Among the topics covered are a comprehensive treatment of waves in plasmas, and their use in heating and current generation in magnetic confinement fusion devices. There is also a unique and detailed chapter on absolute and convective instability analysis which is of general applicability in physics and engineering; and a detailed treatment of kinetic instabilities in plasmas in a magnetic field -- including relativistic instabilities.

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