Table of Contents:
 

    1. What Are Active Galactic Nuclei?  And Why Does Anyone Care?
    2. How to Find AGNs
    3. Evolution
    4. Global Energetics and Black Holes
    5. Black Hole Physics
    6. Spherical Accretion
    7. Accretion Disks and the Optical/Ultraviolet Continuum
    8. X-ray and Gamma-ray Emission
    9. Radio Emission and Jets
   10. Emission Lines
   11. Intrinsic Absorption and Outflows
   12. Anisotropic Appearance and Unification of Disparate AGN Varieties
   13. Properties of AGN Host Galaxies
   14. Onset and Fueling
   15. Where We Stand
   Appendix A: Basic General Relativity
   Appendix B: Basic Magnetohydrodynamics
   Appendix C: Shocks and Other Discontinuities
   Appendix D: Luminosity Functions and Other Population Statistics
   Appendix E: The Tensor Virial Theorem
   Appendix F: Kinematics in an Expanding Universe

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