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Title: The Dinosauria (Centennial Book) by David B. Weishampel, Peter Dodson, Halszka Osmolska ISBN: 0-520-06727-4 Publisher: University of California Press Pub. Date: January, 1993 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $49.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.67 (3 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: All It Is Cracked Up To Be And More!
Comment: What more can I say for this book than has already been said? The first book of it's kind (that I know of), The Dinosauria is the perfect introduction into SERIOUS paleontology. If you want to know more about dinosaurs than you learn from Jurassic Park, this is the place to start. Be warned though, a basic knowledge of the science of paleontology is needed as the book does go deeper into the realm of true science than in other popular books. The Dinosauria layed the foundation for works that would follow, and again this is the perfect introduction for someone who wants to get more serious about the real science of the Dinosauria.
Rating: 4
Summary: A professional reference book
Comment: This work was a bit tedious, as any book of this magnitude can be, especially to someone without a PHD, like me. If, however you are aspiring for that PHD, or are a very serious amateur paleontologist, this book is great. It is the most in-depth book I have ever found on the subject. Most books are significantly watered down, as their intended audience is often teenage or younger. This book supplies enormous quantities of information in a fairly usable format. I just wished that there had been more illustrations, perhaps some pictures of different excavation sites and more actual fossil examples, instead of mere drawings. Perhaps this was done for cost effectiveness, as this book is very expensive for someone on a budget. The bone anatomy is very well shown though, and can be studied with the help of this book. I would recommend it for anyone who is serious about paleontology, but please, if you are not, check out another book, as this one may be a dissapointment with a! big price tag.
Rating: 5
Summary: An outstanding reference book on dinosaurs.
Comment: Since this book represents a first synthesis ever of dinosaur biology and evolution, it is inveluable reference source for any professional vertebrate paleontologist, geologist, student and interested amateur.
The recent explosion of knowledge based on the more and more spectacular finds of dinosaurs throughout the world has been channelled into this book and revized in full scale. Dinosaur taxonomy has been trimmed by elimination of more than 250 genera and almost 500 species making the data usable for further research purposes.
Each of the world's experts on dinosaurs, write on its on speciality and a group of dinosaurs.
The book is very detailed, comprehensive, with a lot of illustrations (there might have been more) and a massive bibliography containing more than 2,500 entries.
This book is a "must" for every expert and dinophile as well
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Title: The Horned Dinosaurs by Peter Dodson ISBN: 0691059004 Publisher: Princeton Univ Pr Pub. Date: 30 March, 1998 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: The Mistaken Extinction: Dinosaur Evolution and the Origin of Birds by Lowell Dingus, Timothy Rowe ISBN: 071672944X Publisher: W H Freeman & Co. Pub. Date: October, 1997 List Price(USD): $34.95 |
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Title: The Complete Dinosaur by James O. Farlow, M. K. Brett-Surman, Robert F. Walters ISBN: 0253213134 Publisher: Indiana University Press Pub. Date: April, 1999 List Price(USD): $37.95 |
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Title: Encyclopedia of Dinosaurs by Philip Currie, Kevin Padian ISBN: 0122268105 Publisher: Academic Press Pub. Date: 17 September, 1997 List Price(USD): $116.95 |
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Title: Mesozoic Vertebrate Life: by Darren H. Tanke, Kenneth Carpenter, Michael William Skrepnick ISBN: 0253339073 Publisher: Indiana University Press Pub. Date: 01 June, 2001 List Price(USD): $49.95 |
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