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Kategorier: Antikviteter och samlarobjekt Kulturvetenskap Kulturvetenskap och medievetenskap Livsstil, hobby och fritid Populärkultur Samhälle och kultur: allmänt Samhälle och samhällsvetenskap
How do we come to know the world around us? What about worlds apart from our own-outer space, distant cultures, or even long-past eras of history? Engaging Smithsonian Objects through Science, History and the Arts explores these questions and suggests an answer: we come to know our world and worlds apart through the…
TREASURES FROM THE SMITHSONIAN ENGAGEMENT CALENDAR 2020 highlights a spectacular array of riches from the Smithsonian’s nineteen museums and galleries, in addition to entries from the National Zoological Park and Smithsonian research centres. Each spread features a full-colour photograph of an object from the…
Kategorier: Barn och ungdom: naturkunskap Barn och ungdom: urtiden och dinosaurier Barnböcker, ungdomsböcker och läromedel Faktaböcker barn och ungdom
SMITHSONIAN DINOSAURS AND OTHER AMAZING CREATURES FROM DEEP TIME presents some of Earth’s strangest and most unusual creatures from as early as 3.8 billion years ago. Beginning with the first evidence of life, it moves through periods of biodiversity and mass extinction and into a look at the first dinosaurs,…
Kategorier: Guider till museer och historiska platser Livsstil, hobby och fritid Reseguider Resor och platser
This fully illustrated guide to the world’s most-visited aviation and space museum is both an indispensable companion for visitors and a detailed history in itself of humanity’s quest for flight. The Smithsonian Institution’s National Air and Space Museum maintains the world’s largest collection…
Kategorier: Etnicitet Historia Historia och arkeologi Historia: särskilda händelser och ämnen Samhälle och kultur: allmänt Samhälle och samhällsvetenskap Sociala grupper Socialhistoria och kulturhistoria
SMITHSONIAN ASIAN PACIFIC AMERICAN HISTORY, ART, AND CULTURE IN 101 OBJECTS invites readers to experience both well-known and untold stories through influential, controversial, and meaningful objects. Thematic chapters explore complex history and shared experiences: navigation, intersections, labour, innovation,…
Kategorier: Guider till museer och historiska platser Livsstil, hobby och fritid Reseguider Resor och platser
With more than 124 million specimens, the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History houses one of the world’s most important collections of natural history artefacts. This lavishly illustrated guidebook offers a beautiful tour and souvenir of the exciting collections.
Starting with the history of the…
Kategorier: Djur och natur Geografi Geovetenskap, geografi, miljö och samhällsplanering Jorden: naturhistoria allmänt Livsstil, hobby och fritid Naturgeografi och topografi Rivers & lakes
The Amazon River flows more than 4,000 miles through the world’s greatest rainforest, into the Amazon delta and finally into the Atlantic Ocean. This extraordinary atlas is the first comprehensive view of not only the Amazon River but also its thirteen major tributaries. More than 150 colour maps and nearly 300…
The National Museum of American History-our country’s largest history museum and one of the Smithsonian’s most visited preserves three million objects that capture the American story. From this vast collection, curators have handpicked more than 150 of the Museum’s most valued and amazing treasures…
Smithsonian Civil War is a lavishly illustrated coffee-table book featuring 150 entries in honor of the 150th anniversary of the Civil War. From among tens of thousands of Civil War objects in the Smithsonian’s collections, curators handpicked 550 items and wrote a unique narrative that begins before the war through…
Kategorier: Barnböcker, ungdomsböcker och läromedel Bilderböcker, pysselböcker och pedagogiska böcker 0–5 år Pysselböcker, målarböcker och leksaksböcker
From Dorothy’s red slippers to dinosaurs to the Wright brothers’ plane, the Smithsonian is filled with objects fascinating to kids. Yet choosing what to see at the Smithsonian can challenge even the most enthusiastic families. Packed with activities, information, and pictures, this lively new guide offers…
THE SMITHSONIAN ENGAGEMENT CALENDAR 2024 features full-colour photographs of the splendours offered by the Smithsonian’s nineteen museums, the National Zoological Park, and Smithsonian research centres. Each week as you plan your schedule, you can read and learn about an incredible object from the…
SMITHSONIAN TREASURES OF THE NATIONAL AIR AND SPACE MUSEUM is a spectacularly illustrated, full-colour guide to the most impressive, important, and interesting artifacts from the museum’s vast collection. The book moves through chronological chapters, from the flight of kites, balloons, and the first airplanes,…
This fully illustrated guide to the Smithsonian’s newest museum takes visitors on a journey through the richness and diversity of African American culture and the history of a people whose struggles, aspirations, and achievements have shaped the nation. Opened in September 2016, the National Museum of African American…
In December 2015, the Smithsonian called on rock and roll lovers around the world to collect photos and stories of their favorite moments in music. Fans dug through attics, basements, closets, shoeboxes, digital cameras, and photo albums to post great rock shots to rockandroll.si.edu. From Woodstock to the Whisky a Go…
The buildings of the Smithsonian Institution not only contain impressive collections; they are themselves icons of great cultural significance, many of them part of the historic National Mall. The Smithsonian’s unique buildings illustrate the changing styles and sensibilities of America as an evolving nation.…
Kategorier: Barn och ungdom: krig Barnböcker, ungdomsböcker och läromedel Faktaböcker barn och ungdom
Who was the first person to dine in space? How long was the Wright brothers’s first successful flight? What famous aircraft was named after a grape-flavored soft drink? What toy based on an animated film accompanied astronauts on a shuttle mission in 2000? These questions and many more are answered in The Smithsonian…
Kategorier: Biografi: allmänt Biografi: historia, politik och försvar Biografier och litteraturvetenskap Biografier, sanna berättelser, essäer etc. Politik och statsskick Politiska ledare och politiskt ledarskap Samhälle och samhällsvetenskap Statsskick och politiska processer
Admire the nationally famous collection of first ladies’ gowns and learn about the contributions made by the women who wore them
The Smithsonian First Ladies Collection is a beautifully illustrated book inspired by one of the most popular attractions at the Smithsonian: the first ladies exhibit at the National Museum…
Kategorier: Barn och ungdom: historia Barnböcker, ungdomsböcker och läromedel Faktaböcker barn och ungdom
Which president holds the record for the most vetoes? Which president had the largest shoe size? Who was the only president to serve in both World War I and World War II? Who was the tallest president? These questions and many, many more are answered in The Smithsonian Book of Presidential Trivia, which has been fully…
Kategorier: Livsstil, hobby och fritid Referensverk Referensverk, informationshantering och tvärvetenskap Trädgård Uppslagsverk och referensverk
A beautifully illustrated guide to the colourful gardens that surround the Smithsonian museums along the National Mall, each unique in its design, plant materials and purpose.
Many visitors are surprised to learn that the Smithsonian Institution includes extensive gardens and landscape areas. All have been designed to…
’It does everything you’d expect of a masterpiece – and it is one’ Sunday Express’Hums and crackles with delicious unease’ Independent’Captivating’ The Sunday Times
’An absorbing thriller’ Mail on Sunday
NO ONE HAS EVER ESCAPED FROM THE INSTITUTE.
Luke Ellis,…
Kategorier: Konst
THE SMITHSONIAN ENGAGEMENT CALENDAR 2023 features full-colour photographs of the splendours offered by the Smithsonian’s nineteen museums, the National Zoological Park, and Smithsonian research centres. Each week as you plan your schedule, you can read and learn about an incredible object from the…
The next generation of the astonishing X-Men grow into true super heroes against their deadliest enemies, in this wide-ranging Marvel anthology?.
Kategorier: Historia Historia och arkeologi Historia: särskilda händelser och ämnen Socialhistoria och kulturhistoria
The Swedish and French cultures have had a long and passionate love story in Paris. For 50 years, the 16th-century palace Hôtel de Marle has been an important meeting place for both cultures. In 1971, the Swedish state opened the Swedish Institute in Paris here Sweden s only house of culture abroad.
This book tells…
Nu utkommer en femte reviderad upplaga av denna lagkommentar till både den svenska Lagen om skiljeförfarande och Reglerna för Stockholms Handelskammares Skiljedomsinstitut. Den nya upplagan är uppdaterad till 1 mars 2019 och kommenterar alla de senaste ändringarna i Handelskammarens skiljedomsregler. Boken vänder sig…
Deep in the woods of Maine, there is a dark state facility where kids, abducted from across the United States, are incarcerated. In the Institute they are subjected to a series of tests and procedures meant to combine their exceptional gifts – telepathy, telekinesis – for concentrated effect. Luke Ellis is…
Deep in the woods of Maine, there is a dark state facility where kids, abducted from across the United States, are incarcerated. In the Institute they are subjected to a series of tests and procedures meant to combine their exceptional gifts – telepathy, telekinesis – for concentrated effect. Luke Ellis is…
Academic exchange is one of the cornerstones of public diplomacy. Receiving foreign academics is one way of influencing foreign elites in an attempt to build goodwill and stable international networks. The result is that academic mobility and the internationalization of higher education and research have always been…
Romania’s Party History Institute has been portrayed as a loyal executioner of the Communist Party’s will. Yet, recent investigations of the institute’s archive tell a different story.
In 1990, the Institute for Historical and Socio-Political Studies of the Central Committee of the Romanian Communist Party (previously…
Kategorier: Ekonomi, finansväsen, näringsliv och management Företagsekonomi och management Management och företagsledning Projektledning
A study on certification of Project Managers by the Project Management Institute (PMI) and the International Project Management Association (IPMA) in Sweden 2002.
Why certify project managers in multiproject firms? The study tries to answer the question by describing and comparing the two most common international…
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Kategorier: Juridik
Nu utkommer en fjärde reviderad upplaga av denna lagkommentar till både den svenska Lagen om skiljeförfarande och Reglerna för Stockholms Handelskammares Skiljedomsinstitut. Den nya upplagan är uppdaterad till 1 januari 2016 och kommenterar de senaste ändringarna i Handelskammarens skiljedomsregler. Boken vänder sig…
Kategorier: Ekonomi, finansväsen, näringsliv och management Företagsekonomi och management Management och företagsledning Projektledning
Denna fallstudie beskriver den certifiering av projektledare som bedrivs av Project Management Institute (PMI) sedan år 1984. Studiens syfte var att förklara det starkt ökande intresset för certifiering av projektledare. PMI certifiering till Project Management Professional (PMP) beskrivs och analyseras i de tre…