Continuing in her tradition of combining theoretical and practical information, Meyer (Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Testing and Research) updates her literature references and adds material on the shelf-life of mobile phases, the mixing cross, phases systems in ion chromatography, and measurement uncertainty. Meyer includes materials on theoretical principles, pumps, preparation of equipment up to sample injection, solvent properties, detectors, columns and stationary phases, column tests, absorption chromatography, reversed-phase chromatography, and chromatography with chemically-bonded phases. She also covers ion-exchange, ion-pair and ion chromatography, size-exclusion and affinity chromatography. She describes choice of method, analytical and preparative HPLC, and special possibilities, with appendices on applied HPLC theory, troubleshooting, column packing, and performing the instrument test. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)