Erica E. Benson & Barry J. Fuller 
Life in the Frozen State [PDF ebook] 

While it is barely 50 years since the first reliable reports of the recovery of living cells frozen to cryogenic temperatures, there has been tremendous growth in the use of cryobiology in medicine, agriculture, horticulture, forestry, and the conservation of endangered or economically important species.
As the first major text on cryobiolog