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Fillingagapintheliterature,thiscrucialpublicationontherenownedLifshitz–Slezov–WagnerTheoryoffirst–orderphasetransitionsisauthoredbyoneofthescientistswhogaveititsname.ProfSlezovspentdecadesanalyzingthistopicandobtainedanumberofresultsthatformthecornerstoneofthisrapidlydevelopingbranchofscience.Followingananalysisofunresolvedproblemstogetherwithproposedsolutions,thebookdevelopsatheoreticaldescriptionoftheoverallcourseoffirst–orderphasetransformations,startingfromthenucleationstaterightuptothelatestagesofcoarsening.Insodoing,theauthorillustratestheresultsbywayofnumericalcomputationsandexperimentalapplications.Theoutlineofthegeneralresultsisperformedforsegregationprocessesinsolutionsandtheresultsusedintheanalysisofavarietyofdifferenttopics,suchasphaseformationinmulti–componentsolutions,boilinginone–andmulti–componentliquids,vacancyclusterevolutioninsolidswithandwithoutinfluenceofradiation,aswellasphaseseparationinheliumatlowtemperatures.Theresultisadetailedoverviewofthetheoreticaldescriptionofthewholecourseofnucleation–growthprocessesandapplicationsforawideaudienceofscientistsandstudents.