This introduction to historic preservation goes well beyond the Secretary of the Interior's Standards for Rehabilitation and shows how wood, stone, masonry, and metal were used in the past and how adaptive re-use can be employed to bring modern amenities to historic structures. The book covers all aspects of the exterior and interior building fabric, including windows, roofing, doors, porches, and electrical and mechanical systems for both residential and small-scale commercial buildings. Richly illustrated with photographs showing typical elements of historic buildings, decay mechanisms, and remediation techniques, the book also contains a variety of useful case studies and features a companion Website that offers dozens of additional images and resources.

Solving the pulp and paper industries' environmental problems is essential to maintaining the forest industry and accommodating the changing economic needs of forest communities. This book explores the construction of new mills--operating on new technology that does not produce pollutants--which are vital to the pulp and paper industry.

A powerful and relatively new method for extracting detailed crystal structural information from X-ray and neutron powder diffraction data, the Rietveld method attracts a great deal of interest from researchers in physics, chemistry, materials science, and crystallography. Now available in paperback, this book comprises chapters from international researchers on all aspects of this important technique. It will be of great interest to all researchers in the fields, as well as graduate students seeking a solid introduction and comprehensive survey.

Contributors: R. A. Young (Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, USA); H. M. Rietveld (Netherlands Energy Research Foundation); E. Prince (National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg); T. M. Sabine (University of Technology, Broadway); R. J. Hill (CSIRO Divisionof Mineral Products, Port Melbourne); J. W. Richardson Jr. (Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne); R. L. Snyder (New York State College of Ceramics, USA); R. Delhez, Th. H. de Keijser, E. J. Mittemeijer, and E. J. Sonneveld (Laboratory of Metallurgy, Delft University of Technology); J. I. Langford (University of Birmingham, UK); D. Louër (Université de Rennes, France); P. Suortti (ESRF, Grenoble, Switzerland); C. Bärlocher (ETH Zentrum, Zürich); W. I. F. David (Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, UK); J. D. Jorgensen (Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne); R. B. von Dreele (Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA); F. Izumi (National Institute for Research in Inorganic Materials, Tsukuba, Japan); H. Toraya (Nagoya Institute of Technology, Asahigaoka); A. K. Cheetham (University of California, Santa Barbara, USA)