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Type of bind: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 364
EAN num: 9780425215098
ISBN number: 0425215091
Label: Berkley Trade
Manufacturer: Berkley Trade
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 336
Printing Date: May 01, 2007
Publishing house: Berkley Trade
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Two National Forensic Science Institute administrators invite readers into what the Washington Post calls 'the Harvard of hellish violence'-the only hands-on CSI school of its kind where students are trained in burial recovery with actual human remains. With exclusive acess to a world normally off-limits to the public, this is the very first book to go behind the scenes of the ten-week course that discloses the uncensored realities of burial exhumations and the fascinating art of forensic investigation.
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I found this book to be very informative about the procedures a CSI must know to perform their job effectively. I learned a lot of new information. Very interesting read!
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Most of this book kept me absorbed. I liked the colorfully written details about death and even learned a few things that I never knew. I did have to skip through the very first few chapters, though, because I found them to be incredibly dull.
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I received this book as a Christmas gift. I'm an armchair forensic anthropologist who worked as a medical editor in a burn hospital for several years. This book is so rife with grammatical/editing errors and incorrect facts that I simply could not finish reading it. I'm sure it has many valuable and accurate facts, but how can you trust what they have written when, in the chapter on Fire and Burns, they describe the burn severity scale completely wrong? That's basic science, and these folks didn't do their research. I also found the chapters dealing with the famous Body Farm and corpses in general to be sensationalistic and juvenile: "This was the grossest thing we'd ever seen at the Body Farm... It smelled like the nastiest blue cheese ever. We don't eat blue cheese any more."
An untrustworthy, poorly written, layman's take on what can be the fascinating field of forensics. Stick with the greats of the field: Bill Bass, Arpad Vass, Doug Ubelaker, William Maples, Stan Rhine.
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The creators of the NFA in Tennessee did police departments in this country and the world a great service. Opened my eyes to the innovation and genius of the pioneers in this field.
For any CSI show fans this book tells you the real story about forensic science. The world of a CSI is not as glamorous as the TV networks want you to believe. And with an upcoming shortage in forensic experts this book is a wakeup call that we need to encourage more people to go into this line of work if we want to continue to catch criminals.
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The College Of Carnage. The Harvard Of Hellish Violence. The National Forensic Academy has earned many nicknames from its students. In this book, you'll find out why.
'Bodies We've Buried' takes us from day one of classes at this esteemed institution through all ten intensive weeks (two and a half months) of the program. From how to properly use a camera through an extremely detailed description of an actual autopsy (put on a glove and come feel this), the steps of a CSI investigator are outlined chapter by chapter.
Down On The Farm, Diggin Up Bones, It's A Rigorous Job But Someone's Got To Do It, Vinyl Resting Place, Heart Strings, and Spatter Up! are the best chapters in the book, gruesome and filled with extremely grisly details. These are the chapters that focus on dead bodies, blood splatter, bones, and "human effluence" of crime scenes.
There are also chapters on arson and bombings. (Did you know that there are five degrees of burns and not just three? The last two occur after death) The leading chapters tend to be the most boring, like the authors were warming up to a subject. Stick through the details of photography and fingerprinting to get to the "meat" of the subject. The authors themselves tend to become more relaxed as the subjects get gorier. There's lots of pictures, though very few are of the gruesome nature (but look out, some of them are!).
The details of this book show the tremendous impact that a good CSI can have on a crime scene, and the problems that an untrained CSI can inadvertently cause. I can hardly imagine spending two and a half months in the intensive training program that these dedicated people go through. Though close to being a technical novel, I ate this book up in a single day - it's that interesting.
There's a detailed Glossary of terms, a "Who's Who In Forensic Investigation" giving specific titles of who handles what evidence, a Resources bibliography, Acknowledgements, and an extensive Index. If your truly into the field of dead bodies, then this book is worth the hardcover price, otherwise wait for the paperback. Also, check out 'Stiff: The Curious Lives Of Human Cadavers' by Mary Roach. Enjoy!
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