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ABSTRACT

1.INTRODUCTION

2.THE CENSUS OF LOCAL GROUP DWARFS

2.1.Membership in the Local Group

2.2.What's Missing?

2.3.The Structure of the Local Group

3.OPTICAL PHOTOMETRIC AND STRUCTURAL PROPERTIES OF LOCAL GROUP DWARFS

3.1.Integrated Photometry

3.2.Structural Properties

4.THE ISM OF LOCAL GROUP DWARFS

4.1.HI Content and Distribution

4.2.Dust and Molecular Gas

4.3.HII Regions, SN Remnants and X-Rays

4.4.The ISM `Crisis' in dSph Galaxies

5.CHEMICAL ABUNDANCES IN LOCAL GROUP DWARFS

5.1.The Observational Basis for LG Dwarf Abundances

5.2.The Metallicity-Luminosity Relation and the dIrr/dSph Connection

6.STAR FORMATION HISTORIES OF LOCAL GROUP DWARFS

6.1.Basic Techniques and Ingredients

6.2.Age Indicators in Local Group Dwarfs

6.3.A Compilation of Star-Formation Histories of Local Group Dwarfs

7.INTERNAL KINEMATICS OF LOCAL GROUP DWARFS

7.1.The Observational Basis for Dark Matter

7.2.Constraints on Dark Matter in Local Group Dwarfs

7.3.Alternatives to Dark Matter

8.INTERACTIONS IN THE LOCAL GROUP

9.CONCLUSIONS

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