Nonperturbative QCD with modern tools

In these lectures the author introduces and explores a range of topics of contemporary interest in hadronic physics: from what drives the formation of a nonzero quark condensate to the effect that mechanism has on light and heavy meson form factors and the properties of the quark-gluon plasma. The trail leads naturally through a discussion of confinement, dynamical chiral symmetry breaking and bound state structure: phenomena that require nonperturbative methods for their explanation. In all of this, the necessary and necessarily momentum-dependent modification of the quark and gluon propagators plays a significant role.