Table of Contents

I: SOLAR MAGNETOHYDRODYNAMIC FLOWS.- 1. Questions and Conjectures on the Origin of Stellar and Galactic Magnetic Fields.- 2. Magnetic Flux Tubes and the Solar Dynamo.- 3. Siphon Flows in Solar Magnetic Flux Tubes and Sunspots.- 4. MHD Waves in Magnetic Flux Tubes.- 5. The Dynamic Solar Corona in X-rays with Yohkoh.- 6 The Spontaneous Formation of Current-Sheets in Astrophysical Magnetic Fields.- 7. Magnetohydrodynamic Processes in the Solar Corona: Flares, Coronal Mass Ejections and Magnetic Helicity.- 8. Reconnection of Magnetic Lines of Force.- 9. New Developments in Magnetic Reconnection Theory.- 10. Hydrodynamic and Magnetohydrodynamic Turbulence.- 11. Numerical Simulations of Solar and Astrophysical MHD Flows.- 12. Further Thoughts on the Solar Corona as a Minimum Energy System.- 13. ULYSSES Observations of the Solar Wind Out of the Ecliptic Plane.- 14. Stellar Winds.- 15. Some Implications of Solar and Stellar Activity.- II: ASTROPHYSICAL MAGNETOHYDRODYNAMIC FLOWS.- 16. Hubble Space Telescope Observations of Galactic and Extragalactic Jets.- 17. Exact MHD Solutions for Self-similar Outflows.- 18. Numerical Simulation of Plasma Flow in the Magnetosphere of an Axisymmetric Rotator.- 19. Critical Points and Separatrix Characteristics in Solar and Astrophysical MHD Flows.- 20. Collimation of MHD Outflows.- 21. The Parker Instability in the Interstellar Medium.- 22. Multifluid Magnetohydrodynamics and Star Formation.- 23. Jets Associated with Young Stars.- 24 Molecular Outflows from Protostars.- 25. Jets and MHD Flows Associated with Symbiotic Stars.- 26. Phenomenology and Modelling of Large-scale Jets.- 27. MHD Accretion-ejection Flows in Active Galactic Nuclei.- 28. Interaction of Turbulent Accretion Disks with Embedded Magnetic Fields.- 29. Magnetic Reconnection inAccretion Disc Coronae.- 30. Relativistic Outflows in the Galaxy.- 31. Stationary Relativistic MHD Flows.

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`It will be for this, surely for the coming years, one of the major reference books on this topic. For this the book is absolutely necessary for every library of institutes, that work on the observational and theoretical side of MHD, in both parts, the solar one and the general astrophysical one.'
Reviews of Astronomical Tools, 4:2 (1996)