Table of Contents

Formation of Stars from Interstellar Matter; Stellar Physics in General; Evolution of Isolated Stars; Death of Low-Mass Stars; Death of High-Mass Stars as Supernovae; Close Binaries, Their Evolution; Close Binaries as X-ray and Gamma-ray Sources; Brown Dwarfs, White Dwarfs, Neutron Stars and Black Holes; Stellar Nucleosynthesis; Chemical and Photometric Evolution of Galaxies.