Contents -- Preface -- Chapter 1 INGREDIENTS OF THE STANDARD MODEL -- 1.1 Strong Interaction - QCD -- 1.2 Electroweak Theory -- 1.3 CKM Mass Matrix -- Chapter 2 SYMMETRIES AND WAVE FUNCTIONS -- 2.1 Why is Symmetry Important? -- 2.2 Symmetry Current -- 2.3 SU(2) -- 2.4 SU(3) -- 2.5 Multi-Particle States -- 2.6 Product-States -- 2.7 Quark Model Wave Functions -- Chapter 3 CHIRAL SYMMETRY -- 3.1 Lorentz Group and Chiral Fermions -- 3.2 Chiral Group -- 3.3 Spontaneous Breaking of Chiral Symmetry -- Chapter 4 THE SIGMA MODEL -- 4.1 Linear Sigma Model -- 4.2 Non-Linear Sigma Model -- 4.3 Fermion Field -- Chapter 5 CHIRAL BAG MODEL -- 5.1 The MIT Bag Model -- 5.2 The Little Bag Model -- 5.3 The Skyrme Model -- 5.4 The Chiral Bag Model -- 5.5 Chiral Casimir Effects -- 5.6 The Hedgehog Solution -- Chapter 6 NUCLEON PROPERTIES -- 6.1 Semiclassical Method -- 6.2 Isospin Rotation of the Hedgehog Solution -- 6.3 Axial Properties -- 6.4 Non-rigid Quantization of the Skyrmion -- 6.5 Electromagnetic Properties -- 6.6 Chiral Bag with Vector Mesons -- Chapter 7 LARGE-Nc BARYONS -- 7.1 Introduction -- 7.2 General Counting Rules -- 7.3 Counting Rules for Solitons -- 7.4 Large-Nc Algebra for Baryons -- 7.5 Finite Nc -- 7.6 Other Representations and gA -- 7.7 Meson-Baryon System -- Chapter 8 EXCITED BARYONS -- 8.1 Systematics in Baryon Masses -- 8.2 Quarks in a Deformed Oscillator Potential -- 8.3 Electromagnetic Transitions -- Appendix -- A Harmonic Oscillator Wave Function -- B Quantization of Collective Motion -- C Quantization of Hedgehog Rotation -- D Moment of Inertia -- E Quark Contributions to gA and g(0)A of Order Ω1 -- F Magnetic Moment -- G Equations of Motions for Vector Mesons -- H Computation in the Spherical Basis.