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Title: When Objects Talk: Solving a Crime With Science by Mark P., Jr Friedlander, Terry M., Phd Phillips ISBN: 0-8225-0649-1 Publisher: Lerner Publications Company Pub. Date: November, 2001 Format: Library Binding Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $26.60

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Average Customer Rating: 3 (1 review)

Rating: 3
Summary: Interesting, but
Comment: I think this book will be interesting to kids who like science, mysteries, and CSI-type shows (though the book is definitely for a younger audience than CSI!). I like the way it takes the kids step by step through an investigation and gives them an idea of just how many pieces of evidence are left behind at the scene of a crime and how police are able to glean information from them. The major drawback I found as I read through the book was that it would really have helped to have had pictures of the various instruments described. For instance, it mentions several types of microscopes. For those of us who are used to seeing only the basic microscope used in a school science lab, it would have made things clearer to see how those are different from a stereoscopic microscope, an electron microscope, a comparison microscope, and a polarizing microscope. Similarly, when pictures are shown of an image from one of those microscopes, it would be helpful to have labels showing what (for example) is the hair and what is the shampoo, or what is the bark and what is the pollen.