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This is a sequel to the review volume Quark Gluon Plasma. There are 13 articles contributed by leading investigators in the field, covering a wide range of topics about the theoretical approach to the subject. These contributions are timely reviews of nearly all the actively pursued problems, written in a pedagogical style suitable for beginners as well as experienced researchers.Contents: Quark Gluon Plasma in Numerical Simulations of Lattice QCD (C DeTar) Applications of High Temperature Field Theory to Heavy Ion Collisions (M H Thoma) Collective Phenomena in the Quark Gluon Plasma (J-P Blaizot et al.) The QCD Vacuum, Chiral Phase Transitions and Quark Gluon Plasma (E Shuryak) Ultra-Relativistic Nuclear Collisions in a QCD-Based Space-Time Description: The Parton Cascade Model (K Geiger) Parton Production and Equilibration in a PQCD-Inspired Model of High-Energy Nuclear Collisions (X-N Wang) Colour Deconfinement and Quarkonium Dissociation (D Kharzeev & H Satz) The Landau Pomeranchuk Migdal Effect and Soft Electromagnetic Signals of Quark Gluon Plasma Formation (J Cleymens et al.) The Chiral Phase Transition in QCD: Critical Phenomena and Long Wavelength Pion Oscillations (K Rajagopal) The Role of Strangeness in Ultrarelativistic Nuclear Collisions (J Sollfrank & U Heinz) Physics of Strange Matter for Relativistic Heavy Ion Collisions (G Greiner & J Schaffner) Two-Particle and Multi-Particle Measurements for the Quark Gluon Plasma (S Pratt) Scaling Properties of Quark Hadron Phase Transition (R C Hwa) Readership: Nuclear and particle physicists.

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