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[The articles of this volume will not be indexed individually.] The growing interest in Parisi and Wu's method of Stochastic Quantization has brought about the need to have some of the most important papers in the field available in compact form. This book contains a selection of research papers centred around this subject, and a set of introductory chapters which provide background material and a guide to the reprinted literature. In making this selection, our goal has been to include as broad a spectrum as possible. Stochastic Quantization has found applications in a diverse set of physics problems, and we felt that this fact should be reflected in our choice of reprinted papers. The introductory chapters serve to explain some of the basic concepts behind this quantization method, as well as to present a link between the different areas of field theory/statistical mechanics covered in the reprinted papers.