Re: First Book for Smart Dino Enthusiast

[christopher robert noto <crnoto@midway.uchicago.edu>]

I have found Fastovsky and Weishampel's book "The Evolution and Extinction
of the Dinosaurs" to be a good introductory text.  It's set up very much
like a textbook and the terms and concepts are usually well explained,
plus there are plenty of pictures and diagrams.

Hope this helps.

Chris

On Tue, 9 Jan 2001, Larry Dunn wrote:

> I have a friend who has newly acquired an interest in
> dinosaurs and he'd like to read a book about them. 
> 
> What in your opinion is the best non-technical book to
> get an intelligent person up to speed on the
> dinosaurs?  This would need to be a pretty thorough
> general survey, but, to reiterate, not technical.  
> 
> Would the new Scientific American book do the trick? 
> I haven't seen it yet.  Both of the recent big
> encyclopedias would be too technical.
> 
> TIA,
> 
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