1 The Basics.- 2 Blocks and Their Characters.- 3 Modules.- 4 The Local-Global Principle.- 5 Blocks with Cyclic Defect Groups.- 6 Blocks with Non-Cyclic Defect Groups.- 7 Clifford Theory.- 8 Representation of Symmetric Groups.- 9 Representations of Groups of Lie Type.- References.- Index.

David A. Craven is a Royal Society Research Fellow and Senior Birmingham Fellow at the University of Birmingham. He has worked on a variety of areas within representations of groups, from the local-global conjectures to representations of symmetric groups, and groups of Lie type.