Reviews of the 1st edition:; A very readable text ... well illustrated with simplified diagrams and experimental examples. - Journal of Testing and Evaluation; A very useful manual introducing techniques for the determination of both microscopic and crystallographic structures. - Journal of Metals; This volume provides a concise and up-to-date overview of the most widely used electron beam instruments and techniques of microstructural analysis, used to examine these microstructures to atomic level. [...] The book will be useful to researchers, senior undergraduates and graduates in materials science, solid state physicists and chemists as well as practitioners of electron beam analysis o Diamond and Structural Carbon News d September 1994