The story of how microbes and the diseases they cause have come to influence our modern everyday world, sometimes over thousands of years, a guide to ancient history, and the personal memoir of one microbiologist's attempts to gain tenure at his small college in Montana all woven into one book as told by the scientist. By the time you finish reading the fourth and final part, you'll know not only the history of brewing, wine making, and baking bread, but also how the 3-atom molecule called "water" is necessary for all biological systems on Earth from the simplest bacteria to trees & human beings, what proteins are and why they are the most important molecules in your body, the connection between cholera & cystic fibrosis, and how all living cells obtain energy from their environment...this and much much more. "Cystic Fibrosis & the Brewer's Yeast: A Microbiology Tale" is the full-length novel and contains within it "Secret Life of the Brewer's Yeast: A Microbiology Tale" and "The Secret Life of Water: A Microbiology Tale."