Dinosaur Dust
Author : Tui Rose
Publisher :
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 47,27 MB
Release : 1997
Category : House & Home
ISBN : 9781885735447
Author : Tui Rose
Publisher :
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 47,27 MB
Release : 1997
Category : House & Home
ISBN : 9781885735447
Author : Paige Williams
Publisher : Hachette Books
Page : 461 pages
File Size : 49,41 MB
Release : 2018-09-11
Category : Science
ISBN : 0316382507
In this 2018 New York Times Notable Book,Paige Williams "does for fossils what Susan Orlean did for orchids" (Book Riot) in her account of one Florida man's attempt to sell a dinosaur skeleton from Mongolia--a story "steeped in natural history, human nature, commerce, crime, science, and politics" (Rebecca Skloot). In 2012, a New York auction catalogue boasted an unusual offering: "a superb Tyrannosaurus skeleton." In fact, Lot 49135 consisted of a nearly complete T. bataar, a close cousin to the most famous animal that ever lived. The fossils now on display in a Manhattan event space had been unearthed in Mongolia, more than 6,000 miles away. At eight-feet high and 24 feet long, the specimen was spectacular, and when the gavel sounded the winning bid was over $1 million. Eric Prokopi, a thirty-eight-year-old Floridian, was the man who had brought this extraordinary skeleton to market. A onetime swimmer who spent his teenage years diving for shark teeth, Prokopi's singular obsession with fossils fueled a thriving business hunting, preparing, and selling specimens, to clients ranging from natural history museums to avid private collectors like actor Leonardo DiCaprio. But there was a problem. This time, facing financial strain, had Prokopi gone too far? As the T. bataar went to auction, a network of paleontologists alerted the government of Mongolia to the eye-catching lot. As an international custody battle ensued, Prokopi watched as his own world unraveled. In the tradition of The Orchid Thief, The Dinosaur Artist is a stunning work of narrative journalism about humans' relationship with natural history and a seemingly intractable conflict between science and commerce. A story that stretches from Florida's Land O' Lakes to the Gobi Desert, The Dinosaur Artist illuminates the history of fossil collecting--a murky, sometimes risky business, populated by eccentrics and obsessives, where the lines between poacher and hunter, collector and smuggler, enthusiast and opportunist, can easily blur. In her first book, Paige Williams has given readers an irresistible story that spans continents, cultures, and millennia as she examines the question of who, ultimately, owns the past.
Author : DK
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 72 pages
File Size : 39,11 MB
Release : 2008-08-21
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0756648386
Travel 65 million years back in time and go on an unforgettable adventure! How did dinosaurs hunt? What caused their extinction? Take an amazing visual journey that unfolds step by step as you witness the eventful and violent life of the T Rex. Amazing digital photography takes you where you have never been before. See a dinosaur hatching from an egg, stalking its prey and going in for the kill in a deadly battle for survival. Discover what finally happened to the T Rex. Follow the astonishing story with thrilling accounts and action-packed scenes. Read it from start to finish, or just dip in and out. Brilliant for homework and school projects or just for fun.
Author : Walter Alvarez
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 10,3 MB
Release : 2015-09-15
Category : Science
ISBN : 0691169667
Sixty-five million years ago, a comet or asteroid larger than Mount Everest slammed into the Earth, inducing an explosion equivalent to the detonation of a hundred million hydrogen bombs. Vaporized detritus blasted through the atmosphere upon impact, falling back to Earth around the globe. Disastrous environmental consequences ensued: a giant tsunami, continent-scale wildfires, darkness, and cold, followed by sweltering greenhouse heat. When conditions returned to normal, half the plant and animal genera on Earth had perished. This horrific chain of events is now widely accepted as the solution to a great scientific mystery: what caused the extinction of the dinosaurs? Walter Alvarez, one of the Berkeley scientists who discovered evidence of the impact, tells the story behind the development of the initially controversial theory. It is a saga of high adventure in remote locations, of arduous data collection and intellectual struggle, of long periods of frustration ended by sudden breakthroughs, of friendships made and lost, and of the exhilaration of discovery that forever altered our understanding of Earth's geological history.
Author : David D. Gillette
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 49,57 MB
Release : 1989
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780521407885
This is the first book ever to be devoted to this subject.
Author : Lawrence Badash
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 423 pages
File Size : 34,81 MB
Release : 2009-07-10
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0262257998
The rise and fall of the concept of nuclear winter, played out in research activity, public relations, and Reagan-era politics. The nuclear winter phenomenon burst upon the public's consciousness in 1983. Added to the horror of a nuclear war's immediate effects was the fear that the smoke from fires ignited by the explosions would block the sun, creating an extended “winter” that might kill more people worldwide than the initial nuclear strikes. In A Nuclear Winter's Tale, Lawrence Badash maps the rise and fall of the science of nuclear winter, examining research activity, the popularization of the concept, and the Reagan-era politics that combined to influence policy and public opinion. Badash traces the several sciences (including studies of volcanic eruptions, ozone depletion, and dinosaur extinction) that merged to allow computer modeling of nuclear winter and its development as a scientific specialty. He places this in the political context of the Reagan years, discussing congressional interest, media attention, the administration's plans for a research program, and the Defense Department's claims that the arms buildup underway would prevent nuclear war, and thus nuclear winter. A Nuclear Winter's Tale tells an important story but also provides a useful illustration of the complex relationship between science and society. It examines the behavior of scientists in the public arena and in the scientific community, and raises questions about the problems faced by scientific Cassandras, the implications when scientists go public with worst-case scenarios, and the timing of government reaction to startling scientific findings.
Author : Bob Barner
Publisher : Chronicle Books
Page : 18 pages
File Size : 46,47 MB
Release : 2012-06-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1452104085
With a lively rhyming text and vibrant paper collage illustrations, author-artist Bob Barner shakes the dust off the dinosaur bones found in museums and reminds us that they once belonged to living, breathing creatures. Filled with fun dinosaur facts (a T. Rex skull can weigh up to 750 pounds!) and an informational "Dinometer," Dinosaur Bones is sure to make young dinosaur enthusiasts roar with delight.
Author : Library of Congress. Cataloging Policy and Support Office
Publisher :
Page : 1688 pages
File Size : 48,14 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Subject headings, Library of Congress
ISBN :
Author : Library of Congress
Publisher :
Page : 1536 pages
File Size : 29,68 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Subject headings, Library of Congress
ISBN :
Author : REDCODE
Publisher : Papercutz
Page : 187 pages
File Size : 35,57 MB
Release : 2019-07-16
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1545804532
STEM-inspired comics adventures drawn in a full-color manga-style reminiscent of Dragonball Z, with special illustrated pages devoted to science facts. The Dinosaur Explorers—Rain, Emily, Sean, and Stone, along with Dr. Da Vinci, his assistant, Diana, and their robot helper, Starz-- were all flung back in time by Dr. Da Vinci’s particle transmitter, and the solar-power device can only bring them back to the present a few centuries at a time, giving them all a perfect opportunity to explore the past—provided they can actually survive it. They now find themselves back in the Jurassic, and they quickly find it’s no walk in the park (Get it?) (Sorry.). This is the grand age of dinosaurs, but also the time when the first non-dinosaur animals begin to stretch their wings!