Author: Bridget Heos File Type: epub Blood, Bullets, and Bones provides young readers with a fresh and fascinating look at the ever-evolving science of forensics.Since the introduction of DNA testing, forensic science has been in the forefront of the publics imagination, thanks especially to popular television shows like CSI Crime Scene Investigation. But forensic analysis has been practiced for thousands of years. Ancient Chinese detectives studied dead bodies for signs of foul play, and in Victorian England, officials used crime scene photography and criminal profiling to investigate the Jack the Ripper murders. In the intervening decades, forensic science has evolved to use the most cutting-edge, innovative techniques and technologies.In this book, acclaimed author Bridget Heos uses real-life cases to tell the history of modern forensic science, from the first test for arsenic poisoning to fingerprinting, firearm and blood spatter analysis, DNA evidence, and all the important milestones in between. By turns captivating and shocking, Blood, Bullets, and Bones demonstrates the essential role forensic science has played in our criminal justice system.

Author: Lillian Howan File Type: pdf The Charm Buyers describes extraordinary beauty and turbulent change Tahiti during the last years of French nuclear testing in the Pacific in the 1990s. Marc Antoine Chen, the troubled heir of black pearl cultivators, narrates his journey through a labyrinth of elusive truths. As a child, Marc lives in a dreamlike world with his great-grandmother A-tai and her stories of a semi-nomadic Hakka culture that no longer exists. The Hakka, originally brought from China to Tahiti to work in cotton in the nineteenth century, settled in communities throughout the South Pacific. On the verge of adulthood, Marc falls in love with the calm and confident Marie-Laure Li, but when she leaves to study in France, Marc drifts, becoming the lover of the enigmatic painter Aurore du Chatelet. Years later, Marie-Laure returns, suffering from a debilitating maladyone of many illnesses surfacing in the wake of nuclear testingand Marc is offered a strange, magical proposal in exchange for the life of his once beloved. A supernatural, shamanic reality exists together with the traditions of the Hakka, set against the background of the French colonial past and the Maohi struggle for independence. The Charm Buyers presents a world in transition and its peopleblack pearl cultivators, artists, taro farmers, politicians, smugglers, and shamans. **Review Written against the background of France s nuclear testing on Mururoa (1966 1996), this tale of Hakka Chinese and mixed-heritage individuals in Tahiti struggling to maintain privileged lifestyles as well as their mutual obligations is both captivating and illuminates a community of which little has been written. What makes the novel most worthwhile is its examination of a tightly knit community s unraveling, caused partly by the obsessions of its restless characters, and partly a result of events beyond their control.--Vilsoni Hereniko, professor, playwright, and filmmaker, University of Hawai i Lillian Howan has successfully penned the first real multicultural novel about French Polynesia. The Charm Buyers is a gorgeous debut a story about love, loss, filial obligations, and the convoluted racial threads that bind the magical isles of Tahiti. This tender, enchanting romance held me captive for many evenings.--Andrew X. Pham, author of The Eaves of Heaven and Catfish and Mandala Sensuous, moody, understated, The Charm Buyers is a book so gorgeous that it begs to be read not only for its story, but also to experience the beauty of its language. I found myself seduced into a dream of life among upper class Hakka society in Tahiti, a gothic world of complicated and secret loves, expensive cars, lost fortunes, decaying homes, and the power of old magic.--Shawna Yang Ryan, author of Green Island and Water Ghosts The Charm Buyers is a hypnotic literary banquet, dark, delicious, tragic, yet rich with humor. Lillian Howan s book is a bewitching visit to Tahiti Noir, the world behind the resorts, the islands visitors rarely see. I left this book dazzled and hungry for more.--Julia Whitty, author of Deep Blue Home, The Fragile Edge, and A Tortoise for the Queen of Tonga The Charm Buyers isn t just a book, it s a world full of the complexity and beauty of life, masterfully created. Reading this felt like diving into a reality both eerily familiar and yet artistically brand new. Lillian Howan s talent is rare, refreshing, and casts a spell from page one.--Mat Johnson, author of Loving Day and Pym Review Written against the background of Frances nuclear testing on Mururoa (19661996), this tale of Hakka Chinese and mixed-heritage individuals in Tahiti struggling to maintain privileged lifestyles as well as their mutual obligations is both captivating and illuminates a community of which little has been written. What makes the novel most worthwhile is its examination of a tightly knit communitys unraveling, caused partly by the obsessions of its restless characters, and partly a result of events beyond their control. (Vilsoni Hereniko, professor, playwright, and filmmaker, University of Hawaii) Lillian Howan has successfully penned the first real multicultural novel about French Polynesia. The Charm Buyers is a gorgeous debuta story about love, loss, filial obligations, and the convoluted racial threads that bind the magical isles of Tahiti. This tender, enchanting romance held me captive for many evenings. (Andrew X. Pham, author of The Eaves of Heaven and Catfish and Mandala) Sensuous, moody, understated, The Charm Buyers is a book so gorgeous that it begs to be read not only for its story, but also to experience the beauty of its language. I found myself seduced into a dream of life among upper class Hakka society in Tahiti, a gothic world of complicated and secret loves, expensive cars, lost fortunes, decaying homes, and the power of old magic. (Shawna Yang Ryan, author of Green Island and Water Ghosts) The Charm Buyers is a hypnotic literary banquet, dark, delicious, tragic, yet rich with humor. Lillian Howans book is a bewitching visit to Tahiti Noir, the world behind the resorts, the islands visitors rarely see. I left this book dazzled and hungry for more. (Julia Whitty, author of Deep Blue Home, The Fragile Edge, and A Tortoise for the Queen of Tonga) The Charm Buyers isnt just a book, its a worldfull of the complexity and beauty of life, masterfully created. Reading this felt like diving into a reality both eerily familiar and yet artistically brand new. Lillian Howans talent is rare, refreshing, and casts a spell from page one. (Mat Johnson, author of Loving Day and *Pym) * ul l*lul