'The bulk of this volume consists of highly specialized and rigorously presented tutorials on this theory and on how to employ it, suitable for readers who are already professional specialists or advanced graduate students in physics or astrophysics, assuming strong mathematical preparation … This will be a welcome acquisition for graduate-level and research libraries with collections in physics, astrophysics, and planetary science.' S. P. Maran, Choice
Preface; Acknowledgements; 1. The physical grounds of radiative transfer Lucio Crivellari; 2. Fundamental physical aspects of radiative transfer Artemio Herrero; 3. Numerical methods in radiative transfer Olga Atanacković; 4. Stellar atmosphere codes Mats Carlsson; 5. Radiative transfer in the (expanding) atmospheres of early type stars, and related problems Joachim Puls; 6. Phenomenology and physics of late-type stars Maria Bergemann, Camilla Juul Hansen and Timothy C. Beers; 7. Modeling the atmospheres of ultracool dwarfs and extrasolar planets Mark S. Marley.