Scientific Examination of Documents: Methods and Techniques, Fourth Edition

Revised and expanded to reflect the most recent innovations in the field, The Scientific Examination of Documents, Fourth Editionis a handy, accessible volume detailing current best-practices for forensic document examination.\nSince the first edition published in 1989, there have been drastic changes in the field of forensic document examination―both from the use of the analytic techniques available to the professional examiner―and the changes to technology in office and printing equipment and inks. The purpose of analyzing any material used in the production of a questioned document, such as an ink or a piece of paper, is to compare it with another material elsewhere in the questioned document itself―or on another document―to determine whether or not they share a common origin. There may also be a need to provide information for the investigator about the possible origins of the document.\nThis latest edition reflects the myriad changes and advances that have occurred in the last 10 to 15 years. Topics covered include: current thinking on handwriting interpretation; accidental and deliberate modification of handwriting; the proper collection of samples; a discussion of shredded documents; professional accreditation standards, qualifications, and training; and modern digital imaging and analysis of documents and handwriting utilizing software and imaging, including reconstruction of an image from erasures, obliteration and other document altering methods. A new section addresses cognitive bias and Chapter 8 is completely updated to cover the advances in print and photocopied documents, based on current technology, and analytical developments in the comparison of such documents.\nKey features:\nDiscusses issues regarding handwritten, photocopied, and printed documents―including inkjet versus digital printing\nPresents the advances and capabilities modern office fax, photocopy, and printing technologies―and implications for document examination\nDetails and reinforces the importance of ensuring proper scientific methods during an examination\nAddresses current Raman spectroscopy, UV-VIS, mass spectroscopy, and SEM analysis techniques\nHighlights the importance, and implications, of biological and fingerprint evidence from documents that can be collected, examined, and utilized in a case\nThe Scientific Examination of Documents, Fourth Edition serves as an invaluable resource to established professionals, those just entering the field, and legal and investigative professionals outside the discipline who have a professional interest dealing with questioned documents in the course of their work.

Politics & Social Sciences

Davies, Christopher

Day, Stephen

Ellen, David

Social Sciences

CRC-Press

Multi-sensory environments in the classroom provide a wealth of stimulating learning experiences for all young children whose senses are still under development. Creating Multisensory Environments: Practical Ideas for Teaching and Learning is a highly practical guide to low-cost cost, easy to assemble multi-sensory environments. With a step-by-step guide to each activity, these creative learning environments focus on multi-sensory experiences and:   are designed to stimulate all the sensory channels – auditory, visual, kinaesthetic, olfactory and gustatory   include suggestions for extension or differentiation depending on the abilities of your pupils, or the time available    encourage creative thinking and learning, and development of social and emotional skills    feature clear learning Outcomes, linking with P-Scales for children with special education needs   can be set up in your classroom or school hall in just a matter of minutes or be a semi-permanent feature in a small area of the classroom, convenient for use at any given moment.     Although these activities will be of particular value for children with sensory impairments, they will also provide stimulating learning environments, as promoted in the themes and principles of the Early Years Foundation Stage guidance. Theory and background to multi-sensory learning is provided to enable you to adapt the suggested scenarios according to the needs of individual learners. This practical and easy to use book is an essential companion for busy classroom practitioners wanting to create a stimulating and meaningful learning environment.

Creating Multi-sensory Environments: Practical Ideas for Teaching and Learning (nasen spotlight)

Education & Teaching

Schools & Teaching

Routledge

Creating Multi-sensory Environments (nasen spotlight)

Puzzled by signs warning you to "mind the gap" in the London Underground? Wondering what will be on your plate if you order "toad in the hole" in a London cafe? In Divided by a Common Language, Christopher Davies explains these expressions and discusses the many differences in pronunciation, spelling, and vocabulary between British and American English. He compares the customs, manners, and practical details of daily life in the United Kingdom and the United States, and American readers will enjoy his account of American culture as seen through an Englishman's eyes. Davies tops it off with an amusing list of expressions that sound innocent enough in one country but make quite the opposite impression in the other. Two large glossaries help travelers translate from one variety of English to the other, and additional lists explain the distinctive words of Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa. Divided by a Common Language is the ideal travel companion for both British visitors to the U.S. and American visitors to the U.K. It is also the perfect book for Britons interested in American culture and Americans enjoying British novels, movies, and television at home.

Divided By A Common Language: A Guide to British and American English

Reference

Dictionaries & Thesauruses

Collins Reference

Divided By A Common Language: A Guide To British And American English

Puzzled by signs warning you to “mind the gap” in the London Underground? Wondering what will be on your plate if you order “toad in the hole” in a London café? In Divided by a Common Language, Christopher Davies explains these expressions and discusses the many differences in pronunciation, spelling, and vocabulary between British and American English. He compares the customs, manners, and practical details of daily life in the United Kingdom and the United States, and American readers will enjoy his account of American culture as seen through an Englishman’s eyes. Davies tops it off with an amusing list of expressions that sound innocent enough in one country but make quite the opposite impression in the other. Two large glossaries help travelers translate from one variety of English to the other, and additional lists explain the distinctive words of Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa. Divided by a Common Language is the ideal travel companion for both British visitors to the U.S. and American visitors to the U.K. It is also the perfect book for Britons interested in American culture and Americans enjoying British novels, movies, and television at home.

Completely revised and updated to reflect the latest techniques and technological advances, this second edition provides aclear, concise overview of modern forensic document examination. The scientific methods applied to elucidate questions about whether a document is genuine, whose writing is on it, and any alterations to information on it are explained in detail. Handwriting, typewriting, inks, paper, and other factors which make up documents are discussed and techniques involving infrared radiation, ultraviolet radiation, electrostatic detection, and microscopical examination are described. It is an invaluable guide for trainees and more experienced document examiners.

The Scientific Examination of Documents: Methods and Techniques (Taylor & Francis Forensic Science Series)

Day, Stephen P.

Criminal Law

Taylor&Francis

It takes the proper application of the appropriate methods to either confirm or disprove the authenticity of a handwriting sample that appears on a document. The conclusion may mean substantiating a person’s intent and preventing a fraud. Revised and expanded to reflect the most recent innovations in the field of forensic document examination, Scientific Examination of Documents: Methods and Techniques, Third Edition explains the various methods used to scrutinize documents in question. 
This essential, cutting-edge book begins with an assessment of handwriting techniques, the accidental and deliberate modification of handwriting, and the proper collection of samples. It also reviews traditional and modern typewriting technologies, as well as the analysis of photocopies, incidental marks, the functions of photography in document examination, and courtroom applications. 
This New Edition: 
þ Provides an illustration of the latest methods of document examination 
þ Includes a comparison between ink jet and laser printing 
þ Explains the improvements made to the Video Spectral Comparator (VSC) 
To avoid the consequences that may occur from not fully substantiating a document’s authenticity, Scientific Examination of Documents: Methods and Techniques, Third Edition is an important guide to refer to at all times. 
Features 
<li>Discusses issues regarding handwritten, printed, and photocopied documents </li> <li>Details techniques for the examination of the materials of documents </li> <li>Illustrates the necessity of employing proper scientific methods during an examination</li>

Scientific Examination of Documents: Methods and Techniques, Third Edition (International Forensic Scientific & Investigation Series)

DIVIDED BY A COMMON LANGUAGE is a comprehensive reference book about the differences between British English and American English. It covers pronunciation and spelling differences along with a comprehensive dictionary of the words which have a different meaning or are unknown in the other country. The comparison of idioms and expressions has everyone in stitches! A must for the traveler.

Divided by a Common Language

Mayflower Pr

Learn your times tables in a matter of weeks! 'Terrifying Times Tables' is a book full of catchy, humorous rhymes to help all children LEARN and ENJOY their times tables. (Age 6+) Recommended by teachers, pupils and parents. Exciting themes include: sky diving, paint-balling, surfing, an alien invasion, a shark attack and there's even one about 'FORTNITE'! Read aloud with friends and family! Hours of FUN... and... LEARNING! The book has been developed by Christopher Davies, a primary teacher with over 25 years experience of teaching maths and helping pupils to achieve well at their SATs. The rhymes will help your child to learn their times tables using a fun, more informal method. Each rhyme (linked to a particular times table) tells a story and this will help your child to internalise and memorise the number pattern more quickly and will also help them to develop faster recall of their multiplication facts. This selection of rhymes all have an exciting theme of danger and of being a slightly scared or even terrified! Hence the title of the book. They will certainly grab your child's attention and give them an entertaining and rewarding reading and maths experience. Reading the rhymes together (with a parent, grandparent, teacher or sibling) will definitely add to the learning experience. The author gives details of how to maximise the learning potential of the rhymes in a short section at the front of the book. He also includes timed activities and challenges at the back of the book to encourage the children to test their times table progress and become a 'Terrifying Times Table Champion'! This book is the second in the series, 'Times Table Time and Rhyme'. The first in the series, has proved very popular with students, parents and teachers and is currently being used in schools across the UK. Look out for the next one in the series which has a football theme.

Terrifying Times Tables (Times Table Time & Rhyme)

Children's Books

Literature & Fiction

Independently published

The revised edition of this highly practical guide to creating and using multi-sensory environments is packed full of ideas for low-cost, easy-to-assemble multi-sensory environments suitable for children of varying ages and abilities. Each creative learning environment is designed to be constructed in a classroom or school hall, encouraging creative thinking and learning, and the development of social and emotional skills. Each environment idea is accompanied by suggestions for use for children with special educational needs. 
Key features of the revised edition include: 
Ideas for creating sensory experiences that stimulate all the sensory channels – auditory, visual, kinaesthetic, olfactory and gustatory 
Suggestions for extension or differentiation depending on student capability or time available 
A summary of the theory and background to multi-sensory learning, to allow you to adapt the suggested scenarios according to the needs of individual learners 
Although these activities will be of particular value for children with special educational needs or sensory impairments, they are more broadly designed to provide stimulating learning environments, as promoted in the themes and principles of the Early Years Foundation Stage guidance. This is an invaluable resource for teachers and other professionals in education.

Science & Math

Behavioral Sciences

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Scientific Examination of Documents: Methods and Techniques, Fourth Edition

Creating Multi-sensory Environments: Practical Ideas for Teaching and Learning (nasen spotlight)

Creating Multi-sensory Environments (nasen spotlight)

Divided By A Common Language: A Guide to British and American English

Divided By A Common Language: A Guide to British and American English

The Scientific Examination of Documents: Methods and Techniques (Taylor & Francis Forensic Science Series)

Scientific Examination of Documents: Methods and Techniques, Third Edition (International Forensic Scientific & Investigation Series)

Divided by a Common Language

Terrifying Times Tables (Times Table Time & Rhyme)

Creating Multi-sensory Environments: Practical Ideas for Teaching and Learning (nasen spotlight)