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EDITORIAL INFORMATION

The Complete Dinosaur is a sumptuously illustrated, complete, and up-to-the minute guide to dinosaur science for the general reader. It's chok full of dinosaur lore and offers and intriguing glimpse into what a paleontologist really does. There's something for everyone in this hefty book. In addition to containing top-notch, cutting-edge work by almost 50 experts in each category of dinosaur science, The Complete Dinosaur features a chapter on dinosaurs and the media, proving that popular culture entertained a fascination for these animals long before Jurassic Park hit the multiplex scree.

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GENERAL TABLE OF CONTENTS

-Contents.

-Preface.

-Part One: The Discovery of Dinosaurs.

1. The Earliest Discoveries.
2. European Dinosaur Hunters.
3. North American Dinosaur Hunters.
4. Asian Dinosaur Hunters.
5. Dinosaur Hunters of the Southern Continents.

-Part Two: The Study of Dinosaurs.

6. Hunting for Dinosaur Bones.
7. The Osteology of the Dinosaurs.
8. The Taxonomy and Systematics of the Dinosaurs.
9. Dinosaurs and Geologic Time.
10. Technology and the Study of Dinosaurs.
11. Molecular Paleontology: Rationale and Techniques for the Study of Ancient Biomolecules.
12. Dinosaurs as Museum Exhibits.
13. Restoring Dinosaurs as Living Animals.

-Part Three: The Groups of Dinosaurs.

14. Politics and Paleontology: Richard Owen and the Invention of Dinosaurs.
15. Evolution of the Archosaurs.
16. Origin and Early Evolution of Dinosaurs.
17. Theropods.
18. Segnosaurs (Therizinosaurs).
19. Prosauropods.
20. Sauropods.
21. Stegosaurs.
22. Ankylosaurs.
23. Marginocephalians.
24. Ornithopods.

-Part Four: Biology of the Dinosaurs.

25. Land Plants as Food and Habitat in the Age of Dinosaurs.
26. What Did Dinosaurs Eat? Coprolites and Other Direct Evidence of Dinosaur Diets.
27. Dinosaur Combat and Courtship.
28. Dinosaur Eggs.
29. How Dinosaurs Grew.
30. Engineering a Dinosaur.
31. Dinosaurian Paleopathology.
32. Dinosaurian Physiology: The Case for "Intermediate" Dinosaurs.
33. Oxygen Isotopes in Dinosaur Bone.
34. A Blueprint for Giants: Modeling the Physiology of Large Dinosaurs.
35. New Insights into the Metabolic Physiology of Dinosaurs.
36. The Scientific Study of Dinosaur Footprints.
37. The Paleoecological and Paleoenvironmental Utility of Dinosaur Tracks.

-Part Five: Dinosaur Evolution in the Changing World of the Mesozoic Era.

38. Biogeography for Dinosaurs.
39. Major Groups of Non-Dinosaurian Vertebrates of the Mesozoic Era.
40. Continental Tetrapods of the Early Mesozoic.
41. Dinosaurian Faunas of the Later Mesozoic.
42. The Extinction of the Dinosaurs: A Dialogue between a Catastrophist and a Gradualist.

-Part Six: Dinosaurs and the Media.

43. Dinosaurs and the Media.

-Appendix A: A Chronological History of Dinosaur Paleontology.

-Glossary.

-Contributors.

-Index

OUR REVIEW

After such films as Jurassic Park and other sequels have whetted the appetite of those readers interested in scientific literature towards new divulgative words on dinosaurs, the market has been literally flooded by hundreds of books covering all imaginable aspects on this issue. Yet, only a few have faced the task of divulging how these animals used to be with the required preciseness.

The Complete Dinosaur is one of these books. Wrapped into a wonderful presentation, this work has been written by numerous specialists. In its over 700 pages, we are given a detailed description of how and where dinosaurs are found, how they are studied, how they are subdivided and, above all, how their biology was and how their evolution took place. The book includes a chapter about the frequent relationships between these animals and the mass media, as well as a paleonthological chronology and a comprehensive glossary.

Furthermore, this book is quite useful to the interested reader because it updates our knowledge on this topic, while at the same time revealing some popular -yet unaccurate- beliefs which have been firmly established, and it does so in a very attractive manner for the reader. The text is clear, concise and plentiful, as well as systematic, and is full of really interesting questions, even for the youngest readers. This book also includes multiple black and white photographs, as well as graphics and charts.