Glossary for The Complex Alternative, Complexity Scientists on the Covid-19 pandemic, Santa Fe Institute Press, 2021
Ghosted rewrites of three chapters about science and mapping ideas, for the academic book When Maps Become the World, by Rasmus Grønfeldt Winther, University of Chicago Press, 2020. Winther is Professor of Humanities at the University of California, Santa Cuz.
Wrote four chapters for a report on women in engineering: The Variables for Women’s Success in Engineering and Computing, American Association of University Women, 2015.
Contributing author to Discover Biology, 5/e, by Singh-Cundy and Cain, W.W. Norton, 2012. Wrote or revised 36 chapter opening stories for this best-selling college textbook.
Contributed “The Reproductive Lottery” to The Darwin Awards Countdown to Extinction, edited by Wendy Northcutt, 2010.
Life, A Journey through Time, by Frans Lanting, 2006. This book is a photo story of the evolutionary history of life on Earth. I contributed a first-draft caption manuscript telling the story of the formation of universe and solar system and the evolution of life over billions of years.
Proceedings from the Third Annual Conference on Sex and Gene Expression, Society for Women’s Health Research, 2002.
Contributed to the high school encyclopedias Biology for Students, Richard Robinson (editor), MacMillan Reference USA, 2001, and Genetics for Students, Richard Robinson (editor), MacMillan Reference USA, 2003.
Lead author of three editions of Asking About Life, by Allan Tobin and Jennie Dusheck, including writing and revising all text and overseeing the development and revision of art and photo manuscripts. Copyright 1998, 2001, 2005.
Contributed five chapters to Life Science, Allen, Berg, Dumas, Dusheck, and Taylor: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 2001 (a middle school textbook). Reviewed chapters in subsequent editions.
Contributed six chapters to Nature of Life, 1/e, by Postlethwait and Hopson: Random House, 1989.