The cover of our book "Understanding Windows CardSpace"

Here there’s the cover sketch for our “Understanding Windows CardSpace” book. As you may have noticed, the Independent Technology Guides series has the tradition of putting an animal on the cover. While all the books of the series have gorgeous cover pictures (I especially like the lion on David’s “Understanding .NET“), I don’t think that there was ever any correlation between the animal chosen and the topic of the book. Well, for our book we tried to keep our choice in context: the racoon, with his mask and reputation (to stay in theme with a recent post, search for “tanuki” on your favorite search engine) seemed a very good candidate for a book about Identity. The guys at AW were very kind and made us happy 🙂