This book traces the entirety of the history of the moon’s influence on Earth. Needless to say, this a huge topic, and each chapter could probably have been a book of its own, but I really liked the overview I got.
There’s a lot here from an evolutionary perspective (of the Earth itself, much less humans) that got into a lot more detail than I was familiar with. Most people will understand the tides (certainly if they live near the ocean), but I hadn’t realized how much else the moon influences for Earth.
I also found the prehistoric detail fascinating. None of it was new, exactly, but the extent to which our ancestors understood some fairly sophisticated astronomical concepts, and for how long, was fascinating.