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Forensic science is the application of science to the legal field, including criminal and civil laws, during criminal investigation. This volume draws from many specialists, including toxicologists, attorneys, pathologists, biologists, toxicologists, psychiatrists, anthropologists, criminalists, digital and multimedia scientists, and engineers.

Talks about the lives of important men and women in various areas of achievement, who flourished between 1801 and 1900, and profiles them in extended biographical essays. This four-volume set of the ""Great Lives from History"" series provides annotated bibliographic resources with worldwide focus, along with coverage of non-Europeans and women.

The Fifties in America surveys the events and people of North America during the 1950's. This 3-volume publication, Salem Press's second reference set on a 20th century decade, is modeled on ""The Sixties in America"" (1999). The Fifties in America is 20 per cent larger than that set and goes beyond the latter's scope by covering Canada.

Covers major aspects of business and finance in American history. Suitable for high school students and college undergraduates, this book offers an alternative to works on economic history.

This is a comprehensive overview of great events of the 20th century, combining texts and photographs to present the subject matter in an appealing way to readers from middle-school level upwards.

This volume includes a chronological and geographical index of poets and essays, a categorized index, a subject index, a list of major awards, a glossary of poetic terms, and a complete bibliography.

Covers major aspects of Earth's solar system, from various features of the major planets to their satellites, small bodies, interplanetary phenomena, and cosmological context. This book covers 180 major topics on Earth's solar system.

Covers 146 authors, and 800 works that reflect the range and diversity of nineteenth and twentieth century short-story writing, based on the frequently taught, frequently read and most often researched short-fiction writers studied in American schools and colleges.

Edited and with an introduction by Brian Murdoch, Professor Emeritus of German at the University of Stirling in Scotland, this volume in the Critical Insights series brings together a wide variety of introductory and in-depth essays on Remarque's classic war novel.

Combines biographical material with original essays comparing his career to that of Mark Twain and an examination of his critical reception. His interest in Carl Jung, Naturalism and the theme of androgyny throughout his novels are also discussed.

Essays include a discussion of the social and historical context of Updike's work and a consideration of Updike's recurrent Jewish-American character, the blocked writer, Henry Bech.

When it premiered, ""Death of a Salesman"" received immediate critical praise and popular attention. Miller set out to change the face of American Drama and succeeded. The play won the Pulitzer Prize, and the New York Drama Critics' Circle Award. This volume brings together some of the best essays written on Miller's most accomplished play.

Edited and with an introduction by Gary Hoppenstand, this volume in the Critical Insights series brings together a variety of perspectives on Stephen King's contribution to American literature and popular culture. Hoppenstand's introduction situates King within the horror genre and American popular and literary fiction.

Contains over 300 alphabetically arranged articles on a broad range of applied-science fields ranging from long-established engineering fields to cutting-edge fields such as micro- and nanotechnologies, addressing applied sciences in areas as diverse as aerospace, communications, energy, information, medical, military, transportation, forensic, and even food technologies.

Salem's new series explores the fields and occupations of science and other emerging fields, emphasizing STEM occupations and outlooks and green technologies where applicable. Written for high school and undergraduate students as well as general non-specialists, this series will provide much needed insight into the career opportunities of this growing filed.

Flappers, prohibition, jazz, and the Lost Generation, The Twenties in America examines the iconic personalities and moments of this uproarious decade. The encyclopaedia serves as a valuable source of reliable information and keen insights for today's students.

This volume is an effort to introduce O'Connor to a new generation of readers by including previously published essays that clarify her religious ideas, her narrative technique, her use of humour, and the regional and social context of her fiction.

Essays in this set are organised into three categories: "Theories, Themes & Types", "History of Short Fiction", and "Short Fiction Around the World". New overviews include "Experimental Short Fiction", "Twenty-first Century Short Fiction", and "Spanish Short Fiction".

A supplement to Salem Press' Careers in Science series, a career-focused series exploring the fields and occupations of physics, chemistry, and other sciences with an emphasis on STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) occupations and outlooks, Contemporary Biographies in Physics is a collection of biographies of "living leaders" in the field of physics.

Salem's new series explores the fields and occupations of science and other emerging fields, emphasizing STEM occupations and outlooks and green technologies where applicable. Written for high school and undergraduate students as well as general non-specialists, this series will provide much needed insight into the career opportunities of this growing filed.

This is a brilliant exploration of the fluids on the surface of the earth and the gases that surround us. The interaction among these key elements of the Earth's nature is fantastically complex and intriguing. The work explores the evolution of these interactions during the earth's history, theories regarding the future of the atmosphere and oceans and specific causes and effects that are at work.

The Metamorphosis is certainly Franz Kafka's most famous novella. Essays include a new, lengthy biography of the author. Other essays include a discussion of the cultural and historical context of the work, the structure and function of self-alienation, Kafka's metaphor for extreme alienation, and a selective survey of the critical reception of The Metamorphosis.

This volume brings together in one place all the appendices and indices. It includes a chronological and geographical index of writers and essays, a categorised index, a subject index, a list of major awards, a list of web resources and a complete bibliography.

This one volume examines 68 poets from a wide range of countries, including nicaragua's Ruben Dario, China's Li Bo, Chile's Pablo neruda, and Russia's Alexander Pushkin. new poets include nigerian poet Chinua Achebe, Argentine poet Jorge Luis Borges, and Korean poet Ko Un.

An in-depth resource covering 845 poets throughout history and the world, organised so libraries can select only the topics they want.

Covers 654 individuals from colonial times through to the present, offering a fascinating perspective on Jewish history, both cultural and religious, in the United States.