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Three books will be useful in this course. A third of the material to be covered will be from Brown's book, and the rest mostly from Peskin's and Weinberg's.

Brown, Lowell S. Quantum Field Theory. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1994. ISBN: 9780521469463.
A modern path integral presentation of QFT. Covers QED but not QCD.

Peskin, Michael E., and Daniel V. Schroeder. An Introduction to Quantum Field Theory. Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley, 1995. ISBN: 9780201503975.
A comprehensive and pedagogical treatment of QFT starting from the basics and reaching up to the physics of the standard model.

Weinberg, S. The Quantum Theory of Fields. Vol. 2: Modern Applications. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1996. ISBN: 9780521550024.
A detailed presentation of advanced material.

Collins, J. Renormalization. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1986. ISBN: 9780521311779.
A complete treatise on the methods of renormalization.

Ramond, P. Field Theory: A Modern Primer. 2nd ed. Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley, 1994. ISBN: 9780201546118.
A book dealing efficiently with QFT in the path integral approach.

Ryder, L. Quantum Field Theory. 2nd ed. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1986. ISBN: 9780521338592.
A modern pedagogical introduction to QFT including the Weinberg-Salam model and other selected topics.

Weinberg, S. The Quantum Theory of Fields. Vol. 1: Foundations. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1995. ISBN: 9780521550017.
Develops the foundations of QFT without functional integrals.

Zee, A. Quantum Field Theory in a Nutshell. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2003. ISBN: 9780691010199.
A fun book that deals briefly with many of the key ideas and uses of QFT.

Huang, K. Quantum Field Theory. New York, NY: John Wiley & Sons, 1998. ISBN: 9780471141204.
A quick introduction to quantum field theory emphasizing connections with statistical physics.

———. Quarks, Leptons and Gauge Fields. 2nd ed. Singapore: World Scientific, 1992. ISBN: 9789810206598.
An introduction to the standard model.

Mandl, F., and G. Shaw. Quantum Field Theory. New York, NY: John Wiley & Sons, 1984. ISBN: 9780471105091.
A clear and concise introduction to the basic computations in quantum field theory.

Sakurai, J. J. Advanced Quantum Mechanics. Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley, 1967. ISBN: 9780201067101.
A nice introduction to quantum field theory.