• Introduction; Chapter summaries; Part I. Topology at Infinity: 1. End spaces; 2. Limits; 3. Homology at infinity; 4. Cellular homology; 5. Homology of covers; 6. Projective class and torsion; 7. Forward tameness; 8. Reverse tameness; 9. Homotopy at infinity; 10. Projective class at infinity; 11. Infinite torsion; 12. Forward tameness is a homotopy pushout; Part II. Topology Over the Real Line: 13. Infinite cyclic covers; 14. The mapping torus; 15. Geometric ribbons and bands; 16. Approximate fibrations; 17. Geometric wrapping up; 18. Geometric relaxation; 19. Homotopy theoretic twist glueing; 20. Homotopy theoretic wrapping up and relaxation; Part III. The Algebraic Theory: 21. Polynomial extensions; 22. Algebraic bands; 23. Algebraic tameness; 24. Relaxation techniques; 25. Algebraic ribbons; 26. Algebraic twist glueing; 27. Wrapping up in algebraic K- and L-theory; Part IV. Appendices; References; Index.

'The book gathers together the main strands of the theory of ends of manifolds from the last thirty years and presents a unified and coherent treatment of them. It also contains authoritative expositions of certain topics in topology such as mapping tori and telescopes, often omitted from textbooks. It is thus simultaneously a research monograph and a useful reference.' Proceedings of the Edinburgh Mathematical Society