Dinomania : why we love, fear and are utterly enchanted by dinosaurs
Sax, Boria2018
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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.
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London : Reaktion Books, 2018.
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264 pages : illustrations (black and white, and colour) ; 23 cm
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9781789140040 (hbk)
Dewey class:
567.9
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English
BRN:
2683429
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