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The French publishing house offers a new volume in the area of digital signal processing (DSP), namely random processes (RP) for digital communications. For the interested reader, we give the contents: (1) Introduction, (2) Autocorrelation functions and power spectra, (3) Properties of stationary RP, (4) Linear time invariant filtering and ergodicity, (5) Gaussian RP, (6) Stationary sequences, (7) Interpolation and prediction, (8) Clock change in RP, (9) Harmonizable RP and cyclostationary RP, (10) Answers to problems, (11) Appendices, references, index. The text is clearly written and the illustrations are suggestive, so that this volume represents a modern reference book in RP. Some interesting features of the book are: a) the presence of two chapters (Clock changes in RP and Harmonizable RP), which are not to be found in ``classical'' books on RP; b) the text reflects the areas of interest of the author (some of his papers are included in the references); c) the notation of \(f\) (in hertzs), occurring in French literature, has been abandoned for \(\omega\) (in radians), a favorite notation in English literature; d) the presence of some (proposed) problems and the inclusion of their solutions (a feature of recent scientific French books). Finally, we think the present book is a valuable contribution in the area of the postgraduate texts devoted to RP and, in my opinion, warrants a translation into English.