The volume describes significant recent advances mainly in strong interaction physics. The new results concern the hadron spectroscopy and the interquark potential, the large baryonic density and high temperature regimes with a discussion of astrophysical consequences and in relativistic heavy ion collisions, the present knowledge of nucleon spin physics. A promising approach to the description of strong interaction regime, AdS/QCD, is debated. Aspects of heavy quark systems are considered, and the role of present and future experiments is analyzed.