SIGNED with DEDICATION in Hebrew by EDITOR - Professor Eran Sher, Head of Department of Mechanical Engineering at the Ben Gurion University of the Negev in Beer Sheva, Israel, recipient of the John Orr Award in 1989 for leading research in mechanical engineering and the Bergman Award in 1995 for outstanding scientific achievements, co-author (with John B. Heywood) of `The Two-Stroke Cycle Engine, Its Development, Design and Characteristics`, and author of over 120 scientific articles and a student textbook entitled `Introduction to Internal Combustion Engines` (in Hebrew). The authors are : Sher, Eran [Ed.] / Heywood, John B.; Carel, Rafael S.; Plaut, Pnina O.; Stone, Richard; Hochgreb, Simone; Dulger, Mark; Milton, Brian E.; Franz F. Pischinger, J. Gary Hawley, Stephen J. Charlton, Cornel C. Stan, Yiji Ikeda and Tsuyoshi Nakjima, Svend Henningsen, David R. Blackmore, Yoram Zvirin, Marcel Gutman and Leonid Tartakovsky. Contains over 700 references and more than 500 explanatory diagrams, figures and tables. 235x160mm. XXII+663 pages. Hardcover with silver and blue lettering on front cover and spine. Cover corners slightly bumped and rubbed. Spine upper edge bumped. Author`s signed dedication on front whitepage. [SUMMARY]: This important handbook for engineers and researchers in the area of internal combustion engines and pollution control, with excellent updated reviews of the available knowledge in this field by twenty three experts, is in good condition.