"Riveting ... Toomey is imaginative and compelling in his recreation."

-- Baltimore Sun

"Toomey brings a novelist's eye and an investigative journalist's panache to the history and science."

-- Chicago Tribune



  
Stormchasers: the Hurricane Hunters and their Flight into Hurricane Janet.  New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2002.  [order]
 

Amelia Earhart's Daughters: the Wild and Glorious Story of American Women Aviators from World War II to the Dawn of the Space Age, co-author with Leslie Haynsworth.  New York: William Morrow Publishers, 1998. [order]

"Here is a rousing tale of forgotten women ...
In their first book, Leslie Haynsworth and David Toomey have written an account that is a fine balance of hair-raising exploits, political drama and portraits of colorful heroes who could handle anything except discrimination."

-- Carol Peace Robins,
The New York Times

"Scientific and Technical Communication ... integrates multidisciplinary perspectives on the relations among rheoric, science, technology, and public policymaking to the process and product of technical communication."

-- publisher's description


Scientific and Technical Communication in Theory, Practice and Policy, second author to James Collier.  Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, 1997. [order]