The third out of five planned volumes contains a wealth of recent results on the structures and properties of minerals and mineral matter. All five planned volumes allow a systematic overview of all mineralogical disciplines, important for both science and industry.

This is a thoroughly updated translation of a well–received book published in 1995. Before the book was translated Professor Rousseau thoroughly revised his manuscript, adding a chapter on computational crystallography.

A collection of papers from the Symposium on Configurational Mechanics in Thessaloniki 2003 to draw together knowledge and expertise from a range of disciplines across the material sciences.