Obviously most of us will be introduced to this subject through a vendor and an expensive "turn-key" system, but the editors and contributors to this volume did an excellent job of summarizing a variety of approaches to the theory and applications of CE. This field is obviously still ahead of it's time, mostly academic, and a great topic for graduate research. Certainly many applications have been replaced with more sophisticated techniques like mass spectrometry, but for those with even minimal time, it's great to consider separation inside of a very small tube by several forces simultaneously, very quickly and with extremely high resolution. Also, the physical and chemical environment lend themselves to experimental designs involving many kinds of interactions on a chemical level (such as complexation with ligands, even including colorimetric applications which might not be as simple with ordinary liquid chromatography) over an extremely fast time scale. This may be a nice book that is only appreciated after another decade passes and industry has actually hired enough innovative scientists that are daring enough to try some experiments on their own time and force some necessary cultural changes.