Part 1 Femtosecond Chemistry: From Flash Photolysis to Femtochemistry: Flash Photolysis into the Femtosecond - A Race against Time, G. Porter; Femtochemistry: Concepts and Applications, A. H. Zewail. Part 2 Simple Systems: Molecules: Femtosecond Broadband Absorption Spectroscopy of Fragments Formed in the Photodissociation of Gas-Phase Molecules, J. H. Glownia, R. E. Walkup, D. R. Gnass, M. Kaschke, J. A. Miewich, P. P. Sorokin; Time-Resolved Threshold Ionisation Spectroscopy J. L. Knee; Molecular Structures from Ultrafast Coherence Spectroscopy P M. Felker, A. H. Zewail; Molecules In Intense Laser Fields: Fundamentals, A. D. Bandrauk; Wave-Packet Model of Dynamic Dispersed and Integrated Pump-Probe Signals in Femtosecond Transition-State Spectroscopy, S. Y. Lee; Molecular Dynamics in Excited Electronic States - Time-Dependent Wave-Packet Studies, R.. Schinke, J. Huber; Theory of Emission from Dissociating States, M. Shapiro; Obtaining Short-Time Dynamics from Long-Time Measurements in Photodissociative Processes, B. R. Johnson, J. L. Kinsey; Pump-Probe Ionisation Spectroscopy of a Diatomic Molecule: the Sodium Molecule as a Prototype Example, Ch. Meier, V. Engel. Part 3 From Simple to Complex Systems - Clusters: Time-Resolved Studies of the van der Waals Bonds in Mercury-Rare Gas Complexes and Observation of Rotational Resonances in Mercury-Nitrogen, L. Krim, P. Qiu, N. Halberstadt, B. Soep, J. P. Visticot; Multiphoton Ionisation of Hydrogen-Bonded Clusters Using Ultrafast Laser Techniques: Ammonia Clusters as a Model, S. Wei, J. Purnell, S. A. Buzza, E. M. Snyder, A. W. Castleman Jr; Chemical Dynamics in Clusters, J. A. Syage; Dynamics of Photoinduced Reactions in van der Waals and in Hydrogen-Bonded Clusters, R.. B. Gerber, A. B. McCoy, A. Garcia-Vela; The Short-time Dynamics of a Small Quantum System Embedded in a Medium: the Absorption Lineshape, N. P. Blake, H. Metiu. Part 4 Complex Systems - Liquids, Solids, Surfaces, and Photosynthetic Reaction Centres: Femtosecond Intramolecular Proton Transfer In the Condensed Phase, T. Elsaesser; Laser-Induced Phase Transitions in GaAs, Y. Siegal, E. N. Glezer, E. Mazur; Hot-Electron Femtochemistry at Surfaces J. W. Gadzuk; Femtosecond Processes in Photosynthesis, G. Porter; Ultrafast Electron Transfer and Spectroscopy of Photosynthetic Reaction Centres, S. H. Lin, M. Hayashi, R. G. Alden, S. Suzuki, X. Z. Gu, Y. Y. Lin. Part 5 New Directions in Femtosecond Chemistry: Wave-Packet Control, and Outlook: Laser Control of State-Selective Ultrafast Excitation of Molecular Vibrations, G. K. Paramonov; A Nonperturbative Mechanism for Fast, Selective Excitation of Molecular States, M. Holthaus; Molecules in Intense Laser Fields: Applications, A. D. Bandrauk, E. Aubunel, S. Chelkowski; Light-Packet Control of Wave-Packet Dynamics, J. L. Krause, R. M. Whitnell, K. R. Wilson, Y. Yan; Molecular Femtosecond Quantum Dynamics on Timescales Between less than Yoktoseconds and more than Days: Experiment and