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The National Park Service (NPS) celebrates its centennial anniversary in the month of August! NPS has served as a valuable resource for many of our authors, both professionally and recreationally. To commemorate the occasion, our authors have taken to the blog...

We just stopped, and looked. That such a thing existed, and to see it with our own eyes, was enough to make the 2000-mile trip worthwhile. Our first glimpse at a giant sequoia, Sequoiadendron giganteum, left us both speechless. “Wow,” my wife let out in almost...

Given the ubiquity of opinion polls – especially in this election season – and the keen attention devoted to parsing their statistical snapshots of public moods and preferences, it can be easy to assume that the term "public opinion" has always described an...

Book lovers are quirky. They push their noses into books in libraries or bookstores to fill up on that old or new book smell. They buy so many books there are stacks of Jane Austen novels propping up their coffee tables. They cite the first line of their...

The National Park Service (NPS) celebrates its centennial anniversary in the month of August! NPS has served as a valuable resource for many of our authors, both professionally and recreationally. To commemorate the occasion, our authors have taken to the blog...

The National Park Service (NPS) celebrates its centennial anniversary in the month of August! NPS has served as a valuable resource for many of our authors, both professionally and recreationally. To commemorate the occasion, our authors have taken to the blog...

August 7th, 2016 is National Kids Day. In honor of the occasion, Dr. Kathleen Trainor, author of the new book, Calming Your Anxious Child: Words to Say and Things to Do, offers four strategies to help quiet the worries of children moved by tragedy. For more on...

I have heard that if you wish to be considered an expert on a subject, you first need to write a book about it. I wrote Disease and Discovery, first published in 1987, not so much because I wanted to be considered an expert, but because I felt a rather urgent...

Earlier this year, the Bulletin of the History of Medicine introduced a new section on Pedagogy designed to share approaches to and experiences of teaching the history of medicine in diverse classrooms. The section will appear twice a year and is complemented...

Planning your weekend excursions for the month of August? Author Bryan MacKay has the inspiration you need. The following is excerpted from his book, A Year Across Maryland: A Week-by-Week Guide to Discovering Nature in the Chesapeake Region. Dolly Sods...