First Edition, 1970, of this classic text by Ferdinand Rodriguez, Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering at Cornell University. From the preface "It has been the author's aim in this book to relate the behavior of polymer systems whenever possible to examples that are part of everyday experience. With polymers this job should be simple, since many of the things we use ---our clothing, our food, and our bodies---are made up of polymer systems.". Book has 560 pages.