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David A. Cox coauthored a systematic text on toric varieties with John B. Little and Hal Schenck. The subject connects algebraic geometry with the geometry of polyhedra: convex cones and a fan in toric geometry encode affine pieces and their gluings. The book develops this combinatorial description alongside divisors, homogeneous coordinates and line bundles.^[ref]

John B. Little coauthored a text on toric varieties with David A. Cox and Hal Schenck. Its organizing idea is that cones, a fan in toric geometry and lattice data describe substantial parts of the geometry. This provides explicit examples and calculations for algebraic varieties that can otherwise be difficult to visualize or compute with.^[ref]

By David A. Cox, John B. Little and Hal Schenck. American Mathematical Society, 2011. Author book page: dacox.people.amherst.edu/toric.html . Consulted draft: web.ma.utexas.edu/users/ikmartin/pages/additional-pages/toric-page/documents/Toric-Varieties_Cox-Little-Schenck.pdf . Chapters 1–3 give cones, normal toric varieties and orbits; chapters 4–6 treat divisors, homogeneous coordinates and line bundles.