Soap, science, and flat-screen TVs : a history of liquid crystals / David Dunmur, Tim Sluckin.

1. It's all Greek to me: an introduction
2. Crystals that flow: fact or fiction
3. Liquid crystals, where do they come from?
4. La Gloire Francaise
5. The meeting that wasn't and the meeting that was
6. The threads of fife
7. The winds of war
8. Renaissance
9. An unlikely story
10. The light dawns in the West
11. The sun rises in the East
12. The new world of liquid crystal materials.