In one chapter, Trace: On Genes and Crime, Steinberg investigates the search for a "criminal gene".
Said marks vanish rapidly, leaving no trace on the field.
As the artist draws, the stylus leaves a faint silvery trace on the surface.
But for reasons I could never understand, war's travails never left a trace on him.
Excessive heat and inappropriate humidity can ruin a wine without leaving a trace on the bottle.
But of Impressionism there was no trace on the catalog covers.
Strangely, it hasn't, or at least it has left no trace on early written literature.
Fail in any of this and your rating plummets and the property will sink without trace on the listings.
He has appeared in court every year since 1992, with his asbos leaving no discernable trace on this record.
One of the leaders of protests against President Viktor Yanukovych, the activist disappeared without trace on 22 January.
The images from Angola seem to echo across those other, happier images, and to leave a troubling trace on them.
