Agarwala has enjoyed a career as an academic and research scientist, working and teaching in a number of institutions and agencies throughout the world, for some 50 years. His concise text covers an introduction to diffusion processes; grain-boundary and lattice diffusion of chromium and silver in zirconium; diffusion in zirconium and some of its alloys; defects interaction during diffusion; diffusion of molybdenum and cerium in beta zirconium; diffusion bonding in vanadium and zirconium; radiation-induced resistivity and cold-working; and setups for studying isothermal and isochronal annealing. No subject index. Annotation 2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR