Indeholder "Preface and acknowledgements", "1. The Shapes of Things - Pattern and Form", "2. Lessons of the Beehive - Building with Bubbles", "3. Making Waves - Stripes in a Test Tube", "4. Written on the Body - Hiding, Warning, and Mimicking", "5. Rhythms of the Wild - Crystal Communities", "6. How Does Your Garden Grow? - The Mathematics of a Daisy", "7. Unfolding the Embryo - The Formation of Body Plans", "Appendices", "Bibliography", "Index".

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"Appendices" handler om "1. Soap-film structures", "2. Oscillating chemical reactions", "3. Chemical waves in the BZ reaction", "4. Liesegang bands", dvs kemiske reaktioner, der kan bølge frem og tilbage.
"Bibliography" handler om tæt på to hundrede bøger og artikler til videre studier.
"Index" er et ganske nyttigt opslagsregister. Man skal dog vide at BZ reaktionen i uforkortet stand hedder Belousov-Zhabotinsky reaktionen, hvis man vil slå den op.

Glimrende bog til at inspirere på tværs af kemi, fysik og biologi. ( )

Translation of 'Shapes. Nature's Patterns: a tapestry of three parts, part 1' (Oxford University Press NY 2009) Reworking into three volumes of 'The self-made taperstry: Formation in Nature' (1999) that was a hit with designers. ( )