Dedication.- Chaptek I: Principles: Temperatures, Structures, Motions.- General Aspects of Nuclear Magnetic Resonance in Solids.- The contrast with high resolution NMR.- The flavor of the problems studied.- The special solid state aspects of the coupling of a nucleus to its surroundings Line position and shape.- to Spin Temperatures and Their Relation to the Bloch Equations.- A prediction from the Bloch equations.- The concept of spin temperature in the laboratory frame in the absence of alternating magnetic fields.- Adiabatic and sudden changes.- Magnetic resonance and saturation.- Redfield theory neglecting lattice coupling.- The approach to equilibrium for weak H1.- Conditions for validity of the Redfield hypothesis.- Spin-lattice effects.- Spin-locking, T1p, and slow motion.- Single Crystals, Powders, and Anisotropy Effects.- A single crystal example.- The spectra of powder samples.- NMR Parameters for Studying Structure and Motion.- Dipolar interactions.- Quadrupole effects.- Anisotropic chemical shift effects.- The Eyvect of Molecular Motion on Line Widths and Relaxation Times.- Summary.- The example.- Internuclear interactions.- Motionally adapted dipolar Hamiltonian.- A second type of motion.- Collective interaction constants.- Effect of motion on spin diffusion.- A Comparison between Classical Theory of Motional Narrowing and Narrowing Due to Quantum Mechanical Tunnelling Motion.- Summary.- The relationship between classical and quantum motion.- Motional narrowing.- Classical model.- Tunnelling model.- Practical examples of tunnelling motions in molecular solids.- Spin species and the role of the exclusion principle.- Measurement of tunnelling frequency by NMR.- Appendix A.- Appendix B.- Appendix C.- Chaptett II: Systems: Phonons, Non-Metals, Metals.- Magnetic Resonance and Relaxation: A Probe of the Phonon Spectrum.- Magnetic Resonance and Structural Phase Transitions.- Order parameter determination by magnetic resonance.- Order parameter dynamics via T1l#0