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Dinosaurs: The Encyclopedia, Supplement 5 (Dinosaurs the Encyclopedia)
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Average Rating:  out of 9 Reviews
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Price: $145.00
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Sale: $141.65
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Manufacturer: McFarland & Company
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EAN (European Article Number): 9780786432417
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Library Binding
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Author: Donald F. Glut
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Publisher: McFarland & Company
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Dewey Decimal Number: 567
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Publication Date: 2007-11-30
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Reading Level: 798
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Description: If you think the title Dinosaurs: the Encyclopedia has a movie-sequel ring, you're only partly mistaken; editor Donald F. Glut has already authored The Dinosaur Dictionary and The Complete Dinosaur Dictionary. But you'll find no T. rex running amok here; this is a dense and rigorously scientific tome meant for only the most dedicated dinosaur lover. Part 1 contains an excellent background history of scientific findings in this rapidly changing field. (Also here is a wonderful, paragraph-long sentence detailing possible causes of the dinosaurs' demise, including "brains too small" and "inability to mate, sexual frustration, suicide.") Once into the alphabetical listings, however, it's easy for the layman to get lost. If the description "articular facets of prezygapophyses much enlarged in anterior caudals" makes your eyes cross, perhaps this is not the reference for you. But if your amateur paleontologist shows signs of getting serious, you won't get much more detailed, thorough, or reliable information than that contained here. And there's always the glossary in back, wherein you'll find words such as "ginglymus" and "astragalus" defined in everyday English.
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Customer Reviews
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Review Summary: Does exactly what it says on the tin |
Date: 2008-02-15 |
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Details: If you already have Glut's "Dinosaurs: The Encyclopedia" and the previous four supplements, the (A) you have used up nine inches of shelf space, and (B) you need this fifth supplement, which as usual is basically a distilled essence of the last eighteen months' primary literature on dinosaurs. If you don't have the core volume, then that is _definitely_ where to start, rather than with this supplement.
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Review Summary: completey satisfied one more time! |
Date: 2006-03-22 |
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Details: I am completely satisfyed one more time! no delay, no problems perfect. |
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Review Summary: Very thorough for the dinosaur enthusiast |
Date: 2006-01-27 |
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Details: I bought this book a few years back and it is quite excellent. I think the series is updated every few years, and things constantly change with dinosaurs. This book has excellent drawings and actual photos of models, replicas, and skeletons of dinosaurs. Microraptor is in this supplement as well, and dinosaurs evolving into birds is discussed in here as well. Different groups like the sauropods and hadrosaurs are discussed with new discovers and information. Many oospecies and footprints are discussed in here as well. Highly recommended for any paleontologist, dinosaur enthusiast, and/or future paleontologist(like me). |
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Review Summary: The Glut of Dinosaurs continues |
Date: 2003-11-27 |
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Details: A year after the second supplement, here's another! Donald Glut's indefatigable efforts at keeping us posted about all developments in the world of dinosaurs are nothing short of astounding. Always fascinating reading for specialist and general maniac alike. |
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Review Summary: Fantastic and comprehensive |
Date: 2001-07-24 |
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Details: If you are a serious dinosaur lover with some money to spend, this is the book. At the time of publication, every classified species was included, along with pertinent details and from 1-3 pages of write-up. It talks of the holotypes, it has 1-2 photos on every page, it gives it all. It is exhaustive, well written, and just simply outstanding. Put it this way, paleontologists and reconstructionist-artists keep this on their desk like the military folk keep a copy of Jane's, it's simply far and away the best reference on the various species of dinosaurs. Is it pricey? Yup. However, you could easily spend far more buying every dinosaur encyclopedia sold on Amazon and still come up with a fraction of the material that is in this book. To be blunt, no other reference is in it's class. Throw in that periodic supplements are published that describe all of the new species and information discovered from the previous release, and you simply can't go wrong. If I have to pick one flaw, it's that some of the photographs are of poor quality, however most of these seem to be because the only surviving photo is a zerox or what have you, so the quality is dependant on the source picture, not due to any corner-cutting (of which there seems to be NONE) in the book. |
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