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The original edition of Introduction to Nuclear and Particle Physics was used with great success for single-semester courses on nuclear and particle physics offered by American and Canadian universities at the undergraduate level. It was also translated into German- and used overseas. Being less formal but well-written- this book is a good vehicle for learning the more intuitive rather than formal aspects of the subject. It is therefore of value to scientists with a minimal background in quantum mechanics- but is sufficiently substantive to have been recommended for graduate students interested in the fields covered in the text.In the second edition- the material begins with an exceptionally clear development of Rutherford scattering and- in the four following chapters- discusses sundry phenomenological issues concerning nuclear properties and structure- and general applications of radioactivity and of the nuclear force. This is followed by two chapters dealing with interactions of particles in matter- and how these characteristics are used to detect and identify such particles. A chapter on accelerators rounds out the experimental aspects of the field. The final seven chapters deal with elementary-particle phenomena- both before and after the realization of the Standard Model. This is interspersed with discussion of symmetries in classical physics and in the quantum domain- bringing into full focus the issues concerning CP violation- isotopic spin- and other symmetries. The final three chapters are devoted to the Standard Model and to possibly new physics beyond it- empha...