InhaltsangabePreface.- Overview of the Volume.- An Observational Overview of Solar Flares.- Implications of X-ray Observations for Electron Acceleration and Propagation in Solar Flares.- Properties of Energetic Ions in the Solar Atmosphere from Gamma-ray and Neutron Observations.- The Relationship Between Solar Radio and Hard X-ray Emission.- Microflares and the Statistics of X-ray Flares.- Deducing Electron Properties from Hard X-ray Observations.- Recent Advances in Understanding Particle Acceleration Processes in Solar Flares.- Energy Release and Particle Acceleration in Flares: Summary and Future Prospects.- Index.