Explicit Birational Geometry of 3-folds (Paperback)

Foreword; 1. One parameter families containing three dimensional toric Gorenstein singularities K. Altmann; 2. Nonrational covers of CPm × CPn J. Kollar; 3. Essentials of the method of maximal singularities A. V. Pukhlikov; 4. Working with weighted complete intersections A. R. Iano-Fletcher; 5. Fano 3-fold hypersurfaces A. Corti, A. V. Pukhlikov and M. Reid; 6. Singularities of linear systems and 3-fold birational geometry A. Corti; 7. Twenty five years of 3-folds - an old person's view M. Reid.