Product Description: On playing fields and street corners, in backyards and gyms, the people in this arresting array of pictures are unselfconsciously exploring the physical and emotional pleasures of competition and play. Each image offers an affirming and satisfying answer to the question at the heart of Game Face: What do girls and women look like when freed from traditional feminine constraints, using their bodies in joyful and empowering ways?To show America what women’s sports looks like, Jane Gottesman searched through the work of our country’s best photographers, from the newest photojournalists to artists such as Annie Leibovitz and Ansel Adams...read more

Product Description: Calendar size is 12 x 12.

Product Description: This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work...read more

A children's series endorsed by the Smithsonian Institution answers questions kids ask about subjects that are of interest to them, while each title also provides links to Smithsonian websites, interviews with a Smithsonian Specialist, great photos, and accessible text.

Presents general information about stars and the sun in a question-and-answer format.

Product Description: From the Smithsonian's vast art collection comes four beautifully designed volumes celebrating the best life has to offer.

Explores the diversity of mammals around the world, including information on their habitats, their behavior, and their unusual evolutionary processes.

Thousands of captioned photographis, illustrations, and diagrams complement a stunning overview of the earth and the diverse forces and processes that shape and continue to influence the planet.

Product Description: This engagement calendar features a dazzling selection of objects from the Smithsonian's unparalleled collection. One of the world's most popular museums, the Smithsonian Institution hosts 29 million visitors a year. With sixteen museums and galleries, plus the National Zoo, there truly is something for everyone to enjoy...read more

Product Description: What makes America work is that Americans work hard. In that spirit, the Smithsonian has dedicated an entire exhibit featuring images of traditional Americans toiling in fields, shops, seaports, and mines, all striving to build better lives and better countries...read more

Reissued with a new cover and published in cooperation with the Smithsonian Institution, a collection of works by top American writers and artists--including John Updike, Andy Warhol, and Stephen King--features paintings, drawings, photographs, and literary excerpts that depict every aspect of baseball. Reissue. (view table of contents)

Published in conjunction with the Smithsonian Institution's National Air and Space Museum, a richly illustrated study of two decades of Space Shuttle flights utilizes full-color captioned NASA photographs to chronicle the accomplishments of the space program and provides a look at the more than 250 people who have ventured into space aboard the reusable spacecraft. (view table of contents)

In association with the Smithsonian Institution and the American Orchid Society, a spectacular guide presents an abundance of photographs and illustrations that capture the color, shape, size, and beauty of this flower, and features a wealth of information and historical vignettes.

A baby bear loves to go exploring in a board book with photographs taken at the Smithsonian Institution's National Zoological Park.

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