Editor's choice : Smithsonian : an anthology of the first two decades of Smithsonian magazine.
Articles from twenty years of Smithsonian.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780895990273
- ISBN: 089599027X
- Physical Description: 304 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 28 cm
- Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: Washington, DC : Smithsonian Books, [1990]
- Copyright: ©1990
Content descriptions
Formatted Contents Note: | Around the Mall and beyond -- Phenomena, comment and notes -- Polar bears mingle with people on Manitoba's Cape Churchill -- Having all the answers is a hard row to hoe -- The secret hearts of flowers stand revealed in x rays -- Sybaritic to some, sinful to others, but how sweet it is! -- A meerkat volunteers to guard duty so its comrades can live in peace -- If interstellar hot line rings, who gets the message? -- Quantum physics' world: now you see it, now you don't -- Maidens of the sea can be alluring, but sailor, beware -- Gods and goddesses in graven images from old Hollywood -- Lizards that take to the desert like ducks to water -- Those strange goings and comings in the sock drawer at night -- When home sweet home was just a mailbox away -- The Silver Whistler -- A Tale of Two Bagels and other bits of execrable prose -- 'Gone up North, Gone out West, Gone!' -- The Death dive and brave rescue of the Squalus -- Fifty years on, 'O Best Beloved,' Kipling is making a comeback -- There'll be some changes in the city when the cranes come soaring in -- Secret of still waters -- By the atarnal, Yankee Jonathan! -- Was he half hype or sheer hero? -- 'Yours, not sitting on a pumpkin' -- The epic tale of one noonday meal, hot and on time -- 'Mules is born in a man; you ain't gonna get it out of him' -- Jacob Laurence: art as seen through a people's history -- 'Meryl is dying to do Scarlett anorexic' -- The controversy on whereabouts of Columbus' body -- Harmless, highly beneficial, bats still get a bum rap -- Eyeing animals eyeball to eyeball -- How to read Proust -- Archaeology with a heart in Holland's drained inland sea -- Stubbs' horses were all painted from inside out -- The first Olympics: competing 'for the greater glory of Zeus' -- 'The bass swam around the bass drum on the ocean floor' -- Camille Claudel's tempestuous life of art and passion -- India's intensifying dilemma: Can tigers and people coexist? -- Echoes and voices summoned from a half-hour in hell. |
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Editor's Choice : Smithsonian: The Best of Twenty Years from Smithsonian Magazine
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Editor's Choice : Smithsonian: The Best of Twenty Years from Smithsonian Magazine
Celebrates Smithsonian magazine's 20th birthday. The editors of Smithsonian Books reviewed 240 issues of the monthly publication and selected an eclectic assortment of articles on topics in the arts and sciences. With some 300 of the usual (for them) vivid illustrations, most in color. No scholarly paraphernalia. Annotation(c) 2003 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)