From the reviews: The monograph under review is an introduction to the structure theory and geometry of Lie groups accessible both to a broad range of mathematicians and to graduate students. ... The book consists of twenty one chapters divided into five parts. It starts with an introduction which presents the structure of the book, contains various teaching suggestions and introduces some fundamental notation. (Volodymyr Mazorchuk, Zentralblatt MATH, Vol. 1229, 2012)