From molecules to crystallizers. An introduction to crystallization. By Roger Davey and John Garside. Pp. ii + 81. New York, Oxford University Press, 2001. Price $12.95 (paper). ISBN 0-19-850489-6.

This useful little book is one of OUP's Chemistry Primers, a series `designed to provide concise introductions to topics commonly encountered in chemistry, and more recently, chemical engineering undergraduate courses'. This Primer draws together `the relevant chemistry and chemical engineering to show how, in the real world, molecular scale science and chemical engineering process design are integrated to produce the crystalline materials we require in our everyday lives'. The authors bring together material from `crystallography, thermodynamics, reactor modelling and surface chemistry'.