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C ommunications and sensing are two key applications of electromagnetic waves. While the former discipline has attracted the majority of researchers’ attention in recent years, investigation in the latter discipline is progressing actively but more quietly. The 1,400-page book, Novel Radar Techniques and Applications, presents a variety of new concepts and techniques that are being researched in radar-related areas. Since most have yet to find their way into operational use, why would this work be of interest to the antennas and propagation (AP) community? The answer is that this is an excellent opportunity for AP professionals to catch a glimpse of promising radar concepts and, during the process, to perhaps identify how AP research can impact radarsensing technology. The editor of the book, Dr. Richard Klemm, is a renowned expert on radar signal processing and adaptive clutter cancelation. He spent a distinguished career at FGAN FHR (now the Fraunhofer Institute for High Frequency Physics and Radar Techniques, Wachtberg, Germany). Dr. Klemm is also a superb classical pianist. I had the privilege to listen to a passionate performance of his for attendees of a 1999 NATO radar workshop in Spain that he organized. He has obviously invested the same kind of passion in this book, ensuring that the wealth of knowledge built up over the years can be passed on to developers of tomorrow’s radar. The work contains a total of 34 chapters, and approximately 25% of them were contributed by researchers from the Fraunhofer Institute. The book consists of five separate topics, i.e., electronically steered arrays, synthetic aperture imaging, passive/multistatic radar, waveform diversity/cognitive radar, Digital Object Identifier 10.1109/MAP.2017.2776153 Date of publication: 12 February 2018 editor’s Note