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Title: Forensic Analysis and DNA in Criminal Investigations: Including Cold Cases Solved

Author: RJ Parker, Peter Vronsky

Narrator: Don Kline

Format: Unabridged

Length: 4 hrs and 37 mins

Language: English

Release date: 11-06-15

Publisher: RJ Parker Publishing Inc.

Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 14 votes

Genres: Nonfiction, Social Sciences

Publisher's Summary:

From ballistics and blood splatter patterns to DNA analysis and voice printing, RJ Parker explores the highly complex world of investigative forensic sciences. Intended as an introductory guide and reference to forensic techniques for frontline police officers, criminal attorneys, journalists, crime authors, and just interested listeners, this encyclopedic audiobook is a must-listen for any true-crime aficionado.

Parker examines various forensic techniques and principles of investigative sciences and some of the historical figures in the evolution of forensics over the last two centuries and provides real case examples where forensic sciences were key not only in identifying the guilty but also in clearing the innocent and freeing the wrongly convicted.

Introduction by Dr. Peter Vronsky

Members Reviews:

Poor narrating

Would you say that listening to this book was time well-spent? Why or why not?

Interesting topic and information.

Who was your favorite character and why?

N/A

What didnt you like about Don Klines performance?

Very "choppy" in his sentence delivery. Sounds as though he is reading line by line, instead of sentence by sentence.

Was Forensic Analysis and DNA in Criminal Investigations: Including Cold Cases Solved worth the listening time?

Yes

Any additional comments?

Enjoyed the book, however, I think I enjoy books that delve into the scientific aspect more. This was very superficial scientifically.

BITE MARK EVIDENCE: AGAINST NAS AND PCAST REPORTS

The presence of DNA in the title is misleading. It is there in order to sell books. Deleting "DNA"from the title would make a truer title.

The discussion of bite-mark evidence, although the author credits that evidence with solving cases, is at odds with the NAS Report and PCAST and, for the casual reader, that is problematic!

Gets Better at the End

Would you recommend this book to a friend? Why or why not?

If you want to know about history and the forensic analysis I would say that I would recommend this book to a friend.

Would you recommend Forensic Analysis and DNA in Criminal Investigations: Including Cold Cases Solved to your friends? Why or why not?

It has some interest in some of the cases that they cover early on in the book. The last hour or 90 minutes references popular cases and the importance of forensic analysis in those cases. I found that 90 minute segment worthwhile and prevented me from returning the book.

Could you see Forensic Analysis and DNA in Criminal Investigations: Including Cold Cases Solved being made into a movie or a TV series? Who should the stars be?

NO

Awful Narratator

This narrator has to go down in history as the most boring person I've ever heard - not only in my 6 years of daily listening to Audiobooks but in my entire life. He reads four words or maybe a sentence at a time as if reading the football results. No emphasis, inflection,or character whatsoever. Monotonous is his middle name. Shame as it's an interesting subject.

Refund please.

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Title: Father Loss

Subtitle: Daughters Discuss Life, Love, and Why Losing a Dad Means So Much

Author: Elyce Wakerman

Narrator: Gabra Zackman

Format: Unabridged

Length: 9 hrs and 49 mins

Language: English

Release date: 11-04-15

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Nonfiction, Social Sciences

Publisher's Summary:

As Elyce Wakerman found in the scores of interviews she conducted, the loss of a father - through death, divorce, or abandonment - is the event that shapes a girl's life and all her future relationships. "In my fantasy," one woman commented, "he remains the perfect, all-giving man" - a difficult role for any other man to fill.

Based partly on the author's experience, partly on her in-depth interviews, and partly on a questionnaire she developed with psychologist Holly Barrett to which almost 600 women responded, Father Loss provides the clearest portrait yet of a very special group of women. As a group, they express their insecurities ("Sometimes I wonder if I'll ever be able to love a man totally...because that would mean I didn't love my father anymore." - Leslie). Yet individually, many have become outstanding achievers, including Eleanor Roosevelt ("He dominated my life as long as he lived and was the love of my life for years after he died."), Helen Gurney Brown ("People in business, my bosses, I look to them all as fathers."), Barbara Streisand, Gloria Steinem, Geraldine Ferraro and many others.

A best seller when it was first published 25 years ago and now updated and revised, Father Loss gives information and insight to fatherless daughters, to widows and divorcees with daughters, and to every father who needs to understand the vital role he plays in his daughter's life - as the first man she ever loves.

Members Reviews:

but a good read.

Wasn't exactly the story I was expecting, but a good read.

An important conversation

My own father died when I was two years old and that has been a very central part of my life--his absence a kind of presence. Not many children I knew as a child had lost a parent, however, and so I always felt a little different from them. Set apart. How wonderful and profound to read this book and hear what other women have to say about this experience. That's why we write and read, I think, to share insights and lives. To have important conversations. This is one of those important conversations.

If you or any woman you know lost a father at ANY age... then get this book. It helps, rewards and explains in ways that amaze.

This is an important book. Not conjuecture, not pseduo-psychology but REAL insight into the effects, tremors and long-lasting implications of losing a parent, especially a father - for women.

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Title: Fast Forward

Subtitle: How Women Can Achieve Power and Purpose

Author: Melanne Verveer, Kim K. Azzarelli, Hillary Rodham Clinton - foreword

Narrator: Coleen Marlo

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8 hrs and 2 mins

Language: English

Release date: 10-06-15

Publisher: Brilliance Audio

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 5 votes

Genres: Nonfiction, Social Sciences

Publisher's Summary:

Learn how some of the world's most powerful women are using their growing economic power to create success and meaning in their lives while building a better world.

Sheryl Sandberg's Lean In ignited a conversation about women and their careers, and resonated with millions of readers. Fast Forward, by two women leaders with experience and access throughout corporate America and around the world, takes the next step. Through interviews with a network of over fifty trailblazing women, it shows women how to accelerate their growing economic power and combine it with purpose to create success and meaning in their lives while building a better world.

"Fast Forward shows us how leaders at every level can use their power and purpose to help more and more women achieve their dreams for a better life." - Hillary Rodham Clinton

Members Reviews:

Must read for all women

I'm a young male who is pretty open minded about including women and matters of a quality but A lot of the topics revealed any qualities that women face on a daily basis that I was aware of and I'm noticing more and more in my daily life

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Title: Memes

Subtitle: In Digital Culture

Author: Limor Shifman

Narrator: Karen Saltus

Format: Unabridged

Length: 3 hrs and 47 mins

Language: English

Release date: 09-28-15

Publisher: Gildan Media, LLC

Ratings: 3 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Nonfiction, Social Sciences

Publisher's Summary:

In December 2012, the exuberant video "Gangnam Style" became the first YouTube clip to be viewed more than one billion times. Thousands of its viewers responded by creating and posting their own variations of the video - "Mitt Romney Style", "NASA Johnson Style", "Egyptian Style", and many others. "Gangnam Style" (and its attendant parodies, imitations, and derivations) is one of the most famous examples of an Internet meme: a piece of digital content that spreads quickly around the web in various iterations and becomes a shared cultural experience.

In this audiobook, Limor Shifman investigates Internet memes and what they tell us about digital culture. Shifman discusses a series of well-known Internet memes - including "Leave Britney Alone", the pepper-spraying cop, LOLCats, Scumbag Steve, and Occupy Wall Street's "We Are the 99 Percent". She offers a novel definition of Internet memes: digital content units with common characteristics, created with awareness of each other, and circulated, imitated, and transformed via the Internet by many users. She differentiates memes from virals; analyzes what makes memes and virals successful; describes popular meme genres; discusses memes as new modes of political participation in democratic and nondemocratic regimes; and examines memes as agents of globalization. Memes, Shifman argues, encapsulate some of the most fundamental aspects of the Internet in general and of the participatory Web 2.0 culture in particular. Internet memes may be entertaining, but in this book Limor Shifman makes a compelling argument for taking them seriously.

PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying reference material will be available in your My Library section along with the audio.

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Title: Quirkology

Subtitle: The Curious Science of Everyday Lives

Author: Richard Wiseman

Narrator: Peter Noble

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8 hrs and 14 mins

Language: English

Release date: 09-04-15

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 29 votes

Genres: Nonfiction, Social Sciences

Publisher's Summary:

For over 20 years, psychologist Professor Richard Wiseman has examined the quirky science of everyday life.

In Quirkology, he navigates the backwaters of human behavior, discovering the telltale signs that give away a liar, the secret science behind speed dating and personal ads, and what a person's sense of humour reveals about the innermost workings of their mind - all along paying tribute to others who have carried out similarly weird and wonderful work.

Wiseman's research has involved secretly observing people as they go about their daily business, conducting unusual experiments in art exhibitions and music concerts, and even staging fake seances in allegedly haunted buildings.

With thousands of research subjects from all over the world, including enamoured couples, unwitting pedestrians, and guileless dinner guests, Wiseman presents a fun, clever, and unexpected picture of the human mind.

Members Reviews:

Fascinating, fun and quirky!

The stories behind, and findings of, a wonderful selection of fascinating and obscure psychology experiments, tied together with an easygoing writing style and excellent narration. I loved it!

Fascinating

A great book to dip in and out of, full of interesting and well explained facts. I am now fully equipped to go to dinner parties and share my fascinating knowledge. (Now all I need is to be invited to a dinner party. Someone write a book to help me with this please.)

Utterly brilliant!

Where does Quirkology rank among all the audiobooks youve listened to so far?

Very engaging and as the title suggests, very quirky!

What was one of the most memorable moments of Quirkology?

The last chapter on the top 10 quirks globally!

What does Peter Noble bring to the story that you wouldnt experience if you had only read the book?

Great voice, clarity and engaging style.

Just enough to keep you listening...

I don't remember feeling there was much new stuff there, in terms of the conclusions drawn from various experiments and anecdotes.

I also felt that the jump to stating things as facts was too often made without enough proof, leaving me questioning the validity of those statements.

Compulsive Listening

This is for anyone who is interested why we behave and act as what we do. I could not stop listening to it.

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Title: Shots on the Bridge

Subtitle: Police Violence and Cover-up in the Wake of Katrina

Author: Ronnie Greene

Narrator: Jonathan Yen

Format: Unabridged

Length: 9 hrs and 54 mins

Language: English

Release date: 08-18-15

Publisher: Tantor Audio

Ratings: 3 of 5 out of 7 votes

Genres: Nonfiction, Social Sciences

Publisher's Summary:

Six days after Hurricane Katrina's landfall in New Orleans, New Orleans Police Department officers opened fire on residents crossing the Danziger Bridge. When the shooting stopped, a mentally challenged man and a 17-year-old boy were dead, riddled with gunshot wounds. A mother's arm was shot off, her daughter's stomach gouged with a bullet hole, and her husband's head pierced by shrapnel. Her nephew was shot in the neck, jaw, stomach, and hand. All six of the victims, along with two others arrested at the scene, were black and unarmed.

Before the blood dried, the shooters and their supervisors had hatched a cover-up. They would plant a gun, invent witnesses, and charge two of their victims with attempted murder. The NOPD hailed all the shooters on the bridge as heroes. Shots on the Bridge explores one of the most dramatic cases of injustice in the last decade. It reveals the fear that gripped the police of a city fallen into anarchy, the circumstances that led desperate survivors to go to the bridge, and the horror that erupted with the gunfire. It dissects the cover-up that nearly buried the truth and the legal maze that, a decade later, leaves the victims still searching for justice.

Critic Reviews:

"A poignant and skillful examination of a case that adds to the ongoing public debate about corrupt police practices, the militarization of local law enforcement, and convoluted legal decisions." (Kirkus)

Members Reviews:

MUST READ

A riveting account of what really happened on the Danziger Bridge

in New Orleans during the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina-and the lies fabricated by the NOPD. Reading this book I felt as if I lived through that day on the bridge and the aftermath, suffered the police lies and cover-up, and the trials. This is a must read book. Harrowing. The author does a good job detailing the facts and keeping his opinions on the sidelines, at least until the final chapter when he calls out Judge Kurt Englehart for some pretty gross judicial activism, which seems like well-warranted criticism.

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Title: The Sex Myth

Subtitle: The Gap Between Our Fantasies and Reality

Author: Rachel Hills

Narrator: Callie Beaulieu

Format: Unabridged

Length: 6 hrs and 27 mins

Language: English

Release date: 08-04-15

Publisher: Tantor Audio

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 30 votes

Genres: Nonfiction, Social Sciences

Publisher's Summary:

Fifty years after the sexual revolution, we are told that we live in a time of unprecedented sexual freedom: that if anything, we are too free now. But beneath the veneer of glossy hedonism, millennial journalist Rachel Hills argues, we are controlled by a new brand of sexual convention: one that influences all of us - woman or man, straight or gay, liberal or conservative. At the root of this silent code lies the sex myth - the defining significance we invest in sexuality that once meant we were dirty if we did have sex and now means we are defective if we don't do it enough.

Equal parts social commentary, pop culture, and powerful personal anecdotes from people across the English-speaking world, The Sex Myth exposes the invisible norms and unspoken assumptions that shape the way we think about sex today.

Critic Reviews:

"Here is a fresh voice and a welcome perspective, cutting through attitudes that are supposed to be progressive and liberating, but can too often oppress and stifle us just as effectively as older taboos." (Rebecca Traister, author of Big Girls Don't Cry)

Members Reviews:

A Must-Read

What did you love best about The Sex Myth?

This book points out how the modern "sexually-liberated" ideals of our society and pop culture are scarcely different than the prudent, conservative ones from the past. Both ways of thinking, as Rachel Hills reveals, are just different means used by society to dictate how we have should have sex, whom we should have it with, how often we should be having it, etc. It is only when we realize that sex isn't some powerful force, either to be repressed or to be utilized, but just another thing that people do that we can actually be "free."

excellent information

I wish I had this information 20 or 30 years ago...I learned alot and found it to be priceless.

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Title: Obsessive Compulsive Personality Disorder: The Ultimate Guide to Symptoms, Treatment, and Prevention

Author: Clayton Geoffreys

Narrator: Darren Marlar

Format: Unabridged

Length: 1 hr and 1 min

Language: English

Release date: 07-24-15

Publisher: Calvintir Books, LLC

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 2 votes

Genres: Nonfiction, Social Sciences

Publisher's Summary:

In Obsessive Compulsive Personality Disorder: The Ultimate Guide to Symptoms, Treatment, and Prevention, you'll learn about obsessive compulsive personality disorder and how it can impact a person's life. This book covers a variety of topics, such as the subtypes of obsessive compulsive personality disorder, symptoms of the disorder, as well as how to overcome it. If you are looking for a book to better understand how to identify the causes of obsessive compulsive personality disorder, we will explore it in this short book. After learning about the causes of OCPD, we'll dig deep into treatment methods and different types of therapy that are available for those suffering from obsessive compulsive personality disorder symptoms.

Members Reviews:

Decent summary, but sorely lacking in substance and depth.

Psychiatry resident here. The book is adequate if you want to make the diagnosis based on dsm procedures, but my concern is a painful lack of underlying theoretical structure in this book. It reads like a bit of a cookbook, without a lot of supporting details. There are no case examples. There are no proposed theoretical underpinnings, aside from "the person with ocpd is uncomfortable with disorder, and may have had a lot of responsibility heaped upon them as a child. They experience great anxiety when faced with disorder or pressure to compromise their standards, which are often unrealistic and perfectionistic. They might benefit from brief therapy, but this too is unlikely, because they are stubborn." If this synopsis appears satisfying, then look no further. For practitioners interested in a deeper understanding of the disorder, with intent to treat the underlying pathology, consider looking elsewhere. As an aside, there are also a handful of typos in this very short book.

An Excellent Primer on OCPD!

Mr. Clayton Geoffreys has composed an excellent primer on OCPD for the beginner who is just learning about this mental illness. He presents a combination of scientific findings by acclaimed mental health professionals/researchers (citing Millon, Cloniger, and Beck), well-known to those of us who specialize in OCPD, and the psychological frameworks of understanding developed by these men. He, also, presents numerous helpful examples which clearly illustrate how and why the OCPD person behaves as he or she does. Further, Mr. Geoffrey discusses the overbearing role obsessive-compulsive people have adopted to âenforceâ their views and desired way of doing things upon others. Much more description of OCPDâs hallmark characteristics is covered in this 69-page educational piece, as it presents an interesting, easy-to-understand, and well-written overview of this personality disorder topic. A worthwhile starting point in oneâs endeavor to learn the basics of this disorder, and how it may be, as the author states, successfully âmanagedâ so that a person may live an enjoyable, satisfying life in spite of OCPDâs challenges. Thank you, Mr. Geoffreys, a work well-done! Sincerely, Mack W.

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Title: ESFJ: Understanding & Relating with the Provider

Subtitle: MBTI Personality Types Volume 2

Author: Clayton Geoffreys

Narrator: Craig Sweat

Format: Unabridged

Length: 1 hr

Language: English

Release date: 07-24-15

Publisher: Calvintir Books, LLC

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 8 votes

Genres: Nonfiction, Social Sciences

Publisher's Summary:

In ESFJ: Understanding & Relating with the Provider, you'll learn about the ESFJ Myers Brigg Personality Type. This book covers a variety of topics regarding ESFJs (extroverted sensing feeling judging) and why they make such great empathizers. ESFJs are among the best caregivers in society since they love people and interacting with others. In this book we'll begin by exploring why the MBTI test is important before then digging in to why ESFJs make great, dependable friends and lovers. From there we'll venture into the greatest strengths and weaknesses of individuals who identify as ESFJs. Finally we'll explore what makes ESFJs happy and what they value in their personal relationships. We'll close by learning about 10 famous ESFJs and what you can learn from them.

Members Reviews:

insightful & Practical

Useful information presented in an easily digestible manner by a narrator very enjoyable to the ear.

Small investment in time to glean much.

I recommend.

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Title: From Understanding Poverty to Develping Human Capacity

Author: Ruby K. Payne

Narrator: Thomas Blair

Format: Unabridged

Length: 4 hrs and 9 mins

Language: English

Release date: 07-21-15

Publisher: aha! Process, Inc.

Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 2 votes

Genres: Nonfiction, Social Sciences

Publisher's Summary:

From Understanding Poverty to Developing Human Capacity details how schools, churches, courts, businesses, and communities can build resources for people in poverty. With nine articles written by Dr. Payne, along with two co-written with her colleague, Philip DeVol, these writings cover the gamut of Dr. Payne's efforts in dealing with poverty-related issues. Now educators of all levels, clergy, community leaders, business professionals, and others are better positioned to help raise achievement, grow resources, and aid in the personal and professional development of everyone they work with.

Members Reviews:

wever, much of the book is a repeat of the information located in, A Framework for Understanding Poverty.

This is a good book for anyone who wants or needs to understand poverty and its' impact on educational, social, and economic success. Ho