1 Introduction.-2 Stress, Strain, and Constitutive Relations -- 3 Equilibrium, Universal Solutions, and Inflation -- 4 Extension and Torsion -- 5 Beam Bending and Column Buckling -- 6 Some Nonlinear Problems -- 7 Stress, Motion, and Constitutive Relations.-8 Fundamental Balance Relations.-9 Some Exact Solutions.-10 Control Volume and Semi-empirical Method.-11 Coupled Solid-fluid Problems.-12 Epilogue.