aspect of these stories leads to the nation we are today. Told in Mark Stein’s

humorous voice, HowtheStatesGotTheirShapesToo is a historical journey unlike any other you’ve taken.

Key Points/Quotes

• Follow-up to the NewYorkTimes bestseller, HowtheStatesGotTheirShapes

• Companion book to The History Channel 10-part series airing in early June featuring author Mark Stein

• Where the first book tells us how, this book tells us who in memorable stories

• Major national media promotion

Mark Stein is a playwright and screenwriter. His films include Housesitter with Steve Martin and Goldie Hawn. Stein

has also taught writing and drama at American University and Catholic University. His previous book, HowtheStatesGotTheirShapes, was the basis for The History Channel’s documentary of the same name.

Hist/Prev Titles ISBN On sale Publisher Price

HowtheStatesGotTheirShapesHC 9780061431388 2008 Harper Collins / Smithsonian $22.95

HowtheStatesGotTheirShapesPB 9780061431395 2009 Harper Collins / Smithsonian $14.99

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MeasuringAmerica 9780452284593 2003 Plume $16.00

NamesontheLand 9781590172735 2008 NYRB Classics $19.95

AssassinationVacation/ Sarah Vowell 9780743260039 2006 Simon & Schuster $15.00

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The Changing Face of Portrait Photography From Daguerreotype to DigitalShannon Thomas Perich

A look at ten photographers whose work changed the way we define portraiture, including Dorothea Lange, Richard Avedon, and Robert Weingarten

TheChangingFaceofPortraitPhotographyexplores ten

groups of portraits selected from within the Smithsonian

National Museum of American History’s Photographic History Collection. The selections represent

work by specific photographers with diverse relationships to portraiture, and through their sam-

pling take a focused look at changing convention, theory, and technologies.

Key Points/Quotes

• The Photographic History Collection at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History is the first

collection of photography at any U.S. museum. About 200,000 images represent the work of more than 4,000

photographers.

• Selected photographers represent a range from the well-known—Dorothea Lange and Richard Avedeon—to the

less-known but influential George K. Warren, who invented the concept of the yearbook.

• Perich’s previous title, TheKennedys, was a VanityFair cover feature.

Shannon Thomas Perich is an associate curator in the Photographic History Collection at the Smithsonian’s

National Museum of American History. She is the author of Richard Avedon’s TheKennedys:PortraitofaFamily.

She lives in Washington, DC.

Photo g r aphy / Gener al

Hardcover $35.00 $40.00 CDN150 b&w and color photographs • 8½×11 176 pages • 978-1-58834-274-4Carton Quantity: 18 • Load Group: 0204Order Form Cat: Photography • Rights: No restrictionsTerritory: W • On Sale: 10/18/2011

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The autobiography of Al Worden, Apollo 15 command module pilot and one of only twenty-four men to travel to the moon

As command module pilot for the Apollo 15 mission to the

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months after his return from the moon, Worden received a phone

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ended his spaceflight career. Readers will learn them here for the first time, along with the exhilarating

account of what it is like to journey to the moon and back.

Key Points/Quotes

• July 26–August 7, 2011 is the 40th anniversary of the Apollo 15 space flight.

• Only 24 people have journeyed to the moon, and very few have written books. Al Worden joins this elite group.

• Never before has Al Worden told his personal account of the stamp scandal surrounding Apollo 15.

• Astronauts have an intensely dedicated fan base that will be interested in reading Worden’s look back on his life

and career in NASA.

• “Al is both a pilot and a poet, and his honest portrayal of our exhilarating adventures will move and excite a

whole new generation.”—Buzz Aldrin, Gemini 12 and Apollo 11 astronaut, author of MagnificentDesolation.

Al Worden served as a support crew member for Apollo 9, backup command module pilot for Apollo 12, and

command module pilot for Apollo 15’s mission to the moon July 26–August 7, 1971. Francis French is director

of education for the San Diego Air & Space Museum.

Autob io g r aphy / Science and Te ch nolo g y

Hardcover $29.95 $34.00 CDN31 b&w photographs • 6×9 304 pages • 978-1-58834-309-3Carton Quantity: 24 • Load Group: 0203Order Form Cat: Science • Rights: No restrictionsTerritory: W • On Sale: 7/12/2011

E-Book $29.95 $34.00 CDN978-1-58834-310-9

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• National print, radio, and online media campaign for announced publication date of September

• Tie-in media campaign for the 40th anniversary of Apollo 15 in July/August

• An excerpt will appear in Air&Space magazine’s June/July issue for the 40th anniversary of Apollo 15.

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Hardcover $32.956×9 • 336 pages • 978-1-58834-317-8 Carton Quantity: 24 • Load Group: 0205Order Form Cat: History Rights: Available in the US onlyTerritory: US • On Sale: 10/25/2011

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To the Ends of the EarthScotland’s Global Diaspora, 1750–2010T. M. Devine

The extraordinary epic of the world’s greatest nation of emigrants, by the pre-eminent historian of modern Scotland

All over the British Empire, the United States, and elsewhere, the

Scottish contribution to the development of the modern world

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• Fans of HowtheScotsInventedtheModernWorld will find great interest in this book.

T. M. Devine is the author of the bestselling TheScottishNation,1700-2007. He is the Sir William Fraser Professor of

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The Nation’s HangarAircraft Treasures of the SmithsonianF. Robert Van Der Linden

The history of aviation through the collection of the National Air & Space Museum’s Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center

TheNation’sHangar charts the awe-inspiring history

of flight around the world. F. Robert Van Der Linden,

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A Guide to Smithsonian GardensCarole Ottesen

This beautifully photo-

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Paperback $14.95 $16.95 CDN200 color photographs • 2011 • 7×9¼ 160 pages • 978-1-58834-300-0

Smithsonian InstitutionA Photographic Tour

This visual tribute

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Hardcover $9.95 $10.95 CDN200 color photographs • 2011 • 8×6½ 64 pages • 978-1-58834-301-7

ShipwreckedTang Treasures and Monsoon WindsEdited by Regina Krahl & John Guy

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Treasures from the Smithsonian Institution 2012 Engagement CalendarA weekly treasure for

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This week-at-a-glance

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Spiral-bound $13.99 $16.99 CDN57 color photographs • 2011 • 6½×9 124 pages • 978-1-58834-302-4

5,000 Years of TextilesJennifer Harris

“Two dozen experts give

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“Covers time with a breath-

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The Jefferson Bible, Smithsonian EditionThe Life and Morals of Jesus of NazarethThomas Jefferson Introduction by Harry Rubenstein and Barbara Clark Smith

A lavish color reproduction of the one-of-a-kind book handcrafted by Thomas Jefferson

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Mark, Luke, and John, and compiled his book in chronolgical order, eliminating references to miracles

and information he considered to have been added by the evangelists. The remarkably beautiful hand-

made book, long in the Smithsonian’s collections, is being conserved, and scans of those restored pages

make up this color facsimile reproduction in all languages and with Jefferson’s handwritten notes.

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• The Jefferson Bible has never been reproduced in color in its original form containing four languages and Jef-

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Thomas Jefferson, third president of the United States, most wanted to be remembered as the author of the Declaration

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Harry Rubenstein and Barbara Clark Smith are curators in the Division of Politics and History at the Smithsonian’s

National Museum of American History.

Re lig ion / Bible

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T“[W]hen master storyteller Joy Hakim wields her pen, take heart:

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Fibonacci, Ptolemy, St. Augustine, and St.

Thomas Aquinas. Hakim will introduce them

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Hardcover $24.95 $31.50 CDN300 color photos, illustrations, and maps 2004 • 73⁄8×9½ • 296 pages • 978-1-58834-160-0

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After following the

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The Story of Science

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by Joy Hakim

Winner of the James Michener award in writing Gold and Silver Parents’ Choice awards in writing

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J oY h a K I M isn’t quite sure why she started

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SCIeNCe after the MIDDLe aGeS was in a

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how Pascal proved that air has weight.

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Sarge The Life and Times of Sargent Shriver Scott Stossel Hardcover $32.50 $41.00 CDN40 b&w photos • 2004 • 6×9704 pages • 978-1-58834-127-3

Satisfaction Guaranteed The Making of the American Mass Market Susan Strasser Paperback $17.95 $22.95 CDN126 b&w photos and illustrations • 2004 6×9 • 348 pages • 978-1-58834-146-4

IndiVisibleAfrican-Native American Lives in the Americas Gabrielle Tayac Paperback $19.95 $25.99 CDN 130 color photos • 2009 • 6½×9½

256 pages • 978-158834-271-3

MUSEUM STUDIES

Conservation Concerns A Guide for Collectors and Curators Konstanze Bachmann Paperback $16.95s $21.50 CDN26 line illustrations • 1992 • 6×9 160 pages • 978-1-56098-174-9

The Museum in Transition A Philosophical Perspective Hilde S. Hein Paperback $17.95s $22.95 CDN2000 • 6×9 • 203 pages • 978-1-56098-396-5

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Exhibiting Dilemmas Issues of Representation at the Smithsonian Amy Henderson Paperback $24.95s $28.95 CDN50 b&w photos • 1999 • 6×9 304 pages • 978-1-56098-444-3

Exhibiting CulturesThe Poetics and Politics of Museum Display Ivan Karp Paperback $19.95s $24.95 CDN80 b&w photos • 1991 • 6×9 480 pages • 978-1-56098-021-6

Museums and Communities The Politics of Public Culture Edited by Ivan Karp, Christine Mullen Kreamer, and Steven D. Lavine Paperback $28.95s $36.50 CDN1992 • 6×9 • 624 pages • 978-1-56098-189-3

History from Things Essays on Material Culture Edited by Steven Lubar and W. David Kingery Paperback $19.95s $23.95 CDN1995 • 6×9 • 320 pages • 978-1-56098-613-3

A Legal Primer on Managing Museum Collections Marie C. Malaro Paperback $31.95s $39.95 CDN1998 • 7×10 • 508 pages • 978-1-56098-787-1

Making Museums MatterStephen E. Weil Paperback $18.95s $23.95 CDN2002 • 6×9 • 288 pages • 978-1-58834-000-9

A Cabinet of CuriositiesInquiries into Museums and Their Prospects Stephen E. Weil Paperback $27.95s $33.00 CDN1995 • 6×9 • 288 pages 978-1-56098-511-2

Domesticating HistoryThe Political Origins of America’s House Museums Patricia West Paperback $27.95s $33.00 CDN21 b&w photos • 1999 • 6×9 256 pages • 978-1-56098-836-6

ART / ARC HITECTURE

Math and the Mona LisaThe Art and Science of Leonardo da Vinci Bülent Atalay Hardcover $24.95 $31.50 CDN32 b&w illustrations, 16 color photos 2004 • 5¼×8¼ • 352 pages 978-1-58834-171-6

A Revolution in WoodThe Bresler CollectionNicholas R. BellHardcover $45.00 $53.00 CDN193 color and b&w illustrations 2010 • 9×11 • 152 pages 978-1-58834-304-8

The New Smithsonian Book of Comic Book StoriesFrom Crumb to ClowesBob Callahan Hardcover $39.95 $49.95 CDN100 color, 300 b&w illustrations 2004 • 8¼×11 • 400 pages • 978-1-58834-183-9

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Crafts of MexicoEdited by Margarita de Orellana and Alberto Ruy Sánchez Hardcover $45.00 $56.50 CDN400 color photos and illustrations 2004 • 87⁄8×12½ • 360 pages 978-1-58834-212-6

Capital LossesA Cultural History of Washington’s Destroyed Buildings, Second Edition James M. Goode Hardcover $69.95 $88.00 CDN550 b&w photos • 2003 • 9×12 541 pages • 978-1-58834-105-1

Best AddressesA Century of Washington’s Distinguished Apartment Houses James M. Goode Hardcover $65.00 $82.00 CDN690 b&w photos • 2003 9¼×12½ • 597 pages • 978-0-87474-476-7

The Stone CarversMaster Craftsmen of Washington National Cathedral Marjorie Hunt Paperback $19.95 $24.95 CDN100 b&w photos • 2007 • 8×10 208 pages • 978-1-58834-247-8

Hide/SeekDifference and Desire in American PortraitureJonathan D. Katz and David C. WardHardcover $45.00 $54.00 CDN150 color illustrations 2010 • 9×12 • 296 pages 978-1-58834-299-7

PHOTO GRAPHY

Puerto Rico Mio Four Decades of ChangeAlan Fern and Arturo M. Carrion Photographs by Jack Delano Paperback $39.95 $49.95 CDN178 duotones • 1990 • 10×10 242 pages • 978-0-87474-389-0

At First Sight Photography and the Smithsonian Merry A. Foresta Paperback $29.95 $39.95 CDN

82 color photos, 195 duotones, 2 gatefolds • 2003 • 8½×11 288 pages • 978-1-58834-180-6

Juan Rulfo’s Mexico Essays by Carlos Fuentes, Margo Glantz, Jorge Albetro Lozoya, Eduardo Rivero, Victor Jimenez, and Erika Billeter Hardcover $60.00 $70.00 CDN46 b&w photos • 2002 11½×11½ • 223 pages 978-1-58834-097-9

Witness in Our Time, Second EditionWorking Lives of Documentary PhotographersKen LightPaperback $21.95 $25.95 CDN31 b&w photos • 2010 • 6×9 280 pages • 978-1-58834-298-0

E-Book $21.95 $25.95 CDN978-1-58834-306-2

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The Scurlock Studio and Black WashingtonPicturing the PromiseNational Museum of African American History & CultureHardcover $35.00 $38.00 CDN130 b&w photos • 2009 • 9×11 224 pages • 978-1-58834-262-1

Mathew Brady and the Image of History Mary Panzer Paperback $19.95 $24.95 CDN72 b&w photos, 79 b&w illustrations • 2004 • 9×11 232 pages • 978-1-58834-143-3

Let Your Motto Be Resistance African American Portraits Edited by Deborah Willis Hardcover $35.00 $43.95 CDN100 b&w photos • 2008 • 8×11 176 pages • 978-1-58834-242-3

Paperback $19.95 $24.95 CDN2008 • 978-1-58834-246-1

PERFORMING ARTS

Cubano Be, Cubano BopOne Hundred Years of Jazz in Cuba Leonardo Acosta Foreword by Paquito D’Rivera Translated by Daniel Whitesell Hardcover $29.95s $37.95 CDN64 b&w photos • 2003 • 6×9 320 pages • 978-1-58834-147-1

Masters of Movement Portraits of America’s Great Choreographers Rose Eichenbaum Foreword by Clive Barnes Paperback $27.95 $35.25 CDN118 duotones • 2007 • 10×10 288 pages • 978-1-58834-248-5

Faces of SalsaA Spoken History of the Music Leonardo Padura Fuentes Translated by Stephen J. Clark Paperback $16.95 $21.50 CDN13 b&w photos • 2003 • 6×9 236 pages • 978-1-58834-080-1

Heroes, Lovers, and Others The Story of Latinos in Hollywood Clara E. Rodríguez Hardcover $26.95 $33.95 CDN57 b&w photos • 2004 • 5¼×8¼ 256 pages • 978-1-58834-111-2

SMITHSONIAN

One Fish, Two Fish, Crawfish, BluefishThe Smithsonian Sustainable Seafood Cookbook Carole C. Baldwin and Julie H. Mounts Hardcover $35.00 $43.95 CDN25 color illustrations • 2003 8×10 • 300 pages 978-1-58834-169-3

The Smithsonian Book of BooksMichael Olmert Introduction by Christopher de Hamel Hardcover $49.95 $62.95 CDN284 color, 99 b&w illustrations 2003 • 9¼×111⁄8 • 320 pages • 978-0-89599-030-3

HISTORY

In the Beginning Bibles Before the Year 1000 Edited by Michelle Brown Hardcover $45.00 $56.50 CDN151 color and b&w images • 2006 • 9×10 368 pages • 978-1-58834-240-9

VikingsThe North Atlantic Saga Edited by William W. Fitzhugh and Elisabeth Ward Paperback $34.95 $43.95 CDN50 b&w, 450 color photos, 20 line illustrations, 20 maps • 2000 8½×11 • 432 pages • 978-1-56098-995-0

The Shackled ContinentPower, Corruption, and African LivesRobert GuestPaperback $21.95 $25.95 CDN2010 • 6×9 • 288 pages 978-1-58834-297-3

E-Book $21.95 $25.95 CDN978-1-58834-311-6

Washington on Foot Twenty-Three Walking Tours of Washington, D.C. and Old Town AlexandriaFourthEditionRevisedandExpandedEdited by John J. Protopappas and Alvin R. McNeal Paperback $14.95 $18.95 CDN124 b&w illustrations and 2-color maps • 2004 5¼×9 • 224 pages • 978-1-58834-115-0

TequilaEdited by Alberto Ruy Sánchez and Margarita de Orellana Hardcover $25.00 $31.50 CDN225 color photos and illustrations 2004 • 6×10¼ • 240 pages 978-1-58834-213-3

AVIATION / MILITARY HISTORY

A Wasp Among Eagles A Woman Military Test Pilot in World War II Ann B. CarlPaperback $14.95 $18.95 CDN20 b&w photos • 2000 • 6×9 144 pages • 978-1-56098-870-0

The Mind of WarJohn Boyd and American Security Grant T. Hammond Paperback $17.95 $22.95 CDN13 b&w illustrations • 2004 • 6×9 248 pages • 978-1-58834-178-5

Visions of a Flying Machine The Wright Brothers and the Process of Invention Peter L. Jakab Paperback $18.95 $23.95 CDN62 b&w photos • 1997 • 6×9 272 pages • 978-1-56098-748-2

Kelly More Than My Share of It All Clarence L. “Kelly” Johnson with Maggie Smith Paperback $21.95 $27.95 CDN22 b&w illustrations • 1989 • 6×9 224 pages • 978-0-87474-491-0

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Rethinking Cold War Culture Edited by Peter J. Kuznick and James Gilbert Paperback $29.95 $35.00 CDN2001 • 6×9 • 240 pages • 978-1-56098-895-3

Into the Teeth of the Tiger Donald S. Lopez Paperback $17.95 $22.95 CDN24 b&w photos • 1997 • 6×9 230 pages • 978-1-56098-752-9

Amelia EarhartA Biography Doris L. Rich Paperback $16.95 $21.50 CDN15 b&w illustrations • 1996 • 6×9 322 pages • 978-1-56098-725-3

To Hanoi and Back The U.S. Air Force and North Vietnam, 1966–1973 Wayne Thompson Foreword by Richard P. Hallion Paperback $29.95 $35.00 CDN2010 • 6×9 • 432 pages 978-1-58834-283-6

SPACE

Alan BeanPainting Apollo: First Artist on Another WorldAlan BeanHardcover $39.99 $48.50 CDN120 color illustrations 2009 • 11×10 • 224 pages 978-1-58834-264-5

Moon LanderHow We Developed the Apollo Lunar Module Thomas J. Kelly Paperback $19.95 $25.99 CDN15 b&w photos • 2009 • 6×9 288 pages • 978-1-58834-273-7

ANTHROPOLO GY / ARCHAEOLO GY

The Hold Life HasCoca and Cultural Identity in an Andean Community Catherine J. AllenPaperback $19.95s $24.95 CDN19 b&w photos, 8 line illustrations 2002 • 6×9 • 304 pages • 978-1-58834-032-0

Cancer in the Community Class and Medical Authority Martha Balshem Paperback $16.95 $21.50 CDN6 b&w photos • 1993 • 6×9 192 pages • 978-1-56098-251-7

Living Our Cultures, Sharing Our HeritageThe First Peoples of AlaskaAron CrowellHardcover $50.00 $60.00 CDN440 color photos • 2010 • 9×12 312 pages • 978-1-58834-270-6

Uncommon GroundArchaeology and Early African America, 1650–1800 Leland Ferguson Paperback $24.95 $28.95 CDN41 b&w photos, 37 b&w illustrations 2004 • 6×9 • 232 pages 978-1-56098-059-9

Anthropology Explored, Second Edition The Best of Smithsonian AnthroNotes Edited by Ruth Osterweis Selig, Marilyn R. London, and P. Ann Kaupp Paperback $21.95s $27.95 CDN54 b&w illustrations • 2004 • 6×9 496 pages • 978-1-58834-093-1

The Social Construction of Ancient Cities Edited by Monica L. Smith Paperback $29.95s $35.00 CDN32 b&w illustrations • 2010 • 6×9 304 pages • 978-1-58834-291-1

SCIENCE / NATURE

Composition of Scientific Words Roland Wilbur Brown Paperback $37.95s $44.00 CDN2000 • 6×9 • 882 pages • 978-1-56098-848-9

Snakes of the United States and CanadaCarl H. Ernst and Evelyn M. Ernst Hardcover $70.00s $88.00 CDN200 color photos, 137 b&w illustrations • 2003 7×10 • 680 pages • 978-1-58834-019-1

The Smithsonian Atlas of the AmazonMichael Goulding, Ronaldo Barthem, and Efrem Ferreira Hardcover $39.95 $46.00 CDN286 color photos, 162 color maps 2003 • 9×11 • 256 pages 978-1-58834-135-8

Red Fox The Catlike Canine J. David Henry Paperback $16.95 $21.50 CDN10 color, 40 b&w photos • 1996 • 6×9 174 pages • 978-1-56098-635-5

Ethics on the Ark Zoos, Animal Welfare, and Wildlife Conservation Edited by Bryan G. Norton, Michael Hutchins, Terry L. Maple, and Elizabeth F. Stevens Paperback $22.95 $26.95 CDN1996 • 6×9 • 360 pages • 978-1-56098-689-8

Second NatureEnvironmental Enrichment for Captive Animals Edited by David J. Shepherdson, Jill D. Mellen, and Michael Hutchins Paperback $22.95s $26.95 CDN28 b&w photos • 1999 • 6×9 376 pages • 978-1-56098-397-2

North American Tree Squirrels Michael A. Steele and John L. Koprowski Paperback $17.95 $22.95 CDN22 b&w photos, 5 b&w illustrations • 2003 6×9 • 224 pages • 978-1-58834-100-6

Adventures on America’s Public LandsMary E. Tisdale and Bibi Booth Paperback $22.95 $28.95 CDN190 color photos, 190 color maps • 2003 • 53⁄8×83⁄8 544 pages • 978-1-58834-081-8

The Whole HogExploring the Extraordinary Potential of Pigs Lyall Watson Hardcover $24.95 50 color, 30 b&w illustrations • 2004 • 7½×9¾ 256 pages • 978-1-58834-216-4

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Paperback $13.99 $16.99 CDN284 color photos • 2009 • 5¼×9232 pages • 978-1-58834-268-3

A Guide to Smithsonian ArchitectureHeather Ewing and Amy Ballard

The buildings of the

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Paperback $14.95 16.25 CDN200 duotones • 2009 • 7×9¼160 pages • 978-1-58834-261-4

Official Guide to the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum, Third EditionThis fully illustrated guide

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Paperback $14.99 $18.99 CDN200 color photos • 2010 • 7×9¼ 176 pages • 978-1-58834-267-6

Official Guide to the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History With more than 124

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Paperback $14.95 $18.95 CDN198 color photos • 2009 • 71⁄8×9¼ 160 pages • 978-1-58834-109-9


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