  This book provides an introduction to the field of star formation at a level
suitable for graduate students or advanced undergraduates in astronomy or
physics. The structure of the book is as follows. The first two chapters begin
with a discussion of observational techniques, and the basic phenomenology they
reveal. The goal is to familiarize students with the basic techniques that will
be used throughout, and to provide a common vocabulary for the rest of the
book. The next five chapters provide a similar review of the basic physical
processes that are important for star formation. Again, the goal is to provide
a basis for what follows. The remaining chapters discuss star formation over a
variety of scales, starting with the galactic scale and working down to the
scales of individual stars and their disks. The book concludes with a brief
discussion of the clearing of disks and the transition to planet formation. The
book includes five problem sets, complete with solutions.
