Wide-ranging book brings the reader up to date with color science, but requires some previous knowledge of the subject. Twelve chapters: 1-3 cover the history of dyes and pigments, why they produce color and how they are used; 4-6 cover theories and mechanisms of color vision and defective color vision; 7 describes color atlases; 8 the measurement of color; and 9 spectro-photometers and tristimulus colorimeters. Chapters 10-11 deal with the quantification of color differences and color appearance; and 12 is about computer match prediction. -- AATA