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The Smithsonian Experience: Science—History—The Arts . . . The Treasures Of The Nation
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Condition remarks: Condition: Good. Jacket: Worn/faded - no tears. Page Condition: Good. Markings: No markings. Usual shelf-wear. At the heart of the American capital lies a sprawling complex of museums,...
The Smithsonian Book Of Flight
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerFrom the windswept dunes of Kitty Hawk to the vast silence of outer space, The Smithsonian Book of Flight chronicles humanity's relentless...
Odyssey in Print: Adventures in the Smithsonian Libraries
Situated at the center of the world's largest museum complex, the Smithsonian Institution Libraries links the holdings of 22 Smithsonian museums and research centres into one system encompassing 1.5 million...
Smithsonian Atlas of World Aviation
With unique, original documents, graphic illustrations, photographs, maps, timelines, flight patterns, and charts, the "Atlas of World Aviaton" takes the reader on a tour of flight history from the earliest...
Smithsonian Treasures of American History
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The National Museum of American History our country's largest history museum and one of the Smithsonian's most visited preserves three million objects that capture the American story. From this vast...
The Smithsonian Book Of Flight
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Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Good Markings: No markingsThe Smithsonian Book Of Flight chronicles the awe-inspiring saga of human aviation, from its earliest dreams to the cutting-edge technology...
The Smithsonian Institution
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The Animal Kingdom & Nature Bargain Book Box
Secondhand The Animal Kingdom & Nature Bargain Book Box Dive into a fascinating collection of fifteen essential nature and science volumes, perfect for anyone curious about the animal kingdom, evolution,...
Inspired Enterprise: How NASA, the Smithsonian, and the Aerospace
Boldly discover how NASA, the Smithsonian, and the aerospace community helped craft, legitimize, and popularize the beloved television show Star Trek. Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry sought to create a...
Old Ways in the New World: A Mystery at the Smithsonian
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The book titled Old Ways in the New World: A Mystery at the Smithsonian by the author Richard Timothy Conroy. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more...
Tense Conditions (Bilingual edition): A Presentation of the
In its new presentation of the collection, the Staatsgalerie Stuttgart establishes a dialogue between works from the private Scharpff-Striebich collection and works from its own stocks. Contemporary positions and works...
Annual Report Of The Board Of Regents Of The Smithsonian Institution: Showing The Operations, Expenditures, And Condition Of The Institution For The Year Ending June 30, 1918
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Condition remarks: Condition: Good to fair. Jacket: No dust jacket. Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription. The Annual Report of the Board of Regents of...
Poetics of the Poster: The Rhetoric of Image-Text
This book sets out to explore the way, with the onset of a new and integral relationship between text and image, the modern poster is able to evolve distinctive persuasive...
Guns, Germs and Steel: The MILLION-COPY bestselling history of everybody (20th Anniversary Edition)
Author: Jared Diamond Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 592 'A book of big questions, and big answers' Yuval Noah Harari, bestselling author of Sapiens A short history of everybody for...
Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media
A detailed and compelling political study of how elite forces shape mass media The classic political study of how elite forces shape mass media. Edward S Herman and Noam Chomsky...
The Penguin Book of Outer Space Exploration: NASA and the Incredible
The fascinating story of how NASA sent humans to explore outer space, told through a treasure trove of historical documents--publishing in celebration of NASA's 60th anniversary and with a foreword...
Extinctions: Living and Dying in the Margin of Error
Are we now entering a mass extinction event? What can mass extinctions in Earth's history tell us about the Anthropocene? What do mass extinction events look like and how does...
The Exhibitionists: A History of Sydney's Art Gallery of New South
In 2021, the Art Gallery of New South Wales celebrates its 150th anniversary. Since its founding as an academy of art in 1871, its evolution into one of Australia's premier...
The Museum of Other People: From Colonial Acquisitions to Cosmopolitan Exhibitions
Author: Adam Kuper Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 432 This is a history of the ways in which foreign and prehistoric peoples were represented in museums of anthropology, with their...
65,000 Years: A Short History of Australian Art
65,000 Years: A Short History of Australian Art stares into the dark heart of Australia's brutal colonial history and offers new insights into the first art of this country. Long...
The Art of Explanation: How to Communicate with Clarity and Confidence
'For all those who want their audiences to listen and understand' JEREMY BOWEN | 'Precision, deftness and a calming expertise' THE TIMES Do you worry about holding people's attention during...
A Critical Exposition Of The Philosophy Of Leibniz
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Edition: 2nd ed., 5th pr.,Condition remarks: Condition: Good. Jacket: Worn/faded - small tears. Page Condition: Yellowed. Markings: Name penned on fep. Usual shelf-wear. At the intersection of logic, metaphysics, and...
The Museum of Other People: From Colonial Acquisitions to Cosmopolitan Exhibitions
Author: Adam Kuper Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 432 'A formidable work' - Nigel Barley, author of The Innocent Anthropologist 'Should be required reading' - Richard Lambert, Financial Times 'A...
The Museum of Other People: From Colonial Acquisitions to Cosmopolitan Exhibitions
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Painting with Monet
Author: Harmon SiegelFormat: Hardback, 178mm x 254mm, 312 pagesPublished: Princeton University Press, United States, 2024A major reassessment of the methods and meaning of impressionism.At pivotal moments in his career, Claude...
Artists on Robert Smithson
Artists from Matthew Buckingham to Diana Thater address the rich legacy of Robert Smithson's films, sculptures and Spiral Jetty This is the fifth volume in a series that builds upon...
Display: Appearance, posture and behaviour in the animal kingdom
Author: Steve Parker Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 240 Discover nature's most colourful creatures in a major new book on colour in the animal kingdom. For many animals use of...
The Museum of Other People: From Colonial Acquisitions to Cosmopolitan Exhibitions
Author: Adam Kuper Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 432 'A formidable work' - Nigel Barley, author of The Innocent Anthropologist 'Should be required reading' - Richard Lambert, Financial Times 'A...
Jeff Koons: Lost in America
Edited by curator Masimilliano Gioni, this book focuses in particular on Koons' art as seen in relation to contemporary American culture. With his aesthetics of plenitude and his pop-up dreams...
Exposure Made Easy: Use Exposure to Create Captivating Photographs in
Photographers must adjust their aperture, shutter speed, and ISO (collectively, exposure settings) to produce an image that is not too light (overexposed) or too dark (underexposed). With a proper exposure,...
The Wealth of Nations: Books I-III
Penguin Classics relaunch Smith's THE WEALTH OF NATIONS was the first comprehensive treatment of political economy. Originally delivered in the form of lectures at Glasgow, the book's publication in 1776...
Turner
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The New York Subway Map Debate: At Cooper Union April 20, 7:30 pm
Author: Gary HustwitFormat: Paperback, 127mm x 229mm, 300g, 140 pagesPublished: Plexi Productions, United States, 2022The New York Subway Map Debate documents a pivotal event in design history: the 1978 debate...
Silo Art 2nd edition: Journey through Australia's Outdoor Art Scene
Silo Art will take you on a picturesque journey from epic painted silos to grand murals that transform towns and outdoor art festivals. In this richly illustrated coffee table book,...
Interaction of Color: 50th Anniversary Edition
The 50th anniversary edition of a classic text, featuring an expanded selection of color studies "The landmark 1963 book by Josef Albers . . . isn't just for aspiring artists....
Image and Exploration: Early Travel Photography from 1850 to 1914
Rediscover the world through some of the earliest travel photographs ever taken in this unrivaled collection of images that capture the excitement of travel and chart the evolution of photography....
British and Irish Silver in the Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University
The Fogg Art Museum's silver collection is one of the most significant in America and includes objects that range from Elizabethan cups to works by such celebrated artists as Paul...
We Know It When We See It: What the Neurobiology of Vision Tells Us
"Spotting a face in a crowd is so easy, you take it for granted. But how you do it is one of science's great mysteries. Vision is involved in nearly...
Explaining Humans: Winner of the Royal Society Science Book Prize 2020
How proteins, machine learning and molecular chemistry can teach us about human behaviour WINNER OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY INSIGHT INVESTMENT SCIENCE BOOK PRIZE 2020 How do we understand the people...
Sean Scully (Bilingual edition): Material World
Creating works with a fascinating range of tone and expression, Sean Scully's oeuvre is a continuous exploration of his core motif of lines and swaths of color. Captivating the observer...
Nike: Form Follows Motion
An unprecedented look at the design archives of the iconic sportswear brand. In Autumn 2024 the Vitra Design Museum will present the first ever museum exhibition about Nike, the world's...
Landscape as Weapon: Cultures of Exhaustion and Refusal
Author: John Beck Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 208 Once the playgrounds and raw material for the avant garde, abandoned places and things - decommissioned military sites, postindustrial spaces, contested...