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1001 Facts About Dinosaurs
• William Lindsay
• SCIENCE
• MIDDLE READERS (Age 9-12)
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A Back Pack book geared for 9-12 year olds and jammed with information about dinosaurs, paleontology and evolution. Highly recommended.
(SCI56, $8.99)
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Asteroid Impact
• Douglas Henderson
• SCIENCE
• MIDDLE READERS (Age 9-12)
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An excellent recreation of the events that may have caused the demise of the dinosaurs and the Cretaceous Period.
(SCI34, $16.99)
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Bone Hunters in Patagonia: Narrative of the Expedition
• J.B. Hatcher
• EXPLORATION
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A classic account of paleontological discovery in remote Patagonia, originally published in 1903 as part of Hatcher's multi-volume expedition report.
(PAT21, $22.00)
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The Bonehunters' Revenge, Dinosaurs and Fate in the Gilded Age
• David Rains Wallace
• HISTORY
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In this riveting chronicle of a major scientific feud, Wallace details how two rival paleontologists used the "New York Herald" to wage a dirty war on each other's findings, professionalism and personal integrity.
(GEN125, $14.00)
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The Complete Dinosaur
• James O. Farlow
• M.K. Brett-Surman
• Robert K. Walters
• SCIENCE
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An abundantly illustrated survey of dinosaurs, their discovery, study, biology and evolution, with dozens of contributors. Geared to the serious dinosaur enthusiast with some basic knowledge, it contains over 350 illustrations and a 16-page full-color spread.
(SCI42, $39.95)
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Digging for Bird Dinosaurs, An Expedition to Madagascar
• Nic Bishop
• ARCHAEOLOGY
• MIDDLE READERS (Age 9-12)
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Follow paleontologist Cathy Forster and her team through Madagascar as they hunt for fossils.
(MAD23, $16.00)
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Dino Wars
• Jinny Johnson
• Michael J. Benton
• NATURAL HISTORY
• MIDDLE READERS (Age 9-12)
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An exciting and fully-illustrated guide which pits dinosaurs against each other to teach kids ages 8 and up the prehistoric world's biggest and strongest.
(GEN331, $17.95)
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Dinosaur Country, Unearthing the Alberta Badlands
• Renie Gross
• SCIENCE
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An overview of the Badlands of Alberta and a primer on paleontology in the region.
(CND76, $12.25)
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Dinosaur Ghosts, The Mystery of Coelophysis
• J. Lynett Gillette
• Doug Henderson
• SCIENCE
• MIDDLE READERS (Age 9-12)
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A brief account of the discovery of a cluster of dog-sized Coelophysis dinosaur fossils in New Mexico in 1947, featuring detailed pastel illustrations. For readers ages 8 to 11.
(SCI35, $16.99)
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DK Guide to Dinosaurs
• David Lambert
• NATURAL HISTORY
• MIDDLE READERS (Age 9-12)
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A survey of dinosaurs and their world featuring color photographs of strikingly lifelike models and habitats.
(GEN243, $19.99)
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Dragon Bones and Dinosaur Eggs, A Photobiography of Explorer Roy Chapman Andrews
• Ann Bausum
• EXPLORATION
• MIDDLE READERS (Age 9-12)
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An illustrated biography of Chapman Andrews (1184-1960), one of the greatest fossil hunters.
(MGL26, $17.95)
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Encyclopedia of Dinosaurs
• Philip J. Currie
• Kevin Padian
• REFERENCE
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This massive volume may be expensive, but it's certainly comprehensive. Compiled by two prominent paleontologists, it's a reference to major dinosaur research up through the end of the 20th century.
(SCI29, $148.00)
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Encyclopedia Prehistorica: Dinosaurs
• Robert Sabuda
• Matthew Reinhart
• SCIENCE
• FAMILY
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Sabuda turns his magic on prehistory in six dazzling double-page marvels of paper engineering, each featuring a full-color 3-D dinosaur in a visually animated background.
(SCI102, $27.99)
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Feathered Dinosaurs
• Christopher Sloan
• Philip J. Currie
• SCIENCE
• MIDDLE READERS (Age 9-12)
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This wonderfully illustrated book, designed for middle schoolers and published by National Geographic, takes a look at some recently discovered fossils that confirm what some scientists have thought for years -- that some dinosaurs had feathers!
(SCI59, $17.95)
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Into the Dinosaurs' Graveyard: Canadian Digs and Discoveries
• David A. E. Spalding
• NATURAL HISTORY
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A spirited history of personalities and politics of dinosaur collecting in Canada.
(CND137, $13.95)
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Life Through the Ages, A Commemorative Edition
• Charles R. Knight
• Stephen Jay Gould
• Philip J. Currie
• SCIENCE
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A classic by influential paleoartist Charles R. Knight, originally published in 1946. Knight's dinosaur reconstructions have fueled the imaginations of several generations of visitors to the American Museum of Natural History and Field Museum.
(SCI41, $19.95)
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The Lost World
• Arthur Conan Doyle
• LITERATURE
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Inspired by the magnificent landscapes surrounding the Orinoco River, this classic novel follows an intrepid scientist into the jungles of the Amazon Basin in search of prehistoric creatures.
(VNZ04, $10.00)
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Marsh's Dinosaurs, The Collections from Como Bluff
• John H. Ostrom
• SCIENCE
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Handsome lithographs of the Apatosaurus (Brontosaurus) and Stegosaurus excavated from Como Bluffs, Wyoming, commissioned by 19th century paleontologist O.C. Marsh.
(SCI33, $95.00)
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National Geographic Dinosaurs
• Paul Barrett
• SCIENCE
• MIDDLE READERS (Age 9-12)
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An illustrated, encyclopedic reference to dinosaurs, designed for children 9-12.
(SCI60, $29.95)
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Supercroc and the Origin of Crocodiles
• Christopher Sloan
• SCIENCE
• MIDDLE READERS (Age 9-12)
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Sure to delight aspiring paleontologists as well as those with an interest in crocodiles, this colorful book looks back at the ancestors of today's swamp dwellers to find enormous reptiles (some as big as a bus!) that lived with, and somehow outlasted, the dinosaurs. For kids 9-12.
(SCI61, $18.95)
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A Symbol of Wilderness, Echo Park and the American Conservation Movement
• Mark W.T. Harvey
• NATURAL HISTORY
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The classic story of the hard-fought battle in the 1950s to prevent the government from damming Utah's Green River, which would have flooded the Green River Valley and threatened Dinosaur National Park.
(USW352, $19.95)
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T. Rex and the Crater of Doom
• Walter Alvarez
• NATURAL HISTORY
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A new edition of Alvarez's landmark account of the famous impact crater found in the Yucatan.
(CAM68, $16.95)
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Time Traveler, In Search of Dinosaurs and Other Fossils from Montana to Mongolia
• Michael Novacek
• BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
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A memoir and globetrotting tour of paleontological discovery and adventure, including Novacek's expeditions to Yemen, Patagonia and the Gobi.
(SCI44, $18.00)
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