chapter 1 Introduction -- chapter 2 Colloidal Particles: Shapes and Size Distributions -- chapter 3 Some Thermodynamic Principles and Relations, with Special Attention to Interfaces -- chapter 4 Water -- chapter 5 Interfacial Tension -- chapter 6 Curvature and Capillarity -- chapter 7 Monolayers at Fluid Interfaces -- chapter 8 Wetting of Solid Surfaces -- chapter 9 Electrochemistry of Interfaces -- chapter 10 Electrokinetic Phenomena -- chapter 11 Self-Assembled Structures -- chapter 12 Polymers -- chapter 13 Proteins -- chapter 14 Adsorption -- chapter 15 Adsorption of (Bio)Polymers, with Special Emphasis on Globular Proteins -- chapter 16 Stability of Lyophobic Colloids Against Aggregation -- chapter 17 Rheology, with Special Attention to Dispersions and Interfaces -- chapter 18 Emulsions and Foams -- chapter 19 Physicochemical Properties of Biological Membranes -- chapter 20 Bioadhesion.