"In short, this book presents a state of art description of a rapidly growing area of research. Undoubtedly it will be a good reference for the specialists working in soft condensed matter science." (The Physicist, 40/5, 2003)

• Complex Structured Condensed Matter.- Spatial Statistics and Micromechanics of Materials.- Characterising the Morphology of Disordered Materials.- Topological Characterization of Porous Media.- Nanotomography: Real-Space Volume Imaging with Scanning Probe Microscopy.- Bicontinuous Surfaces in Self-assembling Amphiphilic Systems.- Morphology of Langmuir Monolayer Phases.- Spatial Order in Liquid Crystals: Computer Simulations of Systems of Ellipsoids.- Two-Dimensional Fluid Foams at Equilibrium.- Spatial Statistics and Morphology.- Morphological Texture Analysis: An Introduction.- Vector- and Tensor-Valued Descriptors for Spatial Patterns.- Computational Topology for Point Data: Betti Numbers of ?-Shapes.- The Euler Number of Discretized Sets — On the Choice of Adjacency in Homogeneous Lattices.- Shape Statistics for Random Domains and Particles.- A Survey on Contact Distributions.- Mark Correlations: Relating Physical Properties to Spatial Distributions.- Spatial Jump Processes and Perfect Simulation.- Statistics for Non-sparse Spatially Homogeneous Gibbs Point Processes.- Spatial Statistics of a Turbulent Random Multiplicative Branching Process.