Orientations and rotations. Computations in crystallographic textures. By Adam Morawiec. Pp. X + 200. Berlin, Heidelberg, New York: Springer-Verlag, 2004. Price EUR 59.95, GBP 46.00, USD 79.95. ISBN 3 540 40734 0.

Essentially, Orientations and rotations treats the mathematical and computational foundations of texture analysis. It contains an extensive and thorough introduction to parameterizations and geometry of the rotation space. Since the notions of orientations and rotations are of primary importance for science and engineering, the book can be useful for a very broad audience using rotations in other fields.