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The book refers to the integral geometry in the sense of Blaschke, originating from ideas of the geometric probability by Crofton in the last century and pursued by Deltheil and Herglotz and mainly by Blaschke and his school about 60 years ago. Since then integral geometry has grown in theory and applications. Both aspects are clearly treated in this nice book. The titles of the chapters are the following: I. Convex sets. II. Measure for sets of geometric elements (points, lines, pairs of points and lines, strips). III. Fundamental formulas of integral geometry in the plane (Poincaré and Blaschke fundamental formulas). IV. Applications of integral geometry in the plane (isoperimetric inequality, measure of segments within a convex domain, random convex sets in a lattice of parallelograms). V. Foundations of integral geometry in homogeneous spaces (exterior differentiation, kinematic density for a Lie group, density and measure in homogeneous spaces). VI. Integral geometry in \(\mathbb{R}^n\) (groups of motions in \(\mathbb{R}^n\), density of \(r\)-planes in \(E_n\), Quermassintegrale, kinematic fundamental formula in \(E_n\)). VII. Applications of integral geometry (elements of stereology, Hadwiger's conditions for a domain to contain another, inequalities characterizing simplices). The book contains a careful and well selected list of topics in integral geometry, very suitable as a textbook for undergraduate and graduate students and also as reference for researchers who are using applications of integral geometry. Although the book contains some recent topics included in Chapter VII, it would be improved be adding some references about complex integral geometry and some new results of stereology by Miles, Cruz-Orive, Gundersen and others.