Book excerpt: This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Concurrency Theory, CONCUR 2008, held in Toronto, Canada, August 19-22, 2008. The 33 revised full papers presented together with 2 tool papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 120 submissions. The topics include model checking, process calculi, minimization and equivalence checking, types, semantics, probability, bisimulation and simulation, real time, and formal languages.