Since self-care is so important in controlling rheumatoid arthritis, the authors have written this book in plain English to demystify this crippling disease — its causes, progression, and effects on the human body.

This award-winning, 768-page paperback book has been updated to reflect recent developments in cancer diagnosis, care, and prevention. Harmon Eyre is the ACS chief medical officer and executive vice president for research and cancer control. Dianne Lange is a contributing editor of Allure Magazine and is a freelance writer living in Shelter Island Heights, N.Y.

Cathy Cobb, assistant professor of chemistry at Augusta State University in Georgia, and Harold Goldwhite, a professor of chemistry at California State University, Los Angeles, have written a book that contains stories of comical or death-defying antics of famous chemists. They reveal, for example, what happened when Alfred Nobel read his own obituary in the newspaper and what prompted Michael Faraday to wash Humphrey Davy's socks.

Rock Brynner, a historian and former road manager for The Band and for Bob Dylan, and Trent Stephens, professor of anatomy and embryology at Idaho State University, teamed up to present the past and the present of the powerful drug thalidomide. They ask and answer the question, "Could a substance that killed and deformed thousands be the next miracle drug?"