This paper is an attempt to present and discuss at some length the Singular Manifold Method. This Method is based upon the Painlevé Property systematically used as a tool for obtaining clear cut answers to almost all the questions related with Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations: Lax pairs, Miura, Bäcklund or Darboux Transformations as well asτ-functions, in a unified way. Besides to present the basics of the Method we exemplify this approach by applying it to four equations in (1+1)-dimensions. Two of them are related with the other two through Miura transformations that are also derived by using the Singular Manifold Method.