“Giants of the Monsoon Forest” by Jacob Schell tells what it is like to live and work with elephants. In “The Weather Machine“, Andrew Blum shows what it takes to make your daily forecast. ‘Midnight in Chernobyl’ by Adam Higginbotham is a companion to the HBO series about the world’s greatest nuclear disaster. “Station Blackout” by Charles Castro details the nuclear disaster in Fukushima.