This volume focuses on all the fundamentals required to understand the theory and practice of powder diffraction with an emphasis on the two most important applications: qualitative and quantitative analysis. It should be of interest to technicians and upper-graduate/graduate students, as well as researchers in this field.

Winner of the 1997 Nobel Prize for Literature, Dario Fo is one of the world's most important contemporary playwrights, forging subversive comedy, clowning, unusual linguistic experimentation, and brilliant playwriting into a comedy of complete originality. In a first-person monologue that bends and mutates language and historical fact, Johan Padan and the Discovery of the Americas is a brilliant, vividly imagined retelling of Christopher Columbus's voyage to America. Told by a last-minute conscript assigned to clean the shipboard pig stalls, who goes on to be adopted by a tribe of Indians and...