This is the first volume in a series of books on the general theme of
Supersymmetric Mechanics; the series is based on lectures and
discussions held in 2005 and 2006 at the INFN-Laboratori Nazionali di
Frascati. This volume supplies a pedagogical introduction, at the
non-expert level, to the attractor mechanism in space-time
singularities. After a qualitative overview, explicit examples realizing
the attractor mechanism are treated at length.