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AJAX Books

Asynchronous JavaScript And XML, or its acronym, Ajax (Pronounced A-jax), is a Web development technique for creating interactive Web applications. Ajax has helped usher in a new breed of user-frienldy Websites and helps make Web pages feel more responsive by exchanging small amounts of data with the server behind the scenes, so that the entire Web page does not have to be reloaded each time the user makes a change. Ajax is great because it helps increase a Website's interactivity, speed, and usability.

	Professional Ajax, 2nd Edition (Programmer to Programmer) by Nicholas C. Zakas, Jeremy McPeak, Joe Fawcett Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours List Price: $39.99 Price: $26.39
	Head First Ajax by Rebecca Riordan Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours List Price: $44.99 Price: $29.69
	The Essential Guide to Dreamweaver CS4 with CSS, Ajax, and PHP (Essentials) by David Powers Availability: Usually ships in 2 to 4 weeks List Price: $49.99 Price: $31.49

CSS Books

Where would we be without Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)? It's hard to imagine the Web without them! Using a stylesheet language to describe the presentation of a document written in a markup language is paramount in designing great Websites. While the most common application of CSS is to style Websites written in HTML and XHTML, they also can be applied to any kind of XML document, including SVG and XUL. The Web is currently someplace between CSS 1 and CSS 2, while CSS 3 is coming soon.

	Pro CSS and HTML Design Patterns by Michael Bowers Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours List Price: $44.99 Price: $23.76
	The Zen of CSS Design: Visual Enlightenment for the Web by Dave Shea, Molly E. Holzschlag Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours List Price: $44.99 Price: $29.69
	CSS Web Site Design Hands on Training by Eric Meyer Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours List Price: $49.99 Price: $31.49

PHP and MySQL Books

PHP, short for the recursive acronym "PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor", is an open source and very popular scripted programming language used to build Websites and complex Web applications. MySQL is a multithreaded, multi-user, SQL Database Management System (DBMS) with a huge (and growing) installation base. It, too, is available for free thanks to its makers, MySQL AB, and their willingness to make it available under the GNU General Public License (GPL). PHP and MySQL are a natural fit for eachother, and when combined with the Linux operating system running Apache Web server software, make up the most popular environment on the Web (referred to as "LAMP").

	PHP and MySQL Web Development (4th Edition) by Luke Welling, Laura Thomson Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours List Price: $54.99 Price: $34.64
	PHP 6 and MySQL 5 for Dynamic Web Sites: Visual QuickPro Guide by Larry Ullman Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours List Price: $44.99 Price: $29.69
	Learning PHP, MySQL, and JavaScript: A Step-By-Step Guide to Creating Dynamic Websites (Animal Guide) by Robin Nixon Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours List Price: $39.99 Price: $26.39

ASP.NET Books

ASP.NET is a set of Web development technologies marketed by Microsoft. Programmers can use it to build dynamic Websites, Web applications and XML Web services. It is part of Microsoft's .NET platform and is the successor to Microsoft's Active Server Pages (ASP) technology. Programmers can write ASP.NET code using any of the different programming languages supported by the .NET Framework, usually (proprietary) Visual Basic.NET, JScript .NET, or (standardized) C#, but also including open-source languages such as Perl and Python.

	Beginning ASP.NET 3.5: In C# and VB (Programmer to Programmer) by Imar Spaanjaars Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours List Price: $44.99 Price: $28.34
	Beginning ASP.NET 3.5 in C# 2008: From Novice to Professional, Second Edition (Beginning from Novice to Professional) by Matthew MacDonald Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours List Price: $49.99 Price: $31.49
	Pro ASP.NET 3.5 in C# 2008: Includes Silverlight 2, Third Edition by Matthew MacDonald, Mario Szpuszta Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours List Price: $59.99 Price: $37.79

Ruby on Rails Books

Somewhat new to the game, Ruby on Rails, often called RoR or just Rails, is an open source Web application framework written in the Ruby programming language that closely follows the Model-View-Controller (MVC) architecture. It strives for simplicity and allowing Web applications to be developed more easily than other frameworks and without much configuration. It's a hot topic these days and has quite a few interesting applications on the Web.

	Ruby on Rails: Up and Running by Bruce Tate, Curt Hibbs Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours List Price: $29.99 Price: $19.79
	Beginning Ruby on Rails (Wrox Beginning Guides) by Steve Holzner Ph.D. Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours List Price: $34.99 Price: $25.54
	Build Your Own Ruby on Rails Web Applications by Patrick Lenz Availability: Usually ships in 9 to 10 days List Price: $39.95 Price: $30.36