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Price: $65.00
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Sale: $184.00
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Manufacturer: Northeastern Illinois University
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Publisher: Northeastern Illinois University
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Edition: 1
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Dewey Decimal Number: 560.9773265
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Publication Date: 1997-08
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Reading Level: 308
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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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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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Price: $13.95
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Sale: $2.23
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Manufacturer: Random House Trade Paperbacks
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: William Nothdurft
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Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks
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Dewey Decimal Number: 560
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Publication Date: 2003-09-09
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Reading Level: 272
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Description: In 1911, Dr. Ernst Stromer led an expedition to Egypt’s Bahariya Oasis in the Sahara and discovered four new species of dinosaurs, including the Tyrannosaurus rex–size predator Spinosaurus. But tragically, all his work was incinerated in 1944 during the Allied bombing of Munich.
In 1999, Josh Smith, then a graduate student at the University of Pennsylvania, took his brilliant, precocious team to Egypt under the direction of world-renowned paleontologist Dr. Peter Dodson and blundered onto an archaeological site that yielded awe-inspiring results: all of Dr. Stromer’s early findings, and also an entirely new genus of dinosaur, Paralititan stromeri, one of the largest creatures ever to inhabit the planet.
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Price: $84.95
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Sale: $49.90
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Manufacturer: Springer
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Publisher: Springer
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Dewey Decimal Number: 574.873282
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Publication Date: 1994-06-24
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Reading Level: 284
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Description: Ancient DNA refers to DNA which can be recovered and analyzed from clinical, museum, archaeological and paleontological specimens. Ancient DNA ranges in age from less than 100 years to tens of millions of years. The study of ancient DNA is a young field, but it has been revolutionized by the application of polymerase chain reaction technology, and interest is growing very rapidly. Fields as diverse as evolution, anthropology, medicine, agriculture, and even law enforcement have quickly found applications in the recovery of ancient DNA. This book contains contributions from many of the "first generation" researchers who pioneered the development and application of ancient DNA methods. Their chapters present the protocols and precautions which have resulted in the remarkable results obtained in recent years. The range of subjects reflects the wide diversity of applications that are emerging in research on ancient DNA, including the study of DNA to analyze kinship, recovery of DNA from organisms trapped in amber, ancient DNA from human remains preserved in a variety of locations and conditions, DNA recovered from herbarium and museum specimens, and DNA isolated from ancient plant seeds or compression fossils. Ancient DNA will serve as a valuable source of information, ideas, and protocols for anyone interested in this extraordinary field.
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Price: $62.50
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Sale: $42.94
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Manufacturer: Princeton University Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Adrienne Mayor
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Publisher: Princeton University Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 560.938
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Publication Date: 2000-04-04
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Reading Level: 384
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Description: Since fossils have presumably existed for millions of years, why don't we see much paleontological thought from ancient writers? Classics scholar Adrienne Mayor suggests that we can, in fact, learn much about the Greek and Roman attitudes toward fossils if we turn to a surprising source of data and theory: their myths. In The First Fossil Hunters, she explores likely connections between the rich fossil beds around the Mediterranean and tales of griffins and giants originating in the classical world. Striking similarities exist between the Protoceratops skeletons of the Gobi Desert and the legends of the gold-hoarding griffin told by nomadic people of the region, and the fossilized remains of giant Miocene mammals could be taken for the heroes and monsters of earlier times. Mayor makes her case well, but, as with all interpretive science, the arguments are inconclusive. Still, her novel reading of ancient myth--and her critique of the modern scientific mythology that seeks to explain the lack of classical paleontological thinking--is compelling and thought-provoking. The final chapter of The First Fossil Hunters is an engrossing and occasionally quite funny look at "Paleontological Fictions" dating back several thousand years; the false tritons and centaurs give P.T. Barnum and his successors a much longer genealogy than previously thought. Whether or not you accept Mayor's analysis of Greek and Roman thinking, The First Fossil Hunters should open your eyes to new possibilities about our distant past. --Rob Lightner
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Price: $35.95
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Sale: $12.89
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Manufacturer: TFH Publications
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Rudolf Daber::Jochen Helms
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Publisher: TFH Publications
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Publication Date: 1986-01
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Reading Level: 231
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Price: $95.00
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Sale: $79.94
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Manufacturer: Yale University Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: John H. Ostrom::John S. McIntosh
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Publisher: Yale University Press
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Edition: 1
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Dewey Decimal Number: 567.909787
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Publication Date: 2000-02-09
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Reading Level: 416
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Description: Marsh's Dinosaurs was first published to bring together the previously unpublished lithographs commissioned by the famous 19th century paleontologist O.C. Marsh to illustrate two of the famed dinosaurs ( Brontosaurus--now known as Apatosaurus--and Stegosaurus) discovered at and excavated from Como Bluffs, Wyoming, and now on display at the Yale University's Peabody Museum. The discovery of fossil dinosaur and Jurassic mammal bones at Como Bluffs in the late 19th century is very famous in the annals of North American paleontology; the dinosaur specimens collected by Marsh are among the earliest collected dinosaurs found anywhere in North America. The lithographs are considered by dinosaur scholars, their students, and many dinosaur aficionados to be among the best and most detailed depictions ever made. The lithographs are complimented by a historical sketch of the action at the dozens of quarries at Como Bluff and at the Morrison Formation and Garden Park, Colorado, with maps, as transcribed from correspondence field collectors to Marsh in New Haven during the years these explorations took place (1977-1889).
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Manufacturer: Royal Ontario Museum
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Binding: Paperback
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Publisher: Royal Ontario Museum
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Publication Date: 1984-06
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Price: $311.00
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Sale: $295.30
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Manufacturer: Springer
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Publisher: Springer
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Edition: 1
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Dewey Decimal Number: 569.094
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Publication Date: 1990-06-30
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Reading Level: 668
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Manufacturer: Oxford University Press, USA
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Walter C. Sweet
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Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
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Dewey Decimal Number: 562.2
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Publication Date: 1988-10-13
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Reading Level: 224
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Description: This succinct treatise presents an up-to-date assessment on the nature and evolutionary development of a phylum of extinct marine invertebrates. Conodonts are represented by a diverse array of tiny tooth-like fossils, and are widely used in stratigraphical correlation. They are also vital in the search for petroleum because the colors of fossils brought up in drill cores indicate potential oil reservoirs. Dr. Sweet, a leading researcher in the field, presents a novel view of the evolutionary history of the Conodonta besides examining their morphology, taxonomy, and paleoecology.
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