George Grätzer's Lattice Theory: Foundation is his third book on lattice theory (General
Lattice Theory 1978 second edition 1998). In 2009 Grätzer considered updating the second
edition to reflect some exciting and deep developments. He soon realized that to lay the
foundation to survey the contemporary field to pose research problems would require more
than one volume and more than one person. So Lattice Theory: Foundation provided the
foundation. Now we complete this project with Lattice Theory: Special Topics and Applications
in two volumes written by a distinguished group of experts to cover some of the vast areas
not in Foundation. This second volume is divided into ten chapters contributed by K. Adaricheva
N. Caspard R. Freese P. Jipsen J.B. Nation N. Reading H. Rose L. Santocanale and F.
Wehrung.
