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These excellent new references will find good homes with computer users seeking solutions to common problems, and practical applications. Matthew MacDonald's Excel: The Missing Manual (0596006-640, $39.95) provides exceptionally clear details, from how to understand spreadsheets and what separates a professional one from an amateur effort, to tips on writing formulas and use functions, and understanding how Excel can interact with other programs. Excel: The Missing Manual covers versions 2002 and 2003, and is simply packed with screen shot examples, tips to tracking down templates and creating effective charts, and advanced functions such as pivot tables and VBA language. Very highly recommended. Tara Calishain and Rael Dornfest's Google Hacks (0586008570, $24.95) tells how to work more effectively with Google's unique search engine, how to pull results from difficult places using advanced Google web functions, and how to understand how Google ranks web sites for searches. Either frequent internet searchers or website builders will find Google Hacks an essential guide. If you want to learn more about computer history, don't miss Andy Hertzfeld's excellent Revolution In The Valley: The Insanely Great Story Of How The Mac Was Made (0596007191, $24.95): the development of Macintosh is followed from its inception as an underground research project in 1979 to its introduction in the 1980s. This isn't just an outsider's view: author Andy Hertzfeld was a core member of the team that built the Mac's systems, one of the few to work with Steve Jobs, and one of the pulses of the system: add color photos and lively, personable writing style and you have a history any Mac enthusiast will relish. Michael D. Bauer's Linux Server Security (0596006705, $44.95) isn't for the casual learner; it's a computer toolbox in a book offering intermediate Linux system users a second edition of a classic, adding numerous new security topics and discussions of encryption and mail delivery processes for Linux system administrators and server hsts alike. You don't have to have a security background to use Linux Server Security: just a working familiarity with the system overall. Preston Gralla's Internet Annoyances (0596007353, $24.95) covers all the possible annoyances of navigating the web; from spam and spyware to thwarting hackers and troubleshooting connections with both cable and DSL. The emphasis on real-world common gripes and solutions makes for a practical application guide. Kathy Iens' Home Networking Annoyances (0596008082, $24.95) accomplishes the same for home networking problems, from hardware and wireless problems to fighting worms, hackers, and more. From problems in saving database files and communications to issues revolving around creating a mapped drive, Home Networking Annoyances is packed with common problems and solutions in a question/answer format lending to easy look-up. Patrick Collandre's Creating Photomontages With Photoshop: A Designer's Notebook (0596008589, $24.95) is a recommended reference for advanced Photoshop users who have the basics down: photomontages are multiple images skillfully combined to provide new thought-provoking results, and William Rodamor translates from its original French an extraordinary feast of Photoshop photomontage results from a variety of leading French artists, using the projects to demonstrate execution steps and the finer art of special effects