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An Introduction to Families, Deformations and Moduli, by T.E. Venkata Balaji, has a beautiful little appendix that introduces smooth manifolds, complex manifolds, schemes, and complex analytic spaces in a unified way as locally ringed spaces. Although it doesn't say much in general about arbitrary locally ringed spaces, I enjoyed reading it and seeing how the stuff I knew about particular classes of locally ringed spaces fit into the general framework. One thing that particularly struck me, although it's obvious in hindsight, was the remark (A.5.5) that for all the categories of spaces mentioned above, a morphism as defined classically is the same thing as a morphism of locally ringed spaces.

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