Essentials of Human Embryology. By William J. Larsen. (Pp. xii+394; fully illustrated; f22 paperback; ISBN 0 443 07514 X.) Edinburgh: Churchill Livingstone. 1997.

X-Ray Crystallography. Second Edition. By William Clegg. Oxford University Press, 2015. Pp. 128. Price GBP 14.99 (paperback). ISBN 9780198700975.

During my career, I have taught undergraduates majoring in physics and undergraduates majoring in chemistry. I have also taught molecular biologists and biochemists. My initial preference in teaching X-ray crystallography to any undergraduate was for my physics undergraduate course book in crystallography by Michael Woolfson (1970). However, that book, with its clear mathematical foundation, is...

Book Review: Pharmacology by Rang HP, Dale MM, Ritter JM and Moore PK. Fifth edition Churchill Livingstone, Edinburgh, 2003

Illustrated Human Embryology. Volume 2, Organogenesis

Tosteson on lipid bilayers and Meares on membrane transport processes are brief, interesting and comprehensible. They are followed by a dozen papers on active ion transport in biological model systems such as frog or toad skin and toad bladder. Eleven papers about transport of substances across intestinal epithelia occupy the middle third of this volume. Papers by G. Sachs and coworkers and Wil...

Imperfections in crystalline solids. By Wei Cai and William D. Nix. MRS-Cambridge Materials Fundamentals. Cambridge University Press, 2016. Paperback Pp. 532. Price GBP 44.99. ISBN 1107123135.

This book is a very good textbook of more than 500 pages that bridges the gap between Introduction to Dislocations by Hull & Bacon (2011), and the famous Theory of Dislocations by Hirth & Lothe (1968). It is based on the lecture notes of one the authors (WDN), who originally taught in the Materials Science and Engineering Department of Stanford University. It is mainly aimed at senior undergrad...

Bonding, Structure & Solid-state Chemistry. By Mark Ladd. Oxford University Press, 2016. Pp. 527. GBP 32.50 (paperback), GBP 65.00 (hardback). ISBN 978-0-19-872995-2.

According to the author, the book ‘should find its place in any year of the degree studies in the physical and biochemical sciences’ and it ‘presumes a background in science and mathematics of approximately A-level standard’. In fact, some more than basic knowledge of chemistry, physics and mathematics is required, such as integral calculus, symmetry notations and thermodynamics (free energy, e...