Basic definitions -- Distributions of order statistics -- Sample quantiles and ranges -- Representations for order statistics -- Conditional distributions of order statistics.-Order statistics for discrete distributions -- Moments of order statistics: general relations -- Moments of uniform and exponential order statistics -- Moment relations for order statistics: normal distribution -- Asymptotic behavior of the middle and intermediate order statistics -- Asymptotic behavior of the extreme order statistics -- Some properties of estimators based on order statistics -- Minimum variance linear unbiased estimators -- Minimum variance linear unbiased estimators and predictors based on censored samples -- Estimation of parameters based on fixed number of sample quantiles -- Order statistics from extended samples -- Order statistics and record values -- Characterizations of distributions based on properties of order statistics -- Order statistics and record values based on Fα distributions -- Generalized order statistics -- Compliments and problems.