From reviews of the German edition:

"This is an exciting text and a refreshing contribution to an area in which challenges continue to flourish and to captivate the viewer. Even though representation theory and constructions of simple groups have been omitted, the text serves as a springboard for deeper study in many directions. One who completes this text not only gains an appreciation of both the depth and the breadth of the theory of finite groups, but also witnesses the evolutionary development of concepts that form a basis for current investigations." -Mathematical Reviews

Klappentext

From reviews of the German edition: "This is an exciting text and a refreshing contribution to an area in which challenges continue to flourish and to captivate the viewer. Even though representation theory and constructions of simple groups have been omitted, the text serves as a springboard for deeper study in many directions." Mathematical Reviews

Inhalt

Basic Concepts.- Abelian Groups.- Action and Conjugation.- Permutation Groups.- p-Groups and Nilpotent Groups.- Normal and Subnormal Structure.- Transfer and p-Factor Groups.- Groups Acting on Groups.- Quadratic Action.- The Embedding of p-Local Subgroups.- Signalizer Functors.- N-Groups.