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How to Lie with Maps
How to Lie with Maps
Originally published to wide acclaim, this lively, cleverly illustrated essay on the use and abuse of maps teaches us how to evaluate maps critically and promotes a healthy skepticism about these easy-to-manipulate models of reality. Monmonier shows that, despite their immense value, maps lie. In fact, they must.

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Early Civilizations In The Americas (Early Civilizations in the Americas Reference Library)
Early Civilizations In The Americas (Early Civilizations in the Americas Reference Library)
Many American history books begin with the year 1492 and the discovery of the Caribbean Islands by Spanish explorer Christopher Columbus (1451–1506). For the great civilizations of Mesoamerica and South America, though, 1492 proved to be the beginning of the end of their civilization. The products of thousands of years of history—the...
Secrets of the iPod and iTunes Fifth Edition
Secrets of the iPod and iTunes Fifth Edition
You tried to resist it, but the palm-size, cotton candycolored iPod Mini proved too alluring to live without! Knowing that you'll want to learn all of its secretsplus those of its big-sibling iPod and the newly updated iTunes 4.7 as welltrusted Mac teacher Christopher Breen has thoroughly updated his best-selling...
Linux Toys II: 9 Cool New Projects for Home, Office, and Entertainment (ExtremeTech)
Linux Toys II: 9 Cool New Projects for Home, Office, and Entertainment (ExtremeTech)
The Linux toyshop just added a new wing

Tired of playing with your old Linux toys? Wait 'til you see what Chris Negus has cooked up for you now! How about a Web-based Gallery server for sharing digital images over a network? A slick MythTV personal video recorder entertainment center? Automating gadgets and home lighting with X10? Or recycling...

BSD UNIX Toolbox: 1000+ Commands for FreeBSD, OpenBSD and NetBSD
BSD UNIX Toolbox: 1000+ Commands for FreeBSD, OpenBSD and NetBSD
Explore a ton of powerful BSD UNIX commands

This handy, compact guide teaches you to use BSD UNIX systems as the experts do: from the command line. Try out more than 1,000 commands to find and get software, monitor system health and security, and access network resources. Apply the skills you learn from this book to use and...

The E-Learning Handbook: A Comprehensive Guide to Online Learning
The E-Learning Handbook: A Comprehensive Guide to Online Learning
The e-Learning Handbook provides a critical reflection on the current state of e-learning with contributions from the world's foremost e-learning experts and best-selling authors from academe and industry, including Margaret Driscoll, Brent Wilson, Lee Christopher, William Horton, L. Wayne Precht, Harvey Singh, Jim Everidge, Jane Bozarth, Pat...
Pocket Guide to Herbal Medicine
Pocket Guide to Herbal Medicine
The use of medicinal plants to treat everyday complaints and illnesses is becoming ever more popular. This pocket guide is aimed not only at doctors and members of the various healing professions interested in phytotherapy, but also in particular at interested lay people, for whom this book is intended as a...
Competitive Intelligence: Gathering, Analysing And Putting It to Work
Competitive Intelligence: Gathering, Analysing And Putting It to Work

Every business manager needs intelligence to find suppliers, mobilize capital, win customers and fend off rivals. Obtaining this is often an unplanned, instinctive process. The manager who has a conscious, systematic approach to acquiring intelligence will be better placed to recognize and seize opportunities whilst safeguarding the...

Modernism: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions)
Modernism: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions)

Modernism ushered in some of the most exciting innovations in art and literature, from Fauvism, Cubism, and Dada, to the novels of James Joyce and Franz Kafka, to such provocative works as Marcel Duchamp's "Fountain." But Modernism also left many people puzzled in its wake. How can a routine bathroom fixture be considered a work...

Core Security Patterns: Best Practices and Strategies for J2EE(TM), Web Services, and Identity Management
Core Security Patterns: Best Practices and Strategies for J2EE(TM), Web Services, and Identity Management
Core Security Patterns is the hands-on practitioner™s guide to building robust end-to-end security into J2EE™ enterprise applications, Web services, identity management, service provisioning, and personal identification solutions. Written by three leading Java security architects, the patterns-driven approach...
The Catalogue of Shipwrecked Books: Christopher Columbus, His Son, and the Quest to Build the World's Greatest Library
The Catalogue of Shipwrecked Books: Christopher Columbus, His Son, and the Quest to Build the World's Greatest Library
“Like a Renaissance wonder cabinet, full of surprises and opening up into a lost world.” —Stephen Greenblatt

“A captivating adventure…For lovers of history, Wilson-Lee offers a thrill on almost every page…Magnificent.” —The New York Times Book Review...
Have Fun, Get Paid: How to Make a Living with Your Creativity
Have Fun, Get Paid: How to Make a Living with Your Creativity

From performers who bask in the spotlight to those who find inspiration in the midnight glow of a computer monitor, the world has no shortage of creative people. While the day-to-day realities of a ballerina may be quite different from that of a novelist, actor, graphic artist, musician, or software developer, they share many things in...

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