GLASS TECHNOLOGY: The characteristics of glass -- Properties of molten glasses -- Theoretical principles of glass melting -- Glass manufacture -- Properties of glass -- Principal types of industrial glasses -- Other types of oxide glasses and products -- Chalcogenide glasses -- GLASS-CERAMICS: Principles of controlled crystallization -- Main types of technical glass-ceramics -- Glass-ceramics from cheap natural and waste raw materials -- TECHNOLOGY OF CERAMICS: Material preparation -- Forming processes -- Drying -- Firing -- Ceramics based on clay raw materials -- Technical ceramics -- Refractories for industrial furnaces -- COATINGS: Enamels -- Glazes -- Plasma-sprayed coatings.