The present book provides a contemporary systematic treatment of shock waves in high-temperature collisionless plasmas as are encountered in near Earth space an

This volume contains the proceedings of an international conference on Shocks in Astrophysics held at UMIST, Manchester, England from January 9-12, 1995. The st

This conference has addressed the physics of collisionless shock waves in all space and astrophysical plasma environments from both an observational and theoret

An engaging introduction to collisionless shocks in space plasmas, presenting a complete review, from first principles to current research.