This textbook is a unique and ambitious primer of nuclear physics which introduces recent theoretical and experimental progresses starting from basics in fundamental quantum mechanics. The highlight is to offer an overview of nuclear structure phenomena relevant to recent key findings such as unstable halo nuclei superheavy elements neutron stars nucleosynthesis the standard model lattice quantum chromodynamics LQCD and chiral effective theory. An additional attraction is that general properties of nuclei are comprehensively explained from both the theoretical and experimental viewpoints. book begins with the conceptual and mathematical basics of quantum mechanics and goes into the main point of nuclear physics nuclear structure radioactive ion beam physics and nuclear reactions.