Carmelo Giacovazzo, Full Professor of Mineralogy. Director of CNR - IC Institute from 1992 to 2008. President of the European Crystallographic Association from 1997 to 2000. Winner of the European Prize Italgas 1996 for Scientific Research and Innovation; European Crystallographic Association Prize 2003. Editor of the international reviews: Zeitschrift fur Kristallographie and Croatica Chemica Acta. Research areas: Methods in Crystallography, with specific interest in the development of methods aiming at solving crystal structures from single crystal and powder diffraction data. Electron and neutron diffraction. Scientific papers: about 300 in international journals. Produced software used in about 2000 scientific groups or institutions.

• 1. SYMMETRY IN CRYSTALS ; 2. CRYSTALLOGRAPHIC COMPUTING ; 3. THE DIFFRACTION OF X-RAYS BY CRYSTALS ; 4. BEYOND IDEAL CRYSTALS ; 5. EXPERIMENTAL METHODS IN X-RAY AND NEUTRON CRYSTALLOGRAPHY ; 6. SOLUTION AND REFINEMENT OF CRYSTAL STRUCTURES ; 7. INORGANIC AND MINERAL CRYSTALS ; 8. MOLECULES AND MOLECULAR CRYSTALS ; 9. PROTEIN CRYSTALLOGRAPHY ; 10. PHYSICAL PROPERTIES OF CRYSTALS

This book is comprehensive, modern, interdisciplinary and well designed for graduate students and researchers who are familiar with intermediate linear algebra, group theory and Fourier transforms. [] The book elucidates the theoretical and mathematical aspects of crystallography and defines and compares the practical aspects of crystal preparation, X-ray sources and detectors, data acquisition and analysis. Its scope includes both X-ray and neutron crystallography, with detailed applications to inorganic and mineral crystals and protein crystallography. It includes excellent discussions of intermolecular forces, stereochemistry and the fundamentals of various types of chemical bonds. It is well illustrated; the references are up to date; and a useful index is provided.