Norton, Laurah
Summary: "Fans of true crime shows like CSI, NCIS, Criminal Minds, and Law and Order know that when it comes to "getting the bad guy" behind bars, your best chance of success boils down to the strength of your evidence-and the forensic science used to obtain it. Beyond the silver screen, forensic science has been used for decades to help solve even the most tough-to-crack cases. In 2018, the accused...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Books 2023
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Summary: A forensic anthropologist and human anatomist recounts her life stories to explain how a person's life history is revealed through their bones.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Arcade Publishing 2021
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: In 2011, a group of amateur historians made an incredible archaeological find: the bones of King Richard III, hunchbacked, with an arrow through the spine. Now, scientists are testing the bones to find out more about the king and also conducting fascinating experiments to determine whether Richard could have fought so ferociously in battle with such a severe deformity.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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Place a hold to request this item.Koff, Clea.
Summary: Recounts seven important forensic fact-finding missions for the U.N. War Crimes Tribunal, a period during which the author, a Berkeley forensic anthropology graduate student, endured harrowing conditions while she investigated the disturbing killings of war victims.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 599.9 KOFHagerty, Alexa
Summary: "An anthropologist working with forensic teams and victims' families to investigate crimes against humanity in Latin America explores what science can tell us about the lives of the dead in this haunting account of grief, the power of ritual, and a quest for justice. "Exhumation can divide brothers and restore fathers, open old wounds and open the possibility of regeneration-of building...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown, an imprint of Random House 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 599.9 HAGJohansen, Iris.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 2002
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JOHJohansen, Iris.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Large Print 2002
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP M JOHReichs, Kathy.
Summary: Her plans for a romantic vacation interrupted by the discoveries of two murdered bodies and a small plane crash, Tempe Brennan traces leads to an isolated North Carolina farm.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2003
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam 1999
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Summary: Recounts the story of the Dozier School, a Florida reform school shut down in 2011 due to reports of cruelty, abuse, and mysterious deaths, and the efforts of the author, a leading forensic anthropologist, to locate and exhume the graves of the boys buried there in order to reunite them with their families.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 365.42 KIMBass, William M.
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Publisher / Publication Date: W. Morrow 2007
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 363.2562 BASSFerllini, Roxana.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Firefly Books 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 363.25 FERMcCrumb, Sharyn
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 1995
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MCCSummary: Central Ireland's waterlogged landscape is no ordinary ground. Here, the moist earth halts decomposition, perfectly preserving corpses from the prehistoric Iron Age, over 2,000 years ago.
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Publisher / Publication Date: WGBH Boston Video 2006
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV PERMann, Robert W.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 614.1 MANReichs, Kathy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2003
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Summary: A killer in Montreal is murdering and dismembering women, and police are getting nowhere. Forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan, a middle-aged lady from North Carolina, goes after him herself.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 1997
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC REISummary: This program provides a comprehensive introduction to the application of forensic science to crime scenes where human remains have been found. Promoting a team approach to crime scene analysis, Scott Fairgrieve, Tracy Oost, and Gerard Courtin, faculty members of the Department of Forensic Science at Laurentian University, cover the following topics: the decomposition timeline, identifying human...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010
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Summary: By grim coincidence, archaeologists are ideally suited by their conventional techniques to determine whether or not war crimes have been committed. This program looks at forensic archaeologist Richard Wright, whose work has greatly helped the international community in the pursuit of justice. The program shows details of his team's findings at the Ukrainian village of Serniki, proving with such...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: This ABC News program spotlights the work of Doug Owsley, curator at the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Natural History, who is a keen interpreter of the silent yet expressive language of bones. Owsley and his biographer, Jeff Benedict, give examples of how he has used bioarchaeology and forensic anthropology to unravel mysteries ranging from identifying an exhumed Civil War...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Heos, Bridget
Summary: "Blood, Bullets, and Bones provides young readers with a fresh and fascinating look at the ever-evolving science of forensics. Since the introduction of DNA testing, forensic science has been in the forefront of the public's imagination, thanks especiallyto popular television shows like CSI: Crime Scene Investigation. But forensic analysis has been practiced for thousands of years. Ancient...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Balzer + Bray 2016
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 364 HEOSummary: Sixteen skeletons-what is left of a 9th-century Mayan royal family-are discovered in the ancient city of Cancuen. Can their remains tell us anything about the collapse of the Mayan Empire? Did disease, starvation, or drought bring about that calamity? A crack team of experts from Guatemala's Forensic Anthropology Foundation uses its experience with wartime atrocities to investigate. While...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010
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Summary: Bubonic plague, starvation, maybe even cannibalism-such were the miseries of life in England's Jamestown settlement, circa 1609. Four centuries later, this program explores the colony's story with the help of dramatic reenactments and information on recent historical discoveries. Sophisticated forensics and archaeological methods reveal the contents of Jamestown graves, producing shocking...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010
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Bailey, Lisa
Summary: "Told with unflinching honesty and a touch of gallows humor, CLAY AND BONES is the personal memoir of the first female forensic sculptor in the FBI"--Front jacket flap.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chicago Review Press 2024