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Preface; 1. Basic concepts; 2. The Vlasov, two-fluid, and MHD models ofplasma dynamics; 3. Motion of a single plasma particle; 4. Elementary plasmawaves; 5. Streaming instabilities and the Landau problem; 6. Cold plasmawaves in a magnetized plasma; 7. Waves in inhomogeneous plasmas and waveenergy relations; 8. Vlasov theory of warm electrostatic waves in amagnetized plasma; 9. MHD equilibria; 10. Stability of static MHD equilibria;11. Magnetic helicity interpreted and Woltjer-Taylor relaxation; 12. Magneticreconnection; 13. Fokker-Planck theory of collisions; 14. Wave-particlenonlinearities; 15. Wave-wave nonlinearities; 16. Non-neutral plasmas; 17.Dusty plasmas; Appendix A. Intuitive method for vector calculus identities;Appendix B. Vector calculus in orthogonal curvilinear coordinates; AppendixC. Frequently used physical constants and formulae; Bibliography; References;Index.