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This survey of applications of the theory of collisions and rate processes to molecular problems begins with a review of the Dirac - von Neumann formulation of quantum mechanics and proceeds to explorations of the collisions of molecules with internal structure, the generalized Ehrenfest theorem, the theory of reactive collisions, and the role of symmetry. Also reviews partitioning technique, equivalent potentials and quasibound states, theory of direct reactions, more. The books contains numerous examples.