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Smithsonian Notable Books for Children 2002

December 2002 | By Kathleen Burke

The Genius Within; The Backbone of the World

Book Reviews
November 2002 | By Smithsonian magazine

Book Excerpt: Supergerm Warfare

Dragon's drool, frog's glands and shark's stomachs have all been recruited for the fight against drug-resistant bacteria
October 2002 | By Michael Shnayerson and Mark J. Plotkin

Astronomy's New Stars

Thanks to new technology, backyard stargazers have traveled light-years of late to join professionals in mapping the heavens
September 2002 | By Timothy Ferris

Book Reviews:The Summer of My Greek Taverna

September 2002 | By Smithsonian magazine

Book Reviews

July 2002 | By Smithsonian magazine

Review of GERMS: Biological Weapons and America's Secret War

December 2001 | By Eliot Marshall

Smithsonian Notable Books for Children, 2001

November 2001 | By Kathleen Burke

The Dictionary of Imaginary Places

October 2001 | By Emily d'Aulaire

The Look of Architecture

October 2001 | By Paul Trachtman

Pearl's Secret: A Black Man's Search for His White Family

October 2001 | By Lucinda Moore

The Island of Lost Maps: A True Story of Cartographic Crime

October 2001 | By Bruce Watson

Fly: The Unsung Hero of 20th-Century Science

October 2001 | By Jim Morrison

I Thought My Father Was God: and Other True Tales from NPR's National Story Project

October 2001 | By Donald Dale Jackson

Cultivating Delight: A Natural History of My Garden

October 2001 | By Kathryn Brown

We Followed Odysseus

September 2001 | By Timothy Foote

Excerpt from George Orwell: A Life

August 2001 | By Bernard Crick

Excerpt from 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea

August 2001 | By Jules Verne

Excerpt from Homer's Odyssey

In the 9th-century epic poem, The Odyssey, the Greek poet Homer recounts the ancient quest of the adventurer Odysseus to return home to his loving wife, Penelope. At every chance the gods throw up mighty obstacles to prevent him from getting home even as the Lady Circe gives him the advice he needs to survive. Below, Odysseus encounters the dreaded Scylla and Charybdis. Eds.
August 2001 | By Smithsonian magazine

Book Reviews:River Run Cookbook: Southern Comfort from Vermont

June 01, 2001 | By Kathleen Burke


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