"A contagious living fluid" : tobacco mosaic virus
Old companions
The uncommon cold: rhinovirus
Looking down from the stars : influenza virus
Rabbits with horns : papillomavirus
Everywhere, in all things
The enemy of our enemy : bacteriophages
Oceans of viruses : marine phages
The infected genome : endogenous retroviruses
The viral future
The young scourge : human immunodeficiency virus
Becoming an American : West Nile virus
Predicting the next plague : severe acute respiratory syndrome
The long goodbye : smallpox
The alien in the watercooler : mimivirus.
A planet of viruses by Carl Zimmer. ISBN 9780226983356. Published by University of Chicago Press in 2011. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.