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161) Regeneration
Publisher
Echo Bridge Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2010.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (96 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In the midst of WWI, Edinburgh's Craiglockhart Hospital is crowded with traumatized soldiers scarred by the horrors of battle. Dr. William Rivers, the hospital psychiatrist who hovers on the edge of a nervous breakdown as he attempts to 'cure' the incurable.
Author
Series
Publisher
Cumberland House
Pub. Date
[2000]
Physical Desc
423 pages : map, plans ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
In a seemingly random event, forensic anthropologist Lindsay Chamberlain is attacked and left for dead. Buried in a shallow grave in the woods, she manages to escape, although she suffers from amnesia as a result of the ordeal. When Lindsay's memory returns, it is incomplete. She copes with the trauma by ignoring it and she allows the authorities to handle the investigation. As the probe quickly comes to a dead end, however, the assault looms like...
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
404 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), map ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
He was an anthropologist, filmmaker, painter, folklorist, mystic, and walking encyclopedia and Szwed considers Harry Smith to be one of the twentieth century’s most overlooked cultural figures. From his time recording the customs of Native American tribes in the Pacific Northwest and Florida to his life in Greenwich Village in its heyday. Smith was responsible for the influential Anthology of American Folk Music and several pioneering experimental...
164) Freezing
Author
Series
A Jayne and Steelie novel volume 1
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
[2011]
Edition
First world edition.
Physical Desc
234 pages ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
When a bundle of unidentified body parts tumbles out the rear door of a van on a Los Angeles freeway, FBI agent Scott Houston knows just where to go for an off-the-record analysis: Agency 32/1, a non-profit missing persons identification resource center run by forensic anthropologists Jayne Hall and Steelie Lander. However, Scott's call has unintended consequences for the two women as he draws them into a coast-to-coast murder investigation, and bends...
Author
Publisher
Soho Crime
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
357 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"In northeast Manila's Quezon City is a district called Payatas--a 50-acre dump that is home to thousands of people who live off of what they can scavenge there. It is one of the poorest neighborhoods in a city whose law enforcement is already stretched thin, devoid of forensic resources and rife with corruption. So when the eviscerated bodies of teenage boys begin to appear in the dump heaps, there is no one to seek justice on their behalf. In the...
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (appoximately 120 min.) : sound, color and black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
An in-depth biography of the influential author whose groundbreaking anthropological work would challenge assumptions about race, gender and cultural superiority that had long defined the field in the 19th century.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
[2013]
Edition
1st Simon & Schuster hardcover ed.
Physical Desc
x, 347 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Part of the Pentagon's most daring and controversial attempt since Vietnam to bring social science to the Afghanistan battlefield, three tough-minded American civilians find their humanity tested and their lives forever changed by this little-known mission.
169) The plateau
Author
Publisher
Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
358 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
At considerable personal risk, many residents of the Vivarais-Lignon region of France sheltered refugees of all ages and faiths from deportation by the Nazis during World War II. Villagers in the plateau currently shelter refugees from war-ravaged areas of the world. Building upon her research as a U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum and Georgetown University fellow, anthropologist Paxson explores this particular region's history of altruism.
172) Where there's a will
Author
Series
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2005.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
284 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
173) Stone maidens
Author
Series
Christine Prusik volume 1
Publisher
Thomas & Mercer
Pub. Date
[2012]
Physical Desc
311 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
A serial killer is strangling young women and dumping their lifeless bodies in the steep forested ravines of southern Indiana. With each corpse he leaves a calling card: a stone figurine wedged deep inside the victim's throat. FBI forensic anthropologist Christine Prusik saw such figurines placed inside the bodies of the dead years ago when researching in Papua New Guinea. Is someone trying to send Christine a message?
174) Uneasy relations
Author
Series
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2008.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
vi, 278 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Buried ceremoniously, high in a cave, lies the skeleton of a human woman, clutching the skeleton of a part-human, part-Neanderthal child. Fascinated, Professor Oliver jumps at the chance to attend a conference near there. But two deaths, possibly murders, have rocked Gibraltar. As Oliver tries to piece things together, he's about to fall for some deadly tricks. After all, unlike the Gibraltar Boy, he's only human.
175) Iceman
Series
Publisher
Universal Studios
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (100 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A team of Arctic researchers find a 40,000 year-old man frozen in ice and bring him back to life. Anthropologist Stanley Shephard wants to befriend the Iceman and learn about the man's past. Dr. Diane Brady and her surgical team want to discover the secret that will allow man to live in a frozen state. When the Iceman becomes part of their lives, the results are both moving and emotionally shattering.
176) Good blood
Author
Series
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2004.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
293 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
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