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- 144 pages
- 75 black-and-white photos, drawings, and maps
- Reinforced library binding
- 7" x 9"
- Glossary
- Bibliography
- Index
- Grades 5 and up
- ISBN: 1-881508-75-7
- $21.95
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A tour through the history of forensic science. The tidbits Yeatts
provides about the investigators personalities and life histories
put a human face on the science. . . . [S]he does not shy away from trying
to make complex areas, such as DNA fingerprinting, understandable to average
readers.
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Profiles James Marsh (toxicology), Henry Faulds (fingerprints),
Albert Sherman Osborn (handwriting and document examination), Charles
Waite and Calvin Goddard (ballistics), Mildred Trotter
(forensic anthropology), Jacques Penry (identification kits), and
Alec Jeffreys (DNA fingerprinting).
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