by W Kittel and E A De Wolf, World Scientific. Hardback ISBN 9812562958 £60 ($98).
This book comprehensively covers the development and status of soft (i.e. non-perturbative) phenomena encountered in the production of (multi-) hadronic final states by high-energy collisions of various particles. Phenomenological models used to describe the data are in general inspired by quantum chromodynamics (QCD) and the book often crosses between soft and hard (perturbative) QCD. Postgraduate students, researchers and academics interested in multihadron production will find this useful reading.
