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Recommendations for getting into sheaves with emphasis on differential geometry and algebraic topology

I want to study the theory of sheaves from a categorical point of view with an emphasis on applications in algebraic topology and differential geometry and I'm looking for a good introductory book to ...
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Finding global sections of a sheaf of sets using (some kind of) sheaf cohomology?

Let $X$ be a compact manifold, say, and $G$ a Lie group, and $H$ a closed Lie subgroup such that $M \cong G/H$ is a homogeneous space. (For my purposes, $X$ and $M$ would be a smooth projective ...
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The conormal sheaf is the sheaf of sections of the conormal bundle for smooth manifolds

$\def\sO{\mathcal{O}} \def\d{\mathrm{d}}$In ringed spaces theory, there is a notion of “conormal sheaf of an immersion” (mainly used in scheme theory), whereas in smooth manifold theory, there is the ...
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