The book „Maldi-Tof Mass Spectrometry of Synthetic Polymers“ by Harald Pasch and Wolfgang Schrepp (XVIII, 298 p. 158 illus. € 79.95 (net price), Springer, Heidelberg 2003, ISBN 3-540-44259-6) describes the fundamentals of the Maldi process and the technical features of Maldi-Tof instrumentation. It reviews the application of Maldi-Tof for identification, chemical and molar mass analysis of synthetic polymers. With many examples, this monograph examines in detail experimental protocols for the determination of endgroups, the analysis of copolymers and additives, and the coupling of liquid chromatography and Maldi-Tof.