Book Review – Smithsonian Science News –

Well known for its collection of children’s books, the Cooper Hewitt Library holds a rare 19th century illustrated German nursery rhyme children’s book titled Paradiesfibel, written and il...

https://insider.si.edu/2017/11/learning-sign-cooper-hewitt/

Rock ’n’ roll musicians live forever in the mind’s eye thanks to iconic photos of them in their element, playing live: Chuck Berry and his

https://insider.si.edu/2017/10/makes-great-rock-n-roll-photo-bill-bently-author-smithsonian-rock-roll-live-unseen-answer/

For the first time in its history the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African Art opened an exhibition on the continent of Africa. “Chief S.O. Alonge:

https://insider.si.edu/2017/10/first-smithsonians-african-art-museum-opens-exhibition-africa/

This Secret Smithsonian Adventures series follows four middle schoolers as they foil events by two dastardly doers who try to dangerously change the true course

https://insider.si.edu/2016/11/claws-and-effect/

Photographs, by virtue of their static nature, not only allow us to look back to a fixed point in time, but also give us a

https://insider.si.edu/2016/10/double-exposure-photos-smithsonians-national-museum-african-american-history-culture/

In the first volume of the Secret Smithsonian Adventures graphic-novel series from Smithsonian Books, The Wrong Wrights, four middle-school kids visit the Smithsonian’s National Air

https://insider.si.edu/2016/02/the-wrong-wrights/

“My recurring theme is the transformation of the ordinary…,” explains National Air and Space Museum photographer Carolyn Russo in reference to her new book, Art

https://insider.si.edu/2015/12/book-airport-towers-as-abstract-art/

Left-handed snails, giant wombats, spiny trilobites, zombie ants, glyptodonts…these are a few of the fascinating animals and plants whose fossils spring to life across the

https://insider.si.edu/2014/10/new-book/

Nearly 20 years since Kennewick Man was serendipitously discovered along the banks of the Columbia River in Washington State, the scientific saga of his life

https://insider.si.edu/2014/08/smithsonian-scientist-brings-kennewick-man-life-new-book/

Between the world wars of the early Twentieth Century, an age of adventure travel and cultural exploration flourished when newly developed transport and recording technologies–particularly

https://insider.si.edu/2013/10/new-book-recreating-first-contact-expeditions-anthropology-and-popular-culture/

Now, for the first time, Charles Darwin's life is portrayed pictorially in an illustrated biography in graphic novel-style for all ages to enjoy.

https://insider.si.edu/2013/02/darwin-a-graphic-biography-new-releas-from-smithsonain-books/

When it comes to the birds of South Asia, Pamela Rasmussen wrote the book on it. Literally. Twice.

https://insider.si.edu/2012/10/birds-of-south-asia-the-ripley-guide/

Some of the earliest humans to inhabit America came from Europe according to a new book "Across Atlantic Ice: The Origin of America's Clovis Culture."

https://insider.si.edu/2012/03/ice-age-mariners-from-europe-were-the-first-people-to-reach-north-america/

A selection of fascinating facts about fishes from the new book "Fishes: The Animal Answer Guide"

https://insider.si.edu/2012/01/five-funky-and-5-fun-fish-facts/

In this fun, accessible and informative book, ichthyologists Gene Helfman, professor emeritus at the University of Georgia, and Bruce Collette, of the Division of Fishes at the Smithsonian’s Na...

https://insider.si.edu/2012/01/new-book-fishes-the-animal-answer-guide/

Warner’s narrative covers the major natural sweeteners, including sugar, molasses from cane, beet sugar, corn syrup, honey and maple, as well as artificial sweeteners such as saccharin, cyclama...

https://insider.si.edu/2011/10/new-book-sweet-stuff-an-american-history-of-sweeteners-from-sugar-to-sucralose/

As command module pilot for the Apollo 15 mission to the moon in 1971, Al Worden spent six days orbiting the moon, including three days completely alone, the most isolated human in existence. In ...

https://insider.si.edu/2011/08/falling-to-earth-an-apollo-15-astronauts-jouney-to-the-moon/

Despite the importance of seasonally dry forests, little is known of their ecology. Now, a new book The Ecology and Conservation of Seasonally Dry Forests in Asia, published by Smithsonian Instit...

https://insider.si.edu/2011/06/new-book-the-ecology-and-conservation-of-seasonally-dry-forests-in-asia/

The chief appeal of The Anatomy of Palms is some 800 color photographs that document the extent of palm anatomical diversity.

https://insider.si.edu/2011/06/with-800-color-photographs-new-book-takes-a-fascinating-look-inside-palms/

Only the Wing is a new book by Russell Lee that recounts Horten's epic quest to stabalize and control the all-wing aircraft.

https://insider.si.edu/2011/04/new-book-only-the-wing-reimar-hortens-epic-quest-to-stabilize-and-control-the-all-wing-aircraft/

The new book Subsistence Economies of Indigenous North American Societies provides a comprehensive and in-depth documentation of how Native American societies met the challenges of

https://insider.si.edu/2011/04/the-subsistence-economies-of-indigenous-north-american-societies-a-handbook/

This user-friendly, portable, and extensive identification guide features large color illustrations of more than 900 species; the first range maps published to show the distribution of Panama's b...

https://insider.si.edu/2011/02/smithsonian-ornithologist-publishes-new-guide-to-the-birds-of-panama/

The number and diversity of tectonic landforms in our solar system “is truly remarkable,” Watters and Schultz write. Photographs of these structures have stimulated a range of scholarly inves...

https://insider.si.edu/2010/04/book-review-planetary-tectonics-examines-otherworldly-landforms/

Latinus 9333 is the Latin translation of the so-called Tacuinum sanitatis, a medieval handbook on wellness written in Arabic by the 11th-century physician ibn Butlan. It deals with factors influe...

https://insider.si.edu/2010/03/medieval-book-illustrates-how-plants-were-once-collected-treated-and-used/

“Our guide celebrates the beauty of some of the most attractive inhabitants of Panama’s undersea realm and provides an indispensable, easy-to-use tool for their identification,” say the Lit...

https://insider.si.edu/2010/02/researchers-compile-colorful-on-line-guide-to-marine-algae-of-panama/

Tidal Freshwater Wetlands focuses on wetlands found in North America and Europe near the mouths of rivers that flow into estuaries like the Chesapeake Bay.

https://insider.si.edu/2009/11/new-book-tidal-freshwater-wetlands/

The Weeping Goldsmith, written as a first-person narrative, follows Botanist John Kress through nine years as he surveys Myanmar’s teak forests, bamboo thickets, timber plantations, rivers and ...

https://insider.si.edu/2009/10/smithsonian-botanist-writes-book-about-his-discoveries-in-the-secret-land-of-myanmar/