Algebraic Surfaces (Hardcover, 2001)

* Intersection Theory and the Nakai-Moishezon Criterion * The Hodge Index Theorem and the Intersection Matrix of a Fiber * Criteria of Contractability and Rational Singularities * Properties of Rational Singularities * Noether's Formula, Picard Scheme, Albanese Variety, and Plurigenera * Existence of Minimal Models * Morphisms to a Curve, Elliptic and Quasielliptic Fibrations * Canonical Dimension of an Elliptic or Quasielliptic Fibration * The Classification Theorem According to Canonical Dimension * Surfaces with Canonical Dimension Zero (char(k)=/2,3) * Ruled Surfaces. The Noether-Tsen Criterion * Minimal Models of Ruled Surfaces * The Zariski decomposition and applications * Appendix: Further reading