So Very Small: How Humans Discovered the Microcosmos, Defeated Germs—and May Still Lose the War Against Infectious Disease By Thomas Levenson Material:Hard Cover right next to the rose

right next to the rose bushes

Obeying her late mother’s wishes

He knows everything about their lost histories

relying on experience and each other to get the job done

[with] parallel narratives that really make the novel sing

So Very Small: How Humans Discovered the Microcosmos, Defeated Germs—and May Still Lose the War Against Infectious Disease By Thomas Levenson Material:Hard Cover right next to the roseAn elegant, wide ranging history (The New York Review of Books) of the centuries long quest to discover the critical role of germs in disease thatreveals as much about human reasoningand the pitfalls of egoas it does about microbes. Levenson takes readers through an entertaining . . . journey of missed opportunities in microbiology and the eventual advances that arose in this field.Science Scientists and enthusiastic amateurs first confirmed the