The study of atmospheric dynamics has seen an impressive expansion into many sub-disciplines in the past few decades. It is only natural, then, that most textbooks published during this period have tended to focus on one of these sub-disciplines. Atmospheric dynamics seems to be too broad a subject area to be the focus of a single text. A pitfall of writing a broadly focused text like Dynamics of the Atmosphere is that some subjects will receive short shrift. Nevertheless, the authors have succeeded admirably in striking a balance between, first of all, covering the important topics and, second, providing sufficient detail on these subjects in a concise and accurate manner. Dynamics of the Atmosphere is an advanced undergraduate or graduate-level text whose aim is to provide a thorough treatment of the important aspects of the subject. The authors emphasize a rigorous mathematical analysis of the various topics and usually do not relegate the details to appendices. They have done an excellent job of verifying the accuracy of all the mathematical derivations. I could not find any errors, although I freely admit not having checked all of the mathematical steps in each section.