Table of contents : Front Matter....Pages I-X Preliminaries....Pages 1-4 The Isoperimetric Inequality on S n−1 and Some Consequences....Pages 5-8 Finite Dimensional Normed Spaces, Preliminaries....Pages 9-11 Almost Euclidean Subspaces of A Normed Space....Pages 12-18 Almost Euclidean Subspaces of ℓ {p} n Spaces, of General n -Dimensional Normed Spaces, and of Quotient of n -Dimensional Spaces....Pages 19-26 Levy Families....Pages 27-32 Martingales....Pages 33-41 Embedding ℓ p m into ℓ 1 n ....Pages 42-50 Type and Cotype of Normed Spaces, and Some Simple Relations with Geometrical Properties....Pages 51-59 Additional Applications of Levy Families in the Theory of Finite Dimensional Normed Spaces....Pages 60-68 Ramsey’s Theorem with Some Applications to Normed Spaces....Pages 69-76 Krivine’s Theorem....Pages 77-84 The Maurey-Pisier Theorem....Pages 85-97 The Rademacher Projection....Pages 98-105 Projections on Random Euclidean Subspaces of Finite Dimensional Normed Spaces....Pages 106-113 Back Matter....Pages 114-156