Chapter 1 Examples of Isolated Singular Points
1.A Hypersurface singularities
1.B Complete intersections
1.C Quotient singularities
1.D Quasi-conical singularities
1.E Cusp singularities
Chapter 2 The Milnor Fibration
2.A The link of an isolated singularity
2.B Good representatives
2.C Geometric monodromy
2.D* Excellent representatives
Chapter 3 Picard-Lefschetz Formulae
3.A Monodromy of a quadratic singularity (localcase)
3.B Monodromy of a quadratic singularity (globalcase)
Chapter 4 Critical Space and Discriminant Space

Chapter 1  Examples of Isolated Singular Points
  1.A  Hypersurface singularities
  1.B  Complete intersections
  1.C  Quotient singularities
  1.D  Quasi-conical singularities
  1.E  Cusp singularities
Chapter 2  The Milnor Fibration
  2.A  The link of an isolated singularity
  2.B  Good representatives
  2.C  Geometric monodromy
  2.D* Excellent representatives
Chapter 3  Picard-Lefschetz Formulae
  3.A  Monodromy of a quadratic singularity (localcase)
  3.B  Monodromy of a quadratic singularity (globalcase)
Chapter 4  Critical Space and Discriminant Space
  4.A  The critical space
  4.B  The Thom singularity manifolds
  4.C  Development of the discriminant locus
  4.D  The discriminant space
  4.E  Appendix: Fitting ideals
Chapter 5  Relative Monodromy
  5.A  The basic construction
  5.B  The homotopy type of the Milnor fiber
  5.C  The monodromy theorem
Chapter 6  Deformations
  6.A  Relative differentials
  6.B  The Kodaira-Spencer map
  6.C  Versal deformations
  6.D  Some analytic properties of versaldeformations
Chapter 7  Vanishing Lattices, Monodromy Groups andAdjacency
  7.A  The fundamental group of a hypersurfacecomplement
  7.B  The monodromy group
  7.C  Adjacency
  7.D  A partial classification
Chapter 8  The Local Gauβ-Manin Connection
  8.A  De Rham cohomology of good representatives
  8.B  The Gauβ-Manin connection
  8.C  The complete intersection case
Chapter 9  Applications of the Local Gauβ-ManinConnection
  9.A  Milnor number and Tjurina number
  9.B  Singularities with good Cx-action
  9.C  A period mapping
Bibliography
Index of Notations
Subject Index