Children will marvel that in the time of the dinosaurs, even the deadliest predators had much to fear—eat or be eaten!

In a vividly illustrated book that will keep readers on the edge of their seats the life of a raptor 100 million years ago leaps off the page for boys and girls alike. North America was home to the deinonychus, or raptor. Follow one young raptor as he makes his way through the trials of a savage life. He must find a mate, hunt for food, deal with predators, and negotiate the dynamics of pack life. Can the raptor survive? Will he be able to lead his pack and protect his family? Raptor is filled with real archeological detail and stunningly lifelike illustrations, and dinosaur fans will embrace its fresh view of a carnivorous favorite and want to share it with all of their friends....

This work provides a unique, philosophical interpretation of a significant twentieth-century painter - Wassily Kandinsky. Michel Henry was one of the leading French philosophers of the twentieth century. His numerous works of philosophy are all organized around the theme of life. In contrast to the scientific understanding of life as a biological process, Henry's philosophy develops a conception of life as an immediate feeling of one's own living. "Seeing the Invisible" marks Henry's most sustained engagement in the field of aesthetics. Through an analysis of the life and works of Wassily Kandinsky, Henry uncovers the philosophical significance of Kandinsky's revolution in painting: that abstract art reveals the invisible essence of life.Henry shows that Kandinsky separates colour and line from the constraints of visible form and, in so doing, conveys the invisible intensity of life - a force rooted in the corporeity and pathos of all living beings. More than just a study of art history, this book presents Kandinsky as an artist who is engaged in the project of painting the invisible and thus offers invaluable methodological clues for Henry's own phenomenology of the invisible....

Material Phenomenology offers Michel Henry's most sustained investigation of Husserlian phenomenology. With painstaking detail and precision, Henry reveals the decisive methodological assumptions that led Husserlian phenomenology in the direction Idealism. Returning to the materiality of life, Henry's material phenomenology situates central phenomenological themes - intentionality, temporality, embodiment and intersubjectivity - within the full concreteness of life. This book is essential reading for those interested in the future of phenomenology or in a philosophy of life in the truest sense....