Chapters include: Toward the new (isopod) millenium; The terrestrial isopod fauna of the central Near East: Composition and biogeography; A biogeographical analysis of Greek Oniscidean endemism; Biogeography of the Oniscidean fauna of Somalia; Morphology, biogeography, and ecology of the family Armadillidae (Crustacea, Oniscidea); Phylogenetic relationships within the Oniscidea (Crustacea, Isopoda); and the Diversity of terrestrial isopods (Oniscidea) in flooded and nonflooded ecosystems of southern Moravia, Czech Republic;