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Science Detective uses topics and skills drawn from national science standards to prepare your child for more advanced science courses and new assessments that measure reasoning, reading comprehension, and writing in science. Grades 3-4.
Who killed Napoleon? Were the witches of Salem high on LSD? What do maggots on a body tell us about the time of death? In his unique, engaging style, Brian Kaye tells the story of some spectacular cases in which forensic evidence played a key role. You'll also read about the fascinating ways in which scientific evidence can be used to establish guilt or innocence in today's courtroom. The use of voice analysis, methods for developing fingerprints and for uncovering art forgeries, and the examination of bullet wounds are just a few topics considered. In a special section on fraud, the author takes you into the world of counterfeit money. There's no solving crime without science. Written for everyone interested in whodunnits, this book explains the basis of the analytical techniques available for studying evidence in offenses ranging from doping in sports to first-degree murder.
Do you have what it takes to become a science sleuth? Of course you do! Discover how to gather clues and collect evidence to catch a thief, follow instructions to extract DNA from strawberries, take your own fingerprints, analyze handwriting, and much more. While you're having fun inspecting, detecting, and experimenting, you'll be learning all about the intriguing world of forensic science and its important role in real life.
Theyre the hottest characters on TV: crime scene investigators who hunt for evidence to nail the culprit. By going step by step through the detection process, kids will discover that you need more than mere deduction to catch a thief, forger, or murderer: you need smart science.
Children/Science Become a super science sleuth with . . . Detective Science 40 Crime-Solving, Case-Breaking, Crook-Catching Activitiesfor Kids Search for evidence, gather clues, and discover how science canhelp solve a mystery. From dusting for fingerprints to analyzinghandwriting, these easy, fun-filled activities give you a firsthandlook at how detectives and forensic scientists use science to solvereal-life crimes. Make a plaster cast of a shoe. Identify lip prints left on aglass. Examine hair and clothing fibers. Practice chemistry toidentify mystery substances, and much more. In no time at all, you'll be thinking like a detective andperforming experiments like a real forensic scientist!
This is a book about the relationship between the development of forensic science in the nineteenth century and the invention of the new literary genre of detective fiction in Britain and America. Ronald R. Thomas examines the criminal body as a site of interpretation and enforcement in a wide range of fictional examples, from Poe, Dickens and Hawthorne through Twain and Conan Doyle to Hammett, Chandler and Christie. He is especially concerned with the authority the literary detective manages to secure through the 'devices' - fingerprinting, photography, lie detectors - with which he discovers the truth and establishes his expertise, and the way in which those devices relate to broader questions of cultural authority at decisive moments in the history of the genre. This is an interdisciplinary project, framing readings of literary texts with an analysis of contemporaneous developments in criminology, the rules of evidence, and modern scientific accounts of identity.
Professor Craig Kennedy is a scientist detective at Columbia University similar to Sherlock Holmes. He uses his knowledge of chemistry and psychoanalysis to solve cases, and uses exotic devices in his work such as lie detectors, gyroscopes, and portable seismographs. Novels: The Dream Doctor The War Terror The Social Gangster The Ear in the Wall Gold of the Gods The Exploits of Elaine The Romance of Elaine The Soul Scar The Film Mystery Short Stories: The Silent Bullet The Scientific Cracksman The Bacteriological Detective The Deadly Tube The Seismograph Adventure The Diamond Maker The Azure Ring "Spontaneous Combustion" The Terror in the Air The Black Hand The Artificial Paradise The Steel Door The Poisoned Pen The Yeggman The Germ of Death The Firebug The Confidence King The Sand-Hog The White Slave The Forger The Unofficial Spy The Smuggler The Invisible Ray The Campaign Grafter The Treasure Train The Truth-detector The Soul-analysis The Mystic Poisoner The Phantom Destroyer The Beauty Mask The Love Meter The Vital Principle The Rubber Dagger The Submarine Mine The Gun-runner The Sunken Treasure
The Craig Kennedy Scientific Detective Megapack collects 25 novels and stories. 14 are Craig Kennedy tales, plus there is 1 additional story from the same author and 10 by contemporaries of Arthur B. Reeve. They all share the same spirit of detection. Included are: INTRODUCTION: ABOUT ARTHUR B. REEVE AND HIS CRAIG KENNEDY STORIES THE SILENT BULLET, by Arthur B. Reeve THE WAR TERROR, by Arthur B. Reeve THE TREASURE-TRAIN, by Arthur B. Reeve GUY GARRICK, by Arthur B. Reeve THE SOCIAL GANGSTER, by Arthur B. Reeve THE EXPLOITS OF ELAINE, by Arthur B. Reeve THE ROMANCE OF ELAINE, by Arthur B. Reeve THE POISONED PEN, by Arthur B. Reeve THE EAR IN THE WALL, by Arthur B. Reeve GOLD OF THE GODS, by Arthur B. Reeve THE DREAM DOCTOR, by Arthur B. Reeve THE FILM MYSTERY, by Arthur B. Reeve CONSTANCE DUNLAP, by Arthur B. Reeve THE MASTER MYSTERY, by Arthur B. Reeve THE CONSPIRATORS, by Arthur B. Reeve WITHOUT WITNESSES, by L. T. Meade and Clifford Halifax A MASTER OF MYSTERIES, by L. T. Meade and Robert Eustace THE SECRET OF EMU PLAIN, by L. T. Meade and Robert Eustace THE TRAGEDY OF A THIRD SMOKER, by C.J. Cutcliffe Hyne MISS BRACEGIRDLE DOES HER DUTY, by Stacy Aumonier THE TWINKLING OF AN EYE, by Brander Matthews THE FLYING DEATH, by Samuel Hopkins Adams THROUGH THE WALL, by Cleveland Moffett THE COPPER BULLET, by John Russell Fearn JOHN THORNDYKE’S CASES, by R. Austin Freeman And don't forget to search your favorite ebook store for more entries in the Megapack series, covering science fiction, fantasy, horror, adventure, westerns, ghost stories, mysteries -- and much, much more!
