Philip's Encyclopedia has entries in these useful sections: Identification Guide (Stars and Planets, Human Body, Mammals, Birds, Butterflies, Trees) A-Z Encyclopedia (from Aachen to Gennady Zyuganov), History of the World, and Ready Reference.
Forensic scientist Bill Bass describes his decades of work at the University of Tennessee's Anthropology Research Facility, a hillside lab dedicated to the study of human decomposition, and discusses several criminal cases.