Greenhouse Of The Dinosaurs

Author : Donald R. Prothero
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231146604
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Greenhouse of the Dinosaurs written by Donald R. Prothero and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Donald R. Prothero's science books combine leading research with first-person narratives of discovery, injecting warmth and familiarity into a profession that has much to offer nonspecialists. Bringing his trademark style and wit to an increasingly relevant subject of concern, Prothero links the climate changes that have occurred over the past 200 million years to their effects on plants and animals. In particular, he contrasts the extinctions that ended the Cretaceous period, which wiped out the dinosaurs, with those of the later Eocene and Oligocene epochs. Prothero begins with the "greenhouse of the dinosaurs," the global-warming episode that dominated the Age of Dinosaurs and the early Age of Mammals. He describes the remarkable creatures that once populated the earth and draws on his experiences collecting fossils in the Big Badlands of South Dakota to sketch their world. Prothero then discusses the growth of the first Antarctic glaciers, which marked the Eocene-Oligocene transition, and shares his own anecdotes of excavations and controversies among colleagues that have shaped our understanding of the contemporary and prehistoric world. The volume concludes with observations about Nisqually Glacier and other locations that show how global warming is happening much quicker than previously predicted, irrevocably changing the balance of the earth's thermostat. Engaging scientists and general readers alike, Greenhouse of the Dinosaurs connects events across thousands of millennia to make clear the human threat to natural climate change.

Author : Stacey Murphy
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781541206632
Total Pages : 30 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book My Dinosaur Farted in My Greenhouse written by Stacey Murphy and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-12-20 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Get your kids excited about composting and gardening! If you're looking for a way to talk about fresh food and greens away from the dinner table, fantastical tales of dinosaurs can help you convince your kids and grandkids that vegetables don't have to be boring! This book will have you and your family journeying with the League of Underground Micro-Heroes as they create compost to heal Nya's garden soil. Be ready to compost after reading this book with your kids! After seeing all the incredible creatures who help create compost, they are going to want to do this! And what's the deal with a dinosaur farting in a greenhouse? You'll have to read to find out. This is a triumphant tale of one brontosaurus, the League of Underground Micro-Heroes, two best friends, a doctor of compost and growing healthy and strong. That's the power of compost and gardening! We know you and your kids are going to get lost in these amazing illustrations by farmer and activist Eileen Schaeffer!

Author : Cole Wayne Greenhouse
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781495404009
Total Pages : 30 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dinosaur of the Darkness written by Cole Wayne Greenhouse and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2014-01-12 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A tale of dinosaur discovery. Written and illustrated by author Cole W. Greenhouse, this edition includes the rare ashcan copy of Cole's exciting adventure. This gives an inside look into the creative process.

Author : Liza Donnelly
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780590431729
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dinosaur Garden written by Liza Donnelly and published by . This book was released on 1991-02-01 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Rex plants a dinosaur garden to attract dinosaurs, an unexpected thing happens.

Author : Allen A. Debus
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 0786499516
Total Pages : 325 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dinosaurs Ever Evolving written by Allen A. Debus and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2016-06-07 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From their discovery in the 19th century to the dawn of the Nuclear Age, dinosaurs were seen in popular culture as ambassadors of the geological past and as icons of the "life through time" narrative of evolution. They took on a more foreboding character during the Cold War, serving as a warning to mankind with the advent of the hydrogen bomb. As fears of human extinction escalated during the ecological movement of the 1970s, dinosaurs communicated their metaphorical message of extinction, urging us from our destructive path. Using an eclectic variety of examples, this book outlines the three-fold "evolution" of dinosaurs and other prehistoric monsters in pop culture, from their poorly understood beginnings to the 21st century.

Author : Caryl Hart
Publisher : Koala Books
ISBN 13 : 9780864619525
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book How to Grow a Dinosaur written by Caryl Hart and published by Koala Books. This book was released on 2011 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Donald R. Prothero
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0253000556
Total Pages : 393 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book After the Dinosaurs written by Donald R. Prothero and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2006-07-13 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fascinating study of the thousands of new animal species that walked in the footsteps of the dinosaurs—and the climate changes that brought them forth. The fascinating group of animals called dinosaurs became extinct some 65 million years ago (except for their feathered descendants). In their place evolved an enormous variety of land creatures, especially mammals, which in their way were every bit as remarkable as their Mesozoic cousins. The Age of Mammals, the Cenozoic Era, has never had its Jurassic Park, but it was an amazing time in earth’s history, populated by a wonderful assortment of bizarre animals. The rapid evolution of thousands of species of mammals brought forth many incredible creatures―including our own ancestors. Their story is part of a larger story of new life emerging from the greenhouse conditions of the Mesozoic, warming up dramatically about 55 million years ago, and then cooling rapidly so that 33 million years ago the glacial ice returned. The earth’s vegetation went through equally dramatic changes, from tropical jungles in Montana and forests at the poles. Life in the sea underwent striking evolution reflecting global climate change, including the emergence of such creatures as giant sharks, seals, sea lions, dolphins, and whales. Engaging and insightful, After the Dinosaurs is a book for everyone who has an abiding fascination with the remarkable life of the past.

Author : Donald R. Prothero
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 1421401479
Total Pages : 358 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Catastrophes! written by Donald R. Prothero and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2011-04-01 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Devastating natural disasters have profoundly shaped human history, leaving us with a respect for the mighty power of the earth—and a humbling view of our future. Paleontologist and geologist Donald R. Prothero tells the harrowing human stories behind these catastrophic events. Prothero describes in gripping detail some of the most important natural disasters in history: • the New Madrid, Missouri, earthquakes of 1811–1812 that caused church bells to ring in Boston • the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami that killed more than 230,000 people • the massive volcanic eruptions of Krakatau, Mount Tambora, Mount Vesuvius, Mount St. Helens, and Nevado del Ruiz His clear and straightforward explanations of the forces that caused these disasters accompany gut-wrenching accounts of terrifying human experiences and a staggering loss of human life. Floods that wash out whole regions, earthquakes that level a single country, hurricanes that destroy everything in their path—all are here to remind us of how little control we have over the natural world. Dramatic photographs and eyewitness accounts recall the devastation wrought by these events, and the people—both heroes and fools—that are caught up in the earth's relentless forces. Eerie, fascinating, and often moving, these tales of geologic history and human fortitude and folly will stay with you long after you put the book down.

Author : Steve Brusatte
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0062490451
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs written by Steve Brusatte and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2018-04-24 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "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.

Author : Zhenjiang Shen
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319700251
Total Pages : 335 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Green City Planning and Practices in Asian Cities written by Zhenjiang Shen and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-03-21 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Urban planners across the world are faced with sustainable development issues in their work, especially when they are tasked with creating green cities or where sustainable and smart growth in urban settings are set as primary goals. This book introduces green city planning and practices from the three dimensions of green-building innovation, community development and smart city strategies, and argues that effective implementation of green city planning are a necessary pre-condition for reaching sustainable urban development. A range of authors representing a broad disciplinary spectrum bring together the different standards of green building methods and urban design techniques and clearly sketch the roles of both spatial designers and urban researchers in the implementation of green city planning at regional, community and single-building level in order to arrive at an integrated approach across different scales.