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This interesting and very useful article surveys the progress made in the past ten years in understanding the topology of linearly ordered spaces (LOTS) and their subspaces, the generalized ordered spaces (GO-spaces). After a short introduction in Chapter 1, Chapter 2 mentions some recent results concerning orderability of topological spaces, mainly based on the existence of some kind of continuous selection. Chapter 3 focuses on perfect ordered spaces. In particular, GO-spaces having a \(\sigma\)-closed-discrete dense subset are discussed. Chapter 4 deals with special base properties in ordered spaces, many of which are somewhat related to quasi-developability. For instance, GO-spaces having a \(\sigma\)-minimal base are dealt with. Chapter 5 investigates the role of diagonal and off-diagonal properties in metrization of GO-spaces. In particular, some recent work concerning GO-spaces having a continuous separating family is mentioned. Chapter 6 discusses Dugundji extension theory in ordered spaces. Chapter 7 briefly mentions Mary Ellen Rudin's recent result that any compact monotonically normal space is the continuous image of a compact LOTS and its consequences for Hahn-Mazurkiewicz theory. Chapter 8 deals with recent work on the structure of the Banach space \({\mathcal C}(K)\) where \(K\) is a compact LOTS. Finally, Chapter 9 summarizes recent investigations on products of ordered spaces. In particular, various results dealing with subspaces of products of finitely many ordinals are treated. For the entire collection see [Zbl 1005.00037].