The classic presentation of a universal method for the resolution of a class of singularities in algebraic geometry.

Avner Ash is Professor in the Department of Mathematics at Boston College, Massachusetts.

Preface to the second edition; Preface to the first edition; 1. Basics on torus embeddings: examples; 2. Polyhedral reduction theory in self-adjoint cones; 3. Compactifications of locally symmetric varieties; 4. Further developments; Supplementary bibliography; Index.