Dramatic progress is a trademark of the recent study of globular cluster systems.
Considerations about the formation and evolution compose the first chapter followed by a
chapter on young star clusters. Then come four chapters reviewing the globular cluster system
of early-type late-type and dwarf galaxies as well as of groups of galaxies. One chapter is
dedicated to stellar population models and their applications to the field. Finally a chapter
reviews the kinematics of galaxies derived from globular cluster systems and another their role
in the context of galaxy formation and evolution studies. As a whole the book gives an
up-to-date view of the field at the beginning of the new decade which will without doubt again
bring significant progress in our understanding of globular cluster systems and galaxy
formation and evolution.
