Evolution and Extinction of the Dinosaurs - Fastovsky, David E. (University of Rhode Island) a Weishampel, David B. (The Johns Hopkins University)

This is a comprehensive 2005 student textbook on dinosaurs that non-specialists will also find fascinating. It is the only comprehensive text that takes an explicitly phylogenetic approach to dinosaurs. The geological context of dinosaurs is also stressed, and dinosaurs are presented in the context of plate tectonic and climatic settings.