Book excerpt: Key Features: Quick reference guide, Includes almost 200 scanning electron microscopy pictures, All photographs are paired with drawings that carry the legends, Provides detailed descriptions of the relevant developmental events. Steding's and Viragh's Scanning Electron Microscopy Atlas of the Developing Human Heart comprises a complete and extensive exposure of the spatial and temporal aspects of human cardiac development as seen with scanning electron microscopy. Apart from serving as a unique overview of cardiac development in the human embryo, this atlas gives an updated morphological reference of cardiac embryology for topographic correlation and enables the projection of experimental results in animals to the human situation.