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The book originates from lecture notes that were given by the author at the Workshop ``Mathematical aspects of fluid dynamics'' in Fukuoka University, 1996, October, 11-13, and at the Regional Workshop in Tsukuba University, 1996, December, 3-6. One of the main goals of the book is to present a survey of the recent results in the global existence theory for compressible Navier-Stokes equations. The text is divided into five sections and two appendices. Section 1 discusses the basic conservation laws of hydrodynamics and derives a new equation which allows to estimate the density in Orlicz space. Section 2 is devoted to a priori estimates for the so-called effective pressure and introduces some additional energy identity. Section 3 starts by deriving supplementary systems of equations in order to obtain the estimates for the higher derivatives. Then the existence of global strong and classical solutions is proven by the method of continuation of local solutions. Section 4 presents the compactness arguments which are applied to prove the existence of generalized solution in Section 5. Finally the two appendices contain the basic notions from Orlicz function space theory and a special logarithmic inequality. The book is well written and is mathematically secure, and can serve as a good introduction to the subject.