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This text is intended to give a brief overview of the structure, content, and intent of the following six theoretical chapters of Part I. It also briefly accounts for the history of the book.
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A concise version of this Part I with emphasis on astrophysical applications has previously been published in Treumann RA (2009) Astron Astrophys Rev 19. Its extension into the relativistic domain reviewing the current state of relativistic and ultra-relativistic shock research can be found in Bykov AM, Treumann RA (2011) Astron Astrophys Rev 21, see the Reference list of Chapter 2.
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Balogh, A., Treumann, R.A. (2013). Introduction. In: Physics of Collisionless Shocks. ISSI Scientific Report Series, vol 12. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-6099-2_1
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