Ever since Jurassic Park we thought we knew how dinosaurs lived their lives. In this remarkable new book, Brian J. Ford reveals that dinosaurs were, in fact, profoundly different from what we believe, and their environment was unlike anything we have previously thought.
In this meticulous and absorbing account, Ford reviews the latest scientific evidence to show that the popular accounts of dinosaurs’ lives contain ideas that are no more than convenient inventions: how dinosaurs mated, how they hunted and communicated, how they nursed their young, even how they moved. He uncovers many surprising details which challenge our most deeply-held beliefs – such as the revelation that an asteroid impact did not end the dinosaurs’ existence.
Professor Ford’s illuminating examination changes everything. As he unravels the history of the world, we discover that evolution was not Charles Darwin’s idea; there were many philosophers who published the theory before him. The concept of continental drift and plate tectonics did not begin with Alfred Wegener a century ago, but dates back to learned pioneers hundreds of years before his time. Ever since scientists first began to study dinosaurs, they have travelled with each other down the wrong path, and Ford now shows how this entire branch of science has to be rewritten.
A new dinosaur species is announced every ten days, and more and more information is currently being discovered about how they may have lived: locomotion, hunting, nesting behaviour, distribution, extinction. Ford brings together these amazing discoveries in this controversial new book which undoubtedly will ruffle a few feathers, or scales if you are an old-school dinosaur lover.

Too Big to Walk: The New Science of Dinosaurs

History

Ford, Brian J.

Americas

William Collins

Traces the history of the microscope, looks at how the first specimens were prepared by Antony van Leeuwenhoek in the seventeenth century, and describes how the microscope has shaped the development of science

Single Lens: The Story of the Simple Microscope

Science & Math

Experiments, Instruments & Measurement

Harpercollins

This spectacularly illustrated book chronicles the exciting progress of scientific investigation through the ages as it has been mirrored in the art used to document its ideas and breakthroughs. From the cave paintings of prehistory through the ancient civilizations of Egypt, Assyria, and Greece to Renaissance drawings and modern microscopy, these images reveal the hidden influences and cultural pressures of their times in addition to chronicling and communicating a wealth of contemporary observation and knowledge. The author has organized each section of this survey by taking some of the earliest surviving examples of illustration, and moving through time to the present. Thus separate chapters focus on the animal world, herbs and the birth of botany, physics and the science of non-living matter, mankind in the world; the world in space; and other seminal topics. This organization, and its freedom from a fixed chronology, has enabled the author to show science actually shaping its own story, with surprisingly sophisticated images emerging centuries in advance of today's high-tech instrumentation. The illustrations--most of which are from the British Library collections--have been chosen from among the best preserved in the world, some never before reproduced. All help to show how scientific illustration first arose; how it mirrored in many ways the value systems of the science of its time; how images were borrowed, transformed, and occasionally came to predict future discoveries; and how science evolved from one breathtaking era to the next. This is a work that will stimulate and inspire all readers interested in art and science, and the ingenuity of the scientific mind.

Images of Science: A History of Scientific Illustration

Oxford University Press

The Food Book

Cookbooks, Food & Wine

Hamish Hamilton

Genes: the Fight for Life looks at developments in the life sciences and tells us all what we need to know, in a style that can be enjoyably understood. Cells and chromosomes, viruses and bacteria, are all carefully explained. There emerges a startling new theory about the origins of behaviour. Human nature, it seems, lies in our cells.

Genes: The Fight for Life

Biological Sciences

UNKNO

Allied Secret Weapons: The War of Science

History & Philosophy

Ballantine

Microbe power: Tomorrow's revolution

STEIN AND DAY.

Our future depends on food: it controls our health, underpins social structures, and helps dictate the political agenda. Among the crucial issues discussed in this challenging study of food by the eminent biologist Brian J. Ford are new food-borne diseases and the dietary needs of the young, the elderly, and women. He examines the complex questions of genetically modified food and provides important insights into food intolerance and life-threatening allergies, the relationship between food and culture, organic farming, the impact of climate change, and how revolutionary new foods will change the world.

The Future of Food (Prospects for Tomorrow)

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Diets & Weight Loss

Thames&Hudson

First edition. "A detailed and very accessible account of the development of scientific illustration from the works of the earliest civilization to the dawn of modern science." Many illustrations including a number in color. Jacket spine faded. viii, 208 pages. cloth, dust jacket.. 4to..

Arts & Photography

History & Criticism

The British Library Publishing D

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