Team ICRISAT is publishing this book the better to share these informative and innovative essays with readers outside of the World Wide Web. The Web, more popularly called the Internet, altogether makes up an entirely different collection of readers. Even to those who have read these unique essays online in the many diverse websites where they are published, but especially the American Chronicle (http://americanchronicle.com/), the articles will reveal something new on the second reading, another something new on the third, and still another something new on the fourth reading. All written in the first person with the aim of engaging the reader in a one-on-one, we like to think they can be aptly described in one sentence: Science writing with a human face