Hardback. Zustand: Very Good. VERY GOOD. No marks in text. Binding tight and square. Light rubbing at corners of cover. Oxford University Press ex-libris bookplate on front endpaper. No other marks. Appears unread. xv, 344 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm. . . . . . . . Each chapter is designed to be accessible to graduate students and researchers entering the field, offering foundational background as well as advanced insights from leading experts. . . . . . . TABLE OF CONTENTS: 1.) Introduction by H. Ejiri and H. Toki --- 2.) Elastic and inelastic scattering by H. Sakaguchi --- 3.) Spin-isospin responses and charge-exchange reactions by M. Fujiwara --- 4.) Giant resonances and highly excited states by Y. Fujita --- 5.) Breakup processes and cluster structures of light composite projectiles by Y. Sakuragi --- 6.) Nuclear clusters by S. Ohkubo, T. Yamaya and P.E. Hodgson --- 7.) Physics of snowballs --- impurity ions in superfluid helium by N. Takahashi and T. Shimoda --- 8.) Deeply bound pionic atoms by H. Toki, S. Hirenzaki and N. Matsuoka --- 9.) Atomic physics with cyclotron beams by I. Katayama --- 10.) Nuclear physics with strange flavour by T. Kishimoto and T. Motoba --- 11.) Quark nuclear physics by H. Toki and H. Suganuma --- 12.) Lepton nuclear physics by H. Ejiri.