Why did prehistoric people start making music? What does every postwar pop song have in common? A "masterful" tour of music through the ages (Booklist, starred review).

Ever since we started huddling together in communities, the story of human history has been inextricably entwined with the story of microbes. They have evolved and spread amongst us, shaping our culture through infection, disease, and pandemic. At the same time, our changing human culture has itself influenced the evolutionary path of microbes. Dorothy H. Crawford here shows that one cannot be truly understood without the other.

'Europe where the sun dares scarce appear
For freezing meteors and congealed cold.'
Christopher Marlowe

Meticulously researched and vividly written, Eight Days at Yalta is a remarkable work of intense historical drama.

True Tales from the Buckeye State's Past—from the birth of Tecumsehto the Bicentennial Barnstorm