The Arithmetic and Geometry of Algebraic Cycles

From the June 1998 Summer School come 20 contributions that explore algebraic cycles (a subfield of algebraic geometry) from a variety of perspectives. The papers have been organized into sections on cohomological methods, Chow groups and motives, and arithmetic methods. Some specific topics include logarithmic Hodge structures and classifying spaces; Bloch's conjecture and the K -theory of projective surfaces; and torsion zero-cycles and the Abel-Jacobi map over the real numbers. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)