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Surveys some of the commercial successes in endeavors to design ceramic components that are cheap and easy to manufacture. The 15 papers, from a May 1997 symposium in Cincinnati, Ohio, look at transducers, thermistors, varistors, and ceramic devices. Among the specific topics are fabricating and modeling composite PZT shear transducer devices, the preparation and electrical properties of lanthanum-tin-zirconium oxide by co-precipitation with high-temperature melting, producing multilayer zinc-oxide varistors in praseodymium systems, and factors in the degradation of multilayer ceramic chip capacitors with nickel electrodes. Several of the papers are double spaced. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.