Congo Running through the African jungle, you are chased by the beast of the Congo. Michael Crichton's Congo is a fast-paced technological thriller. His use of detail is phenomenal, like his description of a dead man: "Misulu lay on his back, in a kind of halo of blood. His skull had been crushed from the sides, his facial bones shattered, the face narrowed and elongated, the mouth open in an obscene yawn, the one remaining eye wide and bulging." Audio added. Thanks to 2211!
Pssst! It's true! This is the best book on bones you'll ever read! Did you know that Santa Claus once punched a bishop? Have you heard of weaver's bottom and housemaid's knee? What's an ossuary? Bone up on bunions, explore X-rays, find your femur. Knuckle down to the facts on people who picnic in graveyards. Discover how experts find murder clues in dry bones, and why we can't wag our tails.
Added by: stovokor | Karma: 1758.60 | Non-Fiction, Medicine | 25 January 2009
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A husband preserved in mothballs, a vigilante victim encased in red mud, and convicts beaten and burned in a prison riot are only a few of the cases of death examined here by forensic anthropologist Stanley Rhine. Drawing on cases he worked for the New Mexico Office of the Medical Investigator, Rhine demonstrates how unidentified skeletal remains indicate race, sex, age, height, and ultimately identity and how the specialist decodes skeletal anomalies to establish cause of death. Blunt trauma, gunshot and knife wounds, and other injuries receive his attention. Step by step the author explains the techniques used to solve forensic mysteries. At the end of each case, he explains what lessons the forensic anthropologist learns from the bones. Rhine also explores specific problems and tasks: working mass disasters; recovering bodies from the field; defleshing bones; examining charred and badly decomposed remains; testifying before juries; and others.
Erich Segal’s Acts of faith is a compelling novel that revolves around two religions: Christianity and Judaism and three protagonists. The shear fact that the author has succeeded in smiting the inner cords of many readers like me, who have never seen a jew in flesh and bones and have known little or nothing about Judaism speaks volumes about the author’s success, the efficacy of this book and the impact that it brings on the readers.
Erich Segal’s Acts of faith is a compelling novel that revolves around two religions: Christianity and Judaism and three protagonists. The shear fact that the author has succeeded in smiting the inner cords of many readers like me, who have never seen a jew in flesh and bones and have known little or nothing about Judaism speaks volumes about the author’s success, the efficacy of this book and the impact that it brings on the readers. 
