Chapter 1: Principles of Powder Diffraction Chapter 2: Experimental Setups Chapter 3: The Intensity of a Bragg Reflection Chapter 4: General Data Reduction Chapter 5: The Profile of a Bragg Reflection for Extracting Intensities Chapter 6: Instrumental Contributions to the Line Profile in X-ray Powder Diffraction. Example of the Diffractometer with Bragg-Brentano Geometry Chapter 7: Indexing and Space Group Determination Chapter 8: Crystal Structure Determination Chapter 9: Rietveld Refinement Chapter 10: The Derivative Difference Minimization Method Chapter 11: Quantitative Phase Analysis Chapter 12: Microstructural Properties: Texture and Macrostress Effects Chapter 13: Microstructural Properties: Lattice Defects and Domain Size Effects Chapter 14: Two-dimensional Powder Diffraction using Area Detectors: The Experimental Setup Chapter 15: Powder Diffraction at Non-ambient Conditions Chapter 16: Local Structure from Total Scattering and Atomic Pair Distribution Function (PDF) Analysis Chapter 17: Computer Software for Powder Diffraction