Gravity and Strings (Cambridge Monographs on Mathematical Physics)

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Summary: Solutions of string theory at low energies
Review: It's a rather impressive piece of work. However, despite the size, this book should not be counted as one of the textbooks of string theory. It focuses on various solutions of general relativity and its extensions - supergravity - which arise as low energy limits of string theory.

The characteristic physics and mathematics of string theory (such as perturbative string theory and conformal field theory) is not discussed too thoroughly. In this sense, the book is not a competitor of Polchinski's "String Theory" or Green+Schwarz+Witten's "Superstring Theory", but it can still be a useful source of various classical solutions.