What makes the book Clinical Cardiology: Current Practice Guidelines stand out and why is it necessary and important to cardiologists? In addition to employing modern concepts and designs as well as providing an extensive list of current literature, what makes this edition special is that the authors/editors Katritsis, Gersh and Camm offer an instructive and practical integration of European and American knowledge. Thus, the reader gets an excellent synopsis of modern evidence-based cardiology in a single book. Due to its large scope (more than 20 topics over 970 pages) and presentation of current guidelines in an accessible way, the book can, for instance, be used to prepare for residency examination, but also to find new information necessary to the practicing cardiologist.