Intimate Strangers

This richly illustrated book to accompany 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. The authors have built upon the series content to offer an even more comprehensive view of our relationship with the planet's tiniest inhabitants.Targeted to a general audience, the book's lively style will engage 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.