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Solving crimes is often not as easy as it appears on television shows or in movies. It involves hard work, patience, and science. Readers learn the fascinating details behind crime scene investigations, including the purpose of body farms and the steps involved in processing DNA evidence. The informative main text is paired with eye-catching fact boxes, enlightening Side Bars, and full-colour photographs. Annotated quotes from experts in their fields are also included to give readers first-perso
There is a science to solving crime, and this series explains it! Readers will discover how the latest science and technology is used to crack cybercrime, understand criminal psychology, close cold cases, and much more in this exciting exploration of the criminal world. From using forensics to hunt killers to relying on state-of-the-art technology to foil terror plots and stop espionage, this illuminating series will shine a spotlight on the scientific masterminds behind solving crime.
Television and movies are rife with crime-scene detectives, but forensic science is a very real and very important field. Future sleuths and scientists alike will find this foray into criminal investigations fascinating. Each truly thrilling volume focuses on a branch of forensic science, transporting the reader to a crime scene and inviting them along as detectives to try to close the case. Forensic anthropology, criminal profiling, pathology, and computer forensics are some of the career paths
The media regularly reports on border walls, migrant caravans, asylum seekers, and undocumented immigrants. But what are the stories behind the headlines? Crisis on the Border: Refugees and Undocumented Immigrants closely examines the people, the politics, and the policies driving one of the most important issues of the day.
In 2021 the American Academy of Pediatrics, the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, and the ChildrenÎs Hospital Association declared that there was a national emergency in child and adolescent health. This title explores teen mental health problems, reasons for the crisis, what is being done to help teens, and what more can be done to help.
Immigration issues are an important topic in the United States. Terms such as ""border security,"" ""illegal immigrants,"" and ""deportation,"" are often said on news programs and written about in newspapers and online, but what do those terms really mean? How does the U.S. immigration policy and citizenship process affect real people? Readers explore the answers to these questions and many more as they are introduced to essential immigration topics.
When Stephen's father passes away in 1861, he and his mother and brother are left at the mercy of a cruel uncle. As the Civil War intensifies to the south, Stephen's brother enlists to fight for the Union and help support the family. The war drags on and Stephen, an accomplished bugler in the town band, is witness to the sad consequences of slavery. The opportunity to enlist as Colonel Eli Lilly's personal bugler arises and Stephen jumps at the chance. After surviving the Battle of Sulphur Trest
Cruzita dreams of becoming a pop star, but for now she has to help out at her family's struggling bakery, where nothing's been the same since her beloved great-uncle's death. And when she's not rolling uneven tortillas or trying to salvage rock-hard conchas, she has to take mariachi lessons, which she dreads even more. But as she gets past her self-consciousness about not being fluent in Spanish and discovers the heart and soul of mariachi music, she realizes that there's more than one way to be
Before her death, Vanessa's mother had been a researcher who chased adventure—pursuing myths, collecting artifacts, and detailing the sightings and evidence of cryptids, those elusive animals whose existence has not been widely accepted by modern science. Now it's Vanessa’s turn to start exploring—and to deal with her painful past.
In folklore, there are many different types of made-up creatures, such as vampires, as well as what are known as cryptids animals which may or may not exist such as sea monsters. This highly entertaining series takes a serious look at the possibilities of existence for a number of legendary creatures. Special sections look at their origin stories, where in the world they are thought to exist, a timeline of their history and recorded sightings, and their place in literature and popular culture. D