Watson is astronomer-in-charge of the Anglo-Australian Observatory in central New South Wales. His book traces the history of the telescope, from its origins with Tycho Brahe, whose king gave him an island on which he could pursue his scientific investigations, to NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, which has shown new galaxies.

The aim of the book is to help parents recognize if their teenager's desire to be thin is a simple quest for a smaller skirt size or something that is mutating into a struggle to feel good. It is not a book about anorexia, but rather about those who have a problem with food because of deep emotional battles.

In August 1998, a story about a doctor named Nancy Olivieri grabbed headlines in Toronto. The articles stated that Olivieri had discovered serious problems with an experimental drug manufactured by Canada's largest pharmaceutical company, a Toronto-based generics manufacturer called Apotex. The drug at the center of the scandal is a white tablet called L1, or deferiprone, intended for use by patients with the inherited blood disorder thalassemia. Olivieri planned to tell patients about the problems, as required by her hospital.

A dissertation is the crowning achievement of years of graduate study, but many graduate students struggle long hours with formatting their dissertations properly. Writing Your Dissertation with Microsoft Word walks the reader, step by step, through the process of using Microsoft Word 2003 to produce a dissertation that meets the requirements of your graduate school. Throughout, the book uses real-world examples of formatting requirements from actual graduate schools, and is amply illustrated to provide a visual guide to working through Microsoft Word.