Readership: Graduate students and researchers in high energy physics, particularly those interested in dynamical symmetry breaking and effective field theories.

This book introduces a large number of topics in lattice gauge theories, including analytical as well as numerical methods. It provides young physicists with th

This advanced, accessible textbook on effective field theories uses worked examples to bring this important topic to a wider audience.

Contents:Classical Structures in the Electroweak Theory (J Baacke)The Anomalous Effective Action of QCD (J Bijnens)Nonlocal Effective Field Theory (H Georgi)π�

The book constitutes a compact review of the applications of effective field theory methods in flavour physics, with emphasis on heavy quark physics. Some of th