Table of Contents

Generalities.- QCD as a Field Theory.- Renormalization in QCD: Asymptotic Freedom. Operator Expansions.- Perturbative QCD I. Deep Inelastic Processes.- Perturbative QCD II. OZI Forbidden Decays; Drell–Yan Processes; Jets; SVZ Sum Rules; Exclusive Processes and so on..- Hadrons as Bound States of Quarks.- Light Quarks; PCAC; Chiral Dynamics; the QCD Vacuum.- Instantons.- Lattice QCD.- The Perturbative QCD Series. The Parameters of QCD. Condensates.