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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 363.25
EAN: 9780756618964
ISBN: 0756618967
Label: DK ADULT
Manufacturer: DK ADULT
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 144
Publication Date: May 01, 2006
Publisher: DK ADULT
Sales Rank: 103002
Studio: DK ADULT
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Book Description:
Using case studies and amazing digital imagery to show how science helps uncover the truth about how crimes were committed and who carried them out, this fact-filled guide explains the investigative powers of forensic science.
Average Rating: 
Rating:  -
This is not a textbook like Criminalistics but for quick reference and going through a few scenarios, it works for me.
Rating:  -
The ulimate guide to forensic science is well written , easy to understand informative for both individuals with a general interest in the topic and also for young people wishing to understand a career in forensic science. It is strictly a primer, as are most books in the colorful DK line. As such, it is a book that anyone can pick up to learn a general outline on many topics without being weighed down with too much technical information. A good basic book for the non-professional.
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This was a fantastic book. It had lots of case studies and heaps of glossy, colour diagrams, which made the text very easy to understand. It was technical yet very easy to understand and it was very detailed. A must read for all those interested in forensi science.
Rating:  -
This book's target audience is the Hardy Boys mystery crowd. While every page is filled with colorful photographs and great looking illustrations, the depth of information conveyed is extremely thin. While the scope of the material is broad, covering crimes from homicide to cybercrime, you won't learn much about any real criminal investigation beyond what you'd learn from your average dime store crime novel series.
As a reader-friendly overview, it's fine. If, for instance, you happen ... Read More
Rating:  -
I was really, really disappointed in this book. There is very little information in it, other than the broadest strokes of information about forensics. It is disjointed. Even the photographs are often totally wasted, such as models posed as victims without illustrating *anything* -- just photographs of some guy or girl in a pool of blood, or tied up.
ake, for example, fingerprints. There is like one sentence that says, basically, sometimes iodine vapor is used but it turns things brown ... Read More
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