Experience all 135 NASA space shuttle missions ever flown through the words of the astronauts themselves in this spectacularly illustrated volume With more than 600 photos from the NASA archives this guide is perfect for fans of space history and spaceflight Winner of... Lees meer.

America s ancient Mound Builders left behind thousands of pyramid-shaped and conical burial mounds complex geometric earthworks effigy mounds and incredible artifacts depicting mysterious symbols. When the first European explorers began reporting their discovery of t... Lees meer.

Measuring and Monitoring Biological Diversity is the first book to provide comprehensive coverage of standard methods for biodiversity sampling of amphibians with information on analyzing and using data that will interest biologists in general.In this manual nearly fi... Lees meer.

A former Africa editor for The Economist Robert Guest addresses the troubled continent s thorniest problems. war AIDS and above all poverty. Newly updated with a preface that considers political and economic developments of the past six years The Shackled Continen... Lees meer.

This compelling story of exploration charts and celebrates humankind in space from Sputnik s launch in 1957 through the Apollo Moon landings and the International Space Station to future missions to Mars and beyond. Spaceflight chronicles how in the six decades that f... Lees meer.

In At the Edge of Space Milton O. Thompson a pilot active in the X-15 program from beginning to end tells the dramatic story of one of the most successful research aircraft ever flown.... Lees meer.

Collection defines current state of Mayan skeletal studies. Coverage spans the formative through colonial periods with a geographic focus on the Maya lowlands of northern Guatemala Belize and western Honduras. Includes osteological dental bone chemistry and DNA a... Lees meer.

Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author Richard A. Serrano s new book American Endurance. Buffalo Bill the Great Cowboy Race of 1893 and the Vanishing Wild West is history mystery and Western all rolled into one. In June 1893 nine cowboys raced across a thou... Lees meer.

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A study of the 17th-century Narragansett Indians whose languages and lifeways were described by Roger Williams in A Key Into the Language of America 1643 long considered an objective thorough and authoritative account. By weaving textual and archaeological evidenc... Lees meer.

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As command module pilot for the Apollo 15 mission to the moon in 1971 Al Worden flew on what is widely regarded as the greatest exploration mission that humans have ever attempted. He spent six days orbiting the moon including three days completely alone the most iso... Lees meer.

Civilized Shamans examines the nature and evolution of religion in Tibetan societies from the ninth century up to the Chinese occupation in 1950. Geoffrey Samuel argues that religion in these societies developed as a dynamic amalgam of strands of Indian Buddhism and the... Lees meer.

Showcases the exhibition at the National Museum of Natural History Smithsonian Institution Washington D.C.... Lees meer.