Lecture Notes for the International Winter School in Nuclear Physics, held at Beijing (Peking), The People's Republic of China, December 22, 1980 - January 9, 1981Microscopic description of the nuclear cluster theory.- Heavy-ion direct reactions.- Heavy ion collisions.- Interacting boson model.- The oscillating behaviour of backbending.- Excitation and decay of the new giant multipole resonances.- Some applications of small accelerators.- Nuclei far from stability.Springer Book Archives