R. H. Doremus. Rates of Phase Transformations. Academic Press, Orlando, FL,
1985.
especially Chapters 5 (nucleation from condensed phases) and 6 (phase separation of
liquids). The latter includes a brief discussion of spinodal decomposition.
An authoritative, though far from easy, discussion on classical and newer
theories and their limitations is
D. W. Oxtoby. Nucleation. In: D. Henderson, ed. Fundamentals of Inhomogeneous
Fluids. Marcel Dekker, New York, 1992, Chapter 10.
Nucleation phenomena in food systems are reviewed in Chapter 5 of
R. W. Hartel. Crystallization in Foods. Aspen, Gaithersburg, MD, 2001.