Investigation in Social Science Books

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Is there life after death? Charting the phenomena of moving apparitions and objects passed from the spirit world to ours, this book takes the field of psychic study into the 21st century. It is of interest to those with an open mind and an interest in alternative views of what happens to us when we die.

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<p>Forensic evidence is increasingly important in the detection and prosecution of crime. This means that the knowledge, skill, and ability of the person who examines the scene of the crime-the crime scene investigator (CSI)-have never been more important.</p> <p>This text guides an aspiring or newly appointed CSI through the methods and procedures for the accurate recording and recovery of evidence from the scene of a crime. It features photographs, drawings, self-assessment questions, and checklists of roles, equipment, and activities required at the crime scene. <i>Crime Scene Investigation</i> is essential reading for all students of forensic law enforcement.</p>

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Based on field work conducted in 1996 by the Combined Prehistoric Expedition (CPE)in the upper Wadi Grafi Basin, An Archaeological Investigation of the Central Sinai, Egypt, sheds further light on the Timnian Tradition of the southern Levant, one of the earliest (7000-3000 B.P.) nomadic pastoral cultures described to date. The results of their research indicate that there were two distinct settlement patterns that were alternating adaptive responses to changing climatic conditions. First, a regional environmental analysis shows that nomadic tent pastoralists herding goats, sheep, as well as cattle were responding to desert living during and times. The settlement data reveal this adaptation in two periods, once during the Chalcolithic (Copper Age) (6500-4800 B.P.) and again during the Middle Bronze Age (3800-3300 B.P.). By contrast, the second pattern -- that of semi-nomadic village pastoralists -- was a solution to life in the wetter climate that appeared during the Early Bronze Age (4800-3800 B.P.). Thus, the authors maintain, the Chalcolithic/Bronze Age archaeology shows a pattern in which the fully nomadic tent community alternated with seminomadic village pastoralists according to the intensity of rainfall and availability of forage. An Archaeological Investigation of the Central Sinai, Egypt, is divided into two parts, one describing the results of the survey and the other detailing the later excavations in the fall. Complete with 101 line drawings, 60 maps, and 23 black-and-white photos, this book is essential reading for scholars interested in the pre-historic archaeology of the Sinai region.

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<P>This interactive training CD-ROM summarizes in layman's terms the critical concepts that are detailed in Fisher's text of the same name. This hands-on CD presents complex, scenario-based interactions within virtual crime scenes and offers activities and exercises with instant feedback that allows students and trainees to immediately determine right and wrong answers. Each section follows the outline of Fisher's text, and contains short quizzes to instantly test comprehension. The CD also serves as an aid for court testimony, providing useful information for investigators, expert witnesses, and attorneys.</P>

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Chronicles the author's voyage to Russia's Ural Mountains and investigation into the deaths of sixty-four people from anthrax, officially caused by tainted meat but rumored to be the result of biological weapons research.

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Murkin was the code name chosen by the FBI for their investigation into the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., in 1968. Today, 20 years after the fatal shooting of the civil rights leader, Philip H. Melanson, a renowned authority on American political assassinations, unveils his own investigation into the murder. "Melanson . . . has done an exhaustively thorough job on the still-mysterious King assassination. After following Melanson's meticulous pursuit of seemingly every lead in the case--including interviews with the men whose names were used as aliases for alleged killer James Earl Ray--there can be little doubt in the reader's mind that neither of the two official versions of what happened could have been the whole truth. The first was the ever-popular notion of the lone killer: Ray. The second, propounded by a clearly inept congressional investigation a decade after the 1969 shooting, was that an ill-defined racist conspiracy was behind the assassination. What seems unarguable is that Ray, a petty criminal, could not have killed King unaided. There are too many improbabilities--the source of his carefully chosen Canadian aliases, the identity of the `fat man' who brought him a `letter' in Toronto during his escape, the odd setup at the rooming house from which the shot was fired. It is Melanson's thesis that there was high-level intelligence involvement, probably by the CIA, which was violently alarmed by King's anti-Vietnam stance." Publisher's Weekly

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