• Amazon River

  / Agriculture and forestry
• recycling

  / Paper and other cellulose products
• combustion
• desertification

  / Dry woodlands
• lignin

• art conservation and restoration

  / Techniques of building conservation
• art conservation and restoration

  / Wood sculpture
• lacquerwork

  / Obtaining and preparing lacquer
• Oceanic art and architecture

  / Materials and techniques

• plant disease

  / Variable factors affecting diagnosis
• tree

  / Economic importance
• termite

  / Distribution and abundance
• Heart rot
• rot

  / Types of rot

• almendro
• plant

  / Stems
• balsa
• bamboo
• chipboard
• coast redwood

  / Uses
• Fruit farming

  / Waste materials, other uses
• greenheart
• lancewood
• sugar maple
• narra
• paper birch
• Rosales

  / Wood
• satinwood
• teak

• Chinese zodiac

  / Personalities, meanings, and other variations
• wuxing

• history of Mesopotamia

  / The background
• Northeast Indian

  / Production and technology

• aquarium

  / Design and architecture
• aqueduct
• architecture

  / Wood
• architecture

  / Expression of technique
• biofuel

  / Types of biofuels
• bridge

  / Wood and stone
• bridge

  / Early wood and stone bridges
• fence
• Furniture

  / Wood
• furniture industry

  / History
• heating

  / Historical development
• India

  / Planning and architecture
• joint
• stringed instrument

  / Artistry in instrument making
• stringed instrument

  / Morphology
• packaging
• panel painting
• papermaking

  / Wood
• Harbors and sea works

  / The piled jetty
• naval architecture

  / Materials of construction
• hand tool

  / Neolithic tools
• wine

  / Aging

General

Broad overviews of the wood industry and the economic importance of wood are given in Forest Products Research Society, Wood Product Demand and the Environment (1992); Forest Products Society, The Globalization of Wood (1994); and Birger Solberg, Matti Palo, and Pentti Hyttinen (eds.), Forest Industries Towards the Third Millennium (1996).

Harvesting

George Tsoumis, Harvesting Forest Products (1992), is a generalized presentation of harvesting wood (and pine resin). Other comprehensive treatments of harvesting are K.A.G. Staaf and N.A. Wiksten, Tree Harvesting Techniques (1984; originally published in Swedish, 1972); Steve Conway, Logging Practices, rev. ed. (1982), covering North America; George Stenzel, Thomas A. Walbridge, Jr., and Kenneth Pearce (eds.), Logging and Pulpwood Production, 2nd ed. (1985); and M. Patricia Marchak, Logging the Globe (1995), an environmental approach.

Structure, properties, and products

George Tsoumis, Science and Technology of Wood (1991), is a comprehensive treatment of the structure, properties, and industrial utilization of wood (and bark) with keys for identification of North American, European, and important tropical woods. A.J. Panshin and Carl De Zeeuw, Textbook of Wood Technology, 4th ed. (1980), covers the structure, identification (by means of keys), and uses of commercial woods of North America and includes a brief description of properties. John G. Haygreen and Jim L. Bowyer, Forest Products and Wood Science, 3rd ed. (1996), covers wood structure, properties, and technology of major forest products in the United States. Forest Products Laboratory, Wood Engineering Handbook, 2nd ed. (1990), provides basic information on wood as a material of construction, with data for its use in design and specification. Other useful treatments of wood science and technology are K. Wilson and D.J.B. White, The Anatomy of Wood (1986); M.N.B. Nair, Wood Anatomy and Major Uses of Wood (1998); H.E. Desch, Timber: Structure, Properties, Conversion, and Use, 7th ed. rev. by J.M. Dinwoodie (1996); R. Bruce Hoadley, Understanding Wood (1980), and Identifying Wood (1990); Arno P. Schniewind (ed.), Concise Encyclopedia of Wood & Wood-Based Materials (1989); Otto Suchsland and George E. Woodson, Fiberboard Manufacturing Practices in the United States (1987, reissued 1990), which includes board properties and markets; and William T. Simpson (ed.), Dry Kiln Operator’s Manual (1991, reprinted 1997). The chemistry and chemical products of wood are discussed in Menachem Lewin and Irving S. Goldstein (eds.), Wood Structure and Composition (1991), and David N.-S. Hon and Nobuo Shiraishi (eds.), Wood and Cellulosic Chemistry (1991). Wood deterioration and preservative treatments are discussed in Robert A. Zabel and Jeffrey J. Morrell, Wood Microbiology: Decay and Its Prevention (1992); J.W. Creffield, Wood Destroying Insects, 2nd ed. (1996); R.A. Eaton and M.D.C. Hale, Wood: Decay, Pests, and Protection (1993); Forest Products Society, Wood Preservation in the ’90s and Beyond (1995); and Wood Protection Council, Wood Protection Guidelines: Protecting Wood from Decay, Fungi, and Termites (1993).

Periodicals

Among major journals devoted to wood and wood products are Journal of Forest Engineering (semiannual); Forest Products Journal (monthly), published by the Forest Products Society; IAWA Journal (quarterly), published by the International Association of Wood Anatomists; Wood and Fiber Science (quarterly); Wood Science and Technology (quarterly), published by the International Academy of Wood Science; and Journal of the Institute of Wood Science (semiannual).