Chirality: physical chemistry. Edited by Janice M. Hicks. (ACS Symposium Series, #810). Pp. ix + 356. New York: Oxford University Press, 2002. Price US$ 140.00. ISBN 0 8412 3737 9.

This book `evolved from the first symposium on the Physical Chemistry of Chirality held in San Francisco, California at the National Meeting of the American Chemical Society . . . in March 2000'. The editor's intention is `that those studying interesting new chiral systems will interact with those at the forefront of developing new methods for studying chirality both experimentally and theoretically, in order to stimulate new research directions'. Two of the 22 contributions report on the new phenomenon of X-ray natural circular dichroism (XNCD).