The Evolution of The Milky Way [Paperback]

The Chemical Evolution of the Milky Way: Some Important Facts.- S/??/Fe Abundance Ratios in Galactic Metal Poor Stars.- S/?/Abundance Ratios in Halo Field Stars: is there a Globular Cluster Connection?.- Early Galactic Evolution of Carbon, Nitrogen and Oxygen.- The Origin and Kinematical Evolution of SMR Stars.- Abundances in Supernovae.- Obser-vations of Candidate SMR Stars.- Planetary Nebulae: Abundances and Abundance Gradients.- Planetary Nebulae as Probes of Stellar Evolution and Populations.- Clump Stars in the Solar Neighbourhood.- Mixing Along the Red Giant Branch in Metal-Poor Field Stars.- The Metal Abundance of Galactic Cepheids as Derived from their Pulsational Properties.- Wolf-Rayet Stars, Binaries, Black Holes.- The Evolution of Binaries.- The Origin of X-Ray Pulsars in Binary Systems.- Metal Abundances in Globular Clusters.- On the Globular Cluster IMF below 1M?.- The Effect of CNO and Enhanced a-Elements on Globular Cluster Stars.- HST-UV Observations of Stellar Clusters: Looking for BSS.- HST-WFPC2 Photometry of the Globular Cluster NGC288 Binary Systems, Blue Stragglers and Very Blue Stars.- Infrared Observations of Stellar Clusters.- Can Mira Variables Tell us the Chemical Abundances in Stellar Systems?.- Abundances in Open Star Clusters: What we have to work with.- Galactic Globular Clusters Relative Ages:Clues on the Milky Way Early Evolution.- Infrared Observations of Globular Clusters.- Absolute Magnitude of RR Lyrae in Globular Clusters from Pulsational Properties.- Galactic Globular Clusters as Calibrators of Synthetic Line Indices.- Old Open Clusters as Tracers of Galactic Evolution.- Abundances of Globular Clusters in the Galactic Bulge.- The Globular Clusters and Field Stars in the Galactic Bulge.- The Initial Mass Function of theGalactic Bulge down to  0.15M?.- Radial Variables as Tracers of Stellar Populations.- Abundance Gradients along the Galactic Disk.- The Age of the Galactic Disk.- Compact High Velocity Clouds at High ResolutionslSf