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Title: Death's Acre : Inside the Legendary Forensics Lab--The Body Farm--Where the Dead Do Tell Tales by Bill Bass, George Grizzard ISBN: 0-7435-3402-6 Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio Pub. Date: 01 October, 2003 Format: Audio CD Volumes: 5 List Price(USD): $30.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.17 (23 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: A fascinating book!
Comment: This is a wonderful and fascinating book for anyone interested in forensic analysis of human remains. It tells the history of the "body farm", the research facility where human corpses are put out to decompose. The book describes the research conducted at the body farm and some of the most interesting cases that the first author, Dr. Bill Bass who created and runs the body farm, has been involved with. The book is also a sort of professional, and personal, autobiography of Dr. Bass. He comes across as a very caring, charming, humerous and compassionate man. He doesn't hesitate to tell stories on himself, like the time he underestimated the time of death of a body by over 110 years! Oops! I read the book in a day and felt like Bass was sitting in my living room telling me the story personally.
This book is written for the proverbial intelligent layperson. Readers who would like to read a more detailed scientific description of the type of research done at the body farm will like Dawnie Wolfe Steadman's "Hard Evidence: Case Studies in Forensic Anthropology" (2003, Prentice Hall) which includes several papers by body farm scientists.
Rating: 5
Summary: If you like murder mysteries, this is a must read!
Comment: Death's Acre is an engaging read. It is so beautifully crafted that the loving, kind, and humerous nature of Dr. Bill Bass shines through the myriad of anthropological detail. The cases Dr. Bass has been involved in, many of which you will have read about or heard in the news, will keep you as spell-bound as any Grisham or Cornwell novel, and they have the added advantage of being true. Dr. Bill Bass is the founder of the real Body Farm, an adjunct of the University of Tennessee, where in-depth studies are conducted on what happens to the the human body after death. Jon Jefferson has done a superb job. I was half expecting to be grossed out by the subject matter but instead I found myself engrossed with the life and thoughts of the gifted Dr. Bass and the writing of the equally gifted Jefferson. If you're in the least bit jaded with fictional murder stories or want to know more of what goes on behind the scenes of murder case, this book will intrigue you.
Rating: 1
Summary: Misleading Title
Comment: I bought this book expecting it to be about The Body Farm. While it does contain a good bit of info and stories about the body farm, the main subject of the book is one of it's authors, Dr. William M. Bass, and his exploits in forensic science. While it made for an interesting story anyway, I didn't buy the book to hear about him, I bought it thinking it would be solely about the body farm, which it's not.
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Title: Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers by Mary Roach ISBN: 0393050939 Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: April, 2003 List Price(USD): $23.95 |
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Title: Corpse: Nature, Forensics, and the Struggle to Pinpoint Time of Death by Jessica Snyder Sachs ISBN: 0738207713 Publisher: Perseus Publishing Pub. Date: 15 October, 2002 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: Written in Bones: How Human Remains Unlock the Secrets of the Dead by Paul G. Bahn ISBN: 1552976599 Publisher: Firefly Books Pub. Date: March, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Unnatural Death: Confessions of a Medical Examiner by Michael M. Baden ISBN: 0804105995 Publisher: Ivy Books Pub. Date: 28 March, 1990 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: The Forensic Casebook : The Science of Crime Scene Investigation by Ngaire E. Genge ISBN: 0345452038 Publisher: Ballantine Books Pub. Date: 27 August, 2002 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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