The perfect dance: birds and big tides in the Bay of Fundy --
Star of our life: a meditation on tide history at Mont Saint-Michel --
Silver dragon: China's Qiantang River tidal bore --
The last magician: Sir Isaac Newton and the scientific revolution --
Big waves: surfing mavericks and nineteenth-century tide theories --
Fast water: how tidal currents slow the Earth and bend time --
Big tides and resonance: Fundy and Ungava --
Turning the tide: grinding wheat, powering homes --
Higher tides: sea level rise from Kuna Yala to Venice.