The Horned Dinosaurs by Peter Dodson
From the Red Deer River in Alberta to the Gobi Desert, the author pieces together fossil evidence to describe the horned dinosaurs (ceratopsians) - their anatomy, biology and geography - and to evoke the human element of their discovery and interpretation.-
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Iolani; or, Tahiti as It Was
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Mandala Symbolism
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The Zen Poems of Ryokan
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Cinematernity
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Queen Elizabeth and the Making of Policy, 1572-1588
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Scientific Management in Action
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Janacek's Operas
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Napoleon III and the Rebuilding of Paris
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Mussolini's Early Diplomacy
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Treatise on Critical Reason
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Three British Revolutions
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Meeting Needs
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Other Women
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Foreign Labor in Nazi Germany
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The Continuous Wave
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Lectures on the h-Cobordism Theorem
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Phanerozoic Diversity Patterns
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Bird of Passage
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Changes in the Roman Empire
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Approaching Hysteria
"Honorable Mention for the 1997 Award for Best Professional/Scholarly Book in Geography and Earth Science, Association of American Publishers"
"MrDodson's enthusiasm--his passion and love--for his subject is catching. . . . he writes with humor and grace . . . . It's as readable as a good letter from a friend you want to hear from. . . . and what a magnificent story he tells."---Stephen Goode, The Washington Times
"[Dodson] brings considerable wit and charm to his argument and gives an excellent sense of the practice of paleontology, as well as of the personalities involved in it." * Kirkus Reviews *
"A fascinating and comprehensive scholarly and personal survey . . . The author has successfully re-created the horned dinosaur in a fascinating book of facts, theories, and speculation. With extensive notes and excellent illustrations, this impressive volume is highly recommended." * Library Journal *
"[Dodson] manages to explain many of the intricacies of dinosaur studies in jargon-free language, and where jargon is necessary the terms are clearly defined. Above all he helps to make the dinosaurs come alive--something that most paleontologists can only dream about."---Paul M. Barrett, The Times Higher Education Supplement
"It is perhaps surprising that no general work has ever been published about [the Ceratopsia], but the deficit is now redressed by Dodson's engaging, witty, and erudite new book. It is a labor of love by an admitted Oceratophile' (his term), an anatomist particularly skilled in biometrics.... The prose is graceful and never overly serious, and the footnoted asides are informative and amusing, so that even chapters on topics as dry as the necessary skeletal anatomy and principles of classification will be palatable to the non-specialist."---Kevin Padian, Science
"In his new book, Peter Dodson, a long-time student of ceratopsians, presents a delightful and authoritative survey of the horned dinosaurs.... Dodson writes in an informal, often cheerfully and unabashedly personal manner. This narrative structure nicely conveys the sense of excitement associated with the discovery of and research on dinosaurs and makes the more technical matters accessible to the interested lay reader."---Hans Sues, American Paleontologist
"MrDodson's enthusiasm--his passion and love--for his subject is catching. . . . he writes with humor and grace . . . . It's as readable as a good letter from a friend you want to hear from. . . . and what a magnificent story he tells."---Stephen Goode, The Washington Times
"[Dodson] brings considerable wit and charm to his argument and gives an excellent sense of the practice of paleontology, as well as of the personalities involved in it." * Kirkus Reviews *
"A fascinating and comprehensive scholarly and personal survey . . . The author has successfully re-created the horned dinosaur in a fascinating book of facts, theories, and speculation. With extensive notes and excellent illustrations, this impressive volume is highly recommended." * Library Journal *
"[Dodson] manages to explain many of the intricacies of dinosaur studies in jargon-free language, and where jargon is necessary the terms are clearly defined. Above all he helps to make the dinosaurs come alive--something that most paleontologists can only dream about."---Paul M. Barrett, The Times Higher Education Supplement
"It is perhaps surprising that no general work has ever been published about [the Ceratopsia], but the deficit is now redressed by Dodson's engaging, witty, and erudite new book. It is a labor of love by an admitted Oceratophile' (his term), an anatomist particularly skilled in biometrics.... The prose is graceful and never overly serious, and the footnoted asides are informative and amusing, so that even chapters on topics as dry as the necessary skeletal anatomy and principles of classification will be palatable to the non-specialist."---Kevin Padian, Science
"In his new book, Peter Dodson, a long-time student of ceratopsians, presents a delightful and authoritative survey of the horned dinosaurs.... Dodson writes in an informal, often cheerfully and unabashedly personal manner. This narrative structure nicely conveys the sense of excitement associated with the discovery of and research on dinosaurs and makes the more technical matters accessible to the interested lay reader."---Hans Sues, American Paleontologist
David B. Weishampel is a Professor at the Center for Functional Anatomy and Evolution at The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. He is coauthor, with D. E. Fastovsky, of The Evolution and Extinction of Dinosaurs (1996) and coauthor, with L. Young, of The Dinosaurs of the East Coast (1996). Peter Dodson is Professor of Anatomy at the University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine. He is the author of Horned Dinosaurs: A Natural History. Halszka Osm�lska is Professor of Paleontology at the Paleobiological Institute of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780691028828 |
| ISBN 10 | 0691028826 |
| Title | The Horned Dinosaurs |
| Author | Peter Dodson |
| Series | Princeton Legacy Library |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Princeton University Press |
| Year published | 1996-09-19 |
| Number of pages | 392 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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