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Nota de desambiguació:
(eng) Riley Black is trans. Please do not change gender or pronouns on this page based on older interviews and publicity materials referring to her as male.
Crèdit de la imatge: Riley Black
Obres de Riley Black
My Beloved Brontosaurus: On the Road with Old Bones, New Science, and Our Favorite Dinosaurs (2013) 265 exemplars
The Last Days of the Dinosaurs: An Asteroid, Extinction, and the Beginning of Our World (2022) 177 exemplars
Etiquetat
Coneixement comú
- Nom normalitzat
- Black, Riley
- Nom oficial
- Black, Riley
- Altres noms
- Switek, Brian (birth name)
- Data de naixement
- 1983-02-26
- Gènere
- female
- Nacionalitat
- USA
- País (per posar en el mapa)
- USA
- Professions
- vertebrate paleontologist
science writer - Organitzacions
- New Jersey State Museum
- Biografia breu
- Riley Black is a science writer and research associate at the New Jersey State Museum who has done fieldwork on fossils in Utah, Montana, and Wyoming. She has been a frequent guest on the BBC and has written about paleontology for the Smithsonian magazine, London Times, Wired Science, Eureka and elsewhere. She is also the author of the acclaimed science blog Laelaps and Smithsonian magazine’s Dinosaur Tracking. Written in Stone is her first book.
Riley Black's deadname is Brian Switek, under which her books have been published. - Nota de desambiguació
- Riley Black is trans. Please do not change gender or pronouns on this page based on older interviews and publicity materials referring to her as male.
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Last Days of the Dinosaurs de Riley Black
I thought this was an interesting and entertainingly written book that told the story of our planet in a manner I haven't previously seen. That said, it needed better editing to avoid the extensive repetition (including the repeated use of the exact same adjectives and phrases). The author's style also mixes known facts and conjecture without noting which is which. While the book does include an extensive explanation at the end of the book as to what is fact and what is potentially fiction, I would have far preferred knowing which was which throughout the entire book, not just as an addendum. I'd recommend the book with those warnings.… (més)
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Who doesn't love dinosaurs? For almost everyone, childhood includes some moment of fascination with dinosaurs, and yet what we know about dinosaurs is constantly changing as our technology improves. The author writes this book as a love letter to dinosaurs, but also from an adult perspective that includes an important reality: that loving dinosaurs stops being cool. Despite the scientific importance of continued research and exploration into Earth's history, dinosaurs are somehow left in childhood. This book explores the evolution of our knowledge of dinosaurs, as well as rebuilds a foundation of dinosaur information. A great informational book written with style and enthusiasm, ideal for middle level readers and above.… (més)
The editors were between a rock and a hard place. If they had taken out the extremely repetitious and boring comments on evolution, the book would have been too short to publish.
Without those lectures this had the potential to become a good book.
Without those lectures this had the potential to become a good book.
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Estadístiques
- Obres
- 10
- Membres
- 866
- Popularitat
- #29,561
- Valoració
- 3.9
- Ressenyes
- 27
- ISBN
- 40
- Llengües
- 3
- Preferit
- 1
- Pedres de toc
- 11
