Algebraic Geometry has been at the center of much of mathematics for hundreds of years. It is not an easy field to break into, despite its humble beginnings in the study of circles, ellipses, hyperbolas, and parabolas. This text consists of a series of exercises, plus some background information and explanations, starting with conics and ending with sheaves and cohomology. The first chapter on conics is appropriate for first-year college students (and many high school students). Chapter 2 leads the reader to an understanding of the basics of cubic curves, while Chapter 3 introduces higher degree curves. Both chapters are appropriate for people who have taken multivariable calculus and linear algebra. Chapters 4 and 5 introduce geometric objects of higher dimension than curves. Abstract algebra now plays a critical role, making a first course in abstract algebra necessary from this point on. The last chapter is on sheaves and cohomology, providing a hint of current work in algebraic geometry. This book is published in cooperation with IAS/Park City Mathematics Institute.

From the creative team that brought you EIGHT BILLION GENIES!   HERE AT LAST from CHARLES SOULE (Star Wars) and RYAN BROWNE (GOD HATES ASTRONAUTS): CURSE WORDS: THE HOLE DAMNED THING, is the complete collection of the magical, hilarious, oddly moving story of an evil wizard named Wizord, his talking koala sidekick Margaret, and their journey to be good (or at least slightly less bad) in this dark, unforgiving world of ours.   Collects all 28 issues originally published by Image Comics and the previously unpublished full-length epilogue issue CURSE WORDS: AFTER WORDS. This is the definitive collection of the series that JOE HILL (JOE HILL’S RAIN, Locke & Key) calls a “terrific, terrific comic.�   Collects CURSE WORDS #1-28 and CURSE WORDS: AFTER WORDS Epilogue Special

FINAL VOLUME. The epic fantasy series concludes here, as Wizord, Margaret and the entire gang fight an epic battle that will take our dark heroes from our world to the Hole World and back again. Will Sizzajee be vanquished? Will our little family of evil wizards ever find happiness and stop being so dang evil? LET'S FIND OUT! Collects CURSE WORDS #21-25 and the SPRING HAS SPRUNG SPECIAL.

The world has realized that dark wizards fighting epic battles in the skies above our cities might actually be a bad thing, and Earth's leaders have finally agreed on one thing: they want Wizord and Margaret gone. Meanwhile, the evil Sizzajee is still gunning for them, and Wizord's ex, the lovely Ruby Stitch, is striking out on her own path. Forget it, Jake... it's Explosiontown. The second chapter of the dark, funny fantasy that's captured imaginations across the land, and refuses to let them go. From CHARLES SOULE (Daredevil, Darth Vader) and RYAN BROWNE (God Hates Astronauts). Collects issues 6 through 10, plus the Curse Words Holiday Special.

A wizard has appeared in present-day New York! His name is Wizord, and he's here to save us all from dark magical forces bent on our destruction. He's the best wizard of all time! Or... he's not, and he's lying to everyone, and secretly is the dark magical force, but wants to hang out in our world for a while because it's so much nicer than the hellhole he comes from. Secrets, and spells, and talking koalas - CURSE WORDS is a gonzo dark fantasy from CHARLES SOULE (Daredevil, Letter 44, Star Wars) and RYAN BROWNE (God Hates Astronauts). Collects Issues 1-5.

Like us on Facebook: https: //www.facebook.com/TheHeirOfAsgard Follow us on twitter @HeirofAsgard Thor has faded. Odin has faded. The two most powerful gods in the nine realm are gone, this has thrown Asgard into a short chaos. The royal blood line seems to disappear slowly everyday. As the remaining descendants of the bloodline scatter for an heir, a servant and friend of Thor, Derek Long has other plans. Orion, the first mortal son of Thor walks on Midgard. Other children of the gods also reside on Middle Earth. Under the leadership of Derek Long they will prepare for Ragnarok, the end of the world. The forces they face are far more powerful and ancient than they could possibly realize. Behind the leadership of Orion, the son of Thor, they will with possibly no help at all from the gods prepare for the end of the world. Surely they are doomed... Or are they?

Sam Bonham--bad husband, deadbeat dad, and possible criminal on the run from the law--wanders out of modern-day East Texas into an ersatz Wild West boomtown created for a movie that never happened. And when Sam strikes a blow against the gangsters who've been terrorizing the town, the locals look to him to save them. He's no hero, but he's stumbled upon someone who is: John Wayne. But the John Wayne of this story is not the stalwart lawman of Hollywood films--he's a seventy-two-year-old man who had himself cryogenically frozen. He's weak, bald, frail...and unrecognizable to everyone but Sam.
In The Duke's "defrosted" state, he's not entirely himself. In fact, he believes he's actually Ethan Edwards, the character he played in "The Searchers," one of Wayne's most beloved films. Ethan or Duke or Marion Morrison, at his side Sam learns how to be a man, and a hero--and a pretty good shot As he takes on the Old West gang of thugs, he finds that he might have become a family man at last. But back in the real world, someone has his eye on Sam's wife, and if Sam doesn't get back soon, the results could be devastating.

Today's #1 "New York Times "bestselling thriller writers agree: Ryan Brown's compulsively readable first novel is unbeatable--a darkly humorous, rich and pungent zombie shocker that melds our national obsession with football and the newest wave of fascination with the undead.
For the first time in Killington High School history, the Jackrabbits football team is one win away from the district championship where it will face its most vicious rival, the Elmwood Heights Badgers. On the way to the game, the Jackrabbits's bus plunges into a river, killing every player except for bad-boy quarterback Cole Logan who is certain the crash was no accident--given that Cole himself was severely injured in a brutal attack by three ski-masked men earlier that day. Bent on payback, Cole turns to a mysterious fan skilled in black magic to resurrect his teammates. But unless the undead Jackrabbits defeat their murderous rival on the field, the team is destined for hell. In a desperate race against time, with only his coach's clever daughter, Savannah Hickman, to assist him, Cole must lead his zombie team to victory
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