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Code-Recipes, Tips, and Tricks

Flex 3 Cookbook — This highly practical book contains more than 200 proven recipes for developing interactive Rich Internet Applications and Web 2.0 sites. You'll find everything from Flex basics and working with menus and controls, to methods for compiling, deploying, and configuring Flex applications. Learn more.

Unearth the Excellence

JavaScript: The Good Parts — This authoritative book scrapes away these bad features to reveal a subset of JavaScript that's more reliable, readable, and maintainable than the language as a whole-a subset you can use to create truly extensible and efficient code. Learn more.

All Lab, No Lecture

Illustrated Guide to Home Chemistry Experiments — Learn how to smelt copper, purify alcohol, synthesize rayon, test for drugs and poisons, and much more. The book includes lessons on how to equip your home chemistry lab, master laboratory skills, and work safely in your lab, along with 17 hands-on chapters that include multiple laboratory sessions. Learn more.

New Releases

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• Maker's Notebook
• JavaScript: The Good Parts
• Flex 3 Cookbook
• Wikipedia Reader's Guide: The Missing Manual
• Painting the Web
• Illustrated Guide to Home Chemistry Experiments
• Essential Silverlight 2 Up-to-Date
• Make Projects: Small Form Factor PCs

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Now Available in PDF

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The following O'Reilly titles are
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• Head First Servlets and JSP, Second Edition
• iPhone Open Application Development
• Making Things Happen
• Practical Artistry: Light & Exposure for Digital Photographers
• Programming Amazon Web Services
• Wikipedia Reader's Guide: The Missing Manual

New Rough Cuts

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Early Access to Hot Books

• Programming Flex 3 Rough Cut
• Learning Flex 3 Rough Cut
• XSLT: Rough Cuts Version, Second Edition
• Programming .NET 3.5 Rough Cuts Version

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• Frankenstein Prototyping
• Windows PowerShell Pocket Reference
• Face to Face: Rick Sammon's Complete Guide to Photographing People
• Google Apps: The Missing Manual
• Your Brain: The Missing Manual
• Programming Visual Basic 2008
• Essential SQLAlchemy
• Head First Physics

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Why Charles Broskoski Read 356 O'Reilly Books in 400 Days — When it comes to reading geeky volumes, Charles Broskoski, a student of NYC's Parsons School of Design, thinks big. In fact, he read 356 O'Reilly books in 400 days.

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