``The authors have done an excellent job accomplishing what they set out to do. The
self-contained treatment of maps encountering hyperplanes in projective space is very
nicely done, including a complete treatment of Nochka (or Nochka-Chen) weights,
.....This monograph provides the first complete detailed treatment
 in book form of the Second Main Theorem for maps
to abelian and semi-abelian varieties, much of this theory,
 of course, being originally due to the authors, often together with Yamanoi.
......Included in their treatment are explicit constructions of hyperbolic hypersurfaces in
projective space and an interesting discussion of the images of Brody curves in tori.
.....''  (by W. Cherry)