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EDITORIAL INFORMATION

This volume was planned at a meeting held on May 22, 1993 in Palo Alto, California. Those who attended the meeting included Geoffrey Burbidge (Editor), David Layzer and Allan Sandage (Associate Editors), John Leibacher, Morton Roberts, Anneila Sargent, Tom Soifer and Frank Shu (Commitee Members). Robert Kraft and David Morrison came as guests.

In the preface to Volume 32, I pointed out that 29 articles were scheduled for this volume. In fact, there are 17 cointaned here. At present 29 articles are scheduled for Volume 34 (1996).

(Extracted from the preface, by Geoffrey Burbidge, editor).

GENERAL TABLE OF CONTENTS

-Preface.

-Contents.

-An Astronomical Rescue. Lawrence H. Aller.
-The Diffuse Interstellar Bands. G.H. Herbig.
-Stellar Pulsations Across the HR Diagram: Part 1. Alfred Gautschy & Hideyuki Saio.
-Explosive Nucleosynthesis Revisited: Yields. David Arnett.
-Blue Stragglers and Other Stellar Anomalies: Implications for the Dynamics of Globular Clusters. Charles D. Bailyn.
-Intraday Variability in Quasars and BL Lac Objects. S.J. Wagner & A. Witzel.
-Angular Momentum Evolution of Young Stars and Disks. Peter Bodenheimer.
-High-Energy Particles in Solar Flares. H. Hudson & J. Ryan.
-Magnetohydrodynamic Turbulence in the Solar Wind. M.L. Goldstein, D.A. Roberts & W.H. Matthaeus.
-The Kuiper Belt. Paul R. Weissman.
-Completing the Copernican Revolution: The Search for Other Planetary Systems. David C. Black.
-The Old Open Clusters of the Milky Way. E.D. Friel.
-Gamma-Ray Bursts. Gerald J. Fishman & Charles A. Meegan.
-The Solar Neutrino Problem. W.C. Haxton.
-Theory of Accretion Disks I: Angular Momentum Transport Processes. J.C.B. Papaloizou & D.N.C. Lin.
-Comptonization of the Cosmic Microwave Background: The Sunyaev-Zeldovich Effect. Yoel Rephaeli.
-Inward Bound -The Search for Supermasive Black Holes in Galactic Nuclei. John Kormendy & Douglas Richstone.

-Indexes.

OUR REVIEW

With this book we already have 33 volumes by Annual Reviews devoted to astronomy and astrophysics. The publishers have also produced other series, some of them even wider than this one, devoted to such sciences as biochemistry, ecology, genetics, new materials, medicine or psychology, just to name a few. In all of these, the resulting book intends to be a compilation of articles which cover in the best possible way the wide range of developments going on in these sciences.

The work we are reviewing is therefore quite varied and may be useful to professional astronomers as well as astrophysics specialists who want to stay updated about current advances in these fields. A quick look at the table of contents will allow us to appreciate that there are topics for everybody. The authors, most of them being on-the-spot researchers, tell us about their work as well as the use of their modern tools. By making their task known to the people it is to be expected that they might possibly get the recognition they are due on the part of the general public as well as an active advancement in their careers. For the average reader, the book contributes interesting data on highly topical questions of current events such as the Kuiper Belt, the search for extra solar planets, or the problem of neutrinos from the Sun.