Leslie Favor Ph. D.

Bacteria and humankind interact in incredibly complex ways. Many bacteria can be both harmful to individuals and human society, but others are necessary to human digestion, food production, and many other processes that help humans thrive. This book delves into the various kinds of bacteria, their life cycles and habitats, and their interplay with us and with the natural world at large. Besides the informative details provided on bacteria themselves, this book will be especially valuable to readers who will appreciate the complex web of relationships that bacteria contribute to.

Women in the medical field provided comfort and sanity during the blood and horror on the battlefields. Your readers will learn about extraordinary doctors and nurses such as Dorothea Dix, who was the Union army's Superintendent of Female Nurses, and Clara Barton. She was a nurse who later founded the American Red Cross. Readers will also meet Phoebe Yates Pember, Dr. Esther Hill Hawks, Mary Ann Bickerdyke, Dr. Mary Edwards Walker, Sally L. Tompkins, and Kate Cumming. While lives were being lost on the front, these women helped save many.