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This is a very difficult-to-review volume, indeed -- it is highly specialized, concise and most abstract! The difficulties are still increased by the novelty of the treated topics (if considering that the first work on NPD -- nonlinear psychophysical dynamics -- was published around 1985). As a monograph, the volume discusses the application of two methods, two mathematical operations, cascades and fields, based on the assumption of nonlinear psychophysical modelling. The term most commonly employed, i.e. ``perceptual psychophysics'', has been preferred as realizing the distinction from the more restricted sense of sensory psychophysics. The main problems approached in the book are: fundamental assumptions of NPD, nonlinear psychophysics, response surface identification and cross-entropy, properties of nonlinear dynamics, perceived time estimation, phase space changes and noise in fields, isosimilarities and instabilities. A rich bibliographical list and a subject index add to the value of the volume.