Zonderman, a Connecticut freelance, has been under the care for many years of his co-author, Dr. Vender, chief of gastroenterology at the Hospital of St. Raphael, New Haven, CT. The book is written from a patient's perspective. Crohn disease and ulcerative colitis — together known as inflammatory bowel disease — are chronic illnesses of unknown origin.

Varona is a nutritional consultant to celebrities in LA including Sting and Cyndi Lauper. He explains the kind of nourishment that works best to enhance immunity and restore vitality — without sacrificing the enjoyment of food.

The book is the result of a unique collaboration between Libov, a Bethlehem, CT, freelance, who underwent open heart surgery, and her doctor, the medical director of the Queens Medical Center Heart Institute in Honolulu, Hawaii. He is the former medical director of Cardiac Rehabilitation at the Cleveland Clinic.

A first-person account of paleontologist John Long who went fossil-hunting in the coldest place on earth-the Transantarctic Mountains of Antartica. A researcher at the Australian National University and the University of Tasmania, his objective was to find specimens of fossilized fish from the Devonian period, when fish were the dominant form of life in the ocean.