Introduction to space weather / Daniel N. Baker -- The sun and its restless magnetic field / Manfred Schèussler -- The application of radio diagnostics to the study of the solar drivers of space weather / Alexander Warmuth, Gottfried Mann -- Interplanetary disturbances / Robert F. Wimmer-Schweingruber -- The magnetosphere / Antonius Otto -- Space weather effects in the upper atmosphere : low and middle latitudes / Gerd W. Prèolss -- Space weather effects in the upper atmosphere : high latitudes / Kristian Schlegel -- Space weather effects on technology / Eino Valtonen -- Radiation risks from space / Juergen Kiefer.