Physical Foundations of Materials Science

From the reviews:

"This book is a translation of a German undergraduate textbook on Materials Science. … The presentation and layout of the book is flawless, and the book has a nice coloured hard cover. … aims at presenting an introduction to the physical basis of materials science. … can be used as a ‘bible’ for anyone working in the field of metallurgy. ... Especially in view of the vast amount of well-presented information on metallurgical aspects, this book is to be recommended for students or even researchers in this field." (Dirk Poelman, Physicalia, Vol. 57 (3), 2005)

"Gottstein … aims to assist readers to understand material behavior by covering the field of knowledge from atomistic mechanisms to physical and mechanical properties. … At the end there is an appropriate list of references … and a very comprehensive index. The book is very well written and presented, and most of the illustrations are of good quality. … Useful to graduate students, researchers, and faculty. An excellent acquisition for academic or industrial libraries. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through professionals." (T.Z. Kattamis, CHOICE, Vol. 42 (5), January, 2005)

"In this vivid and comprehensible introduction to materials science, the author expands the modern concepts of metal physics … . Written for engineering students and working engineers with little previous knowledge of solid-state physics, this textbook enables the reader to study more specialized and fundamental literature of materials science. Dozens of illustrative photographs … aid developing a firm appreciation of this complex topic. Hard-to-grasp terms such as ‘textures’ are lucidly explained. … This excellent book makes material science more transparent." (Zeitschrift für Kristallographie, Issue 10, 2004)