Judgment at the Smithsonian
Judgment at the Smithsonian

Author: Philip Nobile

Publisher: Marlowe

Published: 1995

Total Pages: 270

ISBN-13: 9781569248416

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Now published in its entirety, here is the Smithsonian's original Enola Gay document, with an introduction that covers the controversy and explains the issues at stake in remembering Hiroshima and Nagasaki 50 years later. Two closing chapters probe the enduring moral debate over the bombings and the strongly debated matter of an official apology to Japan.

Who Owns America's Past?
Who Owns America's Past?

Author: Robert C. Post

Publisher: JHU Press

Published: 2013-10-15

Total Pages: 400

ISBN-13: 1421411008

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"From an insider's perspective, Robert C. Post ... offers insight into the politics of display and the interpretation of history. Never before has a book about the Smithsonian detailed the recent and dramatic shift from collection-driven shows, with artifacts meant to speak for themselves, to concept-driven exhibitions, in which objects aim to tell a story, displayed like illustrations in a book"--Dust jacket flap.

The Calculus Diaries
The Calculus Diaries

Author: Jennifer Ouellette

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2010-08-31

Total Pages: 337

ISBN-13: 1101459034

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Kiss My Math meets A Tour of the Calculus Jennifer Ouellette never took math in college, mostly because she-like most people-assumed that she wouldn't need it in real life. But then the English-major-turned-award-winning-science-writer had a change of heart and decided to revisit the equations and formulas that had haunted her for years. The Calculus Diaries is the fun and fascinating account of her year spent confronting her math phobia head on. With wit and verve, Ouellette shows how she learned to apply calculus to everything from gas mileage to dieting, from the rides at Disneyland to shooting craps in Vegas-proving that even the mathematically challenged can learn the fundamentals of the universal language.