Full Body Burden
Growing Up in the Nuclear Shadow of Rocky Flats
Written by Kristen Iversen

Format: Hardcover, 416 pages
Publisher: Crown
On Sale: June 5, 2012
Price: $25.00
ISBN: 978-0-307-95563-0 (0-307-95563-X)

Chosen one of the Best Books of 2012 by Kirkus Reviews and the American Library Association and 2012 Best Book about Justice by The Atlantic
Finalist for the Barnes & Noble Discover Award and the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence
Selected for Common Reading at:
Virginia Commonwealth University
St. Bonaventure University
Fort Lewis College
California State University... Read more >

The White Death
Tragedy and Heroism in an Avalanche Zone
Written by Mckay Jenkins

Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: February 13, 2001
Price: $13.00
ISBN: 978-0-385-72077-9 (0-385-72077-7)

In 1969, five young men from Montana set out to accomplish what no one had before: to scale the sheer north face of Mt. Cleveland, Glacier National Park's tallest mountain, in winter. Two days later tragedy struck: they were buried in an avalanche so deep that their bodies would not be... Read more >

Lucy's Legacy
The Quest for Human Origins
Written by Dr. Donald Johanson and Kate Wong

Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
Publisher: Broadway
On Sale: June 1, 2010
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-307-39640-2 (0-307-39640-1)

“Lucy is a 3.2-million-year-old skeleton who has become the spokeswoman for human evolution. She is perhaps the best known and most studied fossil hominid of the twentieth century, the benchmark by which other discoveries of human ancestors are judged.” –From Lucy’s Legacy

In his New York Times bestseller, Lucy: The Beginnings of... Read more >

Student's Quest Guide: Aristotle Leads the Way
Aristotle Leads the Way
Written by Johns Hopkins University

Format: Trade Paperback, 112 pages
Publisher: Smithsonian Books
On Sale: December 1, 2007
Price: $12.95
ISBN: 978-1-58834-254-6 (1-58834-254-9)

This rich, multidisciplinary curriculum to accompany Joy Hakim’s The Story of Science: Aristotle Leads the Way covers astronomy, physics, and chemistry from Mesopotamia to the Middle Ages. The course of study is divided into five units. Each unit includes an introduction (with background information, a materials list, and standards correlated to... Read more >

Student's Quest Guide: Newton at the Center
Newton at the Center
Written by Johns Hopkins University

Format: Trade Paperback, 246 pages
Publisher: Smithsonian Books
On Sale: June 1, 2008
Price: $16.95
ISBN: 978-1-58834-255-3 (1-58834-255-7)

This rich, multidisciplinary curriculum to accompany Joy Hakim’s The Story of Science: Newton at the Center covers astronomy, physics, and chemistry from Copernicus to the Curies, from the fifteenth to the twentieth centuries. The course of study is divided into seven units. Each unit includes an introduction (with background, materials list... Read more >

Teacher's Quest Guide: Aristotle Leads the Way
Aristotle Leads the Way
Written by Johns Hopkins University

Format: Trade Paperback, 440 pages
Publisher: Smithsonian Books
On Sale: December 1, 2007
Price: $49.95
ISBN: 978-1-58834-251-5 (1-58834-251-4)

This rich, multidisciplinary curriculum to accompany Joy Hakim’s The Story of Science: Aristotle Leads the Way covers astronomy, physics, and chemistry from Mesopotamia to the Middle Ages. The course of study is divided into five units. Each unit includes an introduction (with background information, a materials list, and standards correlated to... Read more >

Teacher's Quest Guide: Newton at the Center
Newton at the Center
Written by Johns Hopkins University

Format: Trade Paperback, 544 pages
Publisher: Smithsonian Books
On Sale: June 1, 2008
Price: $59.95
ISBN: 978-1-58834-252-2 (1-58834-252-2)

This rich, multidisciplinary curriculum to accompany Joy Hakim’s The Story of Science: Newton at the Center covers astronomy, physics, and chemistry from Copernicus to the Curies, from the fifteenth to the twentieth centuries. The course of study is divided into seven units. Each unit includes an introduction (with background, materials list... Read more >

The Pheasants of the World
Biology and Natural History, Second Edition
Written by Paul Johnsgard

Format: Hardcover, 432 pages
Publisher: Smithsonian Books
On Sale: August 17, 1999
Price: $55.00
ISBN: 978-1-56098-839-7 (1-56098-839-8)

Among the most important of all bird groups, pheasants account for the most abundant domesticated species (the domestic fowl), the most extensively hunted upland game bird (the common pheasant), and some of the most spectacularly beautiful of all large birds (the giant argus). This lavishly illustrated volume gives up-to-date information on... Read more >

Cycads of the World
Ancient Plants in Today's Landscape, Second Edition
Written by David L. Jones

Format: Hardcover, 456 pages
Publisher: Smithsonian Books
On Sale: September 17, 2002
Price: $70.00
ISBN: 978-1-58834-043-6 (1-58834-043-0)

Cycads superficially resemble palms and are often misidentified as such. However, cycads are actually a unique assemblage of primitive plants that have been around for at least 250 million years. They have become highly sought after for gardens, both private and public, and their present status as endangered plants has engendered... Read more >

Palms Throughout the World

Written by David L. Jones

Format: Hardcover, 410 pages
Publisher: Smithsonian Books
On Sale: July 17, 1995
Price: $60.00
ISBN: 978-1-56098-616-4 (1-56098-616-6)

Presenting an up-to-date introduction to this complex group of plants, Palms Throughout the World describes 800 species in 123 genera and discusses the distribution, biology, propagation, cultivation, and economic importance of palms. The individual species descriptions are arranged in alphabetical order and include common synonyms and references to origin and distribution... Read more >

American Bamboos

Written by Emmet J. Judziewicz, Lynn G. Clark, Ximena Londono and Margaret Stern

Format: Hardcover, 392 pages
Publisher: Smithsonian Books
On Sale: January 17, 1999
Price: $49.95
ISBN: 978-1-56098-569-3 (1-56098-569-0)

Drawing on two decades of fieldwork in the United States and fifteen Latin American countries, the authors bring together current knowledge of the structure, ecology, human uses, conservation value, evolution, and diversity of the forty-one genera of American woody and herbaceous bamboos. They also discuss three genera of basal grasses that... Read more >

Physics of the Future
How Science Will Shape Human Destiny and Our Daily Lives by the Year 2100
Written by Michio Kaku

Format: Hardcover, 416 pages
Publisher: Doubleday
On Sale: March 15, 2011
Price: $28.95
ISBN: 978-0-385-53080-4 (0-385-53080-3)

The New York Times bestselling author of Physics of the Impossible gives us a stunning and provocative vision of the future.

Based on interviews with over three hundred of the world’s top scientists, who are already inventing the future in their labs, Kaku—in a lucid and engaging fashion—presents the revolutionary developments... Read more >

Visions
How Science Will Revolutionize the 21st Century
Written by Michio Kaku

Format: Trade Paperback, 416 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: September 15, 1998
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-385-48499-2 (0-385-48499-2)

Now in Paperback. A Library Journal Best Scientific & Technical Book.

In Visions, Michio Kaku examines the great scientific revolutions that have reshaped the 20th century-quantum mechanics, biogenetics, and artificial intelligence-and shows how they will change science and society in the 21st century.  In Section I, Kaku explores the evolution and development... Read more >

The Age of Insight
The Quest to Understand the Unconscious in Art, Mind, and Brain, from Vienna 1900 to the Present
Written by Eric Kandel

Format: Hardcover, 656 pages
Publisher: Random House
On Sale: March 27, 2012
Price: $40.00
ISBN: 978-1-4000-6871-5 (1-4000-6871-1)

A brilliant book by Nobel Prize winner Eric R. Kandel, The Age of Insight takes us to Vienna 1900, where leaders in science, medicine, and art began a revolution that changed forever how we think about the human mind—our conscious and unconscious thoughts and emotions—and how mind and brain relate to... Read more >

UFOs
Generals, Pilots and Government Officials Go On the Record
Written by Leslie Kean

Format: Hardcover, 352 pages
Publisher: Crown Archetype
On Sale: August 10, 2010
Price: $25.99
ISBN: 978-0-307-71684-2 (0-307-71684-8)

In this impeccably researched and fascinating book, veteran investigative journalist and leading expert Leslie Kean explores the controversial history of UFOs and the people who study them. She has interviewed U.S. Air Force generals, senior NASA officials, and government investigators from around the world, and also has collected information from hundreds... Read more >

Engineers of Victory
The Problem Solvers Who Turned The Tide in the Second World War
Written by Paul Kennedy

Format: Hardcover, 464 pages
Publisher: Random House
On Sale: January 29, 2013
Price: $30.00
ISBN: 978-1-4000-6761-9 (1-4000-6761-8)

Paul Kennedy, award-winning author of The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers and one of today’s most renowned historians, now provides a new and unique look at how World War II was won. Engineers of Victory is a fascinating nuts-and-bolts account of the strategic factors that led to Allied victory... Read more >

Fossil Plants

Written by Paul Kenrick and Paul Davies

Format: Hardcover, 232 pages
Publisher: Smithsonian Books
On Sale: October 17, 2004
Price: $50.00
ISBN: 978-1-58834-181-5 (1-58834-181-X)

Long before there were animals on the earth, many kinds of plants covered the prehistoric planet. The soft remains rarely fossilized, but sometimes leaves, flowers, and branches would fall into soft mud or be encased by the ash of exploding volcanoes. These plants were preserved and now offer a sampling of... Read more >

Fossil Plants

Written by Paul Kenrick and Paul Davies

Format: Trade Paperback, 232 pages
Publisher: Smithsonian Books
On Sale: October 17, 2004
Price: $24.95
ISBN: 978-1-58834-156-3 (1-58834-156-9)

Long before there were animals on the earth, many kinds of plants covered the prehistoric planet. The soft remains rarely fossilized, but sometimes leaves, flowers, and branches would fall into soft mud or be encased by the ash of exploding volcanoes. These plants were preserved and now offer a sampling of... Read more >

The Bone Woman
A Forensic Anthropologist's Search for Truth in the Mass Graves of Rwanda, Bosnia, Croatia, and Kosovo
Written by Clea Koff

Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks
On Sale: February 8, 2005
Price: $14.95
ISBN: 978-0-8129-6885-9 (0-8129-6885-9)

In 1994, Rwanda was the scene of the first acts since World War II to be legally defined as genocide. Two years later, Clea Koff, a twenty-three-year-old forensic anthropologist, left the safe confines of a lab in Berkeley, California, to serve as one of sixteen scientists chosen by the United Nations... Read more >

Butterfly People
An American Encounter with the Beauty of the World
Written by William R. Leach

Format: Hardcover, 416 pages
Publisher: Pantheon
On Sale: April 9, 2013
Price: $32.50
ISBN: 978-0-375-42293-5 (0-375-42293-5)

With 32 pages of full-color inserts and black-and-white illustrations throughout.

From one of our most highly regarded historians, here is an original and engrossing chronicle of nineteenth-century America’s infatuation with butterflies, and the story of the naturalists who unveiled the mysteries of their existence.

A product of William Leach’s lifelong love of butterflies... Read more >

Einstein's Dreams

Written by Alan Lightman

Format: Trade Paperback, 144 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: November 9, 2004
Price: $14.00
ISBN: 978-1-4000-7780-9 (1-4000-7780-X)

A modern classic, Einstein’s Dreams is a fictional collage of stories dreamed by Albert Einstein in 1905, when he worked in a patent office in Switzerland. As the defiant but sensitive young genius is creating his theory of relativity, a new conception of time, he imagines many possible worlds. In one... Read more >

A Sense of the Mysterious
Science and the Human Spirit
Written by Alan Lightman

Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: January 3, 2006
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-1-4000-7819-6 (1-4000-7819-9)

Unusually gifted as both a physicist and a novelist, Alan Lightman has lived in the dual worlds of science and art for much of his life. In these brilliant essays, the two worlds meet. In A Sense of the Mysterious, Lightman records his personal struggles to reconcile certainty with uncertainty, logic... Read more >

The Lost Art of Healing
Practicing Compassion in Medicine
Written by Bernard Lown

Format: Trade Paperback, 368 pages
Publisher: Ballantine Books
On Sale: February 2, 1999
Price: $16.00
ISBN: 978-0-345-42597-3 (0-345-42597-9)

The real crisis in medicine today is not about economics, insurance, or managed care--it's about the loss of the fundamental human relationship between doctor and patient. In this wise and passionate book, one of our most eminent physicians reacquaints us with a classic notion often overlooked in modern medicine: health care... Read more >

Molecular Systematics and Phylogeography of Mollusks

Written by Charles Lydeard and David Lindberg
Foreword by Geerat Vermeij

Format: Hardcover, 328 pages
Publisher: Smithsonian Books
On Sale: December 17, 2003
Price: $80.00
ISBN: 978-1-58834-148-8 (1-58834-148-8)

Leading scientists provide the most up-to-date information. This richly detailed book is the first complete review of molecular systematics and phylogeography of mollusks. Ten chapters cover a full range of issues such as research opportunities, molecules and evolution, bivalve evolution, gastropod evolution, and how mollusks have evolved into so many species.

The... Read more >

The God Species
Saving the Planet in the Age of Humans
Written by Mark Lynas

Format: Hardcover, 288 pages
Publisher: National Geographic
On Sale: October 4, 2011
Price: $25.00
ISBN: 978-1-4262-0891-1 (1-4262-0891-X)

We humans are the God species, both the creators and destroyers of life on this planet. As we enter a new geological era - the Anthropocene - our collective power now overwhelms and dominates the major forces of nature.

But from the water cycle to the circulation of nitrogen and carbon through... Read more >