David G. Russell and Siamon Gordon (ed.). American Society for Microbiology Press, Washington, D.C., 610 p., $179.95.

David G. Russell and Siamon Gordon have assembled a state-of-the-art and highly attractive volume, which is an in-depth exploration of phagocyte-pathogen interactions and macrophages in the host response to infection. The chapters are peripatetic in scope.

David Greenwood. Oxford University Press, 2008, 429p, $ 125.00

In Antimicrobial Drugs-Chronicle of a Twentieth Century Medical Triumph, author David Greenwood describes the contributors and contributions to the revolution in infectious disease therapy which took place 1900 to 1980.