Books and journals

The Science of Crystallization: Macroscopic Phenomena and Defect Generation

W. A. Tiller, Stanford U., 1992, 421 pp., $30.36, Cambridge University Press. Deals with convection, heat transport, and solute transport and describes both steady state and transient solute distributions in bulk crystals, small crystallites of various shapes, and thin films. Integrating these factors, it treats interface instability for interfaces of different shape plus the dominant morphological characteristics found in crystals during either single phase or polyphase crystallization.

The Science of Crystallization: Macroscopic Interfacial Phenomena

W. A. Tiller, Stanford U., 1991, 421 pp., $23.96, Cambridge University Press. An advanced text that goes into considerable detail concerning the many e1ements of knowledge needed to understand a crystallization event quantitatively, deals with the important atomistic-level processes occurring at the interface between a crystal and its nutrient, and provides the necessary scientific background in both thermodynamics and kinetics needed for the understanding of crystallization for both bulk crystals and thin film crystals.

Structural Studies of Protein-Nucleic Acid Interaction

T. A. Steitz, Yale U., 1993, 86 pp., $15.96, Cambridge University Press. Reviews the structural studies of DNA-binding proteins and their complexes with DNA. Principles of sequence-specific nudeic-acid recognition; DNA-binding structure motifs; Similarities and differences in RNA and DNA recognition; Sequence-specific and independent DNA-binding proteins; Sequence-specific RNA-binding proteins.

Protein Structure: New Approaches to Disease and Therapy

M. Perutz, 1992, 326 pp., $35.95, W. H. Freeman and Co. Perutz has made a unique contribution to the field of structural molecular biology by reviewing, organizing and boiling down so much material. This book will probably be of greatest value to practicing biochemists, molecular biologists, cell biologists and others interested in keeping abreast of the impact of structural molecular biology on medically oriented applications in their fields.

Random, Non-Random and Periodic Faulting in Crystals

M. T. Sebastian, Reg. Research Lab., India and P. Krishna, Krishnamurti Foundation, India, 1994, 384 pp., $150.00, Gordon and Breach Science Publishers. An overview of stacking faults in crystal structures, including theoretical and experimental work. Notations used in Representations of Close-Packed structures, Types of Faults, Methods of Detection and Measurement: X-ray Diffraction, Electron Diffraction, and other techniques, Theoretical Models of Non-Random Faulting during Phase Transitions, Stacking Faults in Close-Packed Structures, Diffuse X-ray Scattering from Randomly Faulted Close-Packed Structures, Non-Random Faulting in Close-Packed Structures, Periodic Faulting in Crystals: Polytypism.

Introduction to Protein Structure

C. Branden, Uppsala, Sweden and J. Tooze, Heidelberg, Germany, 1994, 320 pp., 340 drawings, $27.95, Garland Publishing, Hamden, CT, USA. Describes 300 high resolution protein structures, identifies recurring structural motifs, and illuminates the molecular basis of cellular process and function.