Ask for advice: dinos and communication

[Silvio Renesto <silvio.renesto@uninsubria.it>]

Hi all,
        I am at last nearly settled in my new job and institution and thus 
I can re-start to pest you after having been offlist for a while ;-)
Among a lot of other, more pertinent, things I have been asked to give a 
lecture on "dinosaurs and media" under an historical and sociological point 
of view (!) for students in science of communication (don't ask me more) .
It should deal with the imagine and perception that people (both scholars 
and   laymen)    had of dinosaurs via the media (books, 
newspapers,  movies, TV and the like) from the very beginning (Buckland and 
the Deluge) to Bakker Dinosaur Renaissance and to more recent times. I have 
some stuff, but I wonder if you can address me to some good web resource on 
this topic  (I have already consulted the superb site of lindahall library...).
Thanks in advance,
You can reply offlist to my NEW e-mail address
silvio.renesto@uninsubria.it

Cheers,

                                                Silvio Renesto

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When people are born they are gentle and soft.
At death they are hard and stiff.
When plants are alive they are soft and delicate.
When they die, they wither and dry up.
Therefore the hard and stiff are followers of death.
The gentle and soft are the followers of life.

Thus, if you are aggressive and stiff, you won't win.
When a tree is hard enough, it is cut. Therefore
The hard and big are lesser,
The gentle and soft are greater.
                                (Lao Tzu)

Prof. Silvio Renesto
Department of Structural and Functional Biology
Università degli Studi dell'Insubria
via Dunant 3
21100 Varese
Tel. +39-0332-421560

e-mail: silvio.renesto@uninsubria.it