Companion book to the PBS science documentary Intimate Strangers: Unseen Life on Earth * Combines vivid, descriptive images from the series and original artwork to tell the compelling story of the world of microbes and their role in the Earth's ecosystem. * Offers a comprehensive view of our relationship with the planet's tiniest inhabitants. * Engages parents and their children and teachers and their students, along with other members of the science-interested public, putting the vitally important role of the microbial world into examples and terms familiar to the reader.


This title is published by the American Society of Microbiology Press and distributed by Taylor and Francis in rest of world territories.