Hideki Asada [Research Fellow, previously: Yukawa Institute for Theoretical Physics, Kyoto University; Institutd'Astrophysique de Paris]Toshifumi Futamase [Research Fellow, previously: Max Planck Institute, Munich; Washington University, St. Louis; University College Cardiff]Peter Hogan [Research Fellow, previously: School of Theoretical Physics, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies; University of Texas, Austin; Trinity College, Dublin]

The book delivers a very readable account of the problem of motion in General Relativity. [] Whenever appropriate, connection with observation is made. A reader with good post-introductory knowledge of the theory of general relativity should find easy access to the book, and will surely benefit from the mathematical and conceptual issues elaborated therein.

• 1. Introduction ; 2. Foundations of the Post Newtonian Approximation ; 3. The Third Post Newtonian Approximation ; 4. Two-Body Problem in General Relativity ; 5. Small Black Holes: Geometrical Preliminaries ; 6. Small Charged Black Holes: Equations of Motion ; 7. Gravitational Physics of Few Body Systems

Hideki Asada [Research Fellow, previously: Yukawa Institute for Theoretical Physics, Kyoto University; Institutd'Astrophysique de Paris]Toshifumi Futamase [Research Fellow, previously: Max Planck Institute, Munich; Washington University, St. Louis; University College Cardiff]Peter Hogan [Research Fellow, previously: School of Theoretical Physics, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies; University of Texas, Austin; Trinity College, Dublin]

The book delivers a very readable account of the problem of motion in General Relativity. [] Whenever appropriate, connection with observation is made. A reader with good post-introductory knowledge of the theory of general relativity should find easy access to the book, and will surely benefit from the mathematical and conceptual issues elaborated therein.

• 1. Introduction ; 2. Foundations of the Post Newtonian Approximation ; 3. The Third Post Newtonian Approximation ; 4. Two-Body Problem in General Relativity ; 5. Small Black Holes: Geometrical Preliminaries ; 6. Small Charged Black Holes: Equations of Motion ; 7. Gravitational Physics of Few Body Systems

Hideki Asada [Research Fellow, previously: Yukawa Institute for Theoretical Physics, Kyoto University; Institutd'Astrophysique de Paris]Toshifumi Futamase [Research Fellow, previously: Max Planck Institute, Munich; Washington University, St. Louis; University College Cardiff]Peter Hogan [Research Fellow, previously: School of Theoretical Physics, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies; University of Texas, Austin; Trinity College, Dublin]

The book delivers a very readable account of the problem of motion in General Relativity. [] Whenever appropriate, connection with observation is made. A reader with good post-introductory knowledge of the theory of general relativity should find easy access to the book, and will surely benefit from the mathematical and conceptual issues elaborated therein.

• 1. Introduction ; 2. Foundations of the Post Newtonian Approximation ; 3. The Third Post Newtonian Approximation ; 4. Two-Body Problem in General Relativity ; 5. Small Black Holes: Geometrical Preliminaries ; 6. Small Charged Black Holes: Equations of Motion ; 7. Gravitational Physics of Few Body Systems