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xxxxxxA Biographical History of Medicine - John H. Talbott, MD
xxxxxxA Brief History of Death - DJ Davies
xxxxxxA Death Decoded: Forensic Investigation of the death of Robert Kennicott - S Schlachtmayer
xxxxxxA Fly for the Prosecution - M. Lee Goff
xxxxxxA Matter of Life and Death: conversations with a pathologist - Sue Armstrong
xxxxxxA Traffic of Dead Bodies: Anatomy & Embodies Social Identity in 19th Century America – Michael Sappol
xxxxxxA Voice for the Dead: A forensic investigators pursuit of the truth in the grave - James Starrs
xxxxxxAlive: The Living Breathing Human Body Book - DK Publishing (Great for Kids)
xxxxxxAmerican Ground: Unbuilding the World Trade Center - William Langewiesche - See page 139 re: discussions of why people xxxxxxwant to retrieve their loved ones
xxxxxxAn Introduction to the Work of a Medical Examiner: From death scene to autopsy suite - J Micetich
xxxxxxAnd Then I Cried: Stories of a Mortuary NCO. Justin Jordan.
xxxxxxAnthropology of Death and Burial - M. Pearson
xxxxxxAtlas of Occupational Marks on Human Remains. L Capasso, K A R Kennedy, and C A Wilczak. Edigratifal. SPA Terano, Italy.
xxxxxxBeyond Knowing: Mysteries and Messages of Death and Life from a Forensic Pathologist - Janis Amatuzio, MD.
xxxxxxBeyond the Body Farm: a legendary bone detective explores murders, mysteries, and the revolution in forensic science xxxxxx- Dr. Bill Bass and Jon Jefferson
xxxxxxBioarchaeology: An Integrated Approach to Working with Human Remains. Martin, Harrod & Perez
xxxxxxBiohazard: The Chilling True Story of the Largest Covert Biological Weapons Program in the World Told from the Inside by xxxxxxthe Man Who Ran It - Ken Alibek
xxxxxxBird Flu: Everything You Need to Know About the Next Pandemic - Dr. Marc Siegal, Wiley Press
xxxxxxBloody Crimes: The Chase for Jefferson Davis and the Death Pageant for Lincoln's Corpse - James L. Swanson
xxxxxxBodies We’ve Buried - Jarrett Hallcox and Amy Welch, Foreword by Dr. Bill Bass. Berkley Press
xxxxxxBodies We’ve Buried: Inside the National Forensic Academy, the World’s Top CSI Training School - Bill Bass
xxxxxxBody Brokers: Inside America’s Underground Trade in Human Remains - Annie Cheney
xxxxxxBody of Work: Meditations on Mortality from the Human Anatomy Lab - Christine Montross
xxxxxxBones - Dr. Douglas Ubelaker and Henry Scammell
xxxxxxBones Books and Bell Jars: Photographs of the Mutter Museum Collection - A. Baldeck. http://bonesbooksbelljars.com/
xxxxxxBrookwood Necropolis Railway - John Clarke
xxxxxxBuried Alive - Jan Bondeson
xxxxxxBurke and Hare: Infamous 19th Century Body Snatchers - Brian Bailey
xxxxxxBury the Dead: Corpses, Skeletons, Mummies & Tombs - Christopher Sloan
xxxxxxCadaver Dog Handbook: Forensic Training and Tactics for the Recovery of Human Remains - Andrew Rebmann
xxxxxxCarved in Bone, a Body Farm Novel - Dr. William Bass (The Body Farm) writes as Jefferson Bass in this interesting murder mystery novel
xxxxxxCelebrations of Death: An Anthropology of Mortuary Rituals - Peter Metcalfe and Richard Huntington
xxxxxxCemetery Stories: Haunted Graveyards, embalming secrets and the life of a corpse after death - Katherine Ramshaw
xxxxxxCoffins, Kits and More - Lee Ward (ASE Member)
xxxxxxCold Case Homicides: Practical Investigative Techniques - R. H. Walton
xxxxxxCorpse - Jessica Snyder Sachs.
xxxxxxCorpses, Coffins & Crypts: A History of Burial - Penny Colman
xxxxxxCreutzfeldt-Jakob Disease - A Practical Guide for the Embalmer - Available through the NJ Funeral Service Education Corporation. xxxxxx732-974-9444
xxxxxxCrime Scene Chemistry for the Armchair Sleuth - C. Cobb, M. Fetterolf, J. Goldsmith
xxxxxxCriminal Poisoning: Investigational guide for law enforcement, toxicologists, forensic scientists and attorneys - John Harris xxxxxxTrestrail, III
xxxxxxDead and Buried? - Norman Adams
xxxxxxDead Men Do Tell Tales - William R. Maples, Ph.D., and Michael Browning
xxxxxxDead Reckoning: The New Science of Catching Killers - Michael Baden
xxxxxxDeath, Dissection and the Destitute - Ruth Richardson
xxxxxxDeath in Paradise: History of the Los Angeles County Coroner - T Blaneke and B Schreiber
xxxxxxDeath’s Acre - Dr. Bill Bass and Jon Jefferson
xxxxxxDetection of Human Remains - Edward W. Killam
xxxxxxDigging up the Dead: A history of notable American reburials - Michael Kammen
xxxxxxDissecting Death – Fredrick Zugibe, MD, PhD and David L. Carroll
xxxxxxDissection on Display - Christine Quigley
xxxxxxDissections: Photographs of a Rite of Passage in American Medicine, 1880-1930 - John Harley Warmer and James M. Edmonson
xxxxxxDoes this mean you'll see me naked? - Robert D. Webster
xxxxxxDread. How Fear and Fantasy Have Fueled Epidemics from the Black Death to Avian Flu - Phillip Alcabes.
xxxxxxEarthly Remains - Andrew T. Chamberlain and Michael Parker Pearson
xxxxxxEgyptian Mummies: Unraveling the Secrets of an Ancient Art - B. Brier
xxxxxxEmbalming: History, Theory and Practice. 4th Revised Edition - Robert G. Mayer (ASE co-founder), Editor. 704 pages with new xxxxxxauthor contributions
xxxxxxEmbalming: History, Theory and Practice. 5th Edition, Robert G. Mayer, Editor. The most updated version of this valuable xxxxxxresource is now available.
xxxxxxEmbalming Is Not A Sport - Arlin D. Menager
xxxxxxEmbalming Notes - Daniel Winship
xxxxxxEssentials of Autopsy Practice - Guy N. Rutty
xxxxxxEvidence Embalmed - Rosalie David and Eddie Tapp
xxxxxxExplosives and Chemical Weapons Identification - James B. Crippin
xxxxxxFatal Sequence: The Killer Within - Kevin J. Tracey, MD
xxxxxxFBI Handbook of Crime Scene Forensics - The FBI
xxxxxxFear Less – Real Truth About Risk, Safety, and Security in a Time of Terrorism - Gavin DeBecker
xxxxxxFinal Exam: A surgeon's reflections on mortalit - Pauline W. Chen
xxxxxxFinal Exits: The Illustrated Encyclopedia of How We Die - Michael Largo
xxxxxxFinding Heroes: The Search for Columbia’s Astronauts - Byron Starr
xxxxxxFlesh and Bone: An Introduction to Forensic Anthropology
xxxxxxFlesh and Bone - published under the author name Jefferson Bass. Great new book by William Bass of the Body Farm
xxxxxxFlesh and Bone: an introduction to forensic anthropology - M. Nafte
xxxxxxForensic Art and Illustration - Karen T. Taylor
xxxxxxForensic Detective: how I cracked the world’s toughest cases - Robert Mann
xxxxxxForensic Osteology: Advances in the Identification of Human Remains - Kathleen J. Reichs and William M. Bass
xxxxxxForensic Recovery of Human Remains: Archaeological Approaches - Tosha Dupras
xxxxxxFormaldehido. Técnicas Avanzadas de Embalsamamiento YQuímica Mortuoria - Both by Carlos Guzman, Spanish speaking xxxxxxembalmering books, available from www.caribbeanfuneraldist.com
xxxxxxFossils: The History of Life - R. Fortey
xxxxxxGerms: Biological Weapons and America’s Secret War - Judith Miller, Stephen Engelberg and William Broad
xxxxxxGrave Exodus - Xavier A. Cronin
xxxxxxGrieving the Death of a Pet - Betty J. Carmack
xxxxxxHandbook of Forensic Pathology - V. J. DiMaio
xxxxxxHistory of American Funeral Directing - Robert W. Habenstein and William M. Lamers. 3rd Revised Edition
xxxxxxHistory of Embalming and of preparations in anatomy, pathology and natural history - Jean Nicholas Gannal. - Reprinted by xxxxxxBiblioLife, February, 2009
xxxxxxHuman Bones in Archaeology - Ann Stirland
In Death Lamented: The Tradition of Anglo-American Mourning Jewelry - S. Nehama
xxxxxxInside the World Trade Center DNA Story: The Unprecedented Effort to Identify the Missing - Robert C. Shaler
xxxxxxInto the Hands of Strangers - Amber Lenore Wickler
xxxxxxIntroduction to Forensic Anthropology: A Textbook - Steven N. Byers
xxxxxxJoint Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures for Mortuary Affairs in Joint Operations - Joint Pub 4-06
xxxxxxLenin’s Embalmers - Ilya Zbarsky and Samuel Hutchinson
xxxxxxLiving Terrors – What America Needs to Know to Survive the Coming Bioterrorist Catastrophe - Michael T. Osterholm and xxxxxxJohn Schwartz
xxxxxxLost Souls. Photographs from "cabinets of curiosity" around the world - L Herzog
xxxxxxMagnificent Corpses: Searching through Europe for St. Peter’s Head, St. Claire’s Heart, St. Stephen’s Hand and Other Saintly Relics xxxxxx - Anneli S. Rufus
xxxxxxMaking Faces; Using Forensic and Archaeological Evidence - John Prag and Richard Neave - Excellent resource on facial reconstruction
xxxxxxMaterials Used At The Embalming Of King Tutankhamen - Herbert Eustis Winlock
xxxxxxMissing Corpse: Grave robbing a guilded age tycoon - Wayne Fanebust
xxxxxxMistress of the Art of Death - Ariana Franklin
xxxxxxModern Mummies - Christine Quigley
xxxxxxMorbid Appearances - the anatomy of pathology in the 19th Century - Russell Mavlits
xxxxxxMummies, Bones & Body Parts - Charlotte Wilcox
xxxxxxMummies of the World. Companion to the exhibit - Mummies of the World
xxxxxxMummies: The newest, coolest and creepiest from around the world - Shelly Tanaka
xxxxxxMutter Museum of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia - G. Worden
xxxxxxNecropolis: London and It’s Dead - Catharine Arnold
xxxxxxNotes of an Anatomis - F. Gonzalez-Crussi
xxxxxxPreserving the Dead. The Art and Science of Embalming - Lost Technology Series, Lindsay Publications - a collection of xxxxxxarticles originally published in the Champion Textbook, circa 1897-1900
xxxxxxRest In Peace - Gary Laderman
xxxxxxRevenge of the Microbes: How Bacterial Resistance Undermining the Antibiotic Miracle - AA Salyers, DD Whitt xxxxxx(Available through the American Society of Microbiology)
xxxxxxSecret Biological Warfare - Nick McCamley
xxxxxxSecrets of the Ancient Dead, Deciphering the Past From Tombs, Graves and Mummies - Tony Allen
Shocked: adventures in bringing back the recently dead - D. Casarett
xxxxxxSkulls and Skeletons - Christine Quigley
xxxxxxSleeping Beauty: Memorial Photography in America - Stanley Burns
xxxxxxSleeping Beauty II: Grief, Bereavement in Memorial Photography American and European Traditions - Stanley Burns
xxxxxxSoldier Dead. How we recover, identify, bury and honor our military fallen - Michael Sledge
xxxxxxSpeaking for the Dead: Cadavers in Biology and Medicine - D. Gareth Jones
xxxxxxSpook. Science tackles the afterlife - Mary Roach
xxxxxxStealing Lincoln's Body - Thomas J. Craughwell
xxxxxxStiff: The Curious Lives of Cadavers - Mary Roach
xxxxxxTales from the Morgue: Forensic Answers to Nine Famous Cases - Cyril Wecht, Mark Curriden and Angela Powell. Prometheus xxxxxxBooks, NY
xxxxxxTeasing Secrets from the Dead - Emily Craig
xxxxxxThanatochemistry - James Dorn and Barbara Hopkins - Available through most book stores and Amazon.com
xxxxxxThe A to Z Infectious of Disease Guide - Bonnie Turkington, Carol Lee
xxxxxxThe Bone Detectives: How Forensic Anthroppologists Solve Crimes and Uncover Mysteries of the Dead – Donna M. Jackson
xxxxxxThe Body Emblazoned: Dissection and the Human Body in Renaissance Culture - Jonathon Sawday
xxxxxxThe Body of Il Deuce: Mussolini’s Corpse and the Fortunes of Italy - Sergio Luzzatto
xxxxxxThe Body in Bioethics - Alastair V. Campbell
xxxxxxThe Bone Lady - Mary Manheim
xxxxxxThe Corpse: A History - Christine Quigley
xxxxxxThe Day of the Dead and Other Mortal Reflections - F. Gonzalez-Crussi
xxxxxxThe Final Bath - Amber Lenore Winckler
xxxxxxThe Handbook of Death & Dying - 2 volumes, Clifford D. Bryant, Editor in Chief
xxxxxxThe Hot Zone - Richard Preston
xxxxxxThe Ice Maiden: Inca Mummies, Mountain Gods, and Sacred Sites in the Andes - J. Reinhard
xxxxxxThe Italian Boy, A Tale of Murder and Body Snatching in 1830’s London - Sarah Wise (currently available, excellent historical xxxxxxwork about the body snatching and grave robbing period in London)
xxxxxxThe Killer of Little Shepherds: A True Crime Story and the Birth of Forensic Science - D. Starr
xxxxxxThe Knife Man: Blood, Body Snatching and the Birth of Modern Surgery - Wendy Moore, Broadway Books, NY
xxxxxxThe Lassa Ward. One Man's Fight Against One of the World's Deadliest Diseases - Ross I. Donaldson, M.D.
xxxxxxThe Missing Corpse: Grave Robbing a Gilded Age Tycoon - Wayne Fanebust
xxxxxxThe Murder Room. Stories from the Vidoocq Society, the pre-eminent cold-case society in the world - M Capuzzo
xxxxxxThe Phantom Museum: Henry William’s Medical Mysteries - H. Hawken
xxxxxxThe Poisner's Handbook: Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York - D. Blum
xxxxxxThe Sacred Remains - Gary Laderman
xxxxxxThe Scientific Study of Mummies - Arthur C. Aufderheide. Great text that also covers embalming.
xxxxxxTrail of Bones: More cases from the files of a forensic anthropologist - Mary H. Manheim
xxxxxxTransplanting Human Tissue - S. Youngner, M. Anderson and R. Shapiro
Two years, 262 bodies & the making of a ME - J. Melinek
xxxxxxUnnatural Death: Confessions of a Medical Examiner - Michael Baden
xxxxxxWar of Nerves: Chemical Warfare from World War 1 to Al Qaeda - Jonathan B. Tucker, Pantheon Books
xxxxxxWhat Happens When You Die: from your last breath to the first spadeful - Robert Hatch
xxxxxxWhat the Corpse Revealed: Murder & the Science of Forensic Detection - Hugh Miller
xxxxxxWhen We Die - Cedric Mims
xxxxxxWritten in Bones: How human remains unlock the secrets of the dead - Paul G. Bahn
xxxxxxOvermodeled Skulls - Arthur C. Aufderheide, Publisher Heide Press ©2009
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