Contents
Forewords．
Editor's foreword to the second edition
Introduction．
Part 0：Preliminarie8
Note on conventions．
0． Basic homotopy notions
1． Surgery below the middle dimension．
1A．Appendix：applications
2． Simple Poincar6 complexes．
Part 1：The main theorem
3． Statement of results
4． An important special case
5．The even．dimensional case
6．The odd—dimensional case
7．The bounded odd—dimensional case．
8．The bounded even．dimensional case
9． Completion of the proof
Parr 2：Patterns of application
10． Manifold structures on Poincare complexes．
11． Applications to submanifolds．
12． Submanifolds：other techniques．
12A．Separating submanifolds．
12B．Two-sided submanifolds
12C．One-sided submanifolds
Part 3：Calculations and applications
13A．Calculations：surgery obstruction groups
13B．Calculations：the surgery obstructions
14． Applications：free actions on spheres
14A，General remarks．
14B．An extension of the Atiyah．Singer G-signature theorem
14C．Free actions of S1．
14D．Fake projective spaces(real)
14E Fake lens spaces
15． Applications：free uniform actions on euclidean space
15A．Fake tori．
15B．Polycyclic groups
16． Applications to 4．manifolds
Part 4：Postscript
17． Further ideas and suggestions：recent work
17A．Function space methods
17B．Topological manifolds．
17C．Poincar6 embeddings
17D．Homotopy and simple homotopy
17E．Further calculations
