Chirality in liquid crystals. Edited by Heinz-Siegfried Kitzerow and Christian Bahr. Pp. xiv + 501. Heidelberg: Springer Verlag, 2001. Price DM 259.00, US $119.00. ISBN 0-387-98679-0. A collection of 15 papers collected to honor the 60th birthday of Professor Gerd Heppke of the Technical University of Berlin. The editors hope that the work gives `a representative impression of the interesting questions that are being investigated in the field of chiral liquid crystals, even if some pieces are missing.'.
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book review Acta Cry tallographica ection A Foundation of Cry tallography I N 0108-7673 Work intended for thi column hould be ent direct to the Book-Review Editor, who e addre appear in thi i ue. All review are al o available from Cry tallography Journal Online, upplemented where po ible with direct link to the publi her' information. Cry tal , defect and micro tructure , modeling acro cale . By Rob Phillip . Pp. vii + 780. Cambridge Univer ity Pre , 2001. Price £29.95 (paperback), I BN 0 521 79357 2; £80.00 (hardback), I BN 0 521 79005 0. The aim of thi book i to give the reader the needed tool to model cry talline material . The approach empha ize both olid- tate theory and the practical i ue that worker face when implementing computer model ba ed on that theory. The author promote and di cu e , though not in great detail, the ®nite element method a a mean for numerical imulation . Adhering to thi approach, he doe not attempt to produce an encyclopedia of data, but prefer to give the reader a qualitative per pective on modeling, which he doe
