Elements of Stellar Dynamics Ay 124 ______________________________________________________________ Some selected readings: Most of BT, especially ch. 2 - 5, and in particular the first half of ch. 4. "Gravitational Physics of Stellar and Galactic Systems", by W. Saslaw, Cambridge: CUP (1985; paperback edn. 1987), is well worth consulting. An excellent, extensive review by J. Binney, in "Morphology and Dynamics of Galaxies", Saas-Fee 1982. A short version thereof in Ann. Rev. Astr. Aph. 20, 399 (1982). The review by S. White in the same Saas-Fee volume provides a good introduction to the (use of) N-body models. You can find many worthwhile short reviews scattered in conference proceedings of mostly extragalactic stripes. For example, check out the IAU Symp. 127, "Structure and Dynamics of Elliptical Galaxies", ed. de Zeeuw, Dordrecht: Reidel (1987).