My Beloved Brontosaurus: On the Road With old Bones, new Science, and our Favorite Dinosaurs [Audiobook] download free by Brian Switek
- Listen audiobook: My Beloved Brontosaurus: On the Road With old Bones, new Science, and our Favorite Dinosaurs
- Author: Brian Switek
- Release date: 2014/7/16
- Publisher: SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN
- Language: English
- Genre or Collection: Natural History
- ISBN: 9780374534264
- Rating: 9.23 of 10
- Votes: 163
- Review by: Atlas Keeler
- Review rating: 8.5 of 10
- Review Date: 2018/11/12
- Duration: 3H15M6S in 256 kbps (51.2 MB)
- Date of creation of the audiobook: 2018-08-16
- You can listen to this audiobook in formats: FLAC, MP3, MPEG-4 DST, MP4, WMA Lossless, WMA, WAV, MPEG4 (compression GZ, RAR, EML, TBZ, ZIP, LHA)
- Total pages original book: 256
- Includes a PDF summary of 28 pages
- Duration of the summary (audio): 20M31S (5.6 MB)
- Description or summary of the audiobook: One of Amazon's Best Science Books of 2013A Hudson Booksellers Staff Pick for the Best Books of 2013One of Publishers Weekly's Top Ten Spring Science BooksSelected by Apple's iBookstore as one of the best books of AprilA Bookshop Santa Cruz Staff PickDinosaurs, with their awe-inspiring size, terrifying claws and teeth, and otherworldly abilities, occupy a sacred place in our childhoods. They loom over museum halls, thunder through movies, and are a fundamental part of our collective imagination. In My Beloved Brontosaurus, the dinosaur fanatic Brian Switek enriches the childlike sense of wonder these amazing creatures instill in us. Investigating the latest discoveries in paleontology, he breathes new life into old bones. Switek reunites us with these mysterious creatures as he visits desolate excavation sites and hallowed museum vaults, exploring everything from the sex life of Apatosaurus and T. rex's feather-laden body to just why dinosaurs vanished. (And of course, on his journey, he celebrates the book's titular hero, 'Brontosaurus'-who suffered a second extinction when we learned he never existed at all-as a symbol of scientific progress.) With infectious enthusiasm, Switek questions what we've long held to be true about these beasts, weaving in stories from his obsession with dinosaurs, which started when he was just knee-high to a Stegosaurus. Endearing, surprising, and essential to our understanding of our own evolution and our place on Earth, My Beloved Brontosaurus is a book that dinosaur fans and anyone interested in scientific progress will cherish for years to come.
- Other categories, genre or collection: Popular Culture, Palaeontology, Dinosaurs & The Prehistoric World
- Download servers: FreakShare, Google Drive, Microsoft OneDrive, Depositfiles, BitShare, Torrent, Hotfile, Sync.com. Compressed in GZ, RAR, EML, TBZ, ZIP, LHA
- Format: Paperback
- Approximate value: 15.83 USD
- Dimensions: 140x208x23mm
- Weight: 227g
- Printed by: Not Available
- Published in: New York, United States
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