17 readable articles give a thorough and self-contained

overview of recent developments in relativistic gravity

research. The subjects covered are: gravitational lensing,

the general relativistic n-body problem, observable effects

in the solar system, gravitational waves and their

interferometric detection, very-long-baseline

interferometry, international atomic time, lunar laser-

ranging measurements, measurement ofthe gravitomagnetic

field of the Earth, fermion and boson stars and black holes

with hair, rapidly rotating neutron stars, matter wave

interferometry, and the laboratory test of Newton's law of

gravity.Any scientist interested in experimentally or

observatio nally oriented relativistic gravity will read

the book with profit. In addition, it is perfectly suited as

a complementary text for courses on general relativity and

relativistic astrophysics.