OS X Mountain Lion

OS X Mountain Lion: The Missing Manual

What do you get when you cross a Mac with an iPad? OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion. Its 200 new features include iPaddish goodies like dictation, Notification Center, and Reminders—but not a single page of instructions. Fortunately, David Pogue is back, with the expertise and humor that have made this the #1 bestselling Mac book for over 10 years straight.

• Big-ticket changes. Twitter and Facebook intgration. Air-Play TV mirroring. Power Nap. Game Center. Documents in the Cloud. iMessages. Gatekeeper. If Apple wrote it, this book covers it.
• Mountain Lion Watch. This book demystifies the hundreds of smaller enhancements, too, in all 50 programs that come with the Mac: Safari, Mail, Messages, Preview…
• Shortcuts. This must be the tippiest, trickiest Mac book ever written. Undocumented surprises await on every page.
• Power users. Security, accounts, networking, build-your own Services, file sharing with Windows—this one witty, expert guide makes it all crystal clear.

There's something new on practically every page of this new edition, and David Pogue brings his celebrated wit and expertise to every one of them. Apple's brought a new cat to town, and Mac OS X Mountain Lion: The Missing Manual is the best way to tame it.

Master of the Mountain

Master of the Mountain: Thomas Jefferson and His Slaves

Is there anything new to say about Thomas Jefferson and slavery? The answer is a resounding yes. Master of the Mountain, Henry Wiencek’s eloquent, persuasive book—based on new information coming from archaeological work at Monticello and on hitherto overlooked or disregarded evidence in Jefferson’s papers—opens up a huge, poorly understood dimension of Jefferson’s world. We must, Wiencek suggests, follow the money.

So far, historians have offered only easy irony or paradox to explain this extraordinary Founding Father who was an emancipationist in his youth and then recoiled from his own inspiring rhetoric and equivocated about slavery; who enjoyed his renown as a revolutionary leader yet kept some of his own children as slaves. But Wiencek’s Jefferson is a man of business and public affairs who makes a success of his debt-ridden plantation thanks to what he calls the “silent profits” gained from his slaves—and thanks to a skewed moral universe that he and thousands of others readily inhabited. We see Jefferson taking out a slave-equity line of credit with a Dutch bank to finance the building of Monticello and deftly creating smoke screens when visitors are dismayed by his apparent endorsement of a system they thought he’d vowed to overturn. It is not a pretty story. Slave boys are whipped to make them work in the nail factory at Monticello that pays Jefferson’s grocery bills. Parents are divided from children—in his ledgers they are recast as money—while he composes theories that obscure the dynamics of what some of his friends call “a vile commerce.”

Many people of Jefferson’s time saw a catastrophe coming and tried to stop it, but not Jefferson. The pursuit of happiness had been badly distorted, and an oligarchy was getting very rich. Is this the quintessential American story?

The OS X Mountain Lion Pocket Guide

Edition: 1
Release: 2012-08-05
Publisher: Peachpit Press
Binding: Paperback
ISBN/ASIN: 0321857135



The OS X Mountain Lion Pocket Guide (Peachpit Pocket Guide)

This low-priced, handy guide is packed with practical guidance for people who want to jump in and start using the OS X Mountain Lion. Free download The OS X Mountain Lion Pocket Guide books collection in PDF, EPUB, FB2, MOBI, and TXT formats. Written by Jeff Carlson, this essential companion features snappy writing, eye-catching graphics, and a clean design to help readers get the most out of OS X Mountain Lion. Jeff guides readers through Apple's OS X Mountain Lion, showing you how to:
Download, set up, and starting using Mountain Lion. Manage files with iCloud. Swipe, pinch, and scroll: Master Mountain Lion's Mult-Touch gestures. Best deals ebooks download The OS X Mountain Lion Pocket Guide on amazon. Install applications from the Mac App Store, and stay safe with Gatekeeper. Stay in touch: Enjoy video calls with family and friends with FaceTime and chat them up with Messages. Don't miss another email, calendar alert, or friend request with Notification Center. Show off your gaming skills through Game Center. In addition, Jeff offers plenty of tips and tricks for getting the most from Mountain Lion.
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