Each review is self-contained and pedagogically structured, providing the general formulation of the problem, telling where it stands with respect to other issues and why it is interesting and important, presenting the history of the subject, qualitative insights, and so on. The first part of the book is historical in nature. It includes, among other articles, Boris Ioffe's and Yuri Orlov's memoirs on high energy physics in the 1950's, a note by B V Geshkenbein on Ioffe's career in particle physics, and an essay on the discovery of asymptotic freedom written by David Gross.

Contents:

• Pages of the Past (B L Ioffe & Yu F Orlov)
• The Making of QCD (L D Faddeev et al.)
• From Hadrons to Nuclei: Crossing the Border (S R Beane et al.)
• Chiral Dynamics (H Leutwyler)
• Aspects of Chiral Symmetry (A Smilga)
• Nucleons as Chiral Solitons (D Diakonov & V Yu Petrov)
• Chiral QCD: Baryon Dynamics (U Meibner)
• Hadrons in the 1/N Expansion (A V Manohar)
• QCD Inequalities (S Nussinov)
• Regge Poles in QCD (A B Kaidalov)
• Small x Physics and the Colored Glass Condensate (L McLerran)
• On Gribov's Ideas on Confinement (A Vainshtein)
• QCD in a Finite Volume (P van Baal)
• Compact Variables and Singular Fields in QCD (F Lenz & S Wörken)
• Instanton-Induced Effects in QCD (E V Shuryak)
• Perturbative QCD and the Parton Structure of the Nucleon (W-K Tung)
• Multiloop Evolution of the QCD Coupling Constant and Quark Masses (K G Chetyrkin)
• Multi-Parton Amplitudes in QCD (Z Bern)
• Generalized Parton Distributions (A Radyushkin)
• Analytical QCD and Multiparticle Production (V A Khoze et al.)
• Space-Time Picture of High Energy Scattering (H G Dosch)
• High-Energy QCD and Wilson Lines (I Balitsky)
• Exclusive Processes in Quantum Chromodynamics and the Light-Cone Fock Representation (S J Brodsky)
• Quark-Hadron Duality (M Shifman)
• QCD Sum Rules, a Modern Perspective (P Colangelo & A Khodjamirian)
• Topics in the Heavy Quark Expansion (N Uraltsev)
• Weak Decays of Heavy Quarks (F De Fazio)
• Renormalons and Power Corrections (M Beneke & V M Bruan)
• Confinement, Magnetic Z_N Symmetry and Low-Energy Effective Theory of Gluodynamics (A Kovner)
• Flux Tubes and Confinement in the Seiberg-Witten Theory: Lessons for QCD (A Yung)
• Millennial Messages for QCD from the Superworld and from the String (M J Strassler)
• The Center Symmetry and Its Spontaneous Breakdown at High Temperatures (K Holland & U-J Wiese)
• 2D Model Field Theories at Finite Temperature and Density (V Schön & M Thies)
• Hot and Dense QCD (A V Smilga)
• The Condensed Matter Physics of QCD (K Rajagopal & F Wilczek)

"... these three volumes contain a wealth of well-prepared and highly valuable information ... The majority of the work provides an encyclopedia of QCD that is useful for students and for research workers."

"The historical articles are interesting and, in places, riveting ... a practitioner in any field-theory discipline, especially — a beginning practitioner, can spend rewarding hours delving into these descriptions. At the Frontier of Particle Physics will remain useful for a long time."

"Despite the difficulties inherent in this approach, there is 'a vital community of experimental and theoretical physicists just doing hardron physics, no matter what the obstacles'. It is to this community that this book will be most useful."