These expository accounts treat issues related to volume, geodesics, curvature and mathematical biology, with instructive examples.

Preface; Synopses; 1. Volumes on normed and Finsler spaces J. C. Álverez Paiva and A. C. Thompson; 2. Anisotropic and crystalline mean curvature flow Giovanni Bellettini; 3. Finsler geometry on complex vector bundles Tadashi Aikou; 4. Finsler geometry of holomorphic jet bundles Karen Chandler and Pit-Mann Wong; 5. Ricci and flag curvatures in Finsler geometry David Bao and Colleen Robles; 6. Nonreversible Finsler metrics of positive flag curvature Hans-Bert Rademacher; 7. Landsberg curvature, S-curvature and Riemann curvature Zhongmin Shen; Index.