Dinosaurs: The Textbook

by Spencer George Lucas

The Textbook is a monument to our present understanding of these wonderful creatures. It is a book that takes the student on a journey through nearly every aspect of dinosaur biology, geology, and the history of their discovery. The book presents facts together with current ideas, notions, and controversies. Dr. Lucas presents dinosaurs as successful, living creatures that were merely different in appearance from animals living today. Dr. Lucas has written a comprehensive book that is easily read and understood by students with little scientific background--a book that teaches students not only how to use scientific methods, but how to synthesize data to create their own ideas. In contrast with many dinosaur books from the past, Dr. Lucas, although indicating his own views, allows students the opportunity to think for themselves.

Genres: Science

304 pages, Paperback

First published July 23, 1999

Reviews

[Nickie]

Spring Term

[Mikayla]

Read it for Geography 201 and it was a fun textbook

[Michael Venzke]

this book gets credit for almost being a magazine-sytle textbook, something I've thought should be widespread.

unfortunately, it suffers from the really long annoying names for dinosaurs. It would be much easier to follow if they just assigned nicknames to all of them and left a key in the back.

[Mitchell]

Lots and lots of stuff about dinosaurs.

[William Wehling]

Kinda nerdy selection. Great information about anatomy and possible lifestyles of dinosaurs.