Best Selling Books by Mary Williams

This is a book about a little boy''s imagination and the love he had for dinosaurs. In his world of autism and make believe, all he needed to complete his dreams was something to form a tail, then his fantasy of being a dinosaur would be complete.

"A study has been completed on the effects of weathering and biological degradation on ignitable liquids from each of the ASTM E1618 designated classes. Fifty ignitable liquids in the Ignitable Liquids Reference Collection (ILRC) database were weathered by evaporation of 0, 0.25, 0.5. 0.75, 0.9 and 0.95 fractions of the original volume. The same liquids were biologically degraded on potting soil for 0, 7, 14, and 21 days. Each of the weathered and degraded samples was added as a new record in the ILRC database. The ILRC database was modified to link all associated records from weathering and degradation of the same ignitable liquid. The data from all of the samples was reviewed by the ILRC Committee and evaluated with regard to the potential impacts of weathering and biological degradation on the interpretation of fire debris data. A "Best Practices" statement was prepared by ILRC Committee and placed on the ILRC database website. The "Best Practices" statement will serve to inform forensic practice and policy in laboratories conducting fire debris analysis. The evaporation rates were also modeled as a function of the fraction weathered and found to follow first order kinetic profiles. The natural logarithm of the fitted rate constants were found to exhibit varying degrees of linearity as a function of retention index. The kinetic analysis constitutes a preliminary investigation that may provide direction for future attempts to implement a digital weathering algorithm that would aid fire debris analysts in predicting, a priori. the chromatographic profiles of weathered ignitable liquids."

In this collection of occult stories, the mysterious and hinterland bordering life and death provides territory for a diversity of ghostly characters and uncanny experiences. By the author of Creeping Fingers.

Contains selected statistical tables from three major sources of national data: the Bureau of Justice Statistics, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and the National Center for Health Statistics. Also contains the results of a topical search on homicide in the National Criminal Justice Reference Service data base and selected other Bureau of Justice Statistics publications dealing with homicide.