BOOK REVIEWS helpfully inrluded many excellent tables and metabolism summary schemes which will greatly aid both students and professors in their study. The book is very well organized and the order of present&tirm is easy t o follow. The amount of detail in e a t h chapter has heen greatly increased; an example of this in the f i r 4 chapter is the inclusion of s. page of notes nu the origin of ihc trivial trames of the amino acids. 1 I a n y workers may wish for n mnrr complete disrnssim of the methods of irolat,ian nnd identification of amino arid.; as well ss n a m disrussion or nmino arid sequence d~termitretiou. T o have rovered these areas in greeter detail, however, would undrruht,etlly have involved the addition of \-olunre 3. The author hns given mfiirient references sn t h a t those interested in a more d~tailerldisruwion will he nble t,o sepk them nut themselves. Berause of the extensive hihliograplrp and great a m r u n t of information inrluded i t , the two volumes, they are w,meahat rliffiedt t,r, read. I~lowever, any nnthol. must deride whether t o omit information in order to produce an easy-reading book or t o fwithRdly include all pertinent illformation, therehy producing n valunhlc reference wrrk. The aut,hrr has ehosel~ the latt,er. I n the opinkm of this reviewpr this t ~ v u volumo set should be i n the library of
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age engineering undergraduate may prove rlificult. I n general the text is clearly writ,ten and < h a i n s numerous exam&s and questions. Methodology of nnalysis is stressed and well ~ r e s e n t e d .
Thermodynamics William C. Reynolds, St,nr\ford University, Stanford, California. AIeCrawRill Book Co., Inr., New York, 1965. 4.58 pp. Figs. and tables. 17 X 24 r w > . Fi0.50. This text represellls
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therm~,dyr~an,ir.is ill t,hat the subject, matter is developed using microscopir r.onrep1.s Lrt prrwide an insight into thermodytmmir laws derived from mncroscopir postulates. The tea6 is written explicitly for engirleeritig students as a hssir first mnrse in thenaody~mnios. The thern~odynarnimof mxguetic end rlielertrir materials are discussed t,lrroughout the lcxt. Chapters 6 and 12 relnt,r entropy and the second law to quantum i d s t ~ t i s t i ~ smerh~nics. l Chapler 18 i l l 1943 is inrluded. Phase diagrams for the biuzry systems w e described in detail. The preparation of the alloys folluws. Physical propert,ies, (Conlinued on page A670)
