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This book discusses recent developments in both the theoretical and the experimental aspects of QCD.

Its main goal is to establish precise predictions of the Standard Model in order to find clues to the discovery of New Physics.Contents: Top Quark Physics:Threshold Resummation of Soft Gluons in Hadronic Reactions — A Introduction (E L Berger)Recent Results from CDF (K Takikawa)Top Quark Physics: Overview (S Parke)Complete Description of Polarization Effects in Top Quark Decays Including Higher Order QCD Corrections (B Lampe)Top Pair Production in e+e- and γγ Processes (N Hori et al.)Structure Functions I:Highlights of Physics at HERA (A De Roeck)Some Aspects of the BFKL Evolution (H-N Li)Structure Functions II:New Result from SMC on gρ1 (Y Miyachi)Studies of the Nucleon Spin Structure by HERMES (T-A Shibata)Recent Developments in Perturbative QCD: Q2 Evolution of Chiral-Odd Distributions h1(x,Q2) and hL(x,Q2) (Y Koike)The Small x Behavior of g1 in the Resummed Approach (Y Kiyo et al.)Jet Physics:QCD Results from LEP1 and LEP2 (S Kluth)Twenty Years of Jet Physics: Old and New (L Trentadue)Multi-Parton Loop Amplitudes and Next-to-Leading Order Jet Cross-Sections (Z Bern et al.)Heavy Meson:PQCD Analysis of Inclusive Heavy Hadrons Decays (H-L Yu)Strong Coupling Constant from Lattice QCD (T Onogi)Heavy-Light Decay Constant from Lattice NRQCD (N Yamada)Concluding RemarksReadership: Graduate students in high energy physics.