Front Cover; Preface; Contents; Chapter 1: Preliminaries; Chapter 2: Basic General Constructions of Groups and Rings; Chapter 3: Valuation Rings; Chapter 4: Homological Dimensions of Rings and Modules; Chapter 5: Goldie and Krull Dimensions of Rings and Modules; Chapter 6: Rings with Finiteness Conditions; Chapter 7: Modules with Change Property and Change Rings; Chapter 8: Hereditary and Semihereditary Rings. Piecewise Domains; Chapter 9: Serial Nonsingular Rings. Jacobson's Conjecture; References; Back Cover