#### Volume 3, issue 1 (1999)

 1 R Bott, On invariants of manifolds, from: "Modern methods in complex analysis (Princeton, NJ, 1992)", Ann. of Math. Stud. 137, Princeton Univ. Press (1995) 29 MR1369132 2 J P Dax, Étude homotopique des espaces de plongements, Ann. Sci. École Norm. Sup. $(4)$ 5 (1972) 303 MR0321110 3 T G Goodwillie, Calculus. II. Analytic functors, $K$–Theory 5 (1991/92) 295 MR1162445 4 T G Goodwillie, A multiple disjunction lemma for smooth concordance embeddings, Mem. Amer. Math. Soc. 86 (1990) MR1015675 5 T G Goodwillie, Excision estimates for spaces of homotopy equivalences, preprint (1995) 6 T G Goodwillie, Excision estimates for spaces of smooth embeddings, preprint (1998) 7 T G Goodwillie, J Klein, Excision estimates for spaces of Poincaré embeddings, in preparation 8 A Haefliger, Plongements différentiables dans le domaine stable, Comment. Math. Helv. 37 (1962/1963) 155 MR0157391 9 A Haefliger, M W Hirsch, Immersions in the stable range, Ann. of Math. $(2)$ 75 (1962) 231 MR0143224 10 M Kontsevich, Feynman diagrams and low-dimensional topology, from: "First European Congress of Mathematics, Vol. II (Paris, 1992)", Progr. Math. 120, Birkhäuser (1994) 97 MR1341841 11 J Milnor, On the construction FK, from: "Algebraic topology—a student's guide" (editor J F Adams), London Mathematical Society Lecture Note Series 4, Cambridge University Press (1972) MR0445484 12 V A Vassiliev, Cohomology of knot spaces, from: "Theory of singularities and its applications", Adv. Soviet Math. 1, Amer. Math. Soc. (1990) 23 MR1089670 13 V A Vassiliev, Complements of discriminants of smooth maps: topology and applications, Translations of Mathematical Monographs 98, American Mathematical Society (1992) MR1168473 14 M Weiss, Calculus of embeddings, Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. $($N.S.$)$ 33 (1996) 177 MR1362629 15 M Weiss, Embeddings from the point of view of immersion theory I, Geom. Topol. 3 (1999) 67 MR1694812 16 G W Whitehead, Elements of homotopy theory, Graduate Texts in Mathematics 61, Springer (1978) MR516508