'The book is a valuable source of information and current ideas and is to be recommended as a class text.' Elizabeth Griffin, The Observatory
List of contributors; List of participants; Preface; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; 1. Radiation processes and models Julien Malzac; 2. HTRA instrumentation – I Philip A. Charles; 3. HTRA instrumentation – II Vikram. S. Dhillon; 4. Black-hole and neutron-star binaries Tomaso M. Belloni; 5. Radio observations of pulsars and X-ray binaries Andrea Possenti; 6. Gamma-ray sources and analysis Elizabeth C. Ferrara.