Patricia L. Barnes-Svarney

Takes the reader on a tour of the solar system, describing asteroids and each of the planets.

Barnes-Svarney and Svarney cover the fundamentals, science, history, and analysis of clues to provide detailed information on crime scene investigations, techniques, laboratory finding, the latest research, and controversies. From the cause, manner, time of a death, and autopsies to blood, toxicology, DNA typing, fingerprints, ballistics, tool marks, tread impressions, and trace evidence, they take the reader through the many sides of a death investigation, arson, criminal profiling, and much, much more. -- adapted from Amazon.com info

Before she became an officer aboard the USS Enterprise… Beverly Howard is in big trouble at the Academy. They've just begun their first year as Starfleet medical cadets, and already Beverly and her roommate Claire Voy are one step from probation. Commander Max Wiley, who teaches the holodeck simulation course in medical emergencies, caught them skipping class to visit an excavation in nearby San Francisco. He took them to the admiral's office and has put them on notice. One more slip and they're out! When Claire's partner in her medical emergencies class is injured, Commander Wiley blames Claire for the accident. But was it an accident? It is the commander's word against Claire's. Wiley has no reason to lie—or does he? Beverly's own investigation takes her from the computer labs to the admiral's office. Now Claire's future hangs in the balance unless Beverly and Data can find a way to clear her—without being expelled themselves!

Asteroids sling through space, celestial debris of diverse origins: leftovers from the formation of the solar system, broken offshoots of parental asteroids, or comets that have lost their glow. For the first time in a popular book, Patricia Barnes-Svarney discloses how some asteroids - rich in precious minerals such as gold and platinum - may one day be lassoed and mined by man. She also explores how the natural resources that abound in some asteroids could possibly support human life, leading to their colonization and use as space stations. One day, too, they may reveal to us the secrets of the origins of life. . But if an asteroid merely one kilometer in diameter - about the size of eleven football fields end-to-end - were to smash into Earth, it would mean a global catastrophe. And if a larger asteroid - one the size of Vermont - were to strike, life on our planet would come to an end. We know that we've been struck before - from the large and small impact craters that dot the Earth's major land masses. If, as one theory states, the chance of a major collision is currently about one in ten thousand - similar to that of dying from anesthesia during surgery or of being killed in a car crash during any six-month interval - should we be living in fear? How could we possibly prepare ourselves for such a disaster? Patricia Barnes-Svarney, an asteroid enthusiast since childhood, asserts that the threat is real, and that there are better defenses than those now in place. In Asteroid, she vividly evokes both the perils and fascination of these heavenly bodies that have the power to yield untold rewards - and boundless destruction.

Surveys the history of the National Science Foundation, describing its structure, function, and influence on American society.

"Covering all the major body systems--integumentary (skin, hair, etc.), skeletal, muscular, nervous, sensory, endocrine, cardiovascular, lymphatic, respiratory, digestive, urinary, and reproductive, and, for good measure, this answer book adds chapters on growth and development and how science can help and augment the body. It follows the fascinating maze of organ systems and shows how much the body does routinely just to let you move, breathe, eat, and fight off disease."--

"It's been said that every woman is a mystery waiting to be solved.... And for as long as women have been around, no one has unraveled the enigma that is the feminine of the species--until now. In this fun, fascinating head-to-toe female look at bodies, brains, love, sex, and shiny objects, the answers to the questions that have confounded humanity for ages are finally revealed! Within this book are the answers to more than one hundred often-asked questions about women. Here, science writer Patricia Barnes-Svarney offers insights into the minds and bodies of the fairer sex, such as... Why do pregnant women have cravings? How do the media affect a woman's brain? Why should women be concerned about germs? And why do women crave more sex in the summer? For women and anyone who wants to know more about women--or only thinks they know about women--Why Do Women Crave More Sex in the Summer? is guaranteed to inform, enlighten, entertain, and answer the questions women have always wanted answered"--

Describes the formation of different types of mountains and metamorphic rock (rocks that change form in the intense heat and pressure of the Earth's interior) and discusses their impact on their environment.