A beautifully illustrated guide to the colorful gardens that surround the Smithsonian museums alo...

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How Humans Adapt collects the papers, commentaries, and discussions from the 1981 Smithsonian int...

In the summer of 1947 something mysterious crashed in the New Mexican desert near the town of Ros...

A pilot for the China-based airline reputed to be the most shot at in the world, Felix Smith reco...

In America Noir David Cochran details how ten writers and filmmakers challenged the social pietie...

They flew low and slow, at treetop level, at night, in monsoons, and in point-blank range of enem...

This little known classic history of flight-testing the Xplanes is reborn, sweepingly revised and...

The tumultuous history of inventors and corporations who have tried to bring the electric car to ...

At the turn of the century, New York City's Germans constituted a culturally and politically dyna...

The year 2002 marked the 100th anniversary of the first installation of air-conditioning. During ...

Airpower is credited with success in Afghanistan, Desert Storm, and Serbia, but in Vietnam all of...