  The present text is an updated version of an earlier author's book on the
electroweak theory (published originally in 2002, ISBN 80-246-0639-9). It
reflects the ultimate completion of the standard model by the long-awaited
discovery of the Higgs boson (ten years after the first edition) and
incorporates also some minor corrections of the previous text, removing typos,
etc. As regards an immediate motivation to come up with such an update of the
original rather old book, the 10th anniversary of the Higgs boson discovery
seems to be an opportune moment for doing it now. The publication of the
current upgraded text within the e-print arXiv is aimed at its best possible
availability for any interested reader.
