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This book is devoted to provide the reader with a basic overview on the subject of weighted inequalities of Hardy type in weighted Lebesgue spaces. This theory has been a particularly active field of research during the past forty years. To be more precise, the main problem treated in this book is the characterization of the weights \(v\) and \(u\) to have an inequality of the form \[ \bigg(\int | Tf(x)| ^q u(x)\, dx\bigg)^{1/q}\leq C \bigg(\int | f(x)| ^p v(x)\, dx\bigg)^{1/p},\tag{1} \] where \(T\) is a certain generalization of the classical Hardy operator \[ Hf(x)=\int_a^x f(t)\, dt. \] The book consists of six chapters. Chapter 1 includes some basic features of the weighted Lebesgue spaces and the characterization of the weights \(v\) and \(u\) to have (1) for the Hardy operator and its conjugate. These Hardy inequalities can also be written in terms of the derivative and the authors study the differential Hardy inequality on an interval \((a,b)\) \[ \bigg(\int_a^b | f(x)| ^q u(x)\, dx\bigg)^{1/q}\leq C \bigg(\int_a^b | f'(x)| ^p v(x)\, dx\bigg)^{1/p}.\tag{2} \] This chapter also includes some results concerning the compactness property of the Hardy operator. In Chapter 2, inequality (1) is studied for several generalizations of the operator \(H\) such as the one given by \[ Tf(x)=\varphi_1(x)\int_a^x \psi_1(t) f(t)\, dt+ \varphi_2(x)\int_x^b \psi_2(t) f(t)\, dt, \] with \(\varphi_i\), \(\psi_i\), \(i=1,2\), functions, not necessarily positive, defined on \((a,b)\). Another generalization, which is studied in detail in Chapter 3, is the so-called Hardy-Steklov operator, defined by \[ Tf(x)=\int_{a(x)}^{b(x)} f(t)\, dt. \] Chapter 4 is devoted to study the \(k\)-th order Hardy inequality of the form (2) where, in the right hand side, \(f'\) is substituted by \(f^{(k)}\) and Chapter 5 deals with fractional order Hardy inequalities \[ \bigg(\int_a^b | f(x)| ^q u(x)\, dx\bigg)^{1/q}\leq \bigg(\int_a^b\int_a^b{{| f(x)-f(y)| ^p}\over {| x-y| ^{1+\lambda p}}} w(x,y)\, dx \, dy\bigg) ^{1/p} . \] Finally, the last chapter of this book takes into consideration to characterize the weights \(v\) and \(u\) for which an inequality of the form (1), with \(T\) some of the operators previously studied, is satisfied on the cone of decreasing functions. \ The basic ideas are very well written, the exposition is clear and the authors give complete proofs of most of the results they present. As they mention in the introduction, questions such as sharp constants or limiting cases of the parameters involved are usually omitted.