Natural Acts: A Sidelong View of Science and Nature

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New, Retrospective Introduction: Learning Curve (2007) -- Old, Ingenuous Introduction: An Inordinate Fondness for Beetles (1985) -- All God's Vermin -- Sympathy for the Devil (1981) -- Has Success Spoiled the Crow? (1983) -- The Widow Knows (1982) -- The Troubled Gaze of the Octopus (1984) -- Avatars of the Soul in Malaya (1984) -- Rumors of a Snake (1984) -- Wool of Bat (1982) -- Prophets and Pariahs -- The Excavation of Jack Horner (1984) -- The Lives of Eugène Marais (1981) -- The Man with the Metal Nose (1983) -- Animal Rights and Beyond (1984) -- Alias Benowitz Shoe Repair (1983) -- The Tree People (1984) -- Eloquent Practices, Natural Acts -- Love's Martyrs (1983) -- A Deathly Chill (1983) -- Is Sex Necessary? (1982) -- Desert Sanitaire (1983) -- Jeremy Bentham, the Pietà, and a Precious Few Grayling (1982) -- Yin and Yang in the Tularosa Basin (1985) -- After Thoughts -- Planet of Weeds (1998) -- The River Jumps Over the Mountain (2002) -- The Post-Communist Wolf (2000) -- The Megatransect (2000-2001) -- A Passion for Order (2007) -- Citizen Wiley (2006) -- Clone Your Troubles Away (2005).