A comprehensive survey of the most recent results from the field of quark-gluon structure of the nucleon, in particular how the spin of the nucleon is shared by its constituents. After very intriguing results from CERN and SLAC at the end of the 1980s, the last decade has seen a set of second-generation experiments at high energy accelerators that have yielded precise information on the solution of the 'Spin Crisis' - as well as opening up new questions. The articles are written by experts from the leading collaboration and theory groups as well as providing an expert summary of the state of the art, the book points the way to future research directions. Its main focus is on semi-inclusive and exclusive measurements of deep inelastic lepton scattering, which enables for the first time the determination of the flavor-separated quark spin distributions. Future developments on generalized parton distributions and their interpretation as well as the transverse spin structure are also covered. An indispensable volume for all working in hadronic physics.

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Spin Structure of the Nucleon at SLAC; P.E. Bosted. Flavor Structure of the Nucleon as Revealed at HERMES; H.E. Jackson. Generalized Parton Distributions: What do they Really Mean? A. Freund. Physics Objectives for Future Studies of the Spin Structure of the Nucleon; W.D. Nowak. Quark Distributions in Polarized rho Meson and its Comparison with those in Pion; A. Oganesian. Nucleon Electromagnetic Form Factors; J. Kelly. Hadron Production and Lamda Polarization in DIS; A. Kotzinian. Electroproduction of Real Photons via DCVS at HERMES; M. Amarian. Spin and Azimuthal Asymmetries in DIS; H. Avakian. Nuclear Attenuation in SIDIS; N. Bianchi. HERMES Results on the Generalized GDH Integrals; N Akopov. Single Spin Asymmetry in Heavy Quark Photoproduction (and Decay) as a Test of PQCD; N. Ivanov. TESLA Polarimeters; V. Gharibyan. HERA Transverse Polarimeter Absolute Scale and Error by Rise-Time Calibration; V. Gharibyan. The Transverse Polarized Target of the HERMES Experiment; D. Reggiani. Exclusive Meson Production at HERMES; D. Ryckbosch. Transverse Polarization of Lambda Hyperons Produced Inclusively in eN Scattering at HERMES; O. Grebenyuk. The COMPASS Experiment at CERN; G.K. Mallot. Charm Production at HERA Using the ZEUS Detector; G. Aghuzumtsyan. Spin Physics of Vector Meson Production at HERMES; A. Borissov. A Future Electron Ion Collider; A. Bruell. Polarization Observables in the N --> Delta(1232) Transition; S. Frullani. Coherent rho0 Meson Production at HERMES; A. Airapetian. Ultraperipheral Photoproduction of Vector Mesons in the Nuclear Coulomb Field and the Size of Neutral Vector Mesons; S. Gevorkyan. Crossing Symmetry Violation in the Process of Lepton Pair Production in Relativistic Ion Collisions Compared with the Crossing Process; E. Kuraev. List of Participants. List of Contributors.