Tales from a Northwest naturalist

Tales of an old ocean

Ecoviews : snakes, snails, and environmental tales

Sea legs : tales of a woman oceanographer

Duck and cover -- Victory at sea -- World geography -- Surf City -- The deep-tow group -- A conundrum -- The first search -- Dante's hole -- Paratyphoid -- Islands -- Storms -- The best of times, the worst of times -- The Alvin and the Galápagos -- Space cadets -- Wood holes -- Ice palace -- Collapse -- Saints and navigators -- Titanic madness -- A scientist in film school -- Fashions, French, and Fulbrights -- 1984 -- With the Navy to the North -- Baikal -- Rapid Russian response -- Soot -- Compote -- Come away -- New world -- Dark déjà vu.

An anthropologist on Mars : seven paradoxical tales

Thieves, deceivers, and killers : tales of chemistry in nature

Defending the cavewoman : and other tales of evolutionary neurology

The barmaid's brain and other strange tales from science

Barmaid's brain

Tales from the underground : a natural history of subterranean life

Tears of the cheetah : and other tales from the genetic frontier

Foreword / A Mouse That Roared -- Tears of the Cheetah -- Prides and Prejudice -- A Run for Its Life -- The Florida Panther -- Bureaucratic Mischief -- A Whale of a Tale -- The Lion Plague -- The Wild Man of Borneo -- The Panda's Roots -- The Way We Were -- Snowball's Chance: Genomic Pawprints -- Genetic Guardians -- Origins -- A Silver Bullet.

Periodic tales : a cultural history of the elements, from Arsenic to Zinc

The man who mistook his wife for a hat and other clinical tales