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The Carnivorous Dinosaurs (Life of the Past)

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Maybe I'm a bit biased, because I have a paper in this volume, but I think that this book presents a good grouping of papers to help understand modern theropod research. There's some serious cutting edge stuff in here, along with some new taxa being described. That said, its not for beginners. This is a professional volume, designed and written for paleontologists and serious amatures. If you haven't read other scientific papers about dinosaurs, this may not be the place to start.

Not for beginners, but most people who are familiar with scientific journals will enjoy this book. A good find for either the casual scientific reader or the enthusiast.

The fact that it has a Carnotaurus sastrei on the front cover also certainly helps!

First, this is NOT A BOOK FOR A KID WHO IS INTERESTED IN DINOSAURS. This book is a scientific (should have put that in quotation marks) text designed for the serious researcher. The title implies that a review of the carnivorous dinosaurs will be provided, however the papers presented within are barely a sniff of the frosting of the multi-layered theropod cake. This book suffers from almost ever defect possible in a text. There are numerous typos, reflecting poor copy-editing. The illustrations have reproduced very poorly, but given the low-quality paper used in the printing, this is not surprising. Some of the figures submitted by the authors are also of low quality, so Indiana isn't wholly to blame. In summary, DO NOT PURCHASE FOR A KID OR ADULT WHO IS INTERESTED IN DINOSAURS. Get the Dinosauria instead, which has lovely figures and in-depth information that will stimulate minds rather than bore or frustrate them.