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Part I. Fundamentals Of Stellar Evolution: From stellar evolution totera-flops gravothermal dynamics of stellar systems; Why stars don't becomered giants!; The last stars; Why stars become red giants; Some implicationsof refinements to the physics and chemistry of lower-mass stars;Globular-cluster luminosity and mass functions from HST data; Very low massstars; Three steps on the age ladder; The stellar population in the galacticbulge; Tests of evolutionary sequences in solar metallicity stars; Therelative ages of galactic globular clusters; A photometric study of NGC 458;Opisthodromism on the horizontal branch?; HST observations of high-densityglobular clusters; Globular-cluster color-magnitude diagrams with HST; Thehorizontal-branch morphology of the outer-halo globular cluster NGC 6229;Calcium abundances of blue horizontal branch stars in w Centauri; Part II,Variable Stars: The Cepheid instability strip in external galaxies; Theoryand observation of Cepheid and LPVs in the Magellanic Clouds; RR Lyraepulsational masses revisited; Pulstational models of young stars ofintermediate mass; New light on RV Tau variables; Part III. AGB Stars andPlanetary Nebulae: Hot bottom burning in asymptotic giant branch stars;Carbon burning in SAGB stars; Through the upper AGB towards a planetary;Time-dependent hydrodynamical models of circumstellar dust shells aroundcarbon- and oxygen-rich AGB stars; Chemical abundances for a planetarynebulae sample located outside the solar circle; On the fate of born-againred giants; Part IV. White Dwarfs: Hyades cluster white dwarfs and theinitial-final mass relation; The role of mixing and accretion on the chemicalevolution of cool white dwarf atmospheres; Neutrino energy loss in stellarinteriors; Part V. Binary Star Evolution: Binary stars below the turnoff inglobular cluster color-magnitude diagrams; Evolution of novae, He novae andthe final He shell flashes; Element diffusion in novae; White dwarf heatingin response to radial and tangential accretion in close binaries; An analysisof long-term light curves of four nova-like variables; Binary degeneratedwarfs; Population synthesis for close binary stars; On the evolution ofaccreting white dwarfs with rotation-induced mixing; Low mass binary whitedwarfs as progenitors of AM CVn variables and type Ia supernovae;Presupernovae evolution in massive binaries; Part VI. Stars In Galaxies:Stars in the galactic centre; The s-process in AGB stars; SN1987A; Supernovaprogenitor constraints from circumstellar interaction: type Ia; Supernovaprogenitor constraints from circumstellar interaction: type II; Chemicalabundance constraints for the evolution of 10-30 solar mass stars; Massfunction of the stars in the solar neighbourhood; Synthetic spectral indicesfor elliptical galaxies; The far-UV radiation from elliptical galaxies;Evolutionary synthesis of stellar population; Capabilities of HUBE, theHopkins UV explorer; Other papers.