The Adobe Photoshop Lightroom book
All Lightroom fans will be excited to learn that a great book is to be released about it in March. PhotoshopNews has a free PDF download of Chapter 1.
As a professional photographer, author Martin Evening knows firsthand what photographers need for a more efficient workflow. He's been working with Lightroom from the beginning, providing feedback to Lightroom's public beta and monitoring the product's development. The book describes Lightroom's features in detail and with photographer's in mind. http://www.goldankauf-gelsenkirchen.com/: Zahngold, Altgold, Goldschmuck
If you download a song and find that you hate it, you've only wasted about 5 minutes and 99 cents, and a bad TV episode will set you back $1.99 and 45 minutes at most. An audiobook that sucks, however, will cost you at least $18.95 and, assuming you force yourself to listen to the whole thing, several hours of your time. So 
Just in time for holiday gift giving, The Cult of Mac by Wired News managing editor Leander Kahney is now being published as a paperback.
From the O'Reilly announcement: With the countless tutorials, shortcuts, stunts, and undocumented tricks in "iPhoto 6: The Missing Manual," shutterbugs will be able to exercise all the power, flexibility, and creativity of the stunning new iPhoto 6 to turn everyday snapshots into brilliant photos.
AppleScript comes free as part of every Mac OS X system, and with it, users can harness the power of their Mac and control both the system and the applications that run on it. But they need to know how.
Author: Chuck Toporek 
"Podcasting Pocket Guide" is a book for the non-geek who wants to get in on this revolutionary medium. With it, you can enjoy the best podcasts or produce them yourself. Small enough to fit in your pocket, this book shows you how to us tools and techniques to make and publish podcasts with just basic equipment: a computer, microphone, and some free software. You'll find practical tips and how-tos for creating, recording, editing, and uploading our own, professional-quality podcast. For a sample chapter -
David Pogue does it again. He's one of the most prolific writers when it comes to Mac related material and his work is quite impressive. Since Pogue has the freedom to write about the flaws in the programs as well as the features, his Missing Manuals are better than the books that would have been in the box. In this book, he blended coverage from his "iMovie HD and iDVD5," "iPhoto5," "GarageBand 2" and "iPod and iTunes" manuals, into one powerful, inexpensive how-to guide. Get all the information about the book here. A chapter in PDF format is available for download at this location. If you're in a shopping mood head over to Amazon and get the book right away.
Mac OS X Tiger in a Nutshell provides the perfect overview of Tiger, covers all the essentials and most-talked-about new features of Tiger, including big-ticket items such as Spotlight for effortless searching, iChat AV for video conferencing, and Dashboard for one-click access to a calculator, weather reports, stock prices, flight times, and more. It also covers the hundreds of nips and tucks Tiger made to its underlying technologies and existing applications, including improvements to graphics and the Unix-based core and an easy way to automate time-consuming, repetitive manual or batch tasks.
