'The book covers a substantial amount of material that had not been considered before. It also contains material available nowhere else in book form.' Tomasz Kubiak, Mathematical Reviews Clippings
Outline of the history of spectral spaces; 1. Spectral spaces and spectral maps; 2. Basic constructions; 3. Stone duality; 4. Subsets of spectral spaces; 5. Properties of spectral maps; 6. Quotient constructions; 7. Scott topology and coarse lower topology; 8. Special classes of spectral spaces; 9. Localic spaces; 10. Colimits in Spec; 11. Relations of Spec with other categories; 12. The Zariski spectrum; 13. The real spectrum; 14. Spectral spaces via model theory; Appendix. The poset zoo; References; Index of categories and functors; Index of examples; Symbol index; Subject index.
