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TITLE PAGE

1.INTRODUCTION

1.1.The Hot Intracluster Medium

2.OBSERVATIONAL EVIDENCE FOR COOLING FLOWS

2.1.X-Ray Imaging Evidence for Cooling Flows

2.2.X-Ray Spectral Evidence for Cooling Flows

2.3.Summary of X-Ray Data

3.APPEARANCE OF COOLING FLOWS AT OTHER WAVEBANDS

3.1.Optical Data

3.2.Infrared

3.3.Radio

3.4.Summary of Data from Non-X-Ray Wavebands

4.THEORETICAL ISSUES ON COOLING FLOWS

4.1.The Global Structure

4.2.The Local Structure of Cooling Flows

4.3.Summary of the Conditions in a Cooling Flow

5.DISTANT COOLING FLOWS

6.COOLING FLOWS AND GALAXY FORMATION

7.CONCLUSIONS

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