John B. Garnett is Professor of Mathematics in the Department of Mathematics at University of California, Los Angeles. Donald E. Marshall is Professor of Mathematics in the Department of Mathematics at University of Washington, Seattle.

• 1. Jordan domains; 2. Finitely connected domains; 3. Potential theory; 4. Extremal distance; 5. Applications and reverse inequalities; 6. Simply connected domains, part one; 7. Bloch functions and quasicircles; 8. Simply connected domains, part two; 9. Infinitely connected domains; 10. Rectifiability and quadratic expressions; Appendices.

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