New light on dark stars : red dwarfs, low-mass stars, brown dwarfs

Astronomical Concepts * Basic Observational Properties of Low-Mass Dwarfs * The Structure, Formation and Evolution of Low-Mass Stars and Brown Dwarfs * The Photosphere * Stellar Activity * A Galactic Structure Primer * The Stellar Luminosity Function * The Mass Function * Brown Dwarfs: New Light on Dark Stars * Extrasolar Planets * M-Dwarfs and Galactic Structure * Appendix: The 8-parsec sample * Index * Colour plates section.