Magic Bullets, Miracle Drugs, and MicrobiologistsMagic Bullets, Miracle Drugs, and Microbiologists: A History of the Microbiome and Metagenomics by William C. Summers is an enlightening journey through the fascinating world of microbiology, exploring its history, challenges, and the revolutionary concept of the microbiome.Summers draws from his unique perspective as both a practicing microbiologist and a historian of science, influenced by early mi...

A fascinating historical account of the American Phage Group and how its new research framework became the foundation for molecular biologyThis book is the first critical and analytical study of the American Phage Group—a small group of scientists who gathered around Max Delbrück, Salvador Luria, and Alfred Hershey between 1940 and 1960—and how this novel research program became the foundation of the field of molecular biology. These three young, charismatic, and i...

“The Song of Roland” is acknowledged today as the first masterpiece of French vernacular literature and one of the world’s greatest epic poems. Written down around the year 1090, “The Song of Roland’s” finely crafted verses tell of the betrayal and defeat of Charlemagne’s beloved nephew at the Pass of Roncevaux in the Pyrenees and of the revenge subsequently sought on his behalf. Although the identity of the surviving work’s author cannot be known with certainty, his poetic genius cannot b...

"Pray Together, Stay Together: How to Plan a Successful Value-Based Family Reunion and Legacy" is a groundbreaking guide that offers a God-inspired vision for strengthening Black families and building a legacy of prosperity. Written by a devoted African-American Christian patriarch with over 40 years of experience in financial planning, estate planning and hosting spirit-filled family reunions, this book is a testament to the power of unity, prayer, and purpose in creating generational wea...

Where are you in your relationship with God and Jesus Christ? Have you been forgiven of your sins and committed your life to Christ? Are you seeking to find a closer relationship with God? Is your life in turmoil, and you struggle with no idea where to turn? Life is not easy to navigate. I know! I struggled with habits that carried into my adult life. I had trouble with jobs, trouble with relationships, trouble with finances. You name it! Everything in my life became a struggle. In 2012, a...

Nineteenth-century Brazil’s constitutional monarchy credibly committed to repay sovereign debt, borrowing repeatedly in international and domestic capital markets without default. Yet it failed to lay the institutional foundations that private financial markets needed to thrive. This study shows why sovereign creditworthiness did not necessarily translate into financial development. “Using a vast array of archival evidence, Summerhill convincingly shows that political commitment ...

When plague broke out in Manchuria in 1910 as a result of transmission from marmots to humans, it struck a region struggling with the introduction of Western medicine, as well as with the interactions of three different national powers: Chinese, Japanese, and Russian. In this fascinating case history, William Summers relates how this plague killed as many as 60,000 people in less than a year, and uses the analysis to examine the actions and interactions of the multinational doctors, politi...

Based on primary source documents, this historical study establishes the interconnections between private violence and political, social, and economic life in New York from 1930-1950. By describing and analyzing both the social world and social system of organized crime, Block provides a new perspective, one based on racial and ethnic stereotypes. The book provides a penetrating look at one of the most misunderstood aspects of American society, important for historians, criminologists and ...

When a catastrophic solar storm brings about the collapse of modern civilization, an Amish community in Pennsylvania is caught up in the devastating aftermath. Once-bright skies are now dark. Planes have plummeted to the ground. The systems of modern life have crumbled. With their stocked larders and stores of supplies, the Amish are unaffected at first. But as the English (the Amish name for all non-Amish people) become more and more desperate, they begin to invade Amish farms, taking wha...

I was kissed by a demi-god in a suit. The whole world saw it. And now I'm on the run. I only went to Los Angeles to support my best friend on her first big movie set. Blinding lights. Cameras rolling. Her big break. Giovanni Sabatelli wasn't supposed to notice me. Studio owner. Empire builder. The man who makes Hollywood heartthrobs nervous. His actors couldn't get the kissing scene right. So he walked toward me instead. Stopped inches away. Lifted my chin with two fingers...

When I was 16, a gypsy fortune-teller told me my future held darkness and death. She was right.But what she didn't tell me was I'd lose all my memories and that I wouldn't recognize the devil when he came to steal my life. Lucca Dyshekov - the Bratva assassin they call Merciless - rose from hell and turned my world upside down. On our wedding day, he taught me real monsters aren't the ones who hide in the dark. They're the ones who stare you in the face and steal y...

Skeletons fall out of the closet as I get my memories back. Everything changed overnight.Truth became my enemy, and the sting of betrayal dragged me into a web of lies. I'm damned if I fight to live and damned if I die. The dark secrets I remember might tear my marriage apart. Love is a myth we shouldn't have explored.My husband was always my enemy. Love just made me forget and blinded me. The cruel hand of death is the only answer when doom takes over. I d...