Panorama: 50 Years of Pride & Paranoia

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Recorded history is a finely-woven magic fabric of intricate lies about events predating the sixteenth century. There is not a single piece of evidence that can be reliably and independently traced back earlier than the eleventh century. This book details events that are substantiated by hard facts and logic, and validated by new astronomical research and statistical analysis of ancient sources.

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Calculations are only as good as your numbers.......2007-08-03

Yes, we can all agree that mainstream history is nearly 100% BS due to politics, economics, ego, problems with dating techniques, and various conspiracies. Agreed. But, I've been researching the distinct possibility that human history (in terms of civilizations) are much more ancient than we've been told, so coming across this book was very interesting to me. I wondered how Fomenko could be wrong (if at all) because he is very persuasive in his presentations. Then it dawned on me. If at previous times in prehistory, due to the various catastrophies that are well documented (comets, asteroids, planetary disruptions, plasma discharge, pole reversals, etc) the Earth was in a different position in relation to the sun, different tilt on its axis, different orbit, different rotation (in terms of velocity and DIRECTION), and the continents were in different positions, then would this not cause the ancients to see the sky (constellations) differently? In other words, is Fomenko making erronious assumptions about the physics of the Earth in pre-history, which then corrupt his data with regards to dating the relevant astrology? The last event to seriously disrupt our planet occured roughly 3500 years ago, according to other good researchers, so is it possible Fomenko has been confused by this? The vastly different physics of our planet in the not so distant past may explain this confusion, which is not to say the "mainstream" version of history is correct; on the contrary. I am not an expert in these fields, but wanted to see if this idea could spark discussion.

Pants on fire?.......2007-07-19

Will people ever read before spamming? Yes, Jesuits could not rewrite world history alone, they had help. Anyway, Dr Prof Acad A.Fomenko does not point to jesuits as the driving force of world wide history manipulation in published volumes 1,2,3;, actually he barely mentions the poor devils. Check it with 'Search inside' feature, please. China is rarely mentioned either, in fact, Dr Fomenko is completely eurocentric. Right, his theory contradicts all mainstream schools of history, because in their actual state they are all built on blatantly erroneus chronology. You don't need a mysterious cabal (conspiracy) to falsify history, the falsification is its modus operandi. It is inherent to history(ians) to falsify (distort) events, as it is inherent to humans to boast as it is inherent to power (authority) to legimize itself by referrring to glorious past made to its own order. Dr Prof Fomenko and team have identified scores of instances of such manipulation in Russian, European, etc.. history, and delivered valid statistical proof thereof. His own 'reconstruction' is completely another story. Forget c14 as a valid method of dating. W.Libby has initially discovered a brilliant method of INDEPENDENT dating. Too bad, c14 method has become a joke after a forced marrige with dendrochronology with consensual chronological scale inbuilt. Radiocarbon method can't stand blind tests, but is so very productive as a rubberstamp.

Accepted History & Chronology Must Be Changed. .......2007-04-09

There is no doubt that history as most know it is a sham, & institution's version of History both University & Church is fradulent & inaccurate. Everything was established with an agenda, The real "Dark Ages" are now when we have access to incredible amounts of information past authorities & more important 'common folk' didn't have but our institutions & educators are slow to evolve because of what has ignorantly & arrogantly been taught for too long. This is on many subjects not just Chronology.

For anyone to question "Why would a Mathematician have anything credible to say of History?" The answer is from Dr. Fomenko's preface in the book: "It would be worthwhile to remind the reader that in the XVI-XVII century Chronology was considered to be a subdivision of Mathematics." These volumes could possibly be some of the most important works to date & should be read by everyone with an interest in History, especially professors & educators who have a duty to the public. I have read both books & must say that 'Chronology 1' has some very eye opening & revolutionary information. Even if these volumes are part true the implications are profound & opens the doors to further investigations & questions which must be done. I speak several different lanquages & must say the logic Dr. Fomenko uses with "inflection" of words & words being read from left to right in one region & right to left in another then written backwards, the removal of vowels & get down to basics of words, or different cities & locations having the same name etc. is correct. Vowel usage has always been optional & varied, actually complicating linquistics & study. The first thing one has to understand is that words never had a fixed spelling in history like we do now, the spelling of words was mutable & regional, as well as names & titles of people were vast, varied & changed, NOTHING WAS FIXED or understood linear. Matters of Life & Death as well as financial profiteering yesterday & today were & are made with ignorant, illogical & conspiratorial views of history & reality, it's time people get closer to the Truth & society collectively grow up.

Very Interesting.......2007-03-07

It is a good proposal and I believe it will mature into something even better in the future. I think it deserves to be read.

History as Science Fiction.......2007-01-10

Anatoly Fomenko has written a very intriguing book, full of pictures, charts, and computer 'proof' of his thesis: backwards of AD900 we don't really know what happened or when. Between AD900 and AD1600 there is more certainty, but there is still a lot of fuzzy ground, and things don't get reliable until we get past the 1600's where the printing press made it very difficult for the perpetrators of this timeline manipulation to change anything that had been committed to print. The Dark Ages did not happen. Books were burned for a reason. One organization has doubled the actual length of its existence by expanding the real chronology. Read why.

I had always wondered why Christ died about AD33 and yet men waited until the 11th century to form the Knights Templar, the Cathars, etc and go after the Holy Land by force. Why the 1000 year gap? Turns out there wasn't more than a 10-12 year gap and he proves it using astronomy. This also implies that the planet is not as old as we have been told, and current Christian and other creationist scientists are already championing that idea without being aware of Fomenko's book. The two groups, creationist scientists and the Russian mathematical analysts corroborate each other. Fascinating.

Of course, all this flies in the face of what we have been told traditionally is the 'proper' chronology of western civilization, and most readers will experience 'cognitive dissonance' in reading this book. It means that our history going backwards from AD1600 becomes progressively more incorrect and unreliable until it cannot be trusted at all... in the space of 700-800 years.

Naturally, the curious, open-minded reader will want to know WHO did this, WHY, and did any of the events we think of as really ancient ever happen?
Dr. Fomenko is a respected scientist/mathematician at Moscow State University who has already answered these questions to the satisfaction of his initially skeptical colleagues. Most of them are now believers, a few still refuse to believe (the usual diehards), and of course the western press has ignored Fomenko's work -- for obvious reasons when you read the book. The ones who perpetrated this chronology ruse have a lot to answer for. They are still with us. That's why this book is a well-kept secret.

I gave the book a 4-star rating because I was unable to check out some of his claims; those I checked were as he said. But if even 1/3 of his claims are true, this punches a big hole in what we think is our history, the meaning of western civilization, our educational process (for repeating the ruse as gospel), and the trustworthiness of the organization that perpetrated this ruse, well-intentioned or not.

This book relates to current research into a Young Earth paradigm, to John Keel's discoveries about our planet, and Fr Malachi Martin's insights (in his now out-of-print books). We are indeed sheep who are manipulated and kept ignorant -- for a reason. While knowing what these men have to say may be the "booby prize" (as in: 'what can you do with this knowledge?'), it will provide interesting reading. Didn't someone say: "...and the Truth will set you free."?? For you to judge if this book contains the truth.

The McGraw-Hill Guide to Electronic Research in Art

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The McGraw-Hill Guide to Electronic Research in Art
Diana Roberts Wienbroer , and William Allen
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The McGraw-Hill Guide to Electronic Research in Art is a brief handbook for students that introduces the process of conducting online research.

From the hardware basics of connecting to the Internet, through the advanced vagaries of search techniques and copyright law, The McGraw-Hill Guide is a valuable primer to the principles and pitfalls of web-based references.

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The Style Engine

Manufacturer: Monacelli
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THE PUBLISHER'S CATALOGUE PRESENTS THE BOOK AS FOLLOWS.......1998-10-21

"Why brilliant fashion designers, a notoriously non-analytic breed, sometimes succeed in anticipating the shape of things to come better than professional predictors, is one of the most obscure questions in history; and, for the historian of culture, one of the most central." Eric Hobsbawm The Style Engine is an unprecedented survey of the culture of fashion and the fashion industry -- from the products and objects themselves (clothes, accessories, etc.) to the immaterial, ephemeral, shifting meaning outside of the products (the interdependence between the fashion world and mass media, the cult of the fashion designer, symbolic story-telling as seen on the runway and in magazines). This sophisticated social and cultural study of fashion is splendidly illustrate with images by the most celebrated photographers and narrated by a multifaceted group of international experts -- cultural anthropologists, journalists, academics, designers --- examining the allure and mystery of fashion from different viewpoints. "Fashion and Entertainment, Image and Media" takes a look at mass media and shows how fashion has influenced pop music, movies, television, photography, and advertising. "Fashion, Identity, and Society" demonstrates how fashion is a social phenomenon and cultural industry comparable to the entertainment, news, and information industries. "Industry/Economics" explains the process itself, from threads to textiles to finished product. "The Methodology of Fashion Design" not only reveals the manufacturing and marketing of the designs (clothing), but also exposes the contexts in which these objects acquire value (fashion). Fashion is one of the truly international languages, speaking to individuals in every country of the world, and this fascinating book will speak to those legions of style-obsessed readers.

METROPOLIS MAGAZINE REVIEWED THIS BOOK.......1998-10-21

The Style Engine argues that fashion isn't running on empty.by Philip NobelDesign can be defined as making something new for a reason. Designers must always differentiate between the new that is new for a reason and the new that is only new; to do otherwise risks making merely artor worse: fashion.All design disciplines court confrontations with vagary, but only onefashionexists so close to its seductions that it has become a synonym for aimless flux. Considering its mandate of seasonal variation and its love of annually renewed shock tactics, it¹s easy to see why so many would lump fashion in with artbad artbefore they would consider it a design discipline, the fashion world¹s unequaled lionization of its designers notwithstanding. The Style Engine, a collection of 25 essays by writers from within and beyond the fashion industry, deploys strong arguments to fight this dismissive view of fashion. It attempts to fill in fashion¹s overlooked back story so that it can be considered as the equal of its more sober design siblings.The book, and an exhibition by the same name that hung in Florence last winter, are the first projects of the Fashion Engineering Unit (FEU), a new, self-consciously intellectual institution that bills itself ³an observatory on the economics of creativity and the intelligence of style.² Funding for the group comes from Pitti Immagine, the commercial concern responsible for organizing the important menswear shows that bring over 25,000 rag traders to Florence twice each year.Historically, writing about fashion has been high and low. The FEU is looking for the middle way. It is telling that in The Style Engine critiques of fashion by Baudrillard, Benjamin, and McCluhan are discussed (with varying degrees of justification) alongside breathless promotions by Vreeland, Mirabella, and Wintour. Between the extremes of academic writing and hemline notes in the popular press, the FEU is trying to promote a culture of criticism around fashion that will bare its economic motivations and effects, its mass media aspirations, and the substructure of craft and industry on which it rests.As a vehicle for this redemptive mission, the book works very well. It¹s divided into four sectionsroughly covering media, image, techniques, and moneywhich plot the terrain on which the FEU plans to develop its ³fashion culture.² Of these four categories, ideas concerning the economics of the fashion industry may be the best developed; lucid arguments spill out of the final chapter (³Fashion, Business, and Industry²) and pepper many of the preceding texts. In his introduction to the first section, ³Fashion, Spectacle and Media,² Giannino Malossi, the editor of the book, curator of the exhibition, and director of the FEU, establishes The Style Engine¹s delightfully frank approach to fashion¹s slow dance with commerce: ³Every fashion originates as an industrial product and, at the same time, as a form of mass communications, and every media phenomenon is the potential prelude to a fashion and that fashion points to a series of products for mass consumption.² Bridging economic discussions and the examination of fashion as a cultural medium, several authors rely on the versatile idea of added value. The concept is introduced in understated terms by Mario Boselli, president of Pitti Immagine³[Fashion] is on the cutting edge in terms of capacity to create added value, not only through the processing of raw materials but also through the development and creation of immaterial contents²and expanded elaborately in John Durrell¹s essay, ³The Value of Style: Dismantling and Assessing The Style Engine.² Durrell, an international management consultant specializing in pricing strategy, finds the value style adds by analyzing the relative financial returns of popular brand names; here, glamour is at last measured in real market terms.The same clear-eyed spirit also pervades the excellent essay by Nadine Frey, ³Mass Media and Runway Presentations,² which opens the book. After a thoroughly enjoyable lampoon of runway theatrics, Frey explains how the evolution of the fashion show from decorous practicality to raucous display was fueled by the increasingly insular nature of the events themselves. In the 1970s, ³fashion designers . . . began conceiving fashion shows that were more about concept than clothes, shouting their message so loud that it could be heard over the heads of the inevitably interpreting buyers and press.² Another irreverent essayperhaps the best in the bookis Valerie Steele¹s ³Why People Hate Fashion.² Steele, chief curator of the museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology and editor of a quarterly called Fashion Theory, addresses The Style Engine¹s most critical question with an elegant formal tour de force, introducing each paragraph with a contentious statement³Fashion is an irrational form of female fetishism² or ³Fashion is capitalism¹s favorite child²and wrapping it all up with a subversive epiphany: ³It is precisely the artificiality and pointlessness of fashion that makes it valuable as an esthetic fantasy.²I¹ll just ape the first part of Steele¹s technique: Fashion expresses itself as a cloying heap of pretentious images. Along these lines, The Style Engine¹s relationship to the fashion world it attempts to revise is troubled. As Frey¹s essayand the editorial decision to place it firstmake clear, one adversary here is the face fashion makes for itself. To achieve the critique it aspires to, the FEU and its authors must help us to see beyond the too well-known culture of airs, ointments, and emaciation that hides the profundity they are trying to tease out. The discussion of fashion in the context of commerce is a way to distance this project from the strong images that we inevitably bring to the book. Unfortunately, any progress made toward new visions is quickly undone. Most of the book is generously illustrated with images of the most contemptible superficialitysoft light, high cheekbones, fashion as you know and hate it. The front of the book even mimics a fashion magazine¹s advertising emporium; one flips through seven full-bleed photo spreads before finding the table of contents. You half expect the book to offer up sample perfume.This might be the intention of the designer; the images might be rhetoricalintended to confront the reader with normative visions of the spectacle of fashionor ironic. But for those at any remove from authentic fashion images, it is too easy to see in the random photography reasons to revert to the impression that fashion is just a trifling soup of desire, art without reason, not really design.

Ball-style hone can be key to remanufacturing arsenal.(production technology): An article from: Tooling & Production

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Ball-style hone can be key to remanufacturing arsenal.(production technology): An article from: Tooling & Production
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This digital document is an article from Tooling & Production, published by Thomson Gale on December 1, 2006. The length of the article is 994 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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The battle of steam (Revolution in Britain)

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The battle of steam (Revolution in Britain)
Showill Styles
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Practical application of the indicator with reference to the adjustment of valve gear on all styles of engines;

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Practical application of the indicator with reference to the adjustment of valve gear on all styles of engines;
Lewis M Ellison
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Happy Birthday.......2001-06-23

The book had 25 theme parties,ranging from "Old McDonald's Farm" to "Bon Appetit". Each had low cost ideas for invitations, activities and refreshments. Many of the activities were a little contrived and a lot were reworkings of familiar games like "Pin the Bow on the Teddy".

The cakes suggested were shapes related to the theme. Most were cute and fairly simple, but a top hat was made from 4 layers of cake. Not very practical for most children's appetites.

This book was a good place to start planning a party. It had good genral party giving tips and the themes will be fun. Readers can add their own ideas to make a party their children will love.

Great ideas for do- it- yourself parties.......2000-04-16

This book is organized according to different party themes that children will like, such as Wizard of Oz, Mother Goose and All Aboard. Within each party, the author gives you multiple creative ideas for creating your own invitations, decorations, activites and games, refreshments, cake decorating and party favors. The author also tells you how to draw the children into the party theme and keep them busy and interested. This book is great for someone who wants to make an old fashioned at-home party for their child. The author's ideas are easy to put to use. I made a Globe Trotting party for my 9 year old son...it was a big hit! This book will serve as a handy reference for many years of birthdays.

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Firefox For Dummies gives you the inside scoop on the exciting new browser from the Web wizard that got it started. The book's author, Blake Ross, began developing Firefox as a teenager. Once available to the world, the simple and powerful tool was an instant hit claiming a sizable share of the Web browser market with over 140 million downloads.
In this book Blake not only gives you the lowdown on how to use Firefox for safe Web searching, but he also shares his insight into how the product came to life. It's a combination of practical tech insight and a good story that is rare in computer books.
Topics covered include downloading and installing Firefox, creating a home page, searching with Google, creating customized themes and toolbars, using tabbed browsing, downloading and saving files, maintaining security and privacy, eliminating annoying popups, and adding Firefox extensions.

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Blake Ross is no 'Dummie'.......2007-04-10

This is definitely a hands-on book. Blake Ross is a co-editor of Fierfox. He has an intimate knowledge of this web browser. Surprisingly, he writes in a clear, easily understood style. He starts out showing basic ideas about Firefox and moves to more advanced subjects such as tabbing, bookmarking in folders, etc. Anything you want to do with Firefox is written in a step-wise manner, so you get the results you want.

Firefox for Dummies.......2006-08-05

I asked to review this book for one reason only: my parents. You see, I visited them this summer and helped them upgrade their graphite iBook SE to OS X 10.2 (it's what they had, forgive me!), as well as setting them up with a copy of Firefox, as Safari wasn't included on their installation disks, and the only version I could find online was for a later OS X version.

Now, my father is a bit on the...obsessive side. He will read a product manual inside and out before he even sits in front of the actual thing he's trying to learn to use. My mother is almost the complete opposite. She wants to be able to get to her favorite websites, and have them work.

This book, FIrefox for Dummies, by Blake Ross, should work for both of them. It's chock full of details, history and hidden wonders of Firefox. It's written in a clean prose style that never confuses, and often elucidates effortlessly. The author admits in the beginning of the book that Firefox was designed from the ground up to be a simple browser, free of the techie-pleasing but ultimately normal-confusing widgets and gewgaws that plague most other modern browsers. HE should know, too, since he was one of the founders of the team that created Firefox.

My father can read this book from cover to cover and know more about Firefox than I could ever remember. My mother can dip in to the book at random to help her troubleshoot or learn something specific, and then close it. Both of my parents will be able to use this book (and the browser itself, actually) to get exactly what they need and want out of the browser now on their computer.

The book starts with an explanation of what a browser is (many people confuse the browser with the Internet itself: just ask your senator), and moves quickly and entertainingly through bookmarks, blocking popup ads, printing web pages, protecting your browser from hackers, applying themes and customizing your browser.

As for me, I found the book entertaining and fun. It's got sidebars full of history about the browser, the name changes, the whys and wherefores of features in it, and lots of little detailed information that is helpful even to a power user. Extensions, toolbar customization, and even a chapter on using Thunderbird as an email client are all covered here. The final two chapters are a 10-best list, one chapter on the 10 secrets to using Firefox, and the other a chapter on the 10 best extensions for your Firefox browser. Stuff you can't leave home without.

The one thing I wish were better are the screenshots and pictures of computer windows. Firefox is identical in Windows and Mac installations, except for the "window dressing." At the top of each window on our computer screen, Mac users see three little 3D dots, and the Windows world sees three different symbols, including the infamous "X" button. I think the publisher could have thrown in a few more Mac window screenshots, so that my mother might better understand what she was looking at, based on her own Mac screen. To be fair, the author uses both Windows and Macintosh keyboard shortcuts, and expressly references Macintosh and Safari a few times as a reference point, so the text of the book isn't misleading in any way.

Bottom line, I'd buy this book for my parents and anyone else who needs a clear "how to" book on Firefox. I'd also buy it for more savvy web users looking to maximize their understanding of the Firefox browser, in addition to those who like to read obscure computer company history tidbits. If you're in any of these camps, you'll think your money was well spent.[...]

Easy to read and understand!.......2006-07-04

I'm not really a "computer person" but I would say I know my way around the Web decently. I was given this book as a gift from my daughter after one too many complaint about pop-ups or viruses, I suppose. After the initial annoyance of being given a book "for dummies" I actually cracked it open and was convinced to try Firefox.

Author Ross does a great job of walking you through using Firefox, A to Z, and even further. I've never read another For Dummies book, but if they are all this comprehensive I will start. Throughout the process of downloading, switching my bookmarks, and then learning the new features, I never felt lost. I only had to call my daughter once for advice, and it was on what "extensions" I should download.

In short, if you've ever felt like you should give up on trying to understand computers and the programs for it, or that viruses were just inevitable, give this book a shot. Ross will probably convince you in just a few short pages that it can be easier than you'd expect.

I didn't expect much, but I was pleasantly surprised!.......2006-07-03

I'll confess... I didn't expect much from this book. Firefox For Dummies by Blake Ross was, in my opinion, going to be a "me too" book about the joys of using Firefox over Internet Explorer. But much to my surprise, this may be one of my favorite Firefox books now...

Contents:
Part 1 - Getting Fired Up: Why You Should Fire Your Old Browser; Finding Your Way Around Firefox; Setting Up Firefox
Part 2 - Ready, Aim, Firefox: Finding Information Online; Bookmarking Great Sites; Returning to Sites You've Visited; Browsing With Tabs; Filling In Forms Quickly; Blocking Popup Ads; E-Mailing with Thunderbird; Downloading and Saving Files; Printing Web Pages; Finding Additional Help
Part 3 - Outfoxing Hackers: Clearing Your Tracks; Staying Safe Online
Part 4 - Dressing Up the Fox: Setting Your Options; Finding Your Dream Theme; Tailoring Your Toolbars; Controlling the Way Web Sites Look; Extending Firefox
Part 5 - The Part of Tens: Ten Secrets to a Foxier Web; The Ten Best Firefox Extensions;
Appendices: Firefox Menu Reference; Firefox Keyboard Reference; Firefox Drag-and-Drop Reference
Index

First off, this isn't a book for the alpha geeks or the people who have already dived deeply into Firefox. It's best suited for someone who uses IE because "it's there", but is open to learning more about alternative browsing options which are more secure and powerful. Even if you've switched to Firefox, there may be a number of features or options that you haven't yet checked out. For instance, I didn't know that you can set your "home page" to actually be multiple home pages that all open in tabs. So instead of just opening My Yahoo when I launch Firefox, I can have My Yahoo, Google Home Page, Google Calendar, and both web email sites all open automatically! That alone was worth my time investment of reading. But it gets better...

The author, Blake Ross, is a co-creator of Firefox, so he knows the subject *really* well. Many of the sidebars go into some of the thoughts behind certain design decisions. They probably aren't to the depth that most geeks would like, but I found it really interesting to see why they took one path over another. For instance, toolbars were a hot topic knowing they had but one shot to get it right. The camps of "show maximum" vs. "show minimum" duked it out, and "show minimum" ended up becoming the choice because they found that's really what people wanted. But you can modify the toolbar to show more if you want, so you're not locked out based on how someone else thinks you should surf the web...

This is definitely a book to give Uncle Joe if you're tired of cleaning up viruses based on the latest vulnerability to hit IE. And while you may not learn as much as he does, reading it yourself is worth the time for the insight and reminders of just how powerful this browser is...

Best Firefox books for end-users.......2006-05-08

I own five books on Firefox: Firefox Hacks, Firefox and Thunderbird Garage, Firefox Secrets, Firefox and Thunderbird (beyond Browsing and Email), and this one: Firefox for Dummies.
Although I like to have more than one book on a particular subject I can confidently say that - for me - this book alone makes the other four superfluous.
It describes all the essential parts in enough detail and in simple language that every non-geek can understand. It also includes a chapter on printing, which is ignored by the other books. Furthermore, the treatment on security, privacy, downloading, customization and extensions is also much easier to follow.
In short, if you only want to have just one book on Firefox, make it this one.

Novell Linux Desktop 9 Workbook - 300+ Pages of Step-by-step, Screen-shot Illustrated Instructions on Functions & Features of Novell Linux Desktop 9, Plus Firefox, Evolution, and Openoffice.org Suite. Handy Linux Reference Guide. (Professional Software Learning)

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Novell Linux Desktop 9 Workbook - 300+ Pages of Step-by-step, Screen-shot Illustrated Instructions on Functions & Features of Novell Linux Desktop 9, Plus Firefox, Evolution, and Openoffice.org Suite. Handy Linux Reference Guide. (Professional Software Learning)

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The Novell Linux Desktop 9 Training Workbook is more than 300 pages of step-by-step, screen-shot illustrated instructions on all the functions and features of Novell Linux Desktop 9, as well as on Firefox, Evolution, and the OpenOffice.org suite. The book includes practice exercises to help you learn the Novell Linux Desktop on your own or teach it in a classroom setting. It also includes an extensive index, so you can use it as a reference guide for all your Novell Linux Desktop questions.

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