[ajug-members] Best Technical Books?

[gillaspy at bellsouth.net]

 It's not a java book, but the best  CSS book  I 've  seen is "CSS The Missing Manual"
  -------------- Original message from "Les Hazlewood" <les at hazlewood.com>: --------------


Hi all,

As a founder of the JSecurity project (http://www.jsecurity.org), and now that we've been accepted into the Apache Incubator, I'm getting to a point where I'm thinking about writing a book on it, maybe a "JSecurity in Action" title, or something similar for O'Reilly.

Before I even think about going through this process, I was hoping I could get your opinions on great technical books.  What (maybe Java-oriented) techie books have you read and thought that they were genuinely well-put together and in general just a good read?  

There are a few stand-outs I have in my head where I think "Man, that is such a great tech book - it was easy to read and understand, even entertaining at times, and I find myself constantly re-visiting it for material", but I'd like to get your opinions without biasing you with mine.  I'd like to take the best of breed of these and use them as models for how I would go about writing my own book.

They don't have to be Java-oriented titles, but since I've read many of the Java books out there, they might be easy for me to mentally associate with what you find desirable.  Actually any book feedback will do!

Thanks!

Les


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