The former USA Today weather editor, Williams explores the science behind the weather, stories of people coping with severe weather, and those who devote their lives to understanding the atmosphere, oceans, and climate. The book's historic discussions and profiles illustrate how meteorology and the related sciences are interwoven throughout our lives. Williams had previously authored the highly successful USA TODAY Weather Book, but by 2004 the book was out of date.

Science educator Dennis Schatz has written for children a biography of Thomas Edison. In this 40-page book, Schatz describes Edison's life and his world-changing inventions: the phonograph, electric lighting, movie projectors, and more. The book includes a hand-crank-powered kinetoscope, filmstrip images to view, and blank strips to make simple moving pictures. Schatz is senior vice president for strategic programs at Pacific Science Center, in Seattle.

Leopold, who specializes in writing about the politics of health, describes how nearly every aspect of our understanding and discussion of cancer bears the imprint of its Cold War entanglement. She writes about the current biases toward individual rather than corporate responsibility for rising cancer incidence rates, research that promotes treatment rather than prevention, and therapies the can be patented and marketed. Taking into account a wide array of disciplines, her book challenges the understanding of cancer and how we approach its treatment.

Oregon freelance Wolman — a confessed weak speller himself — takes us on a journey into the past origins of the language and looks at the future of English as influenced by the digital age. Renaissance, millennium, diarrhea, camaraderies, feign, labyrinth, misspelling — are you able to spell them without a mistake? [Right now, this columnist is dealing with the harmonization or harmonisation of the European