Introduction
Chapter guide
Acknowledgements
Chapter 1.Geometry and Combinatorics of Polytopes
1.1.Convex polytopes
1.2.Gale duality and Gale diagrams
1.3.Face vectors and Dehn-Sommerville relations
1.4.Characterising the face vectors of polytopes
Polytopes: Additional Topics
1.5.Nestohedra and graph-associahedra
1.6.Flagtopes and truncated cubes
1.7.Differential algebra of combinatorial polytopes
1.8.Families of polytopes and differential equations
Chapter 2.Combinatorial Structures
2.1.Polyhedral fans
2.2.Simplicial complexes
2.3.Barycentric subdivision and flag complexes
2.4.Alexander duality
2.5.Classes of triangulated spheres
2.6.Triangulated manifolds
2.7.Stellar subdivisions and bistellar moves
2.8.Simplicial posets and simplicial cell complexes
2.9.Cubical complexes
Chapter 3.Combinatorial Algebra of Face Rings
3.1.Face rings of simplicial complexes
3.2.Tor-algebras and Betti numbers
3.3.Cohen–Macaulay complexes
3.4.Gorenstein complexes and Dehn-Sommerville relations
Face rings of simplicial posets
3.5.Face Rings: Additional Topics
3.6.Cohen-Macaulay simplicial posets
3.7.Gorenstein simplicial posets
3.8.Generalised Dehn_Sommerville relations
Chapter 4.Moment-Angle Complexes
4.1.Basic definitions
4.2.Polyhedral products
4.3.Homotopical properties
4.4.Cell decomposition
4.5.Cohomology ring
4.6.Bigraded Betti numbers
4.7.Coordinate subspace arrangements
Moment-Angle Complexes: Additional Topics
4.8.Free and almost free torus actions on moment-angle complexes
4.9.Massey products in the cohomology of moment-angle complexes
4.10.Moment-angle complexes from simplicial posets
Chapter 5.Toric Varieties and Manifolds
5.1.Classical construction from rational fans
5.2.Projective toric varieties and polytopes
5.3.Cohomology of toric manifolds
5.4.Algebraic quotient construction