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the book succeeds at presenting the diversity of approaches required and used to understand and exploit SMMs, be they chemical, physical, materials oriented, or theoretical. On the other hand, the book is dominated by the Mn12 cluster, the first species characterized as a single-molecule magnet. This is hardly surprising, since the cluster also displays the highest reported reorientation barrier in an isolable species. The chapter on spectroscopy focuses only on Mn12 and Fe8, while the essay concerning incorporation of SMMs into new materials only uses examples in which Mn12 is involved.