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1) Forensic art
Author
Publisher
Lucent Books
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
Examines the technique of forensic art, how it is used to solve crimes, and how it contributes to the conviction of criminals.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Tracing Roots is a portrait of an artist and a mystery. The film follows master weaver and Haida elder Delores Churchill on a journey to understand the origins of a spruce root hat found with Kwäday Dän Ts’ìnchi, the Long Ago Person Found, a 300-year-old traveler discovered in Northern Canada in a retreating glacier. Delores's quest crosses cultures and borders, involving artists, scholars and scientists, raising questions about the meaning of...
4) Déjà dead
Author
Series
Temperance Brennan mysteries volume 1
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
1997
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Crown
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"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 something new with the pile of broken mirrors that is loss...
6) Fatal voyage
Author
Series
Temperance Brennan mysteries volume 4
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
©2001
Language
English
Description
Tempe Brennan finds "a shocking, multilayered tale of deceit and depravity" and a disembodied foot that couldn't have been involved in the crash when she rushes to help at the scene of an Air TransSouth flight that's crashed in the mountains of western North Carolina.--Jacket.
Author
Publisher
Arcade Publishing
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"In her new book, Sue Black builds on the first [All That Remains], taking us on a guided tour of the human skeleton and explaining how each person's life history is revealed in their bones, which she calls "the last sentinels of our mortal life to bear witness to the way we lived it." Her narrative follows the skeleton from the top of the skull to the small bones in the foot. Each step of the journey includes an explanation of the biology--how the...
8) Body farms
Author
Publisher
Lucent Books
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
Explores the science of forensic anthropology and describes how body farms are used to further research developments in forensic science.
Publisher
[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
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.
10) Deadly décisions
Author
Series
Temperance Brennan mysteries volume 3
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2000
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
c2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 9.1 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Combining sensitivity and solid scientific style, Deem reveals the history the science of facial reconstruction, as well as the forgotten lives and the faces of the dead, to contemporary generations so that at last their stories can be told.
12) Bare bones
Author
Series
Temperance Brennan mysteries volume 6
Publisher
Scribner
Language
English
Formats
Author
Publisher
Carolrhoda Books
Pub. Date
©2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
This book reports on the work of forensic scientists who are excavating grave sites in James Fort, in Jamestown, Virginia, to understand the people who lived in the Chesapeake Bay area in the 1600s and 1700s.
14) Death du jour
Author
Series
Temperance Brennan mysteries volume 2
Language
English
Description
In the bitter cold of a Montreal winter, Temperance Brennan is digging for a corpse buried more than a century ago. Although Tempe thrives on such enigmas from the past, it's a chain of contemporary deaths and disappearances that has seized her attention, and she alone is ideally placed to make a chilling connection among the seemingly unrelated events. At the crime scene, at the morgue, and in the lab, Tempe probes a mystery that sweeps from a deadly...
16) Body of lies
Author
Series
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
2002
Language
English
Description
When a government official requests her skills at reconstruction to identify an unknown murder victim, forensic sculptor Eve Duncan is drawn into a web of betrayal and murder as she tries to unlock the secrets that someone wants to keep hidden.
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