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Table of Contents

I Families of Elementary Excitations.- 1. Crystals and Phonons.- 2. Polarization Waves and Dielectric Dispersion.- 3. Fermi Liquids.- 4. Phase Transitions and Elementary Excitations.- II Interaction Between Elementary Excitations.- 5. Linear Interactions and Coupled Modes.- 6. Renormalization and Damping — Centering Around Electron-Phonon Interaction.- 7. Interaction Between Elementary Excitations and Spectral Line Shapes.