Providing a non-mathematical and visual account of the concepts of quantum mechanics widely encountered in chemistry and related disciplines, this work is useful to students for its brief non-mathematical summaries of key concepts, to instructors as a source of explanations, illustrations, and references, and to others. ^'a useful source book for anyone with an interest in the fundamentals of the structure of atoms, molecules and solids ... Quanta is an excellent attempt to portray the quantum world in a way in which the beauty of our current understanding of the interplay of light, electrons and nuclei is made accessible to a wide readership' Professor G. Duxbury, Strathclyde University, Contemporary Physics, Vol. 33, No. 4 24/06/1993