An edition of No Bone Unturned (2003)

No Bone Unturned

Inside the World of a Top Forensic Scientist and His Work on America's Most Notorious Crimes and Disasters

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An edition of No Bone Unturned (2003)

No Bone Unturned

Inside the World of a Top Forensic Scientist and His Work on America's Most Notorious Crimes and Disasters

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A curator for the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History, Doug Owsley painstakingly rebuilds skeletons, helping to identify them and determine their cause of death. He has worked on several notorious cases -- from mass graves uncovered in Croatia to the terrorist attacks on the Pentagon -- and has examined historic skeletons tens of thousands of years old. But the discovery of Kennewick Man, a 9,600-year-old human skeleton found along the banks of Washington's Columbia River, was a find that would turn Owsley's life upside down.Days before Owsley was scheduled to study the skeleton, the government seized it to bury Kennewick Man's bones on the land of the Native American tribes who claimed him. Along with other leading scientists, Owsley sued the U.S. government over custody. Concerned that knowledge about our past and our history would be lost forever if the bones were reburied, Owsley fought a legal and political battle for six years, putting everything at risk, jeopardizing his career and his reputation.

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Harper Paperbacks
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English
Pages
336

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No Bone Unturned
2007, HarperCollins Publishers
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No Bone Unturned
2007, HarperCollins
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No Bone Unturned
2007, HarperCollins Publishers
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Cover of: No Bone Unturned
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No Bone Unturned: The Adventures of a Top Smithsonian Forensic Scientist and the Legal Battle for America's Oldest Skeletons
March 25, 2003, HarperCollins
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First Sentence

""Against a backdrop of Gothic columns and massive granite walls, an elephant-size ivory statue of a brontosaurus stood erect in front of the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Natural History.""

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Format
Paperback
Number of pages
336
Dimensions
7.9 x 5.8 x 0.9 inches
Weight
8.8 ounces

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OL9240383M
ISBN 10
006095888X
ISBN 13
9780060958886
OCLC/WorldCat
55006599
Library Thing
362178
Goodreads
695784

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