Table of Contents:
Vol. I: Nuclear Deformation Energy

Chapter 1
Nuclear Shape
Dorin N. Poenaru and Marin S.  Ivascu

Chapter 2
Liquid Drop Models
Dorin N. Poenaru and Marin S. Ivascu

Chapter 3
Charge Density Asymmetry and Deformation Dependence of Macroscopic Energies
Dorin N. Poenaru and Marin S. Ivascu

Chapter 4
Particular Systems and Configurations
Dorin N. Poenaru and Marin S. Ivascu

Chapter 5
Deformed Shell Models
Dorin N. Poenaru and Marin S. Ivascu

Chapter 6
Shell and Pairing Corrections
Fiodor A. Ivanyuk, Marin S. Ivascu and Dorin N. Poenaru

Chapter 7
Rotating Nuclei
Dorel A. Bucurescu

Chapter 8
Applied Macroscopic-Microscopic Method
Dorin N. Poenaru and Marin S. Ivascu

Chapter 9
Predictive Properties of Atomic Mass Models: Their Relationship to Nuclear Decay
Modes by Spontaneous Charged-Particle Emission
Peter E. Haustein
 

Vol. II: Alpha, Proton, and Heavy Ion Radioactivities

Chapter 1
Recent Results on Alpha Radioactivity
E. Roeckl and D. Schardt

Chapter 2
Proton Radioactivity
Sigurd Hofmann

Chapter 3
Nuclear Stability and Elements of Dynamics
Dorin N. Poenaru and Marin S. Ivascu

Chapter 4
Fission Aproach to the Alpha Decay
Marin S. Ivascu and Dorin N. Poenaru

Chapter 5
Heavy Ion Radioactivities
Dorin N. Poenaru and Marin S. Ivascu
 

Chapter 6
Discovery of the Radioactive Decay of 223-Ra by 14-C Emission and Experiments with the Magnetic Spectrograph
E. Hourani and M. Hussonnois
 

Chapter 7
Measurement of Spontaneous 14-C Emission from 223-Ra with an Enge Split-Pole Magnetic Spectrograph
W. Henning and W. Kutschera

Chapter 8
Experimental Studies of Heavy Ion Radioactivities
P. B. Price and S. W. Barwick

Chapter 9
Spontaneous Emission of 24-Ne and Heavier Ions
Dumitru Hasegan and Svetlana P. Tretyakova
 

Vol. III: Fission and Beta-Delayed Decay Modes

Chapter 1
Spontaneous Fission
Darleane C. Hoffman and L. Patrick Somerville
 
Chapter 2
Fission Isomers
Dorin N. Poenaru, Marin S. Ivascu and Dumitru Mazilu
 

Chapter 3
Light Particle-Accompanied Fission
Cyriel Wagemans
 

Chapter 4
Beta-Delayed Proton and Alpha Emission
J. C. Hardy and E. Hagberg
 

Chapter 5
Beta-Delayed Two-Proton Emission
D. M. Moltz and Joseph Cerny
 

Chapter 6
Beta-Delayed Particle Emission from Neutron-Rich Nuclei
P. G. Hansen and B. Jonson

Chapter 7
Unified Approach of Alpha-Decay, Heavy Ion Emission, and Cold Fission
Dorin N. Poenaru, Marin S. Ivascu and Walter Greiner


Contributors
Steven W. Barwick, Ph.D
Research Physicist, Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, California, USA

Dorel Bucurescu, Ph.D.
Senior Researcher, Department of Heavy Ion Physics, National Institute of Physics and Nuclear Engineering, Bucharest, Romania

Joseph Cerny, Ph.D.
Professor, Department of Chemistry and Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley, California, USA

Walter Greiner, Ph.D., Dr.h.c.mult
Professor and Director, Institute of Theoretical Physics, J. W. Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main, Germany

Eric Hagberg, Ph.D.
Senior Researcher, Chalk River Nuclear Laboratories, Atomic Energy of Canada, Ltd., Chalk River, Ontario, Canada

P. Gregers Hansen, Dr.Phil.
Professor of Physics, Institute of Physics, University of Aarhus, Aarhus, Denmark
 

 J. C. Hardy, Ph.D.
Professor, Chalk River Nuclear Laboratories, Atomic Energy of Canada, Ltd., Chalk River, Ontario, Canada

Dumitru Ha\c segan, Ph.D.
Senior Researcher, Center of Astronomy and Space Sciences, INFLPR Bucharest, Romania

Peter E. Haustein, Ph.D.
Nuclear Chemist, Department of Chemistry, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York, USA
 

Walter Henning, Ph.D.
Professor, Department of Nuclear Physics, G. S. I. Darmstadt, Darmstadt, Germany

Darleane C. Hoffman, Ph.D.
Professor Emeritus, Department of Chemistry and Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley, California

Sigurd Hofmann, Ph.D.
Senior Researcher, G. S. I Darmstadt, Darmstadt, Germany

E. Hourany, Ph.D.
Director of Research, Institut de Physique Nucleaire, Orsay, France

M. Hussonnois, Ph.D.
Director of Research, Institut de Physique Nucleaire, Orsay, France

Fiodor A. Ivanyuk, Ph.D.
Senior Researcher, Department of Nuclear Theory, Institute of Nuclear Research, Kiev, Ukraine

Marin S. Iva\c scu, Ph.D.
Senior Researcher, Department of Heavy Ion Physics, National Institute of Physics and Nuclear Engineering, Bucharest, Romania

Bjorn Jonson, Tekn.Dr.
Professor of Physics, Department of Physics, Chalmers University of Technology, Goteborg, Sweden

Walter Kutschera, Ph.D.
Senior Physicist, Physics Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, Illinois, USA

Dumitru Mazilu, B.M.
Senior Researcher, Computer Center, National Institute of Physics and Nuclear Engineering, Bucharest, Romania

Dennis Moltz, Ph.D.
Staff Scientist, Nuclear Science Division, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley, USA

Dorin N. Poenaru, Ph.D.
Senior Researcher, Department of Heavy Ion Physics, National Institute of Physics and Nuclear Engineering, Bucharest, Romania}

P. Buford Price, Ph.D.
Professor of Physics, Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, USA

Ernst Roeckl, Dr.rer.nat.
Senior Researcher, G. S. I.Darmstadt, Darmstadt, Germany

Dieter Schardt, Dr.rer.nat.
Senior Researcher, G. S. I. Darmstadt, Darmstadt, Germany

L. Patrick Somerville, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Department of Physics, Oral Roberts Univerity Tulsa, Oklahoma, and Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, Berkeley, California, USA}

Svetlana P. Tretyakova, Ph.D.
Senior Researcher, Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, Dubna, Russia

Cyriel Wagemans, Dr.Hab.
Research Director at the National Fund for Scientific Research, Nuclear Physics Laboratory, University of Gent, Gent, Belgium