Kenneth A Carpenter

Dinosaur Systematics: Approaches and Perspectives

In recent years dinosaurs have captured the attention of the public at an unprecedented level. At the heart of this resurgence in popular interest is an increased level of research activity, much of which is innovative in the field of paleontology. For instance, whereas earlier paleontological studi...

Mesozoic Vertebrate Life:

This collective volume presents the current knowledge about the Mesozoic reptiles of Patagonia. This is the first book to ever to examine the Mesozoic era in the English language, and the first in any language to treat it in an entire decade. The contributors cover a great amount of material, descri...

The Armored Dinosaurs (Life of the Past)

Armored dinosaurs were some of the earliest dinosaurs named, including the ankylosaur Hylaeosaurus in 1833 and Stegosaurus in 1877. But these armored dinosaurs, or thyreophorans, have been the least studied group because they lack the visceral appeal of Tyrannosaurus and the fossil abundance of cera...

Dinosaur Eggs and Babies

In the last couple of decades the study of dinosaur eggs and babies has proved to be one of the most exciting and profitable areas of dinosaur research. This is the first book solely devoted to this topic and reviews, in scientific detail, our present state of knowledge about this exciting area of p...

The Carnivorous Dinosaurs (Life of the Past)

The meat-eating dinosaurs, or Theropoda, include some of the fiercest predators that ever lived. Some of the group’s members survive to this day—as birds. The theropod/bird connection has been explored in several recent works, but this book presents 17 papers on a variety of other topics. It is orga...

The History of Scurvy and Vitamin C

The first modern survey of the long and fascinating history of the various ideas and theories about the cause of scurvy, the nutritional deficiency disease that has caused (with the exception of famine) the most human suffering in recorded history. Professor Carpenter documents the arguments that le...

Tyrannosaurus rex, the Tyrant King (Life of the Past)

With its massive head, enormous jaws, and formidable teeth, Tyrannosaurus rex has long been the young person's favorite creepy carnivore in the Mesozoic zoo. Nor has T. rex been ignored by the scientific community, as this new collection amply demonstrates. Scientists explore such questions as why T...

Thunder-Lizards: The Sauropodomorph Dinosaurs (Life of the Past)

The large, quadrupedal herbivores known as sauropods were widespread around the planet from the Jurassic to the end of the Cretaceous. With the longest necks and tails of all of the dinosaurs, some sauropods were 40 meters in length and weighed upwards of 100,000 kilograms, more than 20 tons. The po...

Ken Carpenter (athlete)

William Kenneth ("Ken") Carpenter (April 19, 1913 March 15, 1984) was the USC's first two-time NCAA champion in a weight event. In 1936, Carpenter...

Kenneth Carpenter

Kenneth Carpenter (born September 21, 1949 in Tokyo, Japan) is a paleontologist. He is the museum director of the USU Eastern Prehistoric Museum and...

Beriberi, White Rice, and Vitamin B: A Disease, a Cause, and a Cure

Bereberi, White Rice, and Vitamin B: A Disease, a Cause, and a Cure

The History of Scurvy and Vitamin C

The History of Scurvy and Vitamin C

Protein and Energy: A Study of Changing Ideas in Nutrition

Beriberi, White Rice, and Vitamin B: A Disease, a Cause, and a Cure

Eggs, Nests, and Baby Dinosaurs: A Look at Dinosaur Reproduction

Mesozoic Vertebrate Life