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Presented with clarity and wit, Carpenter'sexploration offers the very latest information on dinosaureggs, hatchlings and babies, as well as a detailed look atdinosaur courtship, mating, nests, and physical development. Included:an extensive directory of dinosaur egg and babydiscovery sites. ... Read more

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WHAT MOTHER NEVER TOLD YOU ABOUT DINOSAUR REPRODUCTION!
The book is not written for dinosaur loving children. A background in general science, anatomy, biology, and/or zoology would be useful in understanding the astonishing wealth of information contained. That should not scare inquirers away from this opus magnus. Furthermore, Carpenter's occassional tongue-in-cheek humor imparts a very special flavor to the writing. In my mind,this beautiful volume would be worth the price just for its profusion of well-done illustrations, photos, and captions. But that's just icing on the cake. We learn the history of dinosaur egg finds, how one studies every detail of the egg fossil (wonderfully illustrated with photos and drawings), how the eggshell formed inside a dinosaur, by what means the dino embryo took in air and effectively expelled carbon-dioxide from within the eggshell, and even speculate on how the dino chick may have escaped the egg. Learn how to examine a dinosaur egg fragment and detect whether an embryo actually developed within it. Carpenter explains how dinosaur nests were built and 'designed' to incubate fertile eggs. Why is a baby dinosaur 'cute' by our perceptions, and possibly to its parents? Facts, photos, and paintings make the answer cuddlingly clear. Along with the abundance of superb black & white figures, illustrations, and photos, are over a dozen full-color plates, including ten life restorations by some of our most scientific and talented dinosaur artists. This volume is surely a treasure to those of us who seek a deeper insight into the mysteries of dinosaur life (and death). One such tantalizing mystery might be summed up as, "But how did dinosaurs DO IT?" Carpenter doesn't beg the question. He ventures into it with careful observations and analysis based on both behavior and form of contemporary animals and known dinosaurian anatomy. The answers should prove reasonable to his scientific colleagues. So filled is this book with interesting items that one could almost say there's something for everybody. On the far side, imagine some 'Good Old Boy' that doesn't 'give a hang' about science, picking the book up to brouse the strikingly beautiful dinosaur life illustrations. "Wow!" he croaks, "Forget about Tyrannosaurus rex! It's 'CARNOTAURUS SEX!'" [The reference is to an utterly dramatic and highly colorful life restoration by artist Luis V. Rey, revealing an imposimg Carnotaurus pair 'going at it' while their thunderous groans of ecstacy freak out the Mesozoic neighborhood! Startled by those sounds, a flock of at least 40 winged reptiles (Pterosaurs) bolts skyward from the ground. The dinosaur couple copulates, transfixed, among appropriately phallic plants. Some will buy the book just for that one startling scene. Yet, it is far more valuable as an adventure in learning, including its very thoughtful discourse on dinosaur intercourse. A scientific adventure. A 'Calvin and Hobbes' day-dream? For real. Get it. ... Read more

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This path breaking volume provides further evidence that we are inthe midst of a new golden age' of dinosaur paleontology. It presents importantnew research on the vertebrate life of the Mesozoic as reported by 45 of theleading workers in the field.Organized into sections on theropods, sauropods,ornithischians, dinosaurian fauna, paleopathologies, and ichnology, theseoriginal papers represent a broad cross section of current research.Studies ofCharles Sternberg and dinosaurs in fiction conclude the book. ... Read more

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Mesozoic Vertebrate Life
Mesozoic Vertebrate Life Edited By Darren H. Tanke and Kenneth Carpenter with Michael W. Skrepnick as the art editor is a new research inspired by the paleontology of Philip J. Currie is an excellent book... a book for the advanced dinosaur enthusiast. This book goes into detail about Theropods, Sauropods, Ornithischians, Dinosaurian Faunas, Paleopathologies, Ichnology, and Dinosaurs and Human History.

This book has a whole host of contributors(46 to be exact). All of the men and women are tops in their respective fields, so this book is like reading a medical book with all of the resplendent medical terms. Ah, but doen't give up, there are some very excellent drawings that help explain what the author is talking about, so your not left in the dust choking on the dust. I've noticed that the best dinosaur book on detail are written in this style where a collaboration of many authors that are expert and on the cutting edge with break throughs are written this way.

I would say this, the fossil record is telling the finder something... the finder has to study what he has found and make a determination and conclusion as to what he has found. All of this takes education, trial and error, and luck. So, you have the best guesses written here... things may stay as they were presented or they may change with insight, only time will tell.

If you are more than just a casual dinosaur devotee, than this is the book for you. It is light on the early Mesozoic, but it makes up for it in the late Mesozoic. The book is mainly composed of North American Mesozoic, but there is representation in China, and South America included.

There are excellent references included with there abstracts. This s not a book for children, this is an advanced case study of the dinosaura of the Mesozoic time. Those wishing for a book that compares jaws and endocarnial anatomy will relish this book. There is even an abstract on "The Impact of Sedimentology on Vertebrate Track Studies" which I found fascinating. I didn't know they went to that much detail, in models of track formation show clearly that the layer upon which the foot descends retains the most information of the impactor. Stresses are distributed radially away from the impact site and decrease exponentially with distance.

If you want detail this book has it. There are seven sections as I mentioned above, and they are divided into 33 chapters. This took a while to read and digest the information. This would make an interesting additions to a home library.

Great guide to dinosaurs
Research papers on dinosaurs continue to increase in number, and many bring readers new and thoughtful ideas about the biology of these ancient, dramatic animals. A growing number of books for public and professionals focus on Mesozoic animals, dinosaurs in particular; this one is for professionals. The 33 papers essentially cover dinosaurs of North America, but there are papers on Chinese and Patagonian dinosaurs. Most papers are systematic studies, and some include descriptions of new taxa, but there are also useful studies on dinosaur anatomy, biomechanics, gastroliths, and even sociobiology. A section on ichnology (footprints) examines traces of other animals than dinosaurs; four papers discuss paleopathologies, showing how much about extinct animals can be gleaned from the condition of preserved bones, and another treats dinosaurs in fiction, with many illustrations derived from novels, comics, and other literature sources. About 20 color paintings, restorations of important dinosaurs in lifelike settings, are included along with photographs of the critical feather-like features on some recently discovered Chinese dinosaur fossils. Unfortunately, many of the black-and-white photographs are rather muddy. A useful book for many paleontologists, at a reasonable price. Upper-division undergraduates and up

By "Mesozic Life" you mean "dinosaurs"...
The title is misleading. If you're looking for information on pterosaurs, plesiosaurs, or Mesozoic crocs, this book probably isn't for you. However, if you want to get the skinny on Tyrannosaurus arm movement and what they were used for (yeah, amazing, eh?), new dinosaurs, and generally good information on dinosaurs, this is a good book to consider. Heavy on the second half of the Mesozoic, the book none the less manages to have a good variety of papers about various aspects of dinosaurian paleobiology, phylogeny, and behavior. A great volume. ... Read more

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Sauropod dinosaurs were the largest animals ever to walk the earth, and they represent a substantial portion of vertebrate biomass and biodiversity during the Mesozoic Era. The story of sauropod evolution is told in an extensive fossil record of skeletons and footprints that span the globe and 150 million years of earth history. This generously illustrated volume is the first comprehensive scientific summary of sauropod evolution and paleobiology. The contributors explore sauropod anatomy, detail its variations, and question the myth that life at large size led to evolutionary stagnation and eventual replacement by more "advanced" herbivorous dinosaurs. Chapters address topics such as the evolutionary history and diversity of sauropods; methods for creating three-dimensional reconstructions of their skeletons; questions of sauropod herbivory, tracks, gigantism, locomotion, reproduction, growth rates, and more. This book, together with the recent surge in sauropod discoveries around the world and taxonomic revisions of fragmentary genera, will shed new light on "nature's greatest extravagances." ... Read more

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An amazing look at plants of the past through an examination of the fossils that remain.

Long before there were animals on the earth, many kinds of plants covered the prehistoric planet. The soft remains rarely fossilized, but sometimes leaves, flowers, and branches would fall into soft mud or be encased by the ash of exploding volcanoes. These plants were preserved and now offer a sampling of life in the distant past and a contrast to our present flora. This complete guide to fossil plants explains both the lives of ancient plants and why certain plants became fossilized. Kenrick and Davis trace the evolution of land plants, ferns, conifers, and their relatives, the flowering plants. Interwoven are snapshots of landscapes and environments of various periods, focusing on plant and animal interactions. The included photographs present these ancient, sometimes delicate pieces of shale, and Kenrick and Davis explain the story that fossil plants can tell us about the past. 16 pages of color photographs, 100 b/w photographs. ... Read more

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Some people think that North America¹s history began when Columbus sailed over in 1492. The first volume in the tongue-in-cheek, no-holds-barred history series says that estimate¹s a bit off, by about 250 million years! With tons of facts, lots of laughs, and plenty of funky illustrations, author Liz Levy takes readers on a roller coaster ride through the age of the dinosaurs, the great ice ages, and, finally, to the appearance of the first humans. ... Read more

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Ew.
Terry Deary writes the original Horrible Histories. They're interesting, witty, and even educational. Kids and adults alike read them for fun! Read them.

Elizabeth Levy's "American Horrible Histories", however, are dull, unfunny, and while they are "educational", I can't see anyone reading them for fun. It reads like a text book.

Horrible Histories
This books are wonderful. They make learning history fun and cool. It combines jokes, historical facts and funny information in a great easy-to-read package. My 4th grader loves the whole series. Both reluctant readers and history lovers will enjoy the breezy way history is told in these books. Ideal for 3rd-5th graders and even middle school students. Great as gifts or for a classroom. Too bad all history books aren't this fun!

Who Are You Calling A Woolly Mammoth
I think that my book was funnier than anything else. I mean it's about history and all but it was even funnier. It makes you not want to stop because you want to see what's next. I think that the autor wants it so you learn and have fun at the same time. Some other books were all talking and no fun if you know what I mean. There's a little story teller on every page; he tells jokes about the things you've just read. I liked this book and I hope you do to thanks.

Who Are You Calling A Woolly Mammoth?
This book teaches you about Prehistoric times and how creatures survived. The book also has some humor. There is almost a comic on every page, and most of them are funny. It's a way to learn and have fun at the same time. Inconclusion, I write this because it's a great book to learn from and get a few laughs along with it. ... Read more

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Forbidden Archeology's Impact offers readers an inside look at how mainstream science reacts with ridicule, threats and intimidation to any challenge to its deeply held beliefs. ... Read more

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Controversy: The Process That Brings Change
Remember Gary Larsen's "Far Side" cartoon of the scientists dropping everything and running outside when the Good Humor truck comes by? We tend to think of scientists as beyond reproach - but they're not. They're just as emotional and jumpy as the rest of us, especially when their pet doctrines get called into question.

In Science the drill is to glom onto the accepted belief system and hang on for dear life. God forbid some punky upstart like Fritjof Capra should come along and write a smart-alecky book about how Vedic texts described the same tenets as Quantum Physics a coupla thousand years ago. Or Rupert Sheldrake would have the nerve to point out that the DNA emperor has not clothes. Howls of derision. Calls for book burning in the journal "Science". Yellink und screamink.

Now I don't think it takes 900+ pages to make a point. Probably 150 would have been adequate to get everybody's bowels in an uproar. The 2-cassette audio abridgement seems to do a pretty good job. As far as the actual validity of the overall argument - who knows? The evidence proposed is probably just as valid as the official party line.

It is important to remember that all scientific revolutions go through pretty much the same drill: Scorn and derision towards those presenting novel or contrary opinions, followed by fear, panic and banishment of those individuals when it begins to appear that empirical data is supporting the new theories, then total abandonment of previously cherished notions, accompanied by jumping on the bandwagon with abandon while announcing that they'd been supporting the new idea all along.

So it's really the process that's important here. Hey, sit back and enjoy the show!

The Problem With Science.
The problem with the scientific method is that it is driven far too much by theory, and not enough by fact. By which I mean that science moves forward by the development, and subsequent testing, of hypotheses, when at times formation of hypotheses should be strenuously avoided-- because they grow into filters which taint otherwise vital and compelling data.

Science is not comfortable with unknowns. (You thought nature abhorred a vaccuum? Nature's got nothing on science.) So rather than leave a question unanswered (e.g., "How old is mankind?"), science tends to fill in the vaccuum by providing an answer, based on the theory that can obtain the greatest consensus.

The problem arises when these theories and hypotheses become mental constructs-- it is a short hop in the collective consciousness from "the theory supported by the most scientists" to "scientific fact". New data that falls outside these constructs (that is, data which "flies in the face of accepted scientific wisdom!") are assumed to be anomolous, and are tossed aside; data that supports, fits the constructs is sought out and embraced.

Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes often described his detection method as scrupulously collecting facts, while AVOIDING the formation of theories. Keep collecting facts-- without the blind spots imposed by hypotheses-- until you have ruled out all possibilities but one. That remaining possibility, no matter how improbable, is the one true possibility.

I think Cremo has been a bit dramatic in characterizing science as conspiratorial, and it is understandable how the anthropologist (below) could take umbrage. It is not so much "cloak-and-dagger" conspiracy at play, but rather a very tangible limit on-- and flaw in-- the scientific method. That flaw is the need to develop consensus theories to explain the unexplained (rather than leaving a question unknown), and the subsequent phenomenon that these theories become constructs for filtering all new data.

Given that the world is flat, what do you do with evidence that the world is round? Well, you ignore it. Not because you are a conspirator. But because you accept as a given that the world is flat, and that colors your perception of any relevant-- or contrary-- data.

Must be good.
Disclaimer: I have not yet read this book; I am ordering it now. But I have a rule that works for me: Whenever I see a book that gets spotty and polarized reviews, and the ones panning it resort to emotional arguments, can't spell ("pure dribble"?) and have heroes like Stephen Jay Gould, I figure it has to be a sure winner.

Been there,Done That.........Finally someone else Knows!!
I am a person who has seen both sides of who,what,and when in anthropology and archeology. I Practiced true skeptism and felt the backlash of the mainstream scientist to other credible evidence. I say this book is the reality check needed by anyone interested in both sides of the story. Highly recommended. Very truthful. I've been there!!

Read and think before you fight for your views
"Forbidden Archeology's Impact" might be said more appropriately to be a large dossier of letters, papers and documents written by the author and by a great number of people wishing to comment - among other things - on his and Richard Thompson's research into archeological papers containing evidence for extreme human antiquity. The author obviously had no intention of intertwining these textual elements into a cohesive woof, so readers should not expect the book to develop any central argument. Such an argument, however, is to be found in "Forbidden Archeology - The Hidden History of the Human Race" whose intellectual and social impact the present book is intended to register (thus, the dossier-format of this book - and not its contents - explains why I have given it no more than three stars).

Readers interested in the issues of human origins (for which archeologists have unearthed quite a bit of puzzling evidence) and the sociology of scientific knowledge (particularly as applied to Paleo-anthropology and Archeology) should hurry up and acquire the extremely well-written and painstakingly researched "Forbidden Archeology - The Hidden History of the Human Race" (914 pages). Readers will also benefit from a perusal of the customer reviews posted on the respective Amazon.com page. Many of them (excepting my own) are beautifully argumented.

However, the implications of a deep-rooted belief in Darwinism, the unavoidable practice of peer reviews for scientific journals, the few well-known cases of evidence suppressed or twisted by academic institutions, and the utterly subjective nature of all sciences which pretend to account for our true nature and raison d'être, have given rise to a very heated debate on the possible existence of worldwide conspiracies and powerful groups of mischievous academicians. Such debates, though they must happen, often lead our attention away from the intellectual revision required by discoveries such as those discussed in Cremo and Thompson's "Forbidden Archeology - The Hidden History of the Human Race". Of course, there's no denying that conspiracies and falsifications of History have occurred and may still occur (sometimes even providentially!), but I think readers should be careful not to get caught up too much in the unwholesome anxiety such speculations are prone to produce.

Conspiracy is not at all at the heart of the matter, so instead of loitering in a state of indignation and fingerpointing, non-zealots would do better in calmly concentrating on two essential facts: 1) There really is a large bulk of acceptable evidence, both archeological and anthropological, for anatomically modern humans living in very remote times, and 2) there is not one example in the fossil record nor a single logical or scientific basis for the claim that animal or plant species can or did create themselves or could ever transform themselves into completely new forms.

Cremo's work has helped expose the fragility and inconsistency of currently favored theories on human evolution, and so has taken an important step towards a new understanding of the discipline of Anthropology. So maybe it really is time we gave up our unintelligible, mechanistic evolutionary models and started taking the wisdom of our forefathers a bit more seriously. ... Read more

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The book-of-the-TV-series is generally a pretty uninspiring genre, but Robert Winston and Lori Oliwenstein's Superhuman is a notable exception. Based on the BBC production of the same name, the book explores with considerable depth and clarity the response of the human body to various ills, and the science behind medical efforts to intervene when our bodies go wrong. Like the series, the book deals with six major themes:trauma, transplantation, regeneration, cancer, infection, and fertility. (The last may seem a little out of place given the preceding five--and, indeed, it comes across as such in the book--but fertility is the subject for which Winston has rightly gained international renown, so this last chapter is an authoritative and welcome bonus.)

Superhuman is challenging and thought-provoking throughout, but also enjoyably critical and controversial in places. For example, what would your reaction be if paramedics refused you blankets and intravenous fluids after a serious accident? In the context of current standard medical practice, such behavior would constitute dereliction of duty, but given the known dangers of artificially inflating a trauma victim's blood-pressure and the demonstrated benefits of a low body temperature in certain circumstances, cautious neglect may sometimes be the best treatment. In fact, there are doctors in the UK who say they would sue if a paramedic even attempted to give them fluids after an accident. Still happy to put your life in their hands?

Superhuman is so interesting and such a delight to read that one hesitates to criticize, but the good professor should stick to the species he knows. For example: "The further down the evolutionary hierarchy we go, towards the reptiles, amphibians, and worms, the more widespread ... regenerative talent appears to be." So much hard public-relations work by evolutionary scientists so easily undone. Read Winston for fascinating insights into Homo sapiens, but read Stephen Jay Gould's Full House for a rather more balanced assessment of the other 30 million species on Earth.--Chris Lavers, Amazon.co.uk ... Read more

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The Power Within
There's no missing Lori Oliwenstein's delightfully accessible style in this fun and informative book about the wonders of the human body and the amazing challenges it faces in its day-to-day task of staying alive. Great for armchair scientists of any age.

Witty, humorous, and truly human: science at its best.
When I first saw R. Winston, on the BBC TV show, I thought "this guy doesn't look superhuman", at least not in the sense that everyone would give to the word superhuman. And yet, this book - probably more than the tv show - explains precisely why modern Medicine makes us super-beings, not by turning us into some kind of X-men, but rather by using our natural body response to injuries or diseases and by boosting and helping our immune system. This book opened my eyes on this medicine at the opposite of ER tv shows. Great book ! ... Read more

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Mountains of Madness is a moving tale of science, exploration, and human endurance.It is the story of how real science is practiced in a unique and demanding setting.Rather than a presentation of research findings, this book recounts what life is like in the field, where scientists come close to sacrificing their very lives for the sake of advancing human knowledge.Like the polar explorers from the early 1900s in whose footsteps they follow, this team of scientists face the unknown and the unpredictable in the pure and simple quest for knowledge. ... Read more

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A Fascinating Read
John Long's "Mountains of Madness" tells the story of the author's fossil-hunting expeditions in Antarctica. The book's title comes from H.P. Lovecraft's jarring epic "At the Mountains of Madness" -- a classic novella of science and horror set in the southern continent. The author's references to Lovecraft's terrifying tale effectively convey the splendor and danger of the Antarctic wilderness. Long also writes with a wonderful sense of humour --his warmth and charm draw the reader into a entertaining and informative narrative of scientific discovery and individual experience. This book is a must read for anyone who enjoys stories of popular science and adventure.

A Must Read!
Dr. Long's narrative of his expedition to the Antarctic is fascinating and enlightening. One does not need to be a paleontologist or scientist to appreciate or understand the ramifications of the findings made during his expedition. He is also refreshingly honest and forthright with his personal discoveries and the ramifications of those discoveries on his life. If you are interested in the Antarctic, our Planet Earth and adventure, if you are interested in a writer and scientist who is candidly straightforward, especially about himself, this is a book for you! ... Read more

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o.k.
Ian Malcolm and John Hammond both die at the end of Jurassic park and yet in the sequal Lost World they are both alive again.

Smart and accurate, this book asks a lot of, "what ifs."
I am a budding biology teacher, and I found the book to be very factual and technically accurate. I have had a fascination for dinosaurs since I was a kid, and genetics became an interest in college. The books and blockbuster movies have intrigued me greatly. This book brought the printed page and the film strips from the silver screen and the bookshelves to the dissecting table in a unique fashion that is fair truthful and quite humorous at times.

A must read for anyone interested in science.
This book is a very easy to read, amazingly detailed look at what it would take, in reality, to bring a dinosaur back to life with fossilized DNA (fragments). In his step-by-step approach he takes you through the test-tubes, the centrifuges, and especially the problems that would be associated with each step. This book would be very interesting for anyone with the remotest interest in science. It is helpful (not required) to have some general science background to help understand some of the concepts fully. The ONLY slight drawback that I found was that the book has pessimestic overtones throughout about the film "Jurassic Park." ... Read more

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Alice Gerard has crossed the Atlantic a dozen times in the last ten years in her efforts to help solve the mystery of the controversial French site of Glozel, which has been called the “Dreyfus Affair” of archaeology. Accusations of fraud made by members of the archaeological establishment have contributed to the stormy history of the site during the last 80 years.

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Picture the Mesozoic world of 150 million years ago.It has a warm and semiarid climate subject to seasonal variations. Vegetation is generally sparse; however, along stream banks and lakes, the plant life is dense.Volcanoes and earthquakes shake the region, but the ground vibrates for other reasons as well: great herds of dinosaurs are constantly on the move across the basin in search of food, water, and mates.

At a plant cluster, a DIPLODOCUS stops for nourishment.It is a majestic creature, thirteen feet high at the hip and weighing seventeen tons.A long, narrow skull with small pencil-like teeth perches atop an elongated neck.Rather than stretching for the topmost foliage, the DIPLODOCUS moves slowly and infrequently, sweeping its head from side to side while nibbling at the leaves of low-growing shrubs.Occasionally, it raises its head to reach a particularly succulent leaf, to scan the horizon for predators, or to check the position of the herd.

Although images of the dinosaurs exist only in our imagination, scientists are able to hypothesize the appearance, size, and habits of the giant reptiles by studying nature's autobiography--the rock record--which contains both fossils and trace fossils (footprints and skin impressions, for example).Because Mesozoic rock covers over 25,000 square miles in Utah, the state is a natural museum of the great age of dinosaurs. DINOSAURS OF UTAH, a comprehensive account of "Utah's" dinosaurs, uses extensive research performed in Utah's natural museum to describe dinosaur anatomy, feeding, reproduction, and social behaviors in the context of the changing geological record.Seventy-five drawings help illustrate fossils and dinosaur anatomy while twenty-five color photographs depict the sites and geological environments described in the text.Twenty-two spectacular color paintings commissioned specifically for this book capture the spirit of these animals in the most accurate renditions of dinosaurs to date.

DINOSAURS OF UTAH enlivens our understanding of these amazing creatures by explaining them and their world to us.It moves beyond the superficial representations of dinosaurs so prevalent today to more accurately portray the variety of dinosaurs that once roamed in the region now known as Utah. Through the lens of this book, we can travel backward in time to view a landscape millions of years old. ... Read more

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A "must read" for serious dino fans.
You'll know this book when you see it - the dust jacket features a toothy Allosaurus (Utah's official State Fossil) sporting yellow polka-dots. Barney he ain't.

Author Frank de Courten is a palaeontologist, formerly at the You of You, now at Sierra College in California. De Courten, with handlebar mustachio and cowboy hat, fits comfortably into the romantic image of a Dinologist, and he's well-aware of the popular appeal of the critters. Fortunately he's literate too (another pretty-common trait in the trade, thank heavens), and his prose reads smoothly, though you're going to have to be *seriously* interested to get through all 300 oversize pages...

But it's a beautiful book, nice heavy smooth paper, full cloth binding, lots of color photos, some really *outstanding* color plates by artist Carel van Kampen -- really, it's a lot of book for [the money]. At the very least, check it out from your library, and of course if there's a dino-lover on your gift list...

The best popular adult book on U.S. dinos
This book is about the dinosaurs of Utah (and dinosaurs found close enough to Utah that it can safely be presumed they crossed the border), but it is also second to none I've read as a discussion of U.S. dinosaurs in general if you're already brushed up on your dino basics (although not overly technical, the author does waste no time in getting down to business).

The book covers equally the great dinosaurs of the midwest - especially the Jurassic dinosaurs the area is world famous for - and their environment (an asset or a negative depending on your interests). A particular strength is that almost equal space is given to the more obscure species and their more famous counterparts when the fossil record warrants it. Gorgeous artwork clinches this work as a gem - certainly in my top 10 dino books.

BUY THIS BOOK
Terrific. Intelligent and readable combination of palentology and geology of Utah. I used to live in SLC and visited eastern and southeastern Utah. The incredible vistas comprise the largest museum in the world. Wonderful to see in again in photos. The paintings of the Mesozoic are spectacular. This book deserves a place in your library, public or home. ... Read more

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PaleontologyRocks
This book is a good one for a girl, like me, who wants to be a paleontologist.The illustrations are very colorful and it has some pretty good information in it.At the end of the book the author gives some kindof "lesson plans".The author tells you about her own experienceas a paleontologist and gives you some ideas on how to decide if this isthe right career for you. All in all this is a pretty good book.I think Iwould recommend it. ... Read more

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Collapse of Evolution
The book was well written and easy to underestand. I think that is one reason why some have not liked it. For a piece of work to be good it does not have to talk over the heads of its readers. I work around a lot of scientists and many have phds. and they speak and use simple lanuage to convey ideas as well as recieve them. When I first read this book I did not understand how radio carbon dating was established, but it blew my mind when it came out so simply in this expose'. Since then(when I read the book) I've seen other authors with the same argument. It is very strange that people either love the book or hate it with very few in the middle. Perhaps that is because its Christianity really at the witness stand, not evolution. I also find it very strange that people of faith who say they hold to the Scriptures and Christ as the Savior take it on faith without considering that the Bible is a book written with facts and is filled with facts. For faith to stand it has to have facts. Faith in faith is not possible to lay any ground work worth holding to. Faith is founded on fact, not the other way around.
I lent the book to some who were evolutionists and they dismissed it with the same arguments. On thing that evolution cannot explain is why creation. Another thing it cannot explain is the how of creation. The amount of technical knowledge to creat simple cells is beyond the knowledge of man. A simple painting needs a painter, a building needs a designer and builder and the internet needs a whole lotta people to make it work. So why argue from an indefensible position that evolution (a theory) made anything. I recommend this book to every believer in Christ so they may get the argument which is not given in today's secular education system.

Not any good
I am a creationist (I believe in old earth, and I do not consider myself to be a scientific creationist, because creationism can not be scientific! I believe in God, but the basis for my belief is not science, but faith...)

The arguments against evolution are not well made. In the first chapter, Huse talks about how nature is complicated, but does not proberly explain the argument of irreduceable complexity.

The Bombardier Beetle argument has been refuted by Richard Dawkins!

The Earths magnetic field argument (is to demonstrate a young earth) does not mention that the mesurements of the magnetic field are more accurate today than when they started, nor that the magnetic field has been realtively constant lately according to measurements. I think the reason is not dishonesty, but ignorance.

I am sure I could make a better case for young earth creationism myself, even though I am not a young-earth creationist.

The book gets two stars rather than one: Because I was not bored when I read it, and because I know that the intention was good: to promote christianity

Staggering ignorance
This book proves much, but not in the way its author intended.

Instead of refuting evolution through a decidedly disingenuous "conspiracy theory" that all geology and most physical science are contrived constructs to support evolution, this book simply proves that religious extremism continues to be the enemy of knowledge. Any person with a relatively basic background in science can readily decipher the lies and distortions presented.

In the place of combatting ignorance, a reading of this book compounds it. The author makes his his mind up at the start, and in a collection of faulty syllogisms and ignorance of reality, simply shows that lack of understanding in a field comprises no basis upon which to explain it. Save both your time and money, and read something productive and logical.

The Collapse of Evolution
The book "The Collapse of Evolution" is utter nonsense, and despite my best efforts, the only thing I have managed to do it disprove it. Every fact that has been read in it is not only weak, they arent even all facts. Some of them are acutally just bashing on Evolutionists. it is apparent that Mr. Huse, the author of the book, has no background in any of these fields. None of his facts are even his own, the book is simply a compilation of articles with aren't even mathematically correct.

I am not a scientist, but what I do know is I have a college education of commonly known physics. This man apparently doesnt support these ideas.

Awesome piece of Work!
Totally awesome! I loved reading it. I am a college student and have to sit in a class where they teach evolution like it's a proven fact. I agree that it takes a whole lot of faith to believe in evolution. We are fearfully and wonderfully made. I don't see how anyone can look at nature and not see the hand of a designer in everything. We are not an accident that just happened. The book does not say that you can prove creation happened with science, but there is more evidence supporting creation than evolution, as this book clearly shows. I hope you enjoy it as much as I did! ... Read more