Felton (pharmaceutics, U. of New Mexico) presents 40 chapters in this reference text aimed at pharmacists, students, and pharmaceutical scientists that focuses on the pharmaceutics aspects of pharmacy practice. It draws some chapters from Remington: The Science and Practice of Pharmacy and covers various delivery systems and dosage forms, including powders, tablets and capsules, solutions, topicals and transdermals, aerosols, and ophthalmics, in addition to parenterals, sterilization processes, and sterile compounding. It also covers pharmaceutical excipients and packaging, analysis, product characterization, quality control, stability, bioavailability, dissolution, and fundamental science concepts like thermodynamics, ionic solutions and electrolyte equilibria, tonicity, chemical kinetics, rheology, complex formation, and interfacial phenomenon. It includes an introduction to pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics and the principles of absorption, distribution, metabolism, and excretion, as well as introductory concepts on drug discovery and product approval and information resources in pharmacy and the pharmaceutical sciences. Contributors are pharmacy specialists from around the world. Annotation ©2013 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)