Prof. Jvrg Flum, Abteilung f]r Mathematische Logik, Albert-Ludwigs-Universitdt Freiburg, Germany, http: //logik.mathematik.uni-freiburg.de/personen/Flum.html Prof. Martin Grohe, Institut f]r Informatik, Humboldt-Universitdt zu Berlin, Germany, http: //www.informatik.hu-berlin.de/~grohe/ The authors are very well qualified to write this book. In addition to their strong backgrounds in complexity, algorithms, etc., they have contributed a number of specific key results in parameterized complexity (e.g., http: //epubs.siam.org/sam-bin/dbq/article/42720). Jvrg Flum has coauthored two other Springe...