书中详细介绍了当前流行的论题和新的变化，讨论了算法设计技巧，并在研究算法的性能、效率以及对运行时间分析的基础上考查了一些高级数据结构，从历史的角度和近年的进展对数据结构的活跃领域进行了简要的概括。(The book introduces the current popular topics and new changes, discusses the algorithm design skills, and examines some advanced data structures on the basis of studying the performance, efficiency and running time analysis of the algorithm, and briefly summarizes the active field of data structure from the historical point of view and recent progress.)