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Science 2 July 1999:
Vol. 285. no. 5424, pp. 55 - 56
DOI: 10.1126/science.285.5424.55
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ASTROPHYSICS:
The Heart of the Matter

A review by Roger Blandford

Active Galactic Nuclei From the Central Black Hole to the Galactic Environment
Julian H. Krolik
Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ, 1999. 620 pp. $99.50, £60. ISBN 0-691-01152-4. Paper, $39.50, £23.95. ISBN 0-691-01151-6.

In this graduate-level text, Krolik offers a theorist's perspective on the high energy astrophysics of quasars, Seyfert galaxies, and other manifestations of active galactic nuclei.
The author is at Theoretical Astrophysics, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91125, USA. E-mail: rdb{at}caltech.edu

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