Provides graduate students and researchers with an invaluable introduction to and reference on the new subject of extragalactic stellar astrophysics.
1. Fundamentals of stellar evolution theory: understanding the HRD C. Chiosi; 2. Quantitative spectroscopy of the brightest blue supergiant stars in galaxies R. P. Kudritzki; 3. Observations of the most luminous stars in local group galaxies P. Massey; 4. Calibration of the extragalactic distance scale B. F. Madore and W. L. Freedman; 5. Dwarf galaxies G. S. Da Costa; 6. Luminous galaxies M. Mateo; 7. Chemical evolution of the ISM in nearby galaxies E. D. Skillman; 8. Populations of massive stars and the interstellar medium C. Leitherer.