Includes bibliographical references (pages [453]-461) and index
CW complexes and homotopy -- Cellular homology -- Fundamental group and tietze transformations -- Some techniques in homotopy theory -- Elementary geometric topology -- The borel construction and Bass-Serre theory -- Topological finiteness properties and dimension of groups -- Homological finiteness properties of groups -- Finiteness properties of some important groups -- Locally finite CW complexes and proper homotopy -- Locally finite homology -- Cohomology of CW complexes -- Cohomology of groups and ends of covering spaces -- Filtered ends of pairs of groups -- Poincaré duality in manifolds and groups -- The fundamental group at infinity -- Higher homotopy theory of groups -- Three essays