This book highlights a newly discovered T. Rex relative in China with a coat of downy feathers, which was made public in April 2012. Filled with engaging, lifelike illustrations, this volume explains how T. Rex was only one of many tyrannosaurs that lived on Earth for more than 100 million years. Full color.

Scientists consider Tyrannosaurus rex the king of dinosaurs, and readers will find out exactly why in this exciting book. With amazing color illustrations showing the fierce Tyrannosaurus rex hunting and eating on two legs, readers will see just how powerful and scary this prehistoric creature was. With razor-sharp teeth and more than 40 feet long, readers will be happy the T-rex lived long ago and isn’t around to snack on anything today!

Delve into the amazing world of T.rex - find out about its eating habits, those razor-sharp teeth and how it came to be the knog fo the prehistoric world.

Accompanying CD-ROM has supplementary materials related to chapters 7 (color images of the black and white figures in the book), 11 (Flash-animated movie about tyrannosaurid postures), and 13 (skull bone atlas).

A complete guide to dinosaur tracking. A popular science book on dinosaur footprints and what they reveal about dinosaurs and their habitats.

Everyone's favorite dinosaur comes to life in an all-new, dinosaur-skin textured handbook: the terrifying Tyrannosaurus rex! Discover the most dangerous predators that ever roamed the planet in this exciting new exploration of the T. Rex and other big, bad carnivores, featuring a unique cover that feels like dinosaur-skin!

Studies the cultural impact and audience reception of King Kong from the 1933 release of the original film until today. In Tracking King Kong Cynthia Erb charts the cultural significance of the character of King Kong, from the early 1930s, when Merian C. Cooper and Ernest B. Schoedsack’s classic film King Kong was first released, to Peter Jackson’s 2005 remake. Although King Kong has received much academic attention over the past twenty-five years, the bulk of these analyses deal with the film’s human characters rather than Kong himself. In this revised edition of an influential study, Erb argues that King Kong is a particular kind of cultural outsider who represents a cross-penetration of American notions of exoticism and monstrosity. Tracking King Kong considers problems such as race and gender in the King Kong tradition, as well as historical, international, and contemporary audience and fan responses to this classic film and its popular protagonist. Erb begins her examination of King Kong in the 1930s, when the original film was produced and released, extending through the 1970s, when the film and its hero reached the height of their cultural visibility in a remake by Dino De Laurentiis, and concluding with a look at Peter Jackson’s version in 2005. The book includes a detailed production history of the original 1933 film based on primary historical and archival sources; a genre study examining Kong’s relations to horror, jungle adventure, and travel documentary genres; an analysis of Kong’s influence on the Japanese film Godzilla; and a look at sequels, remakes, and spinoffs related to King Kong, such as Mighty Joe Young. Erb also analyzes Jackson’s remake of King Kong, to determine how and why Jackson revised the main character, casting him as a melancholy hero. The revised edition of Tracking King Kong updates a groundbreaking study of King Kong as the iconic character enters the twenty-first century. Scholars of film and television studies as well as general readers interested in film and popular culture will appreciate this significant volume.