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Book Cover for: Space Craze: America's Enduring Fascination with Real and Imagined Spaceflight, Margaret A. Weitekamp

Space Craze: America's Enduring Fascination with Real and Imagined Spaceflight

Margaret A. Weitekamp
Smithsonian BooksSmithsonian Books

“I think we’re living in a golden age of ‘Star Trek,’ ‘Star Wars,’ ‘The Expanse,’ and creative visions of what it means to imagine going into space.” Listen to this amazing interview with Margaret Weitekamp, author of SPACE CRAZE: https://t.co/hIeHnYh2uQ https://t.co/GLE7MCVWQL

Hardcover, 2022

$29.95$14.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Biography of a Phantom: A Robert Johnson Blues Odyssey, Robert Mack McCormick

Biography of a Phantom: A Robert Johnson Blues Odyssey

Robert Mack McCormick
Smithsonian BooksSmithsonian Books

"To Mack, scholarship wasn’t everything, not compared with curiosity, moxie, and old-fashioned hustle." You'll find moxie galore in Mack McCormick's long-awaited and presumed long-lost manuscript BIOGRAPHY OF A PHANTOM, out today: https://t.co/jSm1MMj79N https://t.co/7WWE3iPUzx

Paperback, 2024

$21.99$10.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: The Modern Bestiary: A Curated Collection of Wondrous Wildlife, Joanna Bagniewska

The Modern Bestiary: A Curated Collection of Wondrous Wildlife

Joanna Bagniewska
Smithsonian BooksSmithsonian Books

"The Modern Bestiary was hard to put down, and the facts introduced are hard to forget. Fans of Mary Roach and Bill Bryson will appreciate this book." We love this review of our book MODERN BESTIARY 💜 https://t.co/ynRxoQso4S

Hardcover, 2022

$29.95$14.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Never Panic Early: An Apollo 13 Astronaut's Journey, Fred Haise

Never Panic Early: An Apollo 13 Astronaut's Journey

Fred Haise
Smithsonian BooksSmithsonian Books

You don't have to be an astronaut for the wonderful life lessons in Fred Haise's book NEVER PANIC EARLY to be applicable to your life! https://t.co/q1q0VTwZ5A

Hardcover, 2022

$29.95$14.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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