Rob Kaplan served in senior-level editorial positions with several major New York-based publishing houses before starting his own literary services firm, Rob Kaplan Associates. Among his previous books are A Passion for Books, which he coedited with Harold Rabinowitz, and Science Says. He lives with his family in Cortlandt Manor, New York. Harold Rabinowitz has been director of the Reference Works, a New York book packaging firm, since 1994. He has also been executive editor of the McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science & Technology and science editor of the Encyclopedia Americana. In add...