Power Unseen: How Microbes Rule the World

Microbes - such as unseen bacteria or viruses - are part of every aspect of human society and of the natural world. They can take the form of life-saving antiobiotics. They can cause horrifying epidemics.

Power Unseen, by Bernard Dixon, explores such microbes - portraying how they work in seventy-five different vignettes - and leaves the reader believing that microbes rule the world.