Ebook: Electric current flow in excitable cells

Books in an experimental science like physiology are usually elementary texts, collections of reviews, or compilations of previously published results. It is not common for a book to be a significant contribution to current research. It is almost un-
precedented for a single book to be simultaneously a useful text, a significant review, and an original contribution to research. This "monograph" by Jack, Noble, and Tsien is remarkable in that it succeeds in each of these respects. It is a
superb advanced text, presenting difficult material in a lucid form understandable to all who read it with care; it is a useful review of several developing fields, and it makes a number of original contributions. This combination of attributes suggests that the book will have a decisive effect on the development of electrophysiology: it may well serve as a dictionary of paradigms for future work in the field.