Touch the Sun is a universally designed book for sighted and visually impaired readers with colorful raised images and combined text in print and Braille that explores the dynamic nature of our Sun. This book includes sixteen breathtaking embossed images with touchable areas of swirling gas currents, dark sunspots, curving magnetic fields and explosive eruptions.

Wolman, a Portland, Ore. freelance, committed a year of his life to traveling the world in order to explore left-handedness — specifically, what causes it and how left-handers might differ from the right-handed majority. Lefties are about 10-12 percent of the population. Wolman's travels took him to see neuroscientists in Berkeley, lefty golf enthusiasts in Japan, psychologists in London, a double amputee in Illinois, palm readers in Quebec, and centuries-old brains in Paris.

In the introduction to the book, Beason, a key architect of directed-energy research who has worked as an advisor to both the Clinton and Bush administration, describes a scenario in the introduction. Called Active Denial, it is one of the many non-lethal directed-energy weapons being tested today. Beason, a retired colonel, says had the funding for it not been cut in the late 1990s, it could have been used to quell the urban warfare in Baghdad and Fallujah — and hundreds of lives could have been saved.

Kanigel, professor of Science Writing and Director of the Graduate Program in Science Writing at MIT, wrote this book about Taylor who was the first efficiency expert and the father of scientific management. Kanigel shows that Taylor bequeathed to us a clockwork world of tasks time to the hundredth of a minute. He writes that the subject of this biography helped instill in us the obsession with time, order, productivity, and efficiency that marks our age.