Cataclysmic Variables: Proceedings of the Conference held in Abano Terme, Italy, 20-24 June 1994

Cataclysmic Variables (CVs) are well furnished laboratories in which one can investigate a number of important physical processes. These processes include: thermonuclear reactions, nebular physics, winds, mass accretion phenomena on compact objects, magnetohydrodynamics, plasmas, thermal and non thermal radiative processes, relativistic phenomena, dust formation, etc . . In the recent year the most exciting development in our opinion was that the small, cold and invisible secondary componen...