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With plenty of insider's insight--and without pulling any punches--Dana Kollmann introduces the real science and the actual process of crime scene investigation as she recounts her life as a CSI in all its fascinating and gritty detail. Whether explaining rigor mortis or insect infestation rates, speeding to an accident scene or cautiously entering a crime scene, she shows what it's really like to work in the front lines as a forensic expert. With an eye for detail, and a frank and often witty voice, Kollman allows readers to cross the crime-scene tape and visit a world most civilians never knew existed, letting them see and smell the bodies, hear the bugs, and walk through dozens of cases. Never Suck a Dead Man's Hand offers a perspective as informative as it is irreverent and is the first real look at the day-to-day life of a crime scene investigator.

'The City of Cape Town is heading for disaster and is already in deep crisis if one cares to look close enough. The recent proliferation of public construction, public squares and public housing along the N2 towards the airport is little more than a mirage compared with the direction of more underlying trends. Cape Town's grim future is born out of the confluence of the globalised economic and ecological collapse that is fast becoming the defining feature of the twenty-first century. It is manifested most starkly in the dire situation that faces the majority of the city's residents, who are excluded from the formal economy and must rely on substandard public services and their own makeshift shelters. The scenario is serious enough to draw everyone's attention but should be set against the broader issues of long-term economic resilience and environmental sustainability to achieve a low-carbon society - so we have our work cut out for us. The purpose of this volume is to demystify these challenges and present readers with a creative portfolio of thinking, practice and strong vision to show that we can find alternatives - and, moreover, that these alternatives are already emerging in (marginal) sections of the state, civil society and the business sectors.'--Introd. Hardcover. English. Jacana Media. 2010. ISBN: 9781770097957. 272pp. Good condition in laminated hardcover. Book No: 2501912

This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 7 - 11 working days Hans Urs von Balthasar is widely recognized as perhaps the greatest Catholic theologian of the twentieth century. No writer has better revealed the spiritual greatness of the revelation to which the art of the church and the historic liturgies bear witness. Yet students and nonspecialist readers often find Balthasar daunting and difficult. This volume is the ideal introduction to his work. It unlocks the treasure of his theology by focusing on the beautiful, the good, and the true. These are the three qualities of being around which his great trilogy--"The Glory of the Lord," "Theo-Drama," and "Theo-Logic"--revolves. Though brief, the book captures the essence of what Balthasar wished to say. Features Summary This accessible introduction to the thought of Hans Urs von Balthasar exposes students to some of the most important theology of the twentieth century. Author Aidan Op Nichols Publisher Baker Academic, Div of Baker Publishing Group Release date 20110501 Pages 117 ISBN 0-8010-3974-6 ISBN 13 978-0-8010-3974-4

This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 7 - 12 working days From mechanical automata to modern-day androids and animal robots, this children's book for ages 9-11 covers artificial intelligence (AI) throughout history. Robotics is experiencing an explosion - with more than 45 million robots estimated to be in operation by 2019. Robotics and AI will increasingly become a part of daily life: from drones used in battle to robot helpers taking care of hospital patients, and from service robots packing food to rescue robots finding people after a disaster. Robot explains how robots work, how they are made, and shows what the cutting-edge of science, technology, mechanical engineering, and computing looks like. This kids' robot book showcases more than 100 robots, representing the latest and greatest innovations in AI through bright graphics and stunning photography. Tech panels present fascinating facts about each robot's design, production, and capability. The final chapter covers the future of robotics, and how kids of the not-too-distant future may have their very own android friends. Young readers will be riveted by the vibrant graphics, zesty colours, and mend-bending array of information that Robot provides. Features Summary From mechanical automata to modern-day androids and animal robots, this children's book for ages 9-11 covers artificial intelligence (AI) throughout history... Author Dk (Author), Lucy Rogers (Foreword by) Publisher DK Children Release date 20180903 Pages 160 ISBN 0-241-34675-4 ISBN 13 978-0-241-34675-4

This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 7 - 11 working days The number one bestseller. This new edition of the much-loved Bradford's Crossword Solver's Dictionary offers even more. Now available in paperback with a clear text design, solvers will never again be short of answers to their crossword clues! This is a unique type of crossword dictionary in that it has been compiled and crafted by a single author based on her nearly 60 years' experience of crossword solving. Every word in this dictionary has appeared as a solution to a real crossword clue. Previous readers have found this book an invaluable reference work for both cryptic and quick crosswords, and new users will be quickly converted! Features Summary The number one bestseller. This new edition of the much-loved Bradford's Crossword Solver's Dictionary offers even more. Now available in paperback with a clear text design... Author Anne R. Bradford Publisher Collins Release date 20190901 Pages 928 ISBN 0-00-832378-X ISBN 13 978-0-00-832378-3

About the product Pictorial dustwrapper, frayed, original buckram, gilt, pp. xix + 340, a few illustrations.'Hackwriter, satirist, comic poet, Rowlandson's collaborator, Editor of The Times when not in prison for debt, raconteur, life-long enigma: his adventures and misadventures.''Thousands of nineteenth-century readers knew the Tours of Doctor Syntax, loved the old-fashioned hero and the aquatints by Rowlandson illustrating the tours, and never heard of the author, William Combe. This was exactly as Combe intended; for half a century of authorship, he never signed a single work. He preferred to be known as a gentleman of leisure, a literary dilettante, even when busily turning out book after book from his quarters in debtors'prison.' Doctor Syntax; a silhouette of William Combe, Esq. (1742 - 1823) (Harlan W. Hamilton)