Marvin E. Steinberg and Jonathan P. Garino, editors. Philadelphia: Lippincott Williams and Wilkins; 1999. 578 pages. $179.00. This book represents an attempt to present a review and a handbook on the topic of revision total hip replacement as a single source of information. The co-editors-a younger orthopaedic surgeon and a senior orthopaedic surgeon, both of whom specialize in joint replacement surgery-bring a younger, innovative viewpoint as well as an older, experienced viewpoint to the book. The editors have assembled a group of seventy contributing authors to cover all aspects of revision total hip arthroplasty. The forty-chapter book is divided into six sections: Basic Science, Evaluating the Painful Total Hip, Revising the Aseptic Total Hip, Revising the Infected Total Hip, Complications, and Special Considerations. As one might expect from a book with seventy authors, there is a large amount of redundancy, an …