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I absolutely *could not see* the problem, even after reading the first three comments (surrealestate hadn't posted) and following rfrancis' link. Bear figured it out for me though.
It took me a surprisingly long time to realize what was wrong.
I had assumed that the cover image had been photoshopped to show all of the pyramids together, in some aesthetically pleasing but physically impossible way (à la National Geographic).
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Date: 2012-02-11 09:34 pm (UTC)http://www.alibris.com/search/books/isbn/9780756669782
I smell a customer-provided image. (Sadly, once Amazon has it, you can't trust a lot of other sites, who just pull covers from Amazon.)
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Date: 2012-02-12 06:06 am (UTC)I had assumed that the cover image had been photoshopped to show all of the pyramids together, in some aesthetically pleasing but physically impossible way (à la National Geographic).
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