'The book contains good to excellent reviews on Magnetic activity in close binaries, Contact binaries, Symbiotic stars, Classical novae, Binaries with compact components, Polarized radiation from close binaries, and Formation of binary stars...I enjoyed enough of this book to recommend it to students of binaries. It well widen their knowledge' Space Science Review 69:3/4 1994

• The Development of the Idea of Interacting Double Stars.- The Interacting Binary Zoo.- Mass Loss in Interacting Binary Systems.- Some Issues in the Theory of Mass Transfer.- The Algol-Type Interacting Binaries.- Magnetic Activity in Close Binaries.- Contact Binaries of the W Uma Type.- Accretion Disks in Close Binaries.- Magnetic Cataclysmic Variables.- Symbiotic Stars.- Theory and Observations of Classical Novae in Outburst.- Interacting Binaries and Type I Supernovae.- Binary Systems with Compact Components.- TeV Radiation from Binary Stars.- ? Aurigae Atmospheric Eclipsing Binaries.- Polarized Radiation from Close Binaries.- Radio Emission from Active Late-Type Binaries.- Formation of Binary Stars.- The Evolution of Interacting Binary Systems: Observational Aspects.- Pending Problems and Final Comments.- References.

'The book contains good to excellent reviews on Magnetic activity in close binaries, Contact binaries, Symbiotic stars, Classical novae, Binaries with compact components, Polarized radiation from close binaries, and Formation of binary stars...I enjoyed enough of this book to recommend it to students of binaries. It well widen their knowledge' Space Science Review 69:3/4 1994

• The Development of the Idea of Interacting Double Stars.- The Interacting Binary Zoo.- Mass Loss in Interacting Binary Systems.- Some Issues in the Theory of Mass Transfer.- The Algol-Type Interacting Binaries.- Magnetic Activity in Close Binaries.- Contact Binaries of the W Uma Type.- Accretion Disks in Close Binaries.- Magnetic Cataclysmic Variables.- Symbiotic Stars.- Theory and Observations of Classical Novae in Outburst.- Interacting Binaries and Type I Supernovae.- Binary Systems with Compact Components.- TeV Radiation from Binary Stars.- ? Aurigae Atmospheric Eclipsing Binaries.- Polarized Radiation from Close Binaries.- Radio Emission from Active Late-Type Binaries.- Formation of Binary Stars.- The Evolution of Interacting Binary Systems: Observational Aspects.- Pending Problems and Final Comments.- References.

'The book contains good to excellent reviews on Magnetic activity in close binaries, Contact binaries, Symbiotic stars, Classical novae, Binaries with compact components, Polarized radiation from close binaries, and Formation of binary stars...I enjoyed enough of this book to recommend it to students of binaries. It well widen their knowledge' Space Science Review 69:3/4 1994

• The Development of the Idea of Interacting Double Stars.- The Interacting Binary Zoo.- Mass Loss in Interacting Binary Systems.- Some Issues in the Theory of Mass Transfer.- The Algol-Type Interacting Binaries.- Magnetic Activity in Close Binaries.- Contact Binaries of the W Uma Type.- Accretion Disks in Close Binaries.- Magnetic Cataclysmic Variables.- Symbiotic Stars.- Theory and Observations of Classical Novae in Outburst.- Interacting Binaries and Type I Supernovae.- Binary Systems with Compact Components.- TeV Radiation from Binary Stars.- ? Aurigae Atmospheric Eclipsing Binaries.- Polarized Radiation from Close Binaries.- Radio Emission from Active Late-Type Binaries.- Formation of Binary Stars.- The Evolution of Interacting Binary Systems: Observational Aspects.- Pending Problems and Final Comments.- References.