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[For the entire collection see Zbl 0759.00008.] This very readable survey presents a variety of aspects of \(n\) dimensional complex potential theory by an author who made major contributions to its development. The introduction defines plurisubharmonic functions (PSH) as well as the upper regularization of the upper envelope of a family of PSH, functions, \(u_ j\), locally bounded from above: \[ u^*(z)=\limsup_{z'\to z} [\limsup_{j\to+\infty}u_ j(z')]. \] It also introduces positive closed currents and the related complex Monge-Ampère operator. Chapter 1 compares convex and complex analysis, especially the similarities between the real and complex Monge-Ampère operators. Chapter 2 deals with small sets for pluripotential theory, in particular pluripolar sets and negligible sets (for which \(u^*>u\)). Chapter 3 treats questions of complete pluripolar sets. Chapter 4 studies the complex Monge-Ampère operator and families of plurisubharmonic functions for which it can be defined. Chapter 5 studies the complex Dirichlet problem as solved by the Perron method, as well as the regularity of the solution. Chapter 6 treats the Green's function in \(\mathbb{C}^ n\), and Chapter 7 studies various capacities in \(\mathbb{C}^ n\) and comparisons between them.