Author: William L. DeAndrea
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780380779321
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 116
Book Description
While searching for a baby dinosaur in the basement, 12-year-old Jon and his little brother step into a time warp and into a world filled with dinosaurs.
When Dinosaurs Ruled the Basement
Author: William L. DeAndrea
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780380779321
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 116
Book Description
While searching for a baby dinosaur in the basement, 12-year-old Jon and his little brother step into a time warp and into a world filled with dinosaurs.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780380779321
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 116
Book Description
While searching for a baby dinosaur in the basement, 12-year-old Jon and his little brother step into a time warp and into a world filled with dinosaurs.
When Dinosaurs Ruled
Author: Jean F. Blashfield
Publisher: Heinemann-Raintree Library
ISBN: 9781403476609
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 88
Book Description
Imagine a world with volcanoes erupting as a single supercontinent slowly breaks apart. Fierce creatures over 16 feet tall and 40 feet long with huge, sharp teeth. Flying reptiles with a 30-foot wingspan prowling the skies. This is not a nightmare vision. This is our planet, Earth, over 100 million years ago! Journey into the distant past with this book and witness the earliest events in what would become North America; when life flourished and the dinosaurs ruled the land, only to be wiped out when a meteorite from outer space exploded on Earth.
Publisher: Heinemann-Raintree Library
ISBN: 9781403476609
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 88
Book Description
Imagine a world with volcanoes erupting as a single supercontinent slowly breaks apart. Fierce creatures over 16 feet tall and 40 feet long with huge, sharp teeth. Flying reptiles with a 30-foot wingspan prowling the skies. This is not a nightmare vision. This is our planet, Earth, over 100 million years ago! Journey into the distant past with this book and witness the earliest events in what would become North America; when life flourished and the dinosaurs ruled the land, only to be wiped out when a meteorite from outer space exploded on Earth.
The Pizza that Time Forgot
Author: William L. DeAndrea
Publisher: HarperTrophy
ISBN: 9780380791552
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 130
Book Description
It's a perfect day for a pizza party in a treehouse, so Jon, Michael, and Gemma are enjoying theirs when the tree starts shaking violently and growing out of control. The three friends can't escape fast enough. But things are even weirder outside the treehouse. An alien twister is calmly eating their pizza. Gemma's house is gone, and the friends have somehow traveled a time warp-to 1899.
Publisher: HarperTrophy
ISBN: 9780380791552
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 130
Book Description
It's a perfect day for a pizza party in a treehouse, so Jon, Michael, and Gemma are enjoying theirs when the tree starts shaking violently and growing out of control. The three friends can't escape fast enough. But things are even weirder outside the treehouse. An alien twister is calmly eating their pizza. Gemma's house is gone, and the friends have somehow traveled a time warp-to 1899.
Passport's Illustrated Guide To
Author: Ben Davies
Publisher: NTC/Contemporary Publishing Company
ISBN: 9780658001529
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
Each guide includes fast facts with an A-to-Z of places of interest and easy-to-read, two-page spreads. Special features include "First Steps" before departure and "Getting Away from It All"Qoff-the-beaten-track pleasures. Also included in each guide are more than 200 color photos and color, detailed maps.
Publisher: NTC/Contemporary Publishing Company
ISBN: 9780658001529
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
Each guide includes fast facts with an A-to-Z of places of interest and easy-to-read, two-page spreads. Special features include "First Steps" before departure and "Getting Away from It All"Qoff-the-beaten-track pleasures. Also included in each guide are more than 200 color photos and color, detailed maps.
The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs
Author: Steve Brusatte
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 0062490451
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
"THE ULTIMATE DINOSAUR BIOGRAPHY," hails Scientific American: A thrilling new history of the age of dinosaurs, from one of our finest young scientists. "A masterpiece of science writing." —Washington Post A New York Times Bestseller • Goodreads Choice Awards Winner • A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: Smithsonian, Science Friday, The Times (London), Popular Mechanics, Science News "This is scientific storytelling at its most visceral, striding with the beasts through their Triassic dawn, Jurassic dominance, and abrupt demise in the Cretaceous." —Nature The dinosaurs. Sixty-six million years ago, the Earth’s most fearsome creatures vanished. Today they remain one of our planet’s great mysteries. Now The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs reveals their extraordinary, 200-million-year-long story as never before. In this captivating narrative (enlivened with more than seventy original illustrations and photographs), Steve Brusatte, a young American paleontologist who has emerged as one of the foremost stars of the field—naming fifteen new species and leading groundbreaking scientific studies and fieldwork—masterfully tells the complete, surprising, and new history of the dinosaurs, drawing on cutting-edge science to dramatically bring to life their lost world and illuminate their enigmatic origins, spectacular flourishing, astonishing diversity, cataclysmic extinction, and startling living legacy. Captivating and revelatory, The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs is a book for the ages. Brusatte traces the evolution of dinosaurs from their inauspicious start as small shadow dwellers—themselves the beneficiaries of a mass extinction caused by volcanic eruptions at the beginning of the Triassic period—into the dominant array of species every wide-eyed child memorizes today, T. rex, Triceratops, Brontosaurus, and more. This gifted scientist and writer re-creates the dinosaurs’ peak during the Jurassic and Cretaceous, when thousands of species thrived, and winged and feathered dinosaurs, the prehistoric ancestors of modern birds, emerged. The story continues to the end of the Cretaceous period, when a giant asteroid or comet struck the planet and nearly every dinosaur species (but not all) died out, in the most extraordinary extinction event in earth’s history, one full of lessons for today as we confront a “sixth extinction.” Brusatte also recalls compelling stories from his globe-trotting expeditions during one of the most exciting eras in dinosaur research—which he calls “a new golden age of discovery”—and offers thrilling accounts of some of the remarkable findings he and his colleagues have made, including primitive human-sized tyrannosaurs; monstrous carnivores even larger than T. rex; and paradigm-shifting feathered raptors from China. An electrifying scientific history that unearths the dinosaurs’ epic saga, The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs will be a definitive and treasured account for decades to come. Includes 75 images, world maps of the prehistoric earth, and a dinosaur family tree.
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 0062490451
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
"THE ULTIMATE DINOSAUR BIOGRAPHY," hails Scientific American: A thrilling new history of the age of dinosaurs, from one of our finest young scientists. "A masterpiece of science writing." —Washington Post A New York Times Bestseller • Goodreads Choice Awards Winner • A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: Smithsonian, Science Friday, The Times (London), Popular Mechanics, Science News "This is scientific storytelling at its most visceral, striding with the beasts through their Triassic dawn, Jurassic dominance, and abrupt demise in the Cretaceous." —Nature The dinosaurs. Sixty-six million years ago, the Earth’s most fearsome creatures vanished. Today they remain one of our planet’s great mysteries. Now The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs reveals their extraordinary, 200-million-year-long story as never before. In this captivating narrative (enlivened with more than seventy original illustrations and photographs), Steve Brusatte, a young American paleontologist who has emerged as one of the foremost stars of the field—naming fifteen new species and leading groundbreaking scientific studies and fieldwork—masterfully tells the complete, surprising, and new history of the dinosaurs, drawing on cutting-edge science to dramatically bring to life their lost world and illuminate their enigmatic origins, spectacular flourishing, astonishing diversity, cataclysmic extinction, and startling living legacy. Captivating and revelatory, The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs is a book for the ages. Brusatte traces the evolution of dinosaurs from their inauspicious start as small shadow dwellers—themselves the beneficiaries of a mass extinction caused by volcanic eruptions at the beginning of the Triassic period—into the dominant array of species every wide-eyed child memorizes today, T. rex, Triceratops, Brontosaurus, and more. This gifted scientist and writer re-creates the dinosaurs’ peak during the Jurassic and Cretaceous, when thousands of species thrived, and winged and feathered dinosaurs, the prehistoric ancestors of modern birds, emerged. The story continues to the end of the Cretaceous period, when a giant asteroid or comet struck the planet and nearly every dinosaur species (but not all) died out, in the most extraordinary extinction event in earth’s history, one full of lessons for today as we confront a “sixth extinction.” Brusatte also recalls compelling stories from his globe-trotting expeditions during one of the most exciting eras in dinosaur research—which he calls “a new golden age of discovery”—and offers thrilling accounts of some of the remarkable findings he and his colleagues have made, including primitive human-sized tyrannosaurs; monstrous carnivores even larger than T. rex; and paradigm-shifting feathered raptors from China. An electrifying scientific history that unearths the dinosaurs’ epic saga, The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs will be a definitive and treasured account for decades to come. Includes 75 images, world maps of the prehistoric earth, and a dinosaur family tree.
Incorporating Cultural Theory
Author: John O'Neill
Publisher: State University of New York Press
ISBN: 0791489213
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 222
Book Description
Incorporating Cultural Theory addresses the status of the body and sexuality in cultural criticism by focusing on issues of sexuality, intimacy, and identity. With a perspective grounded in body politics, O'Neill offers careful but contesting studies of theorists including Barthes, Derrida, Lyotard, Freud, Lacan, Hegel, Parsons, and Merleau-Ponty, that amplify his own overarching theoretical framework. Concluding chapters demonstrate the practicality of the author's body-political critical theory, offering analyses of Jurassic Park and the London Millennium Dome as cyborg practices designed to bypass the reproductive anxieties of bodies, families, and communities by shape-shifting the loss of a civic boundary. The overarching frame of the book—maternity at the millennium—provides a unique topic for using psychoanalysis to reconsider cultural studies, and O'Neill argues throughout for keeping cultural studies focused on wholeness and integration, instead of the fragmentation and alienation embraced by postmodern theoretical excesses.
Publisher: State University of New York Press
ISBN: 0791489213
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 222
Book Description
Incorporating Cultural Theory addresses the status of the body and sexuality in cultural criticism by focusing on issues of sexuality, intimacy, and identity. With a perspective grounded in body politics, O'Neill offers careful but contesting studies of theorists including Barthes, Derrida, Lyotard, Freud, Lacan, Hegel, Parsons, and Merleau-Ponty, that amplify his own overarching theoretical framework. Concluding chapters demonstrate the practicality of the author's body-political critical theory, offering analyses of Jurassic Park and the London Millennium Dome as cyborg practices designed to bypass the reproductive anxieties of bodies, families, and communities by shape-shifting the loss of a civic boundary. The overarching frame of the book—maternity at the millennium—provides a unique topic for using psychoanalysis to reconsider cultural studies, and O'Neill argues throughout for keeping cultural studies focused on wholeness and integration, instead of the fragmentation and alienation embraced by postmodern theoretical excesses.
The Armchair Detective
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Detective and mystery stories
Languages : en
Pages : 404
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Detective and mystery stories
Languages : en
Pages : 404
Book Description
The Dinosaurs of Waterhouse Hawkins
Author: Barbara Kerley
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
ISBN: 9780439114943
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 64
Book Description
An illuminating history of Mr. Waterhouse Hawkins artist and lecturer.
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
ISBN: 9780439114943
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 64
Book Description
An illuminating history of Mr. Waterhouse Hawkins artist and lecturer.
Idiot America
Author: Charles Pierce
Publisher: Anchor
ISBN: 0767926153
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
NATIONAL BESTSELLER The three Great Premises of Idiot America: · Any theory is valid if it sells books, soaks up ratings, or otherwise moves units · Anything can be true if someone says it loudly enough · Fact is that which enough people believe. Truth is determined by how fervently they believe it With his trademark wit and insight, veteran journalist Charles Pierce delivers a gut-wrenching, side-splitting lament about the glorification of ignorance in the United States. Pierce asks how a country founded on intellectual curiosity has somehow deteriorated into a nation of simpletons more apt to vote for an American Idol contestant than a presidential candidate. But his thunderous denunciation is also a secret call to action, as he hopes that somehow, being intelligent will stop being a stigma, and that pinheads will once again be pitied, not celebrated. Erudite and razor-sharp, Idiot America is at once an invigorating history lesson, a cutting cultural critique, and a bullish appeal to our smarter selves.
Publisher: Anchor
ISBN: 0767926153
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
NATIONAL BESTSELLER The three Great Premises of Idiot America: · Any theory is valid if it sells books, soaks up ratings, or otherwise moves units · Anything can be true if someone says it loudly enough · Fact is that which enough people believe. Truth is determined by how fervently they believe it With his trademark wit and insight, veteran journalist Charles Pierce delivers a gut-wrenching, side-splitting lament about the glorification of ignorance in the United States. Pierce asks how a country founded on intellectual curiosity has somehow deteriorated into a nation of simpletons more apt to vote for an American Idol contestant than a presidential candidate. But his thunderous denunciation is also a secret call to action, as he hopes that somehow, being intelligent will stop being a stigma, and that pinheads will once again be pitied, not celebrated. Erudite and razor-sharp, Idiot America is at once an invigorating history lesson, a cutting cultural critique, and a bullish appeal to our smarter selves.
Ravensclaw
Author: Maggie MacKeever
Publisher: Belgrave House
ISBN: 1610848632
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 277
Book Description
Emily Dinwiddie knows full well that fantastical beings exist. Will Count Revay-Czobar be a fiend so foul she cannot bear to look at him, let alone ask his help? Valentin Lupescu, Count Revay-Czobar, is bored. When Emily arrives on his doorstep, he sees in this freckled, bespectacled spinster the source of more amusement than he’s enjoyed in decades. Mystery, mayhem and madness in the dark streets of Regency Edinburgh’s Old Town. Regency Paranormal Romance by Maggie MacKeever; originally published by Zebra as Waltz with a Vampire
Publisher: Belgrave House
ISBN: 1610848632
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 277
Book Description
Emily Dinwiddie knows full well that fantastical beings exist. Will Count Revay-Czobar be a fiend so foul she cannot bear to look at him, let alone ask his help? Valentin Lupescu, Count Revay-Czobar, is bored. When Emily arrives on his doorstep, he sees in this freckled, bespectacled spinster the source of more amusement than he’s enjoyed in decades. Mystery, mayhem and madness in the dark streets of Regency Edinburgh’s Old Town. Regency Paranormal Romance by Maggie MacKeever; originally published by Zebra as Waltz with a Vampire