The 14th RCNP OSAKA International Symposium on Nuclear Reaction Dynamics of Nucleon-Hadron Many Body System was held in Osaka from December 6 to 9, 1995. The symposium covered current topics from Nucleon Spins and Mesons in Nuclei to Quark Lepton Nuclear Physics. Thus it included the field of hadron/nuclear physics from sub-GeV to multi-GeV energy region, as well as recent activities and development at RCNP. It was also intended to be a kind of winter school for young researchers/graduate students.This proceedings consists of the invited talks and lectures presented by leading physicists in the field and short oral presentations.

The interest in understanding the physical world that we live in, the origin of its formation and evolution, is reflected in the world-wide activities in Europe, the USA and Japan to set up powerful research facilities providing beams of radioactive nuclei of various kinds, and beams of extremely large energies. At the same time, complex and large detector arrays with improved technical capabilities are built either around these facilities or independently (dedicated to cosmic rays). Recently, spectacular progress has been made in superheavy nuclei, cold binary and ternary fission, nuclear shell structure and nuclear astrophysics, to mention only a few directions. The energy spectrum of cosmic rays exceeds the upper limits provided by artificial accelerators. An international collaboration has committed itself to the installation of an extremely large area detector array, AUGER, in order to study the highest particle energies in the Universe.

Astronomy and Astrophysics Abstracts is devoted to the recording, summarizing and indexing of astronomical publications throughout the world. Two volumes are scheduled to appear per year. Volume 67 records 10,903 papers covering besides the classical fields of astronomy and astrophysics such matters as space flights related to astronomy, lunar and planetary probes and satellites, meteorites and interplanetary matter, X rays and cosmic rays, quasars and pulsars. The abstracts are classified under more than one hundred subject categories thus permitting quick surveying of the bulk of material published on the same topic within six months. For instance, this volume records 119 papers on minor planets, 155 papers on supernovae, and 554 papers on cosmology.

This book focuses on a new development of spin giant resonances in nuclei. It covers: quenching phenomena in Gamow-Teller giant resonances, spin-dipole giant resonances, spin-longitudinal and transverse responses in quasi-elastic scattering, microscopic structures, isoscalar spin responses, and spin excitations in exotic nuclei as well as in related fields. The book provides comprehensive coverage of theory and experiment on intriguing spin phenomena, by distinguished contributors.

This volume covers the field of circular accelerators and related technology for the sub-GeV to multi-GeV energy region from the viewpoint of realization of high performance, i.e., performance and perspectives of operating multi-GeV accelerators, future projects in the multi-GeV energy region, lattice designs and beam dynamics, electron cooling and stochastic cooling, injection and extraction, beam diagnostics, superconducting and normal magnets, magnet power supplies, RF systems, and internal targets. The contributors include leading accelerator physicists from around the world.

A world list of books in the English language.