Book excerpt: This issue of Hand Clinics will include the following articles: Management of Acute Adult Hand Burns; Management of Acute Pediatric Hand Burns; Electrical Injury; Frostbite Injury; The Biologic Principles of Scar and Contracture; Postburn Contractures of the Hand; Biology and Treatment of Upper Extremity Heterotopic Ossificatio; Postburn Contractures of the Elbow and Heterotopic Ossification; Reconstruction of the Adult and Pediatric Burned Hand; Microsurgical Reconstruction of the Burned Hand; The Use of Dermal Skin Substitutes for the Treatment of the Burned Hand; and many more exciting articles!