Introduction 2 1. A Guide to Duality 3 1.1. Local Duality 3 1.2. Dualizing Complexes and Some Vanishing Theorems 10 1.3. Cohomological Annihilators 17 2. A Few Applications of Local Cohomology 21 2.1. On Ideal Topologies 21 2.2. On Ideal Transforms 25 2.3. Asymptotic Prime Divisors 28 2.4. The Lichtenbaum-Hartshorne Vanishing Theorem 35 2.5. Connectedness results 37 3. Local Cohomology and Syzy...