Dinosaurs: How They Lived and Evolved Hardcover – Illustrated, 11 Oct. 2016

Authors Darren Naish and Paul Barrett deserve the highest praise for producing such a well researched, comprehensive, very readable, helpfully illustrated and all round accessible work as this certainly is. The well known saying, 'good wine needs no bush', is very appropriate here. Some works, which have a whole string of famous people recommending them, fall flat on their face when compared with this wonderful book, which has no such recommendations. This work takes the reader step by step through the world of dinosaurs, which are still with us today in the form of birds.The book is divided into six sections.1: History, origins and the dinosaurs' world.2: The Dinosaur Family Tree.3: Anatomy.4: Biology, Ecology and Behaviour.5: The Origin of Birds.5: The Great Extinction and Beyond.There's glossary, a further information section, an index and credits.The authors entirely avoid the disrupting error of including irrelevant personal details about themselves, an annoyance that imposes an unnecessary distraction on the reader. Another helpful thing about this work is that it's the best companion ever to other leading works about dinosaurs. It brings their information together along with the very latest discoveries. You can go to another relevant work and then relate it to the information in this book plus accessing the best recommended websites and so on. For those of us who still prefer owning real books this one is of immense value. In it the reader will get to know dinosaurs in the most fascinating, wonderful way possible.

I did not dislike anything about the book.

The information and the related Illustrations are perfect. You don't have to read the book from page one tot the last, but you can pick out a subject. That will guide you to what you need to know and lead you to one or another chapter. I discovered this book thanks to Amazon who always send updates about your interests.

Bought this for my boyfriend for Christmas and wow!! I could not have bought a better present! Because it is such a recent book, there is more up to date information about dinosaurs that we have discovered. He has told me that this book completely differs to all other dinosaur books because it explains how dinosaurs were the same but also how each species were different which is (apparently) a really hard find. The art work is spectacular too. He also said if he had a friend who was interested in dinosaurs, he would 100% recommended this book. It is literally the best present I have ever bought!

Got it for my 12 year old who loves prehistoric life And has a higher than average reading age. He has outgrown most of the kids dinosaur books and then there is a gap so we have trouble finding books that aren’t intellectual enough but not universit text books. I thought this book might bridge it, but it is a little advanced for him. My husband however, found it fascinating, and he is not known to be a dinosaur fan. I think my son may grow into it in a few years.best for maybe 15+.

As should be immediately obvious from the bold choice of cover image, this book is fully aware of the huge changes in the scientific view of dinosaurs from the slow lumbering monsters of yore to the active bird ancestors of today. The tone is scientific but accessible, and the changes for the second edition show that it's right up to date - far too many books of the type simply regurgitate outdated theories and reconstructions. It's great that there's a market for this level of accessible science (see also Mark Witton's Pterosaurs, another gorgeously illustrated work that is accessible to the lay reader).One comment on whether it's suitable for kids - it'll depend on their confidence in reading and their interest in dinosaurs! As a ten year old I would have loved it, and there's nothing like a subject a child is fascinated by to encourage them to stretch their comprehension skills, but I wouldn't expect a five year old to be rivetted by it as a bedtime story!

Clearly an author that knows his stuff, this book had lots of up to date and quite adult type information in it like the terriffic family trees for the different species. Good content about the feathered discoveries. Would recommend to a nerdy dino fan but not for young children.

a very interesting guide into the pre history a large number of different views on dino types. They explore ideas of certain dinosaurs found being either juveniles or different species.