The ionosphere is indeed the place where Earth and space come together. Correspondingly, the ionosphere is subject to the details and complexities of both Earth and space. If one is to develop a logical understanding of even a limited portion of the ionosphere, that knowledge will be constructed on a foundation of many facts of nature. Awareness of those facts will in turn be supported by a vast historical array of scientific effort to ascertain the fundamentals of Earth and space that combine to form the ionosphere as we know it. Fortunately for us, R. D. Hunsucker and J. K. Hargreaves have written a book that goes from the Earth up and comes from the Sun down to arrive at a remarkably detailed physical description of the ionosphere and its impact on human activities, especially radio-frequency (RF) communications. The High-Latitude Ionosphere and its Effects on Radio Propagation is a bit of a misnomer, because the book covers many more topics than its title suggests. The authors set the stage by developing a detailed picture of the density, temperature, chemical, neutral, and charge states of the atmosphere-ionosphere system. Basic models of the ionization and recombination processes are presented with supporting mathematics and graphical examples. Concepts such as the Chapman production function are introduced and applied, whereby ionizing solar radiation produces electron-ion pairs. One can then grasp how the so-called D, E, and F layers of the ionosphere are related to the ionization of specific molecular species. Along the way, the authors are careful to introduce the extensive nomenclature of ionospheric descriptors. There is a comfortable relationship of prose, mathematics, and graphical material. Reading this book is a pleasure for the scientifically curious mind.