Updated English translation (from the German edition of 1989) of a text for graduate students. The authors, presuming nothing beyond a command of standard electrodynamics and quantum mechanics, have undertaken to indicate (in what they call "practical" terms) how the weak interactions fit into the scheme of things (with emphasis, inevitably, on the physics of neutrinos): how the theory is set up, the phenomenology to which it relates phenomenology which ranges from the physics of elementary particles and nuclei to that of stars and the cosmos. Valuable. Distributed in the US by the American Institute of Physics. (NW) Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.
