chapter 1 Introduction -- chapter 2 Preliminary considerations -- chapter 3 Symmetry considerations -- chapter 4 Green’s functions and multiple scattering -- chapter 5 The coherent potential approximation -- chapter 6 Calculating magnetic anisotropy energies -- chapter 7 Exchange and Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interactions -- chapter 8 The Disordered Local Moment Method (DLM) -- chapter 9 Spin dynamics -- chapter 10 The multiple scattering scheme -- chapter 11 Nanostructured in one dimension: free and capped magnetic surfaces -- chapter 12 Nanostructured in one dimension: spin valves -- chapter 13 Nanostructured in two dimensions: single atoms, finite clus- ters and wires -- chapter 14 Nanostructured in two dimensions: nanocontacts, local al- loys -- chapter 15 A mesoscopic excursion: domain walls -- chapter 16 Theory of electric and magneto-optical properties -- chapter 17 Electric properties of magnetic nanostructured matter -- chapter 18 Magneto-optical properties of magnetic nanostructured mat- ter -- chapter 19 Time dependence.