| Preface to the New Edition | |
| Acknowledgments | |
| Ch. 1 | Remarks at the Start | 3 |
| Ch. 2 | What Is a Fluid and How Much So | 16 |
| Ch. 3 | Neither Hiding nor Crossing Streamlines | 32 |
| Ch. 4 | Pressure and Momentum | 50 |
| Ch. 5 | Drag, Scale, and the Reynolds Number | 81 |
| Ch. 6 | The Drag of Simple Shapes and Sessile Systems | 106 |
| Ch. 7 | Shape and Drag: Motile Animals | 132 |
| Ch. 8 | Velocity Gradients and Boundary Layers | 156 |
| Ch. 9 | Life in Velocity Gradients | 174 |
| Ch. 10 | Making and Using Vortices | 204 |
| Ch. 11 | Lift, Airfoils, Gliding, and Soaring | 230 |
| Ch. 12 | The Thrust of Flying and Swimming | 262 |
| Ch. 13 | Flows within Pipes and Other Structures | 290 |
| Ch. 14 | Internal Flows in Organisms | 308 |
| Ch. 15 | Flow at Very Low Reynolds Numbers | 331 |
| Ch. 16 | Unsteady Flows | 362 |
| Ch. 17 | Flow at Fluid-Fluid Interfaces | 378 |
| Ch. 18 | Do It Yourself | 398 |
| List of Symbols | 403 |
| Bibliography and Index of Citations | 407 |
| Subject Index | 441 |