Death / Tyler Volk. Sex / Dorion Sagan.

White River Junction : Chelsea Green Pub., [2009], ©2009.

105, xv, 117 pages ; 21 cm

"A sciencewriters book."

Titles from separate title pages; works issued back-to-back and inverted.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Death: Impermanence -- Epicurean dance of friends -- Evolving life, evolving death -- Origin of life as origin of death -- Recycling of the dead -- Suicidal bacteria -- Little deaths in big bodies -- Built from death -- Extreme senescence -- Tuning longevity -- The awareness of mortality -- Death's cultural blooming -- Death-denying defenses -- Death and self-esteem -- Ripples upon flowing water.

Sex: Forbidden fruit -- The naked truth -- Monkey traits -- Affair of the hair -- Secret races -- Blue light my baby -- The last pornographer -- Cosmic love machine -- Seduced by Sade -- Laugh of the Hyena -- DNA dance -- Silence of the Amebas -- Bliss.