I An Introduction to Point Processes -- 1 Strong Approximation -- 2 Poisson and Cox Processes -- 3 Densities and Distances -- II Point Processes in Action -- 4 Nonparametric Curve Estimation -- 5 Sampling from Finite Populations -- 6 Extreme Value Models -- 7 Image Restoration, Spatial Statistics -- III An Outlook on Further Important Approaches -- 8 Weak Approximation -- 9 Counting Processes and Martingales -- Author Index