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Author
Publisher
Mineola
Pub. Date
2019.
Description
Do you have what it takes to become a science sleuth? Of course you do! Discover how to gather clues and collect evidence to catch a thief, follow instructions to extract DNA from strawberries, take your own fingerprints, analyze handwriting, and much more. While you're having fun inspecting, detecting, and experimenting, you'll be learning all about the intriguing world of forensic science and its important role in real life.
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.9 - AR Pts: 10
Formats
Description
"A history of modern forensic science from the first test for arsenic poisoning in the 1700s to criminal profiling, fingerprinting, blood splatter analysis, DNA evidence, and all the milestones in between"--
"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...
Author
Publisher
Rourke Educational Media
Pub. Date
©2017
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 1
Description
From artists to statisticians to crime-scene engineers, forensic investigations rely on experts from all the STEAM fields. Discover how science, technology, engineering, art and math are used to discover clues, analyze evidence, identify suspects and victims, and pursue justice.
Author
Publisher
Chicago Review Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Description
"Crime novelist and former police officer Nigel McCrery provides an account of all the major areas of forensic science from around the world over the past two centuries. The book weaves dramatic narrative and scientific principles together in a way that allows readers to figure out crimes along with the experts. Readers are introduced to such fascinating figures as Dr. Edmond Locard, the "French Sherlock Holmes; " Edward Heinrich, "Wizard of Berkeley,...
Author
Description
Science journalist Deborah Blum shares the untold story of how poison rocked Jazz Age New York City. She tracks the perilous days when a pair of forensic scientists began their trailblazing chemical detective work, fighting to end an era when untraceable poisons offered an easy path to the perfect crime. Drama unfolds case by case as chief medical examiner Charles Norris and toxicologist Alexander Gettler investigate a family mysteriously stricken...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 27
Description
With Asperger's syndrome, teenager Jacob Hunt is unable to have the same kind of social life other boys his age have. However, like other kids with AS, he has homed in on one particular interest: forensic analysis. He normally shows up to crime scenes and helps solve the case, but this time he is the prime suspect. When a murder leads police to question Jacob, they interpret his AS symptoms as a sign of guilt and cast a very public spotlight on Jacob...
Author
Publisher
535
Pub. Date
2019
Description
In Traces, Professor Patricia Wiltshire will take you on a journey through the fascinating edge-land where nature and crime are intertwined. She'll take you on a journey searching for bodies of loved ones - through woodlands, along hedgerows, field-edges, and through plantations - solving time since death, and disposal of remains, from ditches to living rooms. She will give you glimpses of her own history: her loves, her losses, and the narrow, little...
14) Forensic science
Author
Series
Publisher
DK Publishing
Pub. Date
2008
Description
Text and photographs examine the scientific principles used in investigating crime scenes and suspects.
16) Forensics
Author
Series
Publisher
Kingfisher
Pub. Date
2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8 - AR Pts: 3
Description
Explore the crime lab with Forensics and discover how detectives use science to solve crimes. From the scene of the crime to a criminal's conviction, discover how the marks of blood, footprints, and fingerprints can lead the police to criminals. Find out how specialists can match trace evidence, such as a single hair found on a victim, to the murderer. Learn how famous crimes were solved and, like a true detective, find out whether it was arson, poison,...
17) Forensics
Author
Series
Publisher
Blackbirch Press
Pub. Date
2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 9.2 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Discusses the investigation by scientists and detectives of deaths that occur under mysterious circumstances, including how forensic science developed and how technology is transforming the field.
Author
Series
Publisher
John Wiley & Sons, Inc
Pub. Date
[2016]
Description
You've solved crimes alongside your favorite TV shows-- but how real is their "real-life" science? Lyle takes you inside the world of forensics, and shows you how it's really done, from the crime scene to the crime lab, and into the courtroom.
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