What's the best way to secure a conviction in court? Forensic evidence. Crime detection has been revolutionized by advanced technology and "Crime Scene" enables you to see how it's done. Expert consultants ranging from a government pathologist to a professor of toxicology discuss real-life case studies. The book is illustrated with colour photography throughout. length: (cm)...(展开全部)

Build an Exceptional Plot, One Scene at a Time! Think of your favorite story--the one that kept you turning pages late into the night, the one with a plot so compelling, so multilayered, so perfect that you couldn't put it down. How can you make your own plots--in your novels, short stories, memoirs, or screenplays--just as irresistible? "Plot Perfect" provides the answer. This...(展开全部)

Build an Exceptional Plot, One Scene at a Time! Think of your favorite story--the one that kept you turning pages late into the night, the one with a plot so compelling, so multilayered, so perfect that you couldn't put it down. How can you make your own plots--in your novels, short stories, memoirs, or screenplays--just as irresistible? "Plot Perfect" provides the answer. This...(展开全部)

From actor Constance Wu, a powerful and poignant memoir-in-essays. Growing up in the friendly suburbs of Richmond, Virginia, Constance Wu was often scolded for having big feelings or strong reactions. “Good girls don’t make scenes,” people warned her. And while she spent most of her childhood suppressing her bold, emotional nature, she found an early outlet in local community t...(展开全部)

To be an American is, as Henry James famously observed, a "complex fate." But complexity was that rococo master's stock-in-trade, which may explain why he returned to his native country in 1904 after an absence of more than 20 years. To be sure, he was interested in a Jamesian walk down memory lane, with its full quota of meditative hairsplitting. Yet he also meant to take adva...(展开全部)

在线阅读本书 Crime Reconstruction is a working guide to the interpretation of physical evidence, designed for the forensic generalist and those with multiple forensic specialties. It was developed to aid these forensic reconstructionists with the formulation of hypotheses and conclusions that stay within the known limits of forensic evidence. Crime Reconstruction begins with...(展开全部)

The jolting debut collection of stories from one of Germany’s most prominent defense attorneys, based on his own experience in court and as a close observer of the criminal mind and motive. The narrator of the nine stories in Crime is coolly intelligent, yet full of compassion for the worldweary, lonely, sometimes foolish characters who populate its pages. Among the cast of ...(展开全部)

The jolting debut collection of stories from one of Germany’s most prominent defense attorneys, based on his own experience in court and as a close observer of the criminal mind and motive. The narrator of the nine stories in Crime is coolly intelligent, yet full of compassion for the worldweary, lonely, sometimes foolish characters who populate its pages. Among the cast of ...(展开全部)

举世最杰出的推理小说作家 迈克尔•康奈利（Michael Connelly），1957年生于美国费城，在佛罗里达大学主修新闻学，毕业后在多家报纸当过记者，曾入围1986年普利策新闻奖。 自1992年凭借《黑色回声》获得爱伦•坡奖最佳处女作奖后，康奈利一发不可收拾，连续创作了以“哈里•博斯”主角的侦探小说十余部及其他几部非本系列小说等，每一部叫好又叫座，不仅销量奇佳，被改编为多部电影，而且还荣获爱伦•坡奖、安东尼奖，尼罗•伍尔芙奖、夏姆斯奖、马耳他之鹰奖等各大推理小说奖项。 康奈利熟谙犯罪心理学，又有丰富的犯罪新闻采访经验，因此写起侦探小说可谓驾轻就熟。在他的生花妙笔之下，每一景每一物都栩栩如生，对读者具有强烈的感染力，连前美国总统克林顿都是他的忠实读者。康奈利曾担任美国推理作家协会主席，其作品在全球有31种语言译本，是当代最著名的叫好又叫座的侦探推理...(展开全部)