Inside the American Museum of Natural History /

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Malaria Natural Selection and New Medicine

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New York, petei teta ve rive = New York, just another city

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Behind the scenes at the Natural History Museum

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The Roosevelts : an intimate history. Natural History Museum

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The conquest of a continent, or, The expansion of races in America by Grant, Madison, 1865-1937

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The anthropology of expeditions : travel, visualities, afterlives

Table of Contents: “…In the field/En plein air : the art of anthropological display at the American Museum of Natural History, 1905-30 /…”
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Nature in fragments : the legacy of sprawl

“…American Museum of Natural History, Center for Biodiversity and Conservation, New directions in biodiversity conservation…”
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Welcome to the genome : a user's guide to the genetic past, present, and future by DeSalle, Rob

Governing the wild : ecotours of power by Rutherford, Stephanie

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : governing nature -- Ordering nature at the American Museum of Natural History -- Disney's Animal Kingdom : the wild that never was -- Wolves, bison, and bears, oh my! …”
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Pasts beyond memory : evolution, museums, colonialism by Bennett, Tony

Table of Contents: “…Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of figures; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Dead circuses: expertise, exhibition, government; The archaeological gaze of the historical sciences; Reassembling the museum; The connective tissue of civilisation; Selective memory: racial recall and civic renewal at the American Museum of Natural History; Evolutionary ground zero: colonialism and the fold of memory; Words, things and vision: evolution 'at a glance'; Postscript: slow modernity; Notes; References; Index.…”
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Concrete jungle : New York City and our last best hope for a sustainable future by Eldredge, Niles, Horenstein, Sidney S.

Table of Contents: “…Regarding broadway : the urban saga and the New York microcosm -- Forest primeval -- Building stones -- Landscape transformed -- Around the American Museum of Natural History -- East River shoreline -- Growth of the concrete jungle -- Hundred and Fifty-fifth Street -- Queensboro Bridge and East River -- Fouling, and cleaning, the nest -- The high bridge -- Invasion and survival -- John Torrey -- Fort Tryon Park -- The Battery -- The Sea Wall -- Resilience, restoration, and redemption -- Canyonlands and the future -- Cities, globalization, and the future of biodiversity.…”
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Conservation genetics in the age of genomics

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Bull's birds of New York State by Bull, John L.

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Star-Struck.

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A great big story. The skeleton crew

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Museum politics : power plays at the exhibition by Luke, Timothy W.

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : museum exhibitions as powerplays -- Politics at the exhibition : aesthetics, history, and nationality in the culture wars of the 1990s -- Nuclear reactions : the (re)presentation of Hiroshima at the National Air and Space Museum -- Memorializing mass murder : the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum -- Signs of empire/empires of sign : Daimyo culture in the District of Columbia -- Inventing the Southwest : the Fred Harvey Company and Native American art -- Museum pieces : politics and knowledge at the American Museum of Natural History -- The Missouri Botanical Garden : sharing knowledge about plants to preserve and enrich life -- Southwestern environments as hyperreality : the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum -- Superpower aircraft and aircrafting superpower : the Pima Air and Space Museum -- Strange attractor : the Tech Museum of Innovation -- Channeling the news stream : the full press of a free press at the Newseum -- Conclusion : piecing together knowledge and pulling apart power at the museum.…”
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Part Three: Neil deGrasse Tyson on Science Literacy

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Sensible objects : colonialism, museums and material culture

Table of Contents: “…7 The Museum as Sensescape: Western Sensibilities and Indigenous Artifacts8 The Fate of the Senses in Ethnographic Modernity: The Margaret Mead Hall of Pacific Peoples at the American Museum of Natural History; 9 Contact Points: Museums and the Lost Body Problem; 10 The Beauty of Letting Go: Fragmentary Museums and Archaeologies of Archive; Index.…”
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Race? : Debunking a Scientific Myth by Tattersall, Ian

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My first time by Nelson, Jessie

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Charming the bones : a portrait of Margaret Matthew Colbert by Elliot, Ann Brimacombe, 1937-

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Peruvian weaving : a continuous warp for 5000 Years

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Dogs : their fossil relatives and evolutionary history by Wang, Xiaoming, 1957-

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Margaret Mead : an observer observed by Berliner, Alan

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Franz Boas : the emergence of the anthropologist by Zumwalt, Rosemary Lévy, 1944-

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POWERFUL PICTURES. by HAMPSON, JAMIE

Table of Contents: “…Watercolour painting by Ann Axtell Morris of Pictograph Cave in Canyon de Chelly, Arizona, circa 1923-1927. (American Museum of Natural History)…”
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Uses of Plants by the Hidatsas of the Northern Plains. by Wilson, Gilbert Livingston

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Archaeological Survey in the Lower Mississippi Alluvial Valley 1940-1947. by Phillips, Philip, 1900-1994

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