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[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 10.1 - AR Pts: 3
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Forensic science; the preparation of scientific evidence to be presented in court is an increasingly valuable aspect of the investigation of crime. Although rare commentaries on the subject date back many centuries, it is only over the last 200 years that a systematic approach has been made an approach that has accelerated rapidly in the past half-century. The detection and analysis of poisons was the first forensic technique to be developed in a...
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Dr. Bill Brockton, the founder of the world-famous Body Farm, is hard at work on a troubling new case. A young man's battered body has been found in nearby Chattanooga, and it's up to the talented Dr. Brockton to assemble the pieces of the forensic puzzle. Brockton is brought into the case by the rising star of the state's medical examiners, Jess Carter. "Flesh and bone" is another roller-coaster ride into the world of forensic anthropology, raising...
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[2013]
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In the summer of 1992, Arkansas governor Bill Clinton and Tennessee senator Albert Gore begin their long-shot campaign to win the White House. On a sweltering hillside in Knoxville, Dr. Bill Brockton, the bright, ambitious young head of the University of Tennessee's Anthropology Department, launches an unusual -- some would call it macabre -- research facility, unlike any other in existence. Brockton is determined to revolutionize the study of forensics...
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Body farm mysteries volume 5
Pub. Date
2010.
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Dr. Bill Brockton has been called in on a seemingly routine case, to exhume a body and obtain a bone sample for a DNA paternity test. But when the coffin is opened, Brockton and his colleagues, including his graduate assistant Miranda Lovelady, are stunned to see that the corpse has been horribly violated. Brocktons initial shock gives way to astonishment as he uncovers a flourishing and lucrative black market in body parts. At the center...
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[2012]
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While helping excavate a newly discovered chamber beneath the Palace of the Popes in Avignon, France, Miranda Lovelady, Dr. Bill Brockton's protege, makes a discovery that triggers a deadly tug of war between the anthropologists, the Vatican, and a maniacal religious zealot.
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A frozen corpse found in a lake near the Oak Ridge, Tenn., nuclear research facility turns out to be that of Dr. Leonard Novak, one of the leaders of the Manhattan Project. When the source of death, potent radioactive material the old man somehow ingested, poisons the local medical examiner, forensic anthropologist Dr. Bill Brockton suspects a link between the present-day murder and long-forgotten events.
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[2006]
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From the writing team of Dr. Bill Bass and Jon Jefferson comes the first in a new series. When an unusual corpse is discovered, a pioneering forensic anthropologist is called to investigate, but even this seasoned expert is staggered by what the corpse reveals--a revelation that only deepens the mystery.
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2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.2 - AR Pts: 18
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A forensic anthropologist traces his work at his Tennessee body farm lab and cites his contributions to the investigations of several murder cases, as well as his theories about such famous cases as the Lindbergh kidnapping. Dr. Bill Bass, one of the world's leading forensic anthropologists, gained international attention when he built a forensic lab like no other, the Body Farm. Now, this master scientist unlocks the gates of his lab to reveal his...
13) NCIS: Season 2
Pub. Date
[2006]
Description
An elite team of agents investigates crime within the Navy community outside the military chain of command.
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[2001]
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Visit a class where students blow mouthfuls of their own blood onto one another in order to better understand blood-spatter patterns. Attend a workshop studying the effects of temperature and humidity on the life cycle of maggots populating a corpse. Learn how much of someone's history of drug use can be detected in a single strand of hair. Wander the aisles at the annual conference of the American Academy of Forensic Sciences, where booths display...
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[2004]
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The exceptional team of criminalists working for the Las Vegas Crime Lab is still headed by brusque, but dedicated Gil Grissom, whose talented associates include Catherine Willows, Nick Stokes, Warrick Brown, and Sara Sidle, with Captain Jim Brass providing support from the Detective Bureau.
17) Brittle bones
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Darcey Moreland mystery volume 2
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[2023].
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"In this second book of the Darcy Moreland Mysteries, Darcy notices yellow police tape and Detective Hank Nelson's pickup in front of an old home not far from the TV station where she works. It is likely a homicide. She calls for a camera crew and is annoyed when her nemesis, Bryce Adkins, shows up with permission from the owner of the station, his Uncle Arnold, to take over the investigative story. Understanding the politics, she stands back but...
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Nancy Drew mystery stories volume 165
Pub. Date
2002.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 4
Description
Nancy investigates when a professor who runs a forensics lab fall into a coma and other dangerous events occur.
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Bones volume Eleventh
Description
Six months after Bones and Booth leave their jobs to start a new life, Booth goes missing. Desperate for distraction, Bones takes a murder case, and is devastated to learn the deceased's identity. Featuring the highly anticipated Bones and Sleepy Hollow crossover event.