The James space J and the James tree space JT were constructed as counterexamples to several outstanding conjectures in Banach space theory. This book is a compendium of most of the known results about these spaces, frequently taken from the original sources, but presented in a unified and up to date fashion. Generalisations of J and JT are also discussed and other pathological Banach spaces are introduced. Specialists will welcome this book for its drawing together of classical material and recent results. Graduate students should also find that this book offers an excellent introduction to more advanced topics in Banach space theory.

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We will use García-Falset and Lloréns Fuster's paper on the AMC-property to prove that a Banach space X that 1 δ embeds in a subspace X δ of a Banach space Y with a 1-unconditional basis has the property AMC and thus the weak fixed point property. We will apply this to some results by Cowell and Kalton to prove that every reflexive real Banach space with the property WORTH and its dual have the FPP and that a real Banach space X such that B X * is w * sequentially compact and X * has WORTH * has the wFPP.