Stechemesser (Technische Universitat Bergakademie Freiberg, Germany) and Dobiás (University of Regensburg, Germany) provide a practical reference for researchers working with the stabilization and destabilization of fine solid dispersions. This second edition omits chapters that remain unchanged from the first edition, published in 1993, and updates the rest of the material to reflect a decade of the latest advances in both theoretical and applications aspects of the field of solid dispersions, suspensions, and mixtures. New chapters cover homopolymers and their effect on colloid stability, the stability of suspensions in the presence of surfactants and polymers, and the flocculation and dewatering of fine-particle suspensions.