"The first book on the explicit birational geometry of complex algebraic threefolds, this detailed text covers all the knowledge of threefolds needed to enter the field of higher dimensional birational geometry. Containing over 100 examples and many recent results, it is suitable for advanced graduate students as well as researchers"--

Masayuki Kawakita is Associate Professor at the Research Institute for Mathematical Sciences, Kyoto University. He has established a classification of threefold divisorial contractions and is a leading expert in algebraic threefolds.

1. The minimal model program; 2. Singularities; 3. Divisorial contractions to points; 4. Divisorial contractions to curves; 5. Flips; 6. The Sarkisov category; 7. Conical fibrations; 8. Del Pezzo fibrations; 9. Fano threefolds; 10. Minimal models; References; Notation; Index.