Includes bibliographical references (pages 131-136) and index.
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I. The rigid body with a fixed point -- II. The symmetric spinning top -- III. The Kowalevski top -- IV. The free rigid body -- V. Non-compact levels: a Toda lattice -- Appendix 1 A Poisson structure on the dual of a Lie algebra -- Appendix 2 R-matrices and the "AKS theorem" -- Appendix 3 The eigenvector mapping and linearising flows -- Appendix 4 Complex curves, real curves and their Jacobians -- Appendix 5 Prym varieties.