From the reviews: "The present book offers a panoramic view of the origin of turbulence in near-wall shear layer flows. ... Modern approaches to the problem are discussed in a conceptual treatment. ... The book is a comprehensive survey of the origin of turbulence in near-wall shear layer flows ... . It also presents new approaches to boundary-layer transitions with strong external-flow perturbations and to the prediction and control of near-wall transitions to turbulence." (R. Militaru, Zentralblatt MATH, Vol. 1096 (22), 2006)