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Don't Make Me Think: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability
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Steve Krug (Goodreads Author)
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HTML5 for Web Designers
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JavaScript: The Definitive Guide
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The Art & Science of CSS
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3.82 avg rating — 133 ratings
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Designing With Web Standards
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Jeffrey Zeldman (Goodreads Author)
4.08 avg rating — 2,098 ratings
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JavaScript: The Good Parts
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4.23 avg rating — 8,659 ratings
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Mobile First
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CSS3 For Web Designers
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Designing for Emotion
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3.96 avg rating — 2,669 ratings
score: 469,
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The STREAM TONE: The Future of Personal Computing?
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T. Gilling (Goodreads Author)
3.17 avg rating — 23 ratings
score: 400,
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Information Architecture for the World Wide Web: Designing Large-Scale Web Sites
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Peter Morville (Goodreads Author)
3.93 avg rating — 3,834 ratings
score: 395,
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jQuery: Novice to Ninja
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3.92 avg rating — 553 ratings
score: 390,
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CSS Mastery: Advanced Web Standards Solutions
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4.09 avg rating — 1,113 ratings
score: 378,
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Why's (Poignant) Guide to Ruby
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4.05 avg rating — 464 ratings
score: 373,
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Web Standards Solutions: The Markup and Style Handbook (Pioneering Series)
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4.07 avg rating — 341 ratings
score: 363,
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Digging Into WordPress
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4.09 avg rating — 104 ratings
score: 360,
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The Principles of Beautiful Web Design
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3.92 avg rating — 1,301 ratings
score: 355,
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Thinking with Type: A Critical Guide for Designers, Writers, Editors, and Students
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4.12 avg rating — 12,517 ratings
score: 348,
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Responsive Web Design
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Ethan Marcotte (Goodreads Author)
4.13 avg rating — 3,634 ratings
score: 290,
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Design Is a Job
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4.22 avg rating — 5,055 ratings
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Ruby on Rails 3 Tutorial: Learn Rails by Example (Addison-Wesley Professional Ruby Series)
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Michael Hartl (Goodreads Author)
4.18 avg rating — 495 ratings
score: 277,
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Practical Django Projects
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3.58 avg rating — 112 ratings
score: 276,
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Learning jQuery: Better Interaction Design and Web Development with Simple JavaScript Techniques
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3.80 avg rating — 84 ratings
score: 274,
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Agile Web Development with Rails 3.2, 4th Edition
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Dave Thomas (Goodreads Author)
3.86 avg rating — 2,228 ratings
score: 269,
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Designing Web Interfaces: Principles and Patterns for Rich Interactions
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3.92 avg rating — 563 ratings
score: 265,
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The Web Designer's Idea Book: The Ultimate Guide To Themes, Trends & Styles In Website Design
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3.83 avg rating — 353 ratings
score: 260,
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Web Accessibility: Web Standards and Regulatory Compliance
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3.91 avg rating — 54 ratings
score: 255,
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Rocket Surgery Made Easy: The Do-It-Yourself Guide to Finding and Fixing Usability Problems
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Steve Krug (Goodreads Author)
4.14 avg rating — 4,359 ratings
score: 253,
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CSS: The Definitive Guide
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4.03 avg rating — 1,235 ratings
score: 250,
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Agile Web Development with Rails, 1st Edition
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Dave Thomas (Goodreads Author)
3.86 avg rating — 2,228 ratings
score: 247,
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The Zen of CSS Design: Visual Enlightenment for the Web
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4.01 avg rating — 870 ratings
score: 228,
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A Project Guide to UX Design: For User Experience Designers in the Field or in the Making
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3.87 avg rating — 1,776 ratings
score: 191,
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Content Strategy for the Web
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score: 188,
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The Elements of Content Strategy
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Erin Kissane (Goodreads Author)
3.73 avg rating — 1,590 ratings
score: 186,
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The Smashing Book
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4.01 avg rating — 534 ratings
score: 183,
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Beginning Ruby: From Novice to Professional (Beginning From Novice to Professional)
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3.86 avg rating — 255 ratings
score: 182,
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How To Be A Rockstar WordPress Designer
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3.92 avg rating — 24 ratings
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Search Engine Optimization All-in-One For Dummies
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Bruce Clay (Goodreads Author)
3.80 avg rating — 84 ratings
score: 172,
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CSS: The Missing Manual
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4.12 avg rating — 1,078 ratings
score: 166,
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Smashing WordPress: Beyond the Blog (Smashing Magazine Book Series)
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Thord D. Hedengren (Goodreads Author)
3.76 avg rating — 247 ratings
score: 164,
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Handcrafted CSS: More Bulletproof Web Design / Bulletproof Essentials
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4.23 avg rating — 395 ratings
score: 162,
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Simply JavaScript
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3.72 avg rating — 118 ratings
score: 156,
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jQuery in Action
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3.95 avg rating — 745 ratings
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Web Standards Solutions
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4.07 avg rating — 341 ratings
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jQuery UI 1.7: The User Interface Library for jQuery
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3.35 avg rating — 23 ratings
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Learning JavaScript, 2nd Edition
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3.32 avg rating — 142 ratings
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The Definitive Guide to Django: Web Development Done Right
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3.86 avg rating — 216 ratings
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Expert PHP and MySQL
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Andrew Curioso (Goodreads Author)
3.76 avg rating — 29 ratings
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Single Page Web Applications
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3.66 avg rating — 119 ratings
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Responsive Web Design Overview For Beginners
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Brett Romero (Goodreads Author)
3.33 avg rating — 9 ratings
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The Elements of User Experience: User-Centered Design for the Web
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4.01 avg rating — 4,132 ratings
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Head First HTML and CSS: A Learner's Guide to Creating Standards-Based Web Pages
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Elisabeth Robson (Goodreads Author)
4.28 avg rating — 572 ratings
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Web Developers Cookbook
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Robin Nixon (Goodreads Author)
3.88 avg rating — 16 ratings
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Programming Perl
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4.06 avg rating — 2,300 ratings
score: 99,
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Pro Django
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RESTful Web Services
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3.86 avg rating — 748 ratings
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Singularity Rising: Surviving and Thriving in a Smarter, Richer, and More Dangerous World
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James D. Miller (Goodreads Author)
3.69 avg rating — 164 ratings
score: 99,
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The Long Run: A Tale of the Continuing Time (The Continuing Time, #2)
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Daniel Keys Moran (Goodreads Author)
4.56 avg rating — 778 ratings
score: 98,
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The Future of the Internet--And How to Stop It
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3.86 avg rating — 1,436 ratings
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The Django Book
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3.87 avg rating — 46 ratings
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Our Final Invention: Artificial Intelligence and the End of the Human Era
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James Barrat (Goodreads Author)
3.72 avg rating — 3,890 ratings
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Eloquent Ruby (Addison-Wesley Professional Ruby Series)
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Russ Olsen (Goodreads Author)
4.35 avg rating — 1,297 ratings
score: 96,
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Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies
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Nick Bostrom (Goodreads Author)
3.85 avg rating — 20,695 ratings
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The Ultimate HTML Reference
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4.19 avg rating — 36 ratings
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Search Engine Optimization for Flash: Best practices for using Flash on the web
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3.60 avg rating — 10 ratings
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HTML5 & CSS3 for the Real World
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Alexis Goldstein (Goodreads Author)
3.79 avg rating — 127 ratings
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Bulletproof Web Design: Improving flexibility and protecting against worst-case scenarios with XHTML and CSS
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4.12 avg rating — 921 ratings
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Linux in a Nutshell
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3.92 avg rating — 765 ratings
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Programming PHP
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3.99 avg rating — 794 ratings
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PHP Cookbook
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PHP and MySQL Web Development
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Wicked Cool PHP: Real-World Scripts That Solve Difficult Problems
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3.51 avg rating — 69 ratings
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A Practical Guide to Linux Commands, Editors, and Shell Programming
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Linux Pocket Guide
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Daniel J. Barrett (Goodreads Author)
4.09 avg rating — 674 ratings
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Learning PHP, MySQL, and JavaScript: A Step-By-Step Guide to Creating Dynamic Websites
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Robin Nixon (Goodreads Author)
3.88 avg rating — 909 ratings
score: 64,
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jQuery Enlightenment
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