The book tells the story of the race to save our largest bird from extinction. The storyline transports readers deep into the world of the California condor and describes how the condor symbolizes the extinction crisis facing our planet. Moir says he had been writing articles about the condor recovery program for newspapers and magazines for several years. "In 2004, I was asked to do a feature story on the recovery effort for Birding magazine.

Alan Caruba's book is on topics ranging from Islam to immigration and environmentalism to education. He maintains the text is "documented, attributed, and opinionated!" The book emanates from The National Anxiety Center (NAC), which he founded in 1990. The NAC is, he says, a "clearing house for information about 'scare campaigns' designed to influence public opinion and policy." In the book he takes on "food cops," advocates of technophobia, environmental corruption, global warming, and the green agenda.

This book critically examines the journal-embargo system that scientific publishers and the mass media both use to shape the flow of news about science and medicine to the public. The book traces the history of embargoes and examines, in detail, how they function. The author argues that embargoes run contrary to the public interest, because they promote coverage of incremental advances and discourage critical, in-depth coverage of scientific institutions.

Victor Chase takes the reader on a journey into a new medical frontier, where a category of implants known as neural prosthetics returns sight to the blind, hearing to the deaf, and movement to the paralyzed. These devices which replace damaged circuitry in the nervous system, also hold the potential to resolve psychiatric illnesses, restore the ability to form memories in damaged brains, and even to endow the able-bodied with superhuman powers by increasing learning capacity and extending the visible and audible wavelengths.