Book announcement

[Walter Tholen <tholen@mathstat.yorku.ca>]

The following book has just appeared with Cambridge University Press:

Maria Cristina Pedicchio, Walter Tholen (editors):

Categorical Foundations
Special Topics in Order, Topology, Algebra, and Sheaf Theory

The Publisher's information blurb is at
http://us.cambridge.org/titles/catalogue.asp?isbn=0521834147

The book grew out of an exchange and cooperation project ("Atlantis")
between two consortia of universities in Canada and Europe. It has eight
independently readable chapters, as follows:

1 Ordered Sets via Adjunction (R. J. Wood)

2 Locales (J. Picado, A. Pultr, A. Tozzi)

3 A Functional Approach to General Topology (M. M. Clementino, E. Giuli,
W. Tholen)

4 Regular, Protomodular, and Abelian Categories (D. Bourn, M. Gran)

5 Aspects of Monads (J. MacDonald, M. Sobral)

6 Algebraic Categories (M.C. Pedicchio, F. Rovatti)

7 Sheaf Theory (C. Centazzo, E. M. Vitale)

8 Beyond Barr Exactness: Effective Descent Morphisms (G. Janelidze, M.
Sobral, W. Tholen)