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| 1 | Don't Make Me Think: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability by 
Steve Krug (Goodreads Author)
 
          
                 4.24 avg rating — 30,523 ratings
          
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| 2 | HTML5 for Web Designers by 
          
                 3.98 avg rating — 3,137 ratings
          
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| 3 | JavaScript: The Definitive Guide by 
          
                 4.07 avg rating — 3,387 ratings
          
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| 4 | The Art & Science of CSS by 
          
                 3.82 avg rating — 133 ratings
          
         
            
              score: 860,
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| 5 | Designing With Web Standards by 
Jeffrey Zeldman (Goodreads Author)
 
          
                 4.08 avg rating — 2,098 ratings
          
         
            
              score: 779,
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              8 people voted   | 
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| 6 | JavaScript: The Good Parts by 
          
                 4.23 avg rating — 8,659 ratings
          
         
            
              score: 777,
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| 7 | Mobile First by 
          
                 3.90 avg rating — 2,088 ratings
          
         
            
              score: 667,
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              7 people voted   | 
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| 8 | CSS3 For Web Designers by 
          
                 4.04 avg rating — 1,834 ratings
          
         
            
              score: 573,
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              6 people voted   | 
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| 9 | Designing for Emotion by 
          
                 3.96 avg rating — 2,669 ratings
          
         
            
              score: 469,
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              5 people voted   | 
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| 10 | The STREAM TONE: The Future of Personal Computing? by 
T. Gilling (Goodreads Author)
 
          
                 3.17 avg rating — 23 ratings
          
         
            
              score: 400,
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              4 people voted   | 
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| 11 | Information Architecture for the World Wide Web: Designing Large-Scale Web Sites by 
Peter Morville (Goodreads Author)
 
          
                 3.93 avg rating — 3,834 ratings
          
         
            
              score: 395,
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              4 people voted   | 
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| 12 | jQuery: Novice to Ninja by 
          
                 3.92 avg rating — 553 ratings
          
         
            
              score: 390,
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              4 people voted   | 
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| 13 | CSS Mastery: Advanced Web Standards Solutions by 
          
                 4.09 avg rating — 1,113 ratings
          
         
            
              score: 378,
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| 14 | Why's (Poignant) Guide to Ruby by 
          
                 4.05 avg rating — 464 ratings
          
         
            
              score: 373,
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| 15 | Web Standards Solutions: The Markup and Style Handbook (Pioneering Series) by 
          
                 4.07 avg rating — 341 ratings
          
         
            
              score: 363,
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              4 people voted   | 
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| 16 | Digging Into WordPress by 
          
                 4.09 avg rating — 104 ratings
          
         
            
              score: 360,
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              4 people voted   | 
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| 17 | The Principles of Beautiful Web Design by 
          
                 3.92 avg rating — 1,301 ratings
          
         
            
              score: 355,
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              4 people voted   | 
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| 18 | Thinking with Type: A Critical Guide for Designers, Writers, Editors, and Students by 
          
                 4.12 avg rating — 12,517 ratings
          
         
            
              score: 348,
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| 19 | Responsive Web Design by 
Ethan Marcotte (Goodreads Author)
 
          
                 4.13 avg rating — 3,634 ratings
          
         
            
              score: 290,
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              3 people voted   | 
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| 20 | Design Is a Job by 
          
                 4.22 avg rating — 5,055 ratings
          
         
            
              score: 284,
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              3 people voted   | 
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| 21 | Ruby on Rails 3 Tutorial: Learn Rails by Example (Addison-Wesley Professional Ruby Series) by 
Michael Hartl (Goodreads Author)
 
          
                 4.18 avg rating — 495 ratings
          
         
            
              score: 277,
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              3 people voted   | 
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| 22 | Practical Django Projects by 
          
                 3.58 avg rating — 112 ratings
          
         
            
              score: 276,
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              3 people voted   | 
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| 23 | Learning jQuery: Better Interaction Design and Web Development with Simple JavaScript Techniques by 
          
                 3.80 avg rating — 84 ratings
          
         
            
              score: 274,
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              3 people voted   | 
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| 24 | Agile Web Development with Rails 3.2, 4th Edition by 
Dave         Thomas (Goodreads Author)
 
          
                 3.86 avg rating — 2,228 ratings
          
         
            
              score: 269,
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              3 people voted   | 
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| 25 | Designing Web Interfaces: Principles and Patterns for Rich Interactions by 
          
                 3.92 avg rating — 563 ratings
          
         
            
              score: 265,
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              3 people voted   | 
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| 26 | The Web Designer's Idea Book: The Ultimate Guide To Themes, Trends & Styles In Website Design by 
          
                 3.83 avg rating — 353 ratings
          
         
            
              score: 260,
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              3 people voted   | 
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| 27 | Web Accessibility: Web Standards and Regulatory Compliance by 
          
                 3.91 avg rating — 54 ratings
          
         
            
              score: 255,
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              3 people voted   | 
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| 28 | Rocket Surgery Made Easy: The Do-It-Yourself Guide to Finding and Fixing Usability Problems by 
Steve Krug (Goodreads Author)
 
          
                 4.14 avg rating — 4,359 ratings
          
         
            
              score: 253,
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              3 people voted   | 
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| 29 | CSS: The Definitive Guide by 
          
                 4.03 avg rating — 1,235 ratings
          
         
            
              score: 250,
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              3 people voted   | 
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| 30 | Agile Web Development with Rails, 1st Edition by 
Dave         Thomas (Goodreads Author)
 
          
                 3.86 avg rating — 2,228 ratings
          
         
            
              score: 247,
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| 31 | The Zen of CSS Design: Visual Enlightenment for the Web by 
          
                 4.01 avg rating — 870 ratings
          
         
            
              score: 228,
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| 32 | A Project Guide to UX Design: For User Experience Designers in the Field or in the Making by 
          
                 3.87 avg rating — 1,776 ratings
          
         
            
              score: 191,
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              2 people voted   | 
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| 33 | Content Strategy for the Web by 
          
                really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2,954 ratings
          
         
            
              score: 188,
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| 34 | The Elements of Content Strategy by 
Erin Kissane (Goodreads Author)
 
          
                 3.73 avg rating — 1,590 ratings
          
         
            
              score: 186,
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              2 people voted   | 
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| 35 | The Smashing Book by 
          
                 4.01 avg rating — 534 ratings
          
         
            
              score: 183,
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              2 people voted   | 
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| 36 | Beginning Ruby: From Novice to Professional (Beginning From Novice to Professional) by 
          
                 3.86 avg rating — 255 ratings
          
         
            
              score: 182,
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| 37 | How To Be A Rockstar WordPress Designer by 
          
                 3.92 avg rating — 24 ratings
          
         
            
              score: 173,
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| 38 | Search Engine Optimization All-in-One For Dummies by 
Bruce Clay (Goodreads Author)
 
          
                 3.80 avg rating — 84 ratings
          
         
            
              score: 172,
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| 39 | CSS: The Missing Manual by 
          
                 4.12 avg rating — 1,078 ratings
          
         
            
              score: 166,
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| 40 | Smashing WordPress: Beyond the Blog (Smashing Magazine Book Series) by 
Thord D. Hedengren (Goodreads Author)
 
          
                 3.76 avg rating — 247 ratings
          
         
            
              score: 164,
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| 41 | Handcrafted CSS: More Bulletproof Web Design / Bulletproof Essentials by 
          
                 4.23 avg rating — 395 ratings
          
         
            
              score: 162,
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| 42 | Simply JavaScript by 
          
                 3.72 avg rating — 118 ratings
          
         
            
              score: 156,
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| 43 | jQuery in Action by 
          
                 3.95 avg rating — 745 ratings
          
         
            
              score: 138,
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| 44 | Web Standards Solutions by 
          
                 4.07 avg rating — 341 ratings
          
         
            
              score: 130,
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| 45 | jQuery UI 1.7: The User Interface Library for jQuery by 
          
                 3.35 avg rating — 23 ratings
          
         
            
              score: 128,
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| 46 | Learning JavaScript, 2nd Edition by 
          
                 3.32 avg rating — 142 ratings
          
         
            
              score: 126,
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| 47 | The Definitive Guide to Django: Web Development Done Right by 
          
                 3.86 avg rating — 216 ratings
          
         
            
              score: 100,
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| 47 | Expert PHP and MySQL by 
Andrew Curioso (Goodreads Author)
 
          
                 3.76 avg rating — 29 ratings
          
         
            
              score: 100,
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| 47 | Single Page Web Applications by 
          
                 3.66 avg rating — 119 ratings
          
         
            
              score: 100,
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| 47 | Responsive Web Design Overview For Beginners by 
Brett Romero (Goodreads Author)
 
          
                 3.33 avg rating — 9 ratings
          
         
            
              score: 100,
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| 47 | The Elements of User Experience: User-Centered Design for the Web by 
          
                 4.01 avg rating — 4,132 ratings
          
         
            
              score: 100,
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| 47 | Head First HTML and CSS: A Learner's Guide to Creating Standards-Based Web Pages by 
Elisabeth Robson (Goodreads Author)
 
          
                 4.28 avg rating — 572 ratings
          
         
            
              score: 100,
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| 47 | Web Developers Cookbook by 
Robin Nixon (Goodreads Author)
 
          
                 3.88 avg rating — 16 ratings
          
         
            
              score: 100,
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| 54 | Programming Perl by 
          
                 4.06 avg rating — 2,300 ratings
          
         
            
              score: 99,
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| 54 | Pro Django by 
          
                really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 109 ratings
          
         
            
              score: 99,
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| 54 | RESTful Web Services by 
          
                 3.86 avg rating — 748 ratings
          
         
            
              score: 99,
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| 54 | Singularity Rising: Surviving and Thriving in a Smarter, Richer, and More Dangerous World by 
James D.  Miller (Goodreads Author)
 
          
                 3.69 avg rating — 164 ratings
          
         
            
              score: 99,
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| 58 | The Long Run: A Tale of the Continuing Time  (The Continuing Time, #2) by 
Daniel Keys Moran (Goodreads Author)
 
          
                 4.56 avg rating — 778 ratings
          
         
            
              score: 98,
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| 58 | The Future of the Internet--And How to Stop It by 
          
                 3.86 avg rating — 1,436 ratings
          
         
            
              score: 98,
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| 60 | The Django Book by 
          
                 3.87 avg rating — 46 ratings
          
         
            
              score: 97,
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| 60 | Our Final Invention: Artificial Intelligence and the End of the Human Era by 
James Barrat (Goodreads Author)
 
          
                 3.72 avg rating — 3,890 ratings
          
         
            
              score: 97,
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| 62 | Eloquent Ruby (Addison-Wesley Professional Ruby Series) by 
Russ Olsen (Goodreads Author)
 
          
                 4.35 avg rating — 1,297 ratings
          
         
            
              score: 96,
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| 62 | Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies by 
Nick Bostrom (Goodreads Author)
 
          
                 3.85 avg rating — 20,695 ratings
          
         
            
              score: 96,
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| 64 | The Ultimate HTML Reference by 
          
                 4.19 avg rating — 36 ratings
          
         
            
              score: 95,
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| 65 | Search Engine Optimization for Flash: Best practices for using Flash on the web by 
          
                 3.60 avg rating — 10 ratings
          
         
            
              score: 93,
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| 65 | HTML5 & CSS3 for the Real World by 
Alexis Goldstein (Goodreads Author)
 
          
                 3.79 avg rating — 127 ratings
          
         
            
              score: 93,
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| 67 | Bulletproof Web Design: Improving flexibility and protecting against worst-case scenarios with XHTML and CSS by 
          
                 4.12 avg rating — 921 ratings
          
         
            
              score: 91,
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| 68 | Linux in a Nutshell by 
          
                 3.92 avg rating — 765 ratings
          
         
            
              score: 89,
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| 69 | Programming PHP by 
          
                 3.99 avg rating — 794 ratings
          
         
            
              score: 83,
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| 70 | PHP Cookbook by 
          
                 3.95 avg rating — 404 ratings
          
         
            
              score: 82,
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| 71 | PHP and MySQL Web Development by 
          
                 3.96 avg rating — 971 ratings
          
         
            
              score: 81,
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| 72 | Wicked Cool PHP: Real-World Scripts That Solve Difficult Problems by 
          
                 3.51 avg rating — 69 ratings
          
         
            
              score: 80,
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| 73 | A Practical Guide to Linux Commands, Editors, and Shell Programming by 
          
                 4.02 avg rating — 330 ratings
          
         
            
              score: 79,
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| 74 | Linux Pocket Guide by 
Daniel J. Barrett (Goodreads Author)
 
          
                 4.09 avg rating — 674 ratings
          
         
            
              score: 78,
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| 75 | Learning PHP, MySQL, and JavaScript: A Step-By-Step Guide to Creating Dynamic Websites by 
Robin Nixon (Goodreads Author)
 
          
                 3.88 avg rating — 909 ratings
          
         
            
              score: 64,
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| 76 | jQuery Enlightenment by 
          
                 4.04 avg rating — 28 ratings
          
         
            
              score: 63,
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