User:Rusalkii/The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs
"Todd Marshall has again been commissioned for both decorative chapter headings and some explanatory artwork. ... I would be remiss if I did not mention the stunning jacket art. Both for the UK and US versions, the publishers have commissioned the same artists as for The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs, respectively Andrew Davidson and Todd Marshall, meaning the books look exquisite next to each other." - https://inquisitivebiologist.com/2022/06/24/book-review-the-rise-and-reign-of-the-mammals-a-new-history-from-the-shadow-of-the-dinosaurs-to-us/
There's a Folio Societ edition: https://www.foliosociety.com/usa/the-rise-and-fall-of-the-dinosaurs.html
Publisher is listed as Mariner Books on Amazon, is that an imprint of HarperCollins?
Amazon also has: "Includes 75 images, world maps of the prehistoric earth, and a dinosaur family tree.". Released as Hardcover, paperback, kindle, audio book narrated by Patrick Lawlor.
Reviews[edit]
- "Brusatte has written a book that incarnates dinosaurs with color, sound and fury" "The glamorization of contemporary paleontologists occasionally feels breathless; Brusatte’s enthusiasm for dinosaurs wins every time."
- "Part autobiography and part popular science", "accessible to those with some knowledge of dinosaur palaeobiology, as well as those coming to the subject for the first time" "Some of these accounts smack somewhat of hero-worship, and others are a touch patronizing" "I got somewhat out-T. rex-ed, though" "my interest in this section waned"
- "I found myself grimacing occasionally, for instance at the use of the word ‘critters’, anthropomorphic descriptions of ‘plucky’ proto-dinosaurs emerging from the Permian mass extinction, and the description of Ankylosaurus as ‘stupid’." "well-organized, fast-moving, and informative"
- Praises "The inclusion of source notes at the end of the work is an innovative attempt to directly engage readers with the scientific literature, providing excellent brief summaries of each article, and should act as a foundation for future popular paleontology writing" and his descriptions of fieldwork. "When not discussing the dinosaur clades upon which his research has focused, however, Brusatte provides less information and, in some cases, is misleading when trying to explain the science" "rather cursory discussions" of many clades, with a heavy focus on tyrannossaurous; critisizes furthering the "celebrity status" of clades like tyrannosaurs and dromeaseosaurids. also criticized focus on career accomplishments of modern palentoflogists. "rather patchy in its discussion of the Dinosauria", "at times seems a review of his and his colleagues’ accomplishments"; nevertheless calls it captivating
- https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/how-the-cataclysm-that-obliterated-the-dinosaurs-gave-rise-to-humans/2018/06/01/9a85bd92-2eb8-11e8-b0b0-f706877db618_story.htmlOne of The Times science book of the year.
- Proceedings of the Nova Scotian Institute of Science (2019), book review, positive
- https://bookmarks.reviews/reviews/all/the-rise-and-fall-of-the-dinosaurs-a-new-history-of-a-lost-world/
Awards &tc[edit]
"A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: Smithsonian, Science Friday, The Times (London), Popular Mechanics, Science News" - this is from the Amazon description page, can I get better sources for it?