Overview
Gathering the core topics of forensic science into one comprehensive volume and providing an overview of each, """"Encyclopedia of Forensic Science, Revised Edition"""" is a revised and expanded version of the award-winning original with approximately 650 entries, more than 80 new to this edition. More than 12 essays are interspersed throughout this reliable A-to-Z reference, describing how forensic science relates to areas such as drug testing in sports, privacy concerns, misconceptions about forensic science, and the interface of forensic engineering and forensic science. The encyclopedia is richly illustrated with more than 200 black-and-white photographs and illustrations, plus a full-color insert containing photographs with depictions of firearms, tool marks, and DNA analysis. Most of the photographs were supplied by working forensic scientists in many different organizations.With updated appendixes aiding further research, this essential revised edition will remain the ultimate primer in the subject of forensic science for high school and college students alike. New and revised entries include: Accidental characteristics; Airplane crashes; Alchemy; Anthropology, forensic; Birch Method; Bloodstain patterns; Robert Boyle; Color and colorants; Crime labs (forensic labs); CSI and CSI effect; DNA wars; Dust analysis; Environmental forensics; Explosive power; Glove prints; Jack the Ripper; Lindbergh kidnapping; Madrid bombings; Albertus Magnus; Oaths and ordeals; Sir William Brooke O'Shaughnessy; Paracelsus; Rigor mortis; Single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP); Skeletal identification; Sir Bernard Spilsbury; Vinland Map; and, Zwikker test.
Full Product Details
Author: Suzanne Bell
Publisher: Facts On File Inc
Imprint: Facts On File Inc
Edition: Revised ed.
Dimensions:
Width: 22.10cm
, Height: 3.30cm
, Length: 27.70cm
Weight: 1.396kg
ISBN: 9780816067992
ISBN 10: 0816067996
Pages: 402
Publication Date: 30 June 2008
Audience:
College/higher education
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Primary & secondary/elementary & high school
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Tertiary & Higher Education
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Secondary
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: Awaiting stock
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Reviews
.,. [a] handsome, polished reference work...should be among the more frequently consulted reference works in public and university libraries.
.,. user friendly and accessible...a book with tremendous potential usage... Highly Recommended. .,. an excellent source... Essential... .,. will provide readers with a nuts-and-bolts understanding of the real world of forensic science... recommended... .,. [a] handsome, polished reference work...should be among the more frequently consulted reference works in public and university libraries.
Author Information
Suzanne Bell, Ph.D., has a degree in chemistry from New Mexico State University
