David Brown is Professor Emeritus at the Department of Physics and Astronomy, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.
`Review from previous edition A highly readable book about a theory that, though it has long found application in inorganic crystal chemistry, deserves to be used more widely. ' Crystallography News `Neatly crystallizes concepts, precisely defines these concepts and brings to the fore many phenomena that can be described by the bond-valence model.' Current Engineering Practice