Ch. 1. Introduction to transcription -- Ch. 2. Transcription, the process -- Ch. 3. Transcription factors in human diseases -- Ch. 4. The components of transcription -- Ch. 5. Bacterial transcription -- Ch. 6. Eukaryotic transcription -- Ch. 7. Chromatin and Eukaryotic DNA -- Ch. 8. Bacteriophage lambda; a transcriptional switch -- Ch. 9. The lactose operon in Escherichia coli -- Ch. 10. Other transcription systems, eukaryotic and prokaryotic.