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Part I. Basics: 1. A brief introduction 2. Special relativity and extra dimensions 3. Electromagnetism and gravitation in various dimensions 4. Nonrelativistic strings 5. The relativistic point particle 6. Relativistic strings 7. Strong parameterization and classical motion 8. World-sheet currents 9. Light-cone relativistic strings 10. Light-cone fields and particles 11. The relativistic quantum point particle 12. 12, Relativistic quantum closed strings 13. Relativistic quantum closed strings 14. A look at relativistic superstrings Part II. Developments: 15. D-branes and gauge fields 16. String charge and electric charge 17. T-duality of closed strings 18. T-duality of open strings 19. Electromagnetism fields in D-branes 20. Nonlinear and Born-Infeld electrodynamics 21. Strong theory and particle physics 22. String thermodynamics and black holes 23. Strong interactions and AdS/CFT 24. Covariant string quantization 25. String interactions and Riemann surfaces 26. Loop amplitudes in string theory References Index.