"...starting from the very beginning, adopting a slow, easy to follow linear development and reaching to a self-contained theory...oriented towards undergraduate students, as a first quick introduction to the topic." --MathSciNet"...devoted to presenting the theory of the subdifferential of lower semicontinuous functions which is a generalization of the subdifferential of convex functions...a good reference for researchers in optimization and applied mathematics." --Zentralblatt MATH, Sep-14