MARC Record from Library of Congress

LEADER: 02029cam a2200265 a 4500
001 2012033681
003 DLC
005 20141208132423.0
008 120910s2013 nyua b 001 0 eng
010 $a 2012033681
020 $a9780765636614 (hardcover : alk. paper)
020 $a9780765636621 (pbk. : alk. paper)
040 $aDLC$cDLC$dDLC
042 $apcc
050 00 $aD16$b.W619 2013
082 00 $a907.2$223
100 1 $aWilliams, Robert Chadwell,$d1938-
245 14 $aThe forensic historian :$busing science to reexamine the past /$cRobert C. Williams.
260 $aArmonk, N.Y. :$bM.E. Sharpe,$cc2013.
300 $axiii, 142 p. :$bill. ;$c24 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 127-129) and index.
505 0 $aPreface : Mildred Trotter and the bone yard of war -- Mikhail Gerasimov : making Ivan the Terrible's face -- Paul Coremans : the girl with the Bakelite earring -- Walter McCrone : ink testing the Vinland map -- Julius Grant : ultraviolet light on the "Hitler diaries" -- Walter McCrone again : carbon-14 dating the shroud of Turin -- Phillipe Charlier : the bogus remains of Joan of Arc -- Sten Forshufvud : the arsenic in Napoleon's hair -- Vincent Guinn : the "magic bullet" and the Kennedy assassination -- William Maples : the non-murder of Zachary Taylor -- William Walsh : testing Beethoven's hair -- Clyde Snow : identifying the "Angel of Death" -- Peter Gill : Romanov bones and DNA matches -- Eugene Foster : Jefferson's children -- Jean-Jacques Cassiman : the last king of France's DNA -- Linda Strausbaugh : Hitler's skull -- Jeffrey Taubenberger : tracking the killer virus of 1918 -- Tim Foecke and Jennifer McCarty : testing the Titanic rivets -- Zahi Hawass : the CT-scans of King Tut -- The U.S. Navy SEALs : identifying Osama bin Laden -- Tsutomu Shimomura : catching Kevin Mitnick -- Conclusion : modern forensics and historical revision.
650 0 $aHistoriography$xMethodology$vCase studies.
650 0 $aForensic science$vCase studies.
650 0 $aWorld history.