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This is a very fine book on integral transforms for classical functions and both distributions and ultradistributions, with an emphasis on applications to problems of mathematical physics. The main purpose is to extend many integral transforms, commonly applied to integrable functions, to suitable classes of generalized functions. Here the author discusses standard transforms like the Fourier transform, Laplace transform, Stieltjes transform, Hilbert transform, and Mellin transform, but also nonstandard transforms like the Watson transform, Hankel transform, Kantorovich-Lebedev transform, or generalized Mehler-Fock transform. Various properties of these transforms, such as inversion formulas, representation formulas, and the corresponding operational calculus are considered as well. The book consists of 12 chapters with the following headings: Normed and countably normed spaces, Fourier transforms of distributions, Fourier transforms of ultradistributions, Laplace transform, Stieltjes transform, Hilbert transform, Mellin and Watson transform, Hankel transform of distributions, Hankel transform of ultradistributions, generalized Mehler-Fock transform, Kantorovich-Lebedev transform, eigenfunction expansions of generalized functions. A detailed bibliography containing nearly 400 items, a notation index, an author index, and a subject index are given at the end. The book provides not only a selfcontained account of the classical theory of integral transforms for functions and distributions, but also reflects the state of the art of the more recent achievements in this area during the past 30 years, leading the reader to the boarderlines of current research. It will be a very valuable source for all specialists in functional analysis, operator theory, integral transforms, and mathematical physics, but also for nonspecialists who want to get an idea of the methods and results of this fascinating field.