Intro -- CONTENTS -- Murray Gell-Mann -- Commentary Notes -- 1. The Garden of Live Flowers, in Physics and Society: Essays in Honor of Victor Frederick Weisskopf (Springer-Verlag, 1998) pp. 109-121 -- 2. Strangeness, J. de Physique C8 (1982) 395-408 -- 3. Quantum Electrodynamics at Small Distances (with F. E. Low), Phys. Rev. 95 (1954) 1300-1312 -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 2. REPRESENTATIONS OF THE PROPAGATION FUNCTIONS -- 3. EXAMPLE: QUANTUM ELECTRODYNAMICS WITHOUT PHOTON SELF-ENERGY PARTS -- 4. WARD'S METHOD' USED AS A CUTOFF -- 5. ASYMPTOTIC BEHAVIOR OF THE PROPAGATION FUNCTIONS IN QUANTUM ELECTRODYNAMICS -- APPENDIX A. CONSTRUCTION OF PARAMETRIC REPRESENTATIONS FOR THE PROPAGATION FUNCTIONS -- APPENDIX B. SOLUTION OF THE FUNCTIONAL EQUATIONS -- 4. Behavior of Neutral Particles under Charge Conjugation (with A. Pais), Phys. Rev. 97 (1955) 1387-1389 -- 5. Sixth Annual Rochester Conference, 1956: Field Theory on the Mass Shell -- The Nature of the Weak Interaction -- 6. Theory of the Fermi Interaction (with R. P. Feynman) , Phys. Rev. 109 (1958) 193-198 -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- 7. The Eightfold Way: A Theory of Strong Interaction Symmetry, in The Eightfold Way, eds. M Gell-Mann and Y. Ne'eman (W. A. Benjamin, 1964), pp. 11-57 -- II The "Leptons" as a Model for Unitary Symmetry -- III Mathematical Description of the Baryons -- IV Pseudoscalar Mesons -- V Vector Mesons -- VI Weak Interactions -- VII Properties of the New Mesons -- VIII Violations of Unitary Symmetry -- IX Acknowledgments -- REFERENCES -- 8. Symmetries of Baryons and Mesons, Phys. Rev. 125 (1962) 1067-1084 -- I. INTRODUCTION -- II. MESONS AND CURRENTS -- III. EQUAL-TIME COMMUTATION RELATIONS -- IV. SYMMETRICAL SAKATA MODEL AND UNITARY SYMMETRY -- V. VECTOR AND AXIAL VECTOR CURRENTS -- VI. BROKEN SYMMETRY-MESON SUPERMUL TIPLETS -- VII. BROKEN SYMMETRY-BARYON SUPERMULTIPLETS.

VIII. THE "EIGHTFOLD WAY -- IX. REMARKS AND SUGGESTIONS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- APPENDIX -- 9. Prediction of the - Particle, from 1962 Int. Conf. on High Energy Physics, p. 805 -- 10. Elementary Particles of Conventional Field Theory as Regge Poles (with M. L. Goldberger), Phys. Rev. Lett. 9 (1962) 275-277 (with Errata) -- 11. A Schematic Model of Baryons and Mesons, Phys. Lett. 8 (1964) 214-215 -- 12. Current Topics in Particle Physics, in Proceedings of the XIII Int. Conf. on High-Energy Physics (Univ. California Press, 1967) pp. 3-9 -- 13. Behavior of Current Divergences under SU3 x SU3 (with R. J. Oakes and B. Renner), Phys. Rev. 175 (1968) 2195-2199 -- I. INTRODUCTION -- II. TRANSFORMATION PROPERTIES OF CURRENT DIVERGENCES -- III. APPLICATIONS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENT -- 14. Light Cone Current Algebra (with H. Fritzsch) , in Proc. of the Int. Conf. on Duality and Symmetry in Hadron Physics (Weizmann Science Press of Israel, 1971) pp. 317-348 (Sec. 9 and Appendices not included) -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 2. DILATION OPERATOR AND BROKEN SCALE INV ARIA NCE9 -- 3. LIGHT CONE COMMUTATORS AND DEEP INELASTIC ELECTRON SCATTERING -- 4. GENERALIZED LIGHT CONE SCALING AND BROKEN SCALE INV ARIANCE -- 5. BILOCAL OPERATORS -- 6. LIGHT CONE ALGEBRA ABSTRACTED FROM A QUARK PICTURE -- 7. LIGHT CONE ALGEBRA AND DEEP INELASTIC SCArrERING -- 8. CONCLUDING REMARKS -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- REFERENCES -- 15. Light-Cone Current Algebra, ]fo Decay, and e+e- Annihilation (with W. A. Bardeen and H. Fritzsch) , in Scale and Conformal Symmetry in Hadron Physics, ed. R. Gatto (John Wiley & Sons, 1973), pp. 139-151 -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 2. LIGHT·CONE ALGEBRA -- 3. STATISTICS AND ALTERNATIVE SCHEMES -- 4. DERIVATION OF THE 'TT° 2y AMPLITUDE IN THE PCAC APPROXIMATION -- 1. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- REFERENCES -- 16. Quarks, Acta Physica Austriaca, Suppl. IX (1972) 733-761.

17. Current Algebra: Quarks and What Else? (with H. Fritzsch) , in Proc. of the XVI Int. Conf. on High Energy Physics, eds. J. D. Jackson and A. Roberts -- I. Introduction -- II. FICTITIOUS QUARKS AND "GLUONS" AND THEIR STATISTICS -- III. REVIEW OF CURRENT ALGEBRA -- IV. SUMMARY OF LIGHT CONE AND NULL PLANE RESULTS -- V. THE FURTHER EXTENSION OF NULL PLANE ALGEBRA -- VI. ARE THERE ALTERNATIVE MODELS? -- APPENDIX - BILOCAL FORM FACTOR ALGEBRA -- 18. Advantages of the Color Octet Gluon Picture (with H. Fritzsch and H. Leutwyler) , Phys. Lett. 47B (1973) 365-368 -- References -- 19. Complex Spinors and Unified Theories (with P. Ramond and R. Slansky) , in Super gravity, eds. P. van Nieuwenhuizen and D. Z. Freedman (North-Holland, 1979), pp. 315-321 -- 20. Particle Theory: From S-Matrix to Quarks, in Symmetries in Physics (1600-1980), eds. M. G. Doncel, A. Hermann, L. Michel and A. Pais (Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona), pp. 474-497 -- 1. The renormalization group and the possible failure of old-fashioned field theory -- 2. Dispersion relations and the «S-matrix» program -- 3. Hadron approximate symmetries and Yang-Mills theories for the electro-weak and strong interactions -- 4. Quarks -- 21. Remarks Given at the Celebration of Victor Weisskopf's 80th Birthday -- 22. Quantum Mechanics in the Light of Quantum Cosmology (with J. B. Hartle), in Proc. 3rd Int. Symp. Foundations of Quantum Mechanics, pp. 321-343 -- 1. Quantum Cosmology -- 2. Probability -- 3. Historical Remarks -- 4. Decoherent Sets of Histories -- 5. The Origins of Decoherence -- 6. Quasiclassical Domains -- 7. Maximal Sets of Decohering Histories -- 8. Classicity -- 9. Quasiclassical Operators -- 10. Branch Dependence -- 11. Measurement Situations -- 12. Complex Adaptive Systems -- 13. Conclusions -- Acknowledgements -- References.

23. Dick Feynman - The Guy in the Office Down the Hall, Phys. Today (February 1989) 50-54 -- Summing over histories -- Shedding light on quantum mechanics -- Seeking rules for quantum gravity -- Quantum cosmology -- Turning things around -- References -- 24. Time Symmetry and Asymmetry in Quantum Mechanics and Quantum Cosmology (with J. B. Hartle), in Physical Origins of Time Asymmetry, eds. J. J. Halliwell, J. Perez-Mercader and W. H. Zurek (Cambridge Univ. Press, 1994), pp. 311-337 (without the Append -- 22.1 Introduction -- 22.2 The Arrow of Time in Quantum Mechanics -- 22.3 A Time-Neutral Formulation of Quantum Mechanics for Cosmology -- 22.4 Classical Two-Time Boundary Problems -- 22.4.1 A Simple Statistical Model -- 22.4.2 Classical Dynamical Systems with Two- Time Statistical Boundary Conditions -- 22.4.3 Electromagnetic Radiation -- 22.5 Hypothetical Quantum Cosmologies with Time Symmetries -- 22.5.1 CPT-and T -Symmetric Boundary Conditions -- 22.5.2 T Violation ill the Weak Interactions -- 22.6 The Limitations of Decoherence and Classicality -- 22.6.1 Decoherence -- 22.6.2 Impossibility of a Universe with Pt = Pi. -- 22.6.3 Classicality -- 22.7 Conclusions -- Acknowledgments -- References -- 25. Progress in Elementary Particle Theory, 1950-1964, in Pions to Quarks, pp. 694-711 -- 26. Nature Conformable to Herself, Complexity (1996) 9-12 -- 27. Quarks, Color, and QCD, in The Rise of the Standard Model, eds. L. Hoddeson, L. Brown, M. Riordan and M. Dresden (Cambridge Univ. Press, 1997), pp. 625-633 -- 28. Effective Complexity (with S. Lloyd), in Nonextensive Entropy - Interdisciplinary Applications, eds. M. Gell-Mann and C. Tsallis (Oxford Univ. Press, 2004) 387-398 -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- REFERENCES.

29. Asymptotically Scale-Invariant Occupancy of Phase Space Makes the Entropy Sq Extensive (with C. Tsallis and Y. Sato) , PNAS 102 (2005) 15377- 15382 -- 30. Quasiclassical Coarse Graining and Thermodynamic Entropy (with J. B. Hartle), Phys. Rev. A 76 (2007) 022104-1- 022104-16 -- I. INTRODUCTION -- II. THE QUANTUM MECHANICS OF A CLOSED SYSTEM -- III. INESCAPABLE COARSE GRAINING -- IV. COMMENTS ON REALMS -- V. THE QUASICLASSICAL REALM(S) -- A. Quasiclassical variables -- B. Classical equations for expected values -- C. Quasiclassical histories -- VI. INFORMATION AND ENTROPY -- VII. THE SECOND LAW OF THERMODYNAMICS -- VIII. CONCLUSIONS AND COMMENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- APPENDIX A: TRIVIAL DECOHERENCE OF PERFECTLY FINE-GRAINED SETS OF HISTORIES -- 31. Progress in Elementary Particle Theory, 1946- 1973.

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