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Preface to the first edition; Preface to the second edition; Acknowledgments; Part I. Basic Phenomenology: 1. Scales; 2. Observational windows; 3. Classifications; 4. Photometry, kinematics and dark matter; 5. Basic questions, semi-empirical approach and the dynamical window; Part II. Physical Models: 6. Self-gravity and relation to plasma physics; 7. Relaxation times, absence of thermodynamical equilibrium; 8. Models; 9. Equilibrium and stability: symmetry; 10. Classical ellipsoids; 11. Introduction to dispersive waves; 12. Jeans instability; Part III. Spiral Galaxies: 13. Orbits; 14. The basic state: vertical and horizontal equilibrium of the disk; 15. Density waves; 16. Roles of gas; 17. Global spiral modes; 18. Spiral structure in galaxies; 19. Bending waves; 20. Dark matter in spiral galaxies; Part IV. Elliptical Galaxies: 21. Orbits; 22. Stellar dynamical models; 23. Stability; 24. Dark matter in elliptical galaxies; Part V. In Perspective: 25. Selected aspects of formation and evolution; 26. Galaxies and gravitational lensing; 27. Self-gravitating accretion disks; Bibliography; Index.

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