This book gives a coherent account of the theory of Banach spaces and Banach lattices using
the spaces C_0(K) of continuous functions on a locally compact space K as the main example. The
study of C_0(K) has been an important area of functional analysis for many years. It gives
several new constructions some involving Boolean rings of this space as well as many results
on the Stonean space of Boolean rings. The book also discusses when Banach spaces of continuous
functions are dual spaces and when they are bidual spaces.
