Reflecting the expansion of the field since its inception in the 1960s, this two-volume encyclopedia presents essays by specialists worldwide on the topics, terminology, and developments in the field. Among the topics are annulenes, biosensors, catalytic antibodies, applications of cyclodextrins, enzyme mimics, fullerenes as encapsulating hosts, inclusion reactions and polymerization, neutron diffraction, semiochemistry, spherands, torands, and weak hydrogen bonds. Four essays are devoted to various aspects of self-assembly: self- assembling capsules, self-assembling catenances, self-assembly in biochemistry, and the terminology of self-assembly. Each essay consists of an overview of research and a description of the theory as well as the description of the subject itself. The essays are annotated, include a list of related publications, and are well illustrated with b&w diagrams. Atwood is in the department of chemistry at the U. of Missouri-Columbia; Steed is in inorganic chemistry at the U. of Durham, UK.