The textbook that has introduced engineering students to metals, ceramics, polymers and composites for nine editions running.

Callister and Rethwisch’s Materials Science and Engineering: An Introduction, Ninth Edition, builds its approach around one idea: the properties of a material follow from its internal structure. Across 992 pages the book works from atomic bonding and crystal structures up through mechanical behaviour, phase diagrams, corrosion and materials selection, with worked examples, design problems and the VMSE resource supporting the harder concepts. Wiley hardcover, ISBN 9781118324578.