Encyclopedia of Hair: A Cultural History

Reference Reviews has a panel of reviewers and our editor offers us books on our known interests. Sometimes he is sent a book for which there is no obvious panel member, and he circulates a list of titles and we suggest suitable colleagues, or we offer to review a few titles. I offered to review this book because of interests in biology and forensic science, and also some interest in anthropology and folk customs.

So what did I get? There are many articles on cosmetics and companies that produce cosmetics, areas on which I often need information as a forensic...