Aerosol science is a challenge to all inhalation toxicologists. The mathematics and physics can be daunting and many texts are aimed, understandably, at the physical scientist rather than at the biologist or medical worker. Some books do not seem to explain enough; others, far too much. Finding a comprehensive account that a non-mathematician, like me, understands is itself a challenge. But: Hind's book provides the solution. Detailed but clear, it explains just about everything the hygienist and toxicologist need to know about aerosols.

The first edition appeared in …