Crime scene investigation is hotter than ever, and kids everywhere will love learning about how their favorite detectives use science to figure out unsolvable thefts, arsons, mysteries, and more. "CSI Expert!: Forensic Science for Kids" includes more than 25 in-depth activities on fingerprinting, evidence collection, blood-stain identification, ...
The only way to deal effectively with terrorism is to have a thorough understanding of its present-day characteristics. Who is involved and what weapons and tactics are they likely to use? The players on the counterterrorism team need to take stock of what is in their tool kits; what works and what doesn't work; and what new capabilities need to ...
Building on articles previously published in "The Lancet", this handbook is essential for busy clinicians and active researchers interested in research methods in epidemiology. The needs of clinicians predominate throughout the text, but these needs overlap with those of researchers especially in chapters covering randomized controlled trials. For ...
This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Modeling and Retrieval of Context, MRC 2005, held in Edinburgh, UK in July/August 2005, as associated event of the 19th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, IJCAI 2005. The 9 revised full papers presented were carefully ...
With more than 130 photos, this authoritative book has the straight scoop on the record-breaking achievements in every major sport. Want to know who did what, where, when, and how? More than just a book of statistics, these are the in-depth stories behind over 400 sports records, all told with the edge-of-your-seat excitement that brings you right ...
On September 11, 2001, the world was put on notice: terrorism can strike anytime! anywhere! anyone. You are told to go about your daily life - but to be vigilant of your surroundings. You are told that trying to do a cursory profile on potential terrorists is futile because their commonality goes deeper than the surface. With this in mind, what do ...
This book provides a comprehensive analysis of family caregiving for adults who are dependent because of chronic illness. Focusing on five specific diseases - Alzheimer's, cancer, chronic mental illness, heart disease and stroke - the authors present and assess existing research and practice relating to family caregiving.
A grizzly bear emerges, one small detail in an immense vista of field and mountains and sky. A shoreline, still and empty but for the telltale tracks of passing wildlife. Golden peaks that roll to the horizon, starkly beautiful in the morning light. This kind of space, of solitude????????????of simple wildness????????????still exists in North ...
Your students become detectives as they analyze evidence and participate in real-life forensic labs as part of the mock crime scene investigation in Crime Scene Detective: Theft.
With more than 130 photos, this authoritative book has the straight scoop on the record-breaking achievements in every major sport. Want to know who did what, where, when, and how? More than just a book of statistics, these are the in-depth stories behind over 400 sports records, all told with the edge-of-your-seat excitement that brings you right ...
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