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The book delves into the advancements in understanding photon-hadron interactions, particularly through high-energy lepton-proton collisions at HERA. It provides a comprehensive summary of partonic interactions of photons and compares these findings with results from photon-nucleon, two-photon, and proton-antiproton experiments, highlighting the evolution of knowledge in this area of particle physics.

Hadron colliders probe physics at new energy frontiers and search for new particles and forces. In addition, hadron colliders now provide also an environment for precision physics. The present volume collects the results from recently completed runs at major colliders as well as new ideas about collider physics and techniques. It will serve as the main source of reference in the field for many years to come. TOC: Opening Revies on Hadron-Collider Physics.- Status of the Accelerators and Detectors.- Standard Model Processes: Parton Luminosities, QCD Evolution.- Standard Model Processes: QCD at High pt.- Standard Model Processes: QCD: Diffractive Processes.- Standard Model Processes: Heavy-Ion Collisions.- Standard Model Processes: Heavy Flavour, CKM and CP-Violation.- Standard Model Processes: W, Z-Bosons, Electroweak Parameters.- Standard Model Processes: Top Quark.- Searches for New Phenomena: Higgs.- Searches for New Phenomena: Alternative Symmetry Breaking Mechanism, SUSY, Extra Dimensions, Anomalous Couplings, Leptoquarks and Compositness. - Tools and Techniques for Physics Analysis: Luminosity Determination in Hadron-Hadron Collisions, Event Generators, New Developments in Analysis Techniques.- Future Colliders.- Summary Talk.

The knowledge of the interactions of photons with hadrons has considerably improved with the study of high-energy lepton-proton collisions at HERA. The results on the partonic interactions of photons are summarized in comparison with photon-nucleon, two-photon, and proton-antiproton experiments.