'… this book is exactly what it says on the cover: an introductory survey, and an excellent one at that. It is likely to inform and benefit quite a broad readership both within and without academia and I recommend it, particularly for mid-level to advanced undergraduate students of psychology or cognitive neuroscience taking visual perception courses. It will make a good read for anybody else interested in colour vision with a broad art, science or technology background or just curious.' C. Alejandro Parraga, Perception
1. Colour vision in everyday life; 2. The signals of colours: light and wavelengths; 3. Colours and viewing conditions: not only local wavelengths; 4. Our biological hardware: eye and brain; 5. Eyes with unconventional properties: the 'red-green blinds'; 6. Other kinds of unconventional colour vision; 7. Colour vision in different species of animals.