Dinomania

From Jurassic Park to Sue the T-Rex and Barney, our dino love affair is as real, as astonishing, and as incomprehensible as the gargantuan beasts themselves. At once reptilian and avian, dinosaurs enable us to imagine a world far beyond the usual boundaries of time, culture, and physiology. We envision them in diverse and contradictory ways, from purple friends to toothy terrors—reflecting, in part, our changing conceptions of ourselves. Not unlike humans today, dinosaurs seem at once powerful, almost godly, and helpless in the face of cosmic forces even more powerful than themselves. In Dinomania, Boria Sax, a leading authority on human-animal relations, tells the story of our unlikely romance with the titanic saurians, from the discovery of their enormous bones—relics of an ancient world—to the dinosaur theme parks of today. That discovery, around the start of the nineteenth century, was intimately tied to our growing awareness of geological time and the dawn of the industrial era. Dinosaurs’ vast size and power called to mind railroads, battleships, and factories, making them, paradoxically, emblems of modernity. But at the same time, their world was nature at its most pristine and unsullied, the perfect symbol of childhood innocence and wonder. Sax concludes that in our imaginations dinosaurs essentially are, and always have been, dragons; and as we enter a new era of environmental threats in which dinos provide us a way to confront indirectly the possibility of human extinction, their representation is again blending with the myth and legend from which it emerged at the start of the modern age. Fun and ferocious, and featuring many superb illustrations of dinosaurs from art, popular culture, film, and advertising, Dinomania is a thought-provoking homage to humanity's enduring dinosaur amour.

Winsor McCay, the creator of Little Nemo in Slumberland, is internationally renowned as a pioneer in comics and animation. But author Ulrich Merkl’s dedicated sleuthing has unearthed a never-published strip by McCay that was lost following the artist’s untimely death. Titled simply Dino, it opens a surprising new window into McCay’s life and work and showcases his exquisitely beautiful and delicate delineations (exactingly reproduced from the original art). Merkl explores the influences McCay brought to the strip―including McCay’s own Gertie the Dinosaur animated shorts, the animation in 1933’s King Kong, and the growth of New York City from the Holland Tunnel to the Empire State Building ―and traces our love of dinosaurs and monster movies down through the decades. Breathtakingly designed, each page of this deluxe oversize volume is overflowing with amazing imagery, with more than 650 photographs and illustrations (more than 250 in color) ― most of them seen here for the first time in a century! An essential volume for everyone interested in the development of the comic strip ― and our never-ending fascination with dinosaurs!

Imagine there's a real Jurassic Park right around the block--wouldn't that be super? These dinosaur activities, projects, and other fun things to do are the next best thing. Journey back to ancient times with a prehistoric quiz that sets the facts straight on whether dinos could fly, if the largest dinosaurs dragged their tails on the ground, and what the complete skeleton of a T-Rex looks like. Identify different dinosaurs by their silhouettes. Flip through history with stick figure animations you make yourself. Learn about fossils and where to find them. The art's great, too: you'll see pictures of a fossilized tooth (actual size), an enlargement of an iguana, the image of an iguanodon, and more.

The intersection of science, myth, and popular culture is explored through the story of T. Rex, from the nineteenth-century discovery of his fossil remains to his glorification in popular culture.

With an Apatosaurus as a guide, Colin and Emma must dance their way through the Days of the Dinosaur--an island in a psychedelic prehistoric times--to rescue their friend Leo from the Tyrannosaurus Rex. But Colin has another mission: To gain the love of Rose, the Apatosaurus of his dreams. Will Colin and his crew be able to rescue their friend by beating the Tyrannosaurus Rex in his Ultimate Dinosaur Dance-Off? Will Colin be able to fulfill his lifelong dream of mating with an Apatosaurus?

Welcome to the world of Bible games! In this latest resource for today's busy teachers, veteran children's evangelist Ed Dunlop presents one of the most exciting teaching methods of all times. Book jacket.

From fads to fungus, baseball to beeswax, Gould always circles back to the great themes of time, change, and history, carrying readers home to the centering theme of evolution.

Mitchell shows why we are so attached to the myth and the reality of the "terrible lizards.".