Useful microscopy books

More microscopy, physics and optics books

The list of my dozen favourite books was published in 2010. Both time and progress march on, and there have been additonal books and papers published since, or books which I have subsequently found extremely useful. Digital Microscopy (Methods in Cell Biology, vol. 81) by Sluder & Wolf has gone to a fourth edition (Methods in Cell Biology, vol. 114). An equally good, similar, text in the same Methods in Cell Biology series is Quantitative Imaging in Cell Biology vol. 123 (2014), edited by Jennifer C. Waters and Torsten Wittman.

Microscopy & Imaging

1. Spector, DL & Goldman, RD (2006) Basic Methods in Light Microscopy Cold Spring Harbor Lab Press, ISBN  978-0879-69751-8
2. Chandler, DE & Roberson, RW (2009) Bioimaging: curent concepts in LM & EM 1st Edn. Jones & Bartlett Publishers, ISBN 978-0-7637-3874-7 content list here
3. Watkins, SC & St. Croix, CM (2013) Imaging & Microscopy Wiley, ISBN 978-1-118-04431-5
4. Goldman, RD; Swedlow, JR & Spector, DL (2010) Live Cell Imaging: a lab. manual 2nd Edn Cold Spring Harbor Lab Press, ISBN  978-0879-69893-5
5. Mondal, PP & Diaspro, A (2014) Fundamentals of Fluorescence Microscopy Springer, ISBN 978-94-007-7544-2  Useful for its maths. treatment
6. Howard, CV & Reed, MG (1998) Unbiased Stereology: 3D measurement in microscopy Taylor & Francis, ISBN 978-1-85996-071-4
7. Wheeler, A & Henriques, R (2018) Standard and Super-Resolution Bioimaging Data Analysis: A Primer, Wiley, ISBN 978-1-11909690-0

Specimen preparation & Immunology

1. Polak, JM & Van Norden, S (1997) Introduction to Immunocytochemistry 2nd Edn Bios Scientific publishers, ISBN 978-1-85996-086-3
2. Renshaw, S (2007) Immunohistochemistry Scion Publishing Ltd, ISBN 978-1-904842-03-3
3. Buchwalow, IB & Böcker, W (2010) Immunohistochemistry: Basics and Methods ISBN 978-3-642-04608-7
4. Renshaw, S (2017) Immunohistochemistry and Immunocytochemistry 2nd rev Edn Wiley Blackwell, ISBN 978-1-118-71777-6

Correlative LM-EM

1. Müller-Reichert, T & Verkade, P (2012) Correlative Light and Electron Microscopy Methods in Cell Biology vol. 111 Elsevier, Academic Press ISBN 978-0-12-416026-2
2. Müller-Reichert, T & Verkade, P (2014) Correlative Light and Electron Microscopy II Methods in Cell Biology vol. 124 Elsevier, Academic Press ISBN 978-0-12-801075-4
3. Müller-Reichert, T & Verkade, P (2017) Correlative Light and Electron Microscopy III Methods in Cell Biology vol. 140 Elsevier, Academic Press ISBN: 978-0-12-809975-9

Petrology & Mineralogy

1. Raith, MM; Raase, P & Reinhardt, J (2012) Guide to Thin Section Microscopy 2^nd Edn. Mineralogical Soc. America, Chantilly, VA.  ISBN 978-3-00-037671-9
2. Kile, DE (2003) The Petrographic Microscope The Mineralogical Record, Special Publication No. 1
3. Nesse, WD (2009) Introduction to Optical Mineralogy Oxford University Press, ISBN 978-0-19-539115-2
4. Vernon, RH (2004) A practical guide to rock microstructure Cambridge University Press, ISBN 978-0-521-89133-7
5. Barker, A (2014) A Key for Identification of Rock-forming Minerals in Thin-Section CRC Press, ISBN 978-1-138-00114-5
6. MacKenzie, WS & Adams, AE (1994) A Colour Atlas of Rocks and Minerals in Thin Section CRC Press, ISBN 1874545170
7. Tilley, RJD (2011) Colour and the optical properties of materials 2nd Edn Wiley, ISBN 978-0-470-74695-0
8.  Hammond, C (2015) The Basics of Crystallography and Diffraction 4th Edn Oxford Science Publications, ISBN 978-0198738688  Good on diffraction

Physics

1. Adams, S & Allday, J (2000) Advanced Physics 2nd Edn Oxford University Press, ISBN 978-0-19-839292-7
2. Franklin, K et al (2010) Introduction to Biological Physics for the Health & Life Sciences Wiley, ISBN 978-0-470-66593-0

Light and Optics

1. Pedrotti, FL et al (2013) Introduction to Optics 3rd Edn Pearson Education, ISBN 978-93-325-3499-5
2. Blackwell, J & Thornton, S (1966) Mastering Optics Mc-Graw-Hill, ISBN 978-0-07-707875-6  A fantastic introduction to optics
3. Johnsen, S (2012) The Optics of Life: a biologist’s guide to light in nature Princeton University Press, ISBN 978-0-691-13991-3
4. Mason, P (1981) The Light Fantastic Penguin Books, ISBN 0-14-02-2449-1
5. Sobel, MI (1989) Light University of Chicago Press, ISBN 978-0-226-76751-5
6. Baierlein, R (2001) Newton to Einstein: the trail of light Cambridge University Press, ISBN 978-0-521-42323-6

Photography

1. Allen, E & Triantaphillidou, S (2011) The Manual of Photography 10th Edn, Focal Press, ISBN 978-0-240-52037-7
2. Graham, R & Bolton, V (1990) Focus on Photography, Hodder & Stoughton, ISBN 978-0340487075 – dated but a very good introduction to the essential principles
3. Meehan, L (2001) Creative Exposure Control, Collins & Brown, ISBN 978-1-85585-811-4
4. Davies, PH (1998) The complete guide to Close-up & Macro Photography, David & Charles, ISBN 978-0-7153-0800-4
5. Thompson, R (2017) Close-up and Macro Photography: Its Art and Fieldcraft Techniques,Focal Press, ISBN 978-1138658479
   
6. Taylor, D (2017) Mastering Macro Photography, Ammonite Press, ISBN 978-1781452998
7. Bracegirdle, B (2010) A History of Photography with the Light Microscope, Quekett Microscopical Club, ISBN 978-0-9564591-1-4  Review 1  and  Review 2